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- Somali pirates capture tanker, attack UN ship 12 Oct 2008 19:43 GMT
... Nairobi, Oct. 12: Pirates seized a tanker and attacked ... Friday. "Pirates attacked the ship flying a Panama flag using boats," he said, adding the ... is still alive Havana, Oct. 12: Former Cuban President Fidel Castro charged that American society ...
- Antiquities dealer has colourful, checkered career 12 Oct 2008 18:15 GMT
... By: Patrick Mcgroarty And Alexandra Olson, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MUNICH, ... in a yam field in his native Costa Rica - a piece of clay pottery his ... up in Cahuita, a village on the Caribbean coast. He broke horses and grew yucca ...
- Cuba Confronts Global Warming Now: Drought, Hurricanes and Threat of Rising Oceans 12 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT
... Cuba Confronts Global Warming Now: Drought, Hurricanes and ... province in the west on September 9. Cuban state television reported some 2.6 million people ...
- Hartford International Jazz Festival: Danilo Perez, Badal Roy 12 Oct 2008 15:51 GMT
... Both Hartford International Jazz Festival opening-night concerts succeeded in ... but both shared a musical melting-pot mindset. Panamanian-born pianist Danilo Perez guided his trio through ... tantalizing maze of Latin American and Afro Cuban sonorities. Pakistani tabla drummer Badal Roy orchestrated ...
- Iran seeks U.N. Security Council seat 12 Oct 2008 15:50 GMT
... UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran, under U.N. Security Council ... anti-American governments like those in Venezuela and Nicaragua may support the Iranian bid. Seats on ... for one more year are Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Libya and Vietnam. ...
- Putin back nuclear talks with Chavez 12 Oct 2008 13:43 GMT
... Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he was ready to ... foreign ministers of major powers at the United Nations in New York to discuss sanctions against ... manoeuvre, Russian warships are sailing to the Caribbean for joint military exercises with Venezuela. Russia ...
- Anticuario costarricense tuvo una carrera muy accidentada 12 Oct 2008 13:16 GMT
... Anticuario costarricense tuvo una carrera muy accidentada By ... Patterson hizo su primer hallazgo arqueológico en un campo de patatas en su país de origen, Costa Rica, cuando apenas tenía siete años de edad. Se ...
- Global warming grips Greenland, leaves lasting mark 12 Oct 2008 10:31 GMT
... Although millions of people across the world still ... longer than the distance from Maine to Cuba. From west to east, Greenland is 652 ... most prestigious body of climatologists — the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — noted ...
- Costa Rican Paradise? 12 Oct 2008 10:16 GMT
... Costa Rica has become one of the most famous surfing ... deep in the jungle where it goes un-noticed and is too hard to regulate. However, ...
- Galapagos islands 12 Oct 2008 09:15 GMT
... Blue-footed Booby bird on Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Photograph: ... criticised tourist packages which offered kayaking, horse-riding, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing and other activities which ... Fray Tomas de Berlanga, the Bishop of Panama, documented the first official visit to the ...
- Fools and paupers 12 Oct 2008 09:15 GMT
... Just what is it with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)? Its ... innumerable political commissions of inquiries in any Caribbean country attests. Since, given all the evidence, ... The second, under PJ Patterson, the former Jamaican prime minister, was far more recent and ...
- The shadow of Gitmo 12 Oct 2008 08:15 GMT
... The next president must act to help America reclaim ... terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Administration officials drunk on executive power, disdainful ... sheik" accused of plotting to bomb the United Nations, and Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui -- ...
- Critics attack U.S. drop of N. Korea from terrorism list 12 Oct 2008 07:51 GMT
... WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration removed North Korea ... John Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations and her former boss as undersecretary for ... of international terrorism." Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba remain on the list, which subjects them to ...
- Next U.S. president could learn from Finns 12 Oct 2008 07:50 GMT
... Next U.S. president could learn from Finns wasn't surprised ... decades to resolve international conflicts.'' As a United Nations diplomat, Finland's president from 1994 to 2000 ... that she has a soft spot for Cuba despite that country's five-decade-old dictatorship. Sometimes, you have ...
- U.S. removal of North Korea from terror list raises ire 12 Oct 2008 07:31 GMT
... Originally published Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 12:00 ... Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Bush and a strong critic of ... terrorism designation — now shared only by Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan — carries severe ...
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