Muslim Brotherhood’s machine helps in Egypt vote
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | One comment
Member of Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party use their laptop computers outside a polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Polls opened Tuesday for a second day of voting in Egypt’s landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
The fundamentalist Brotherhood was emerging as the biggest winner in partial results Wednesday from the first voting this week in Egypt’s landmark election in which voters turned out in unexpected droves.
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Turkey slaps sanctions on Syria
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | Post a comment
Ankara will freeze all financial dealings, block delivery of weapons; UAE announces suspension of flights to Syria.
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‘Blast in Iran struck uranium enrichment facility’
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | 2 comments
Satellite imagery confirms Isfahan facility rocked by blast was a nuclear facility, ‘The Times’ reports, citing Israeli intel officials.
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U.S. urges Americans to leave Syria “immediately”
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | Post a comment
Pro-Syrian regime protesters carry a huge portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration to show their solidarity with their president, in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
BEIRUT – The U.S. Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens in Syria to depart “immediately,” and Turkey’s foreign ministry urged Turkish pilgrims to opt for flights to return home from Saudi Arabia to avoid traveling through Syria.
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Iranian protesters storm British embassy
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | Post a comment
Protesters burn a British flag taken down from the British embassy in Tehran November 29, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Raheb Homavandi
Iranian protesters stormed two British Embassy compounds in Tehran Tuesday, smashing windows, hurling petrol bombs and burning the British flag in a protest against sanctions imposed by Britain, live Iranian television showed.
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Insight: In euro zone crisis, companies plan for the unthinkable
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | Post a comment
Ben Hirschler and Scott MaloneA one euro coin is melted with a welding torch in this photo illustration taken in Bern November 8, 2011.
REUTERS/Michael Buholzer/Files.
When Novo Nordisk’s chief financial officer met marketing colleagues last Friday the conversation moved far beyond the usual discussion of sales and performance. Jesper Brandgaard asked a simple, far-reaching question: how would the firm set prices for two pivotal new insulin products if the euro collapsed?
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Arab League to Punish Syria
Monday, November 28th, 2011 | One comment
Xinhua//Zuma Press
A line for cooking gas in Syria, where sanctions have caused shortages.
The Arab League approved on Sunday an unprecedented set of economic sanctions on Syria to penalize President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for a bloody crackdown on protesters, paving the way for Turkish sanctions and Syria’s growing economic isolation in the region.
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‘Anthrax isn’t scary at all compared to this’: Man-made flu virus with potential to wipe out many millions if it ever escaped is created in research lab
Monday, November 28th, 2011 | Post a comment
Dangerous: It is feared if new details of the avian flu is published, it could be used for bioterrorism
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2066624/Anthrax-isnt-scary-compared-Man-flu-virus-potential-wipe-millions-created-warns-frightened-scientist.html#ixzz1f2qKQSIX
Scientist responsible is bracing himself for a media storm
Just five tweaks to H5N1 makes it more contagious
Contagious version of bird flu could cause pandemic
Scientists divided over whether findings can be released
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Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars
Monday, November 28th, 2011 | 4 comments
cott Pelley brings “60 Minutes” cameras back to central Florida to document another form of family homelessness: kids and their parents forced to live in cars.