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August 07, 2008 News and Trends

Vegas News - Steve Wynn and OJ Simpson

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:55:33 PDT
Steve Wynn gets slapped by prostitute. OJ Simpson loses yet another to a plea deal in trial. Toni Braxton may be on next season’s Dancing with the Stars.

Kill The Disgusting Fat Pig Already.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:36:46 PDT
Why are we even debating this? Why is this even news? I don’t care if death row inmate Richard Cooey is 100 pounds or 1000. He RAPED and MURDERED 2 women. His argument is that Topamax, a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could affect the execution process. WHY EXACTLY is he even getting the Topamax? He is a convicted killer and...

CBC Newsworld : Passionate Eye Monday : Documentary

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:53:25 PDT
The story that showed on news world tonight.This is just another example of the futility and expense in money and lives that is the drug war.

Do Emerging Market ETFs Help You Diversify?

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:00:24 PDT
An interesting question has recently been brought up as to whether or not emerging market exchange traded funds (ETFs) truly help diversify one’s portfolio. Gary Gordon of ETF Expert points out that this depends on how one defines diversification. If investors are looking to reduce market risk by meshing assets that do not tend to move in the same direction, their investments must have little relationship, if any at all. Or, if one is looking to invest in a number of stock assets with … visit

2008 Global Trends Conference to Focus on Critical Energy Issues (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:00:00 PDT
NEW YORK----Some of the nation’s top energy experts and economists are slated to headline the seventh annual Global Market Trends Conference next month in Chicago, where they will lead three days of seminars and discussions on the most important emerging trends in technology today—alternative energy sources, green building, and the need for energy efficiency in a world that’s placing increasing ...

All Headline News Creates News Gathering Division.

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:00:01 PDT
Wellington, FL (PRWEB) April 13, 2005 -- Premiere news aggregator and content syndication service All Headline News Corp has announced that it launched it's own news gathering and editorial...


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6:13 AM

Mauritania officer takes over president palace

Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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