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Rapper Runs for Parliament in Kosovo

Source: International Herald Tribune

Yet even as he recited his litany, Krasniqi acknowledged that the situation was "10 times" better than when he was a teenager.

Asbestos Still Poisoning Rural Québec Mining Towns

Source: The Globe and Mail

Half of a group of homes in Thetford Mines, Que., had levels of asbestos high enough that, if the same concentrations were detected in U.S.

Bhutto to Musharraf: I'm Calling You Out, Mofo

Source: The New York Times

NOV. 3, 2007, will be remembered as the blackest day in the history of Pakistan. Let us be perfectly clear: Pakistan is a military dictatorship. Last Saturday, Gen.

Monks Defiantly Return to Burmese Streets

Source: BBC News

Witnesses at Wednesday's march said the monks did not make any overt political statements but that the rally was clearly in defiance of the junta.

Argentina's First Lady Elected President

Source: The New York Times

Mrs. Kirchner is the second woman to be elected leader of a South American nation in two years, after Michelle Bachelet, who became president of Chile last year.

Going to a Concert? Tear Out Those Seats and Dance!

Source: The New York Times

Music can be a more satisfying cerebral experience if we let it move us physically.

BBC NEWS: Who do you think you are, Hussein Yusuf?

Source: BBC News

Great piece from FOAS Hussein on his sense of self and identity: I choose to be Somali. But I am also more than Somali, I am the product of many oceans, always changing, revolving, learning and growing.

U.S. Forgives Costa Rican Debt to Help Environment

Source: The New York Times

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 16 — The United States has agreed to forgive $26 million of Costa Rica's debt as part a debt-for-nature swap that will protect some of the country's most threatened tropical forests, officials said.

So why do 'normal' people get tattoos?

Source: BBC News

"Tattooing used to be the preserve of people who were too lazy to work and too scared to steal. Nowadays you have got proper artists," he suggests.

Christian Split in Lebanon Raises Specter of Civil War

Source: The New York Times

With the Islamist group Hezbollah having brought Lebanese politics to a standstill, the country's once-dominant Christian community feels under siege and has begun re-establishing militias, training in the hills and stockpiling weapons.

Soldiers break up Burma protests

Source: BBC News

Information from Burma has become increasingly patchy. Internet access has been cut in Rangoon and is only partially available elsewhere.

Global Fund eyes $8 billion from donors to fight disease

Source: Canada.com

In June, leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations committed to $6-$8 billion per year replenishment of the Global Fund by 2010 at a summit hosted by Germany.

Prison as a Social, Political and Cultural Force

Source: The Boston Globe

For years sociologists saw prisons - with their disproportionately poor, black, and uneducated populations - partly as mirrors of the social and economic disparities that cleave American life.

A Son Radiates His Own Light in His Father's Libya

Source: The New York Times

This year, in a televised speech, he said Libya should adopt a proper constitution that would guarantee freedom of the press. He has opened two private newspapers, and this summer he addressed a gathering of more than 100,000 young Libyans.

At Effing Last, Gonzales Resigns

Source: Yahoo! News

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, ending a months-long standoff with critics over the botched handling of FBI terror investigations and the firings of U.S. attorneys, officials said Monday.

Quebec Police Admit Planting Provocateurs at Peaceful Montebello Protest

Source: The Globe and Mail

Both the RCMP and the Sûreté du Québec initially had denied that any of their officers were involved. Last night, the SQ said the officers were members of the force.

White House Limiting State Health Plan for Children

Source: The New York Times

The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income fami …

Rove Resigns!

Source: BBC News

Top White House aide Karl Rove, seen by many as the brains behind George W Bush's presidency, has said he will resign at the end of August.

One More Martyr in a Dirty War: The Life and Death of Brad Will

Source: The Virginia Quarterly Review

Brad Will always turned up where things were happening. Even to write that in the past tense seems strange, almost laughable, and nobody would laugh about it more than he would, with his conspiratorial raised-eyebrow chuckle, a laugh that let you in on a secret joke.

US Democrats To Debate GLBT Issues in California

Source: BBC News

For the first time, contenders for the White House are taking part in a live televised discussion devoted solely to gay and lesbian issues.

Green consumerism will not save the biosphere

Source: monbiot.com

Uncomfortable as this is for both the media and its advertisers, giving things up is an essential component of going green. A section on ethical shopping in Goldsmith's book advises us to buy organic, buy seasonal, buy local, buy sustainable, buy recycled.

Xanana Gusmao sworn in as East Timor Prime Minister

Source: BBC News

Independence hero Xanana Gusmao pledged reform and urged national unity as he was sworn in as the new prime minister of East Timor.

Libya Lifts Death Sentences in Child H.I.V. Infections

Source: The New York Times

Libya on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of having intentionally infected hundreds of Libyan children with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.

Sichuan, Torn Between Tourism And Tradition

Source: Independent.co.uk

One of the biggest challenges China faces is weighing the wishes of these millions of tourists, who are keen to visit some of the country's most beautiful spots, against the needs of the local community, who need sustainable tourism if their traditions and livelihoods are not to  …

Canada's Nurses To See 'Sicko' For Free

Source: 680news.com

Alliance Atlantis has announced that it will offer free passes to see the documentary to all nurses across the country for a limited time starting today, and ending on Thursday.

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