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• MICROCAPITAL.ORG BRIEF: The European Investment Bank (EIB) Approves €110m in Loans to Intesa Sanpaolo Banka, IRBRS-Republic of Srpska Investment-Development Bank and LOK Microfinance of Bosnia and Herzegovina

  
  MicroCapital.org — Authority: 144
  The European Investment Bank, the long-term lending bank of the European Union, has approved three loan contracts worth a total of EUR 110 million for microfinance-related projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina. EUR 50 million will be allocated to Intesa Sanpaolo Banka for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and ...
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• US Swine Flu Spray Plane Shot Down In China

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 507
  By: Sorcha FaalReports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that a US government contracted airplane piloted by American CIA agents and carrying a cargo of a ‘mutated’ swine flu virus intended for aerial spraying was shot down [photo top left] at China’s Shanghai Pudong airport by a saboteur team of what ...
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• Afghanistan – Can the U.S. Woo Afghanistan Taliban to Switch Sides? (Time Magazine)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 165
  Can the U.S. Woo Afghanistan Taliban to Switch Sides? (Time Magazine) A surge of American reinforcements into Afghanistan will be a sideshow to the effort to put insurgents onto the U.S. payroll West turned blind eye to corruption, former Afghan narcotics minister says (Coast Reporter) TORONTO – Corruption infecting ...
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• Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops To “Prepare For Civil War”

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 507
  By: Sorcha Faal  Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to “begin immediately” increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, ...
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• Goal.com World Player Of The Week: Didier Drogba - Chelsea & Cote dIvoire

  
  Goal.com — Authority: 715
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• Manmohan Singh speaks on the dangers that lurk in Afghanistan and Pakistan

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  In a recent interview, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserts that ‘Pakistan [is] not doing enough to fight terrorism’ and believes that Afghanistan requires the sustained support of the global community if it is to return to the path of peace, freedom, and an environment in which fundamentalist terrorist ...
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• Video: Worldwide youth express themselves in 60 seconds

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  OneMinutesJr Logo The OneMinutesJr project gives young people between 12 and 20 years of age from many corners of the globe the opportunity to express themselves, speak out and learn audiovisual skills to communicate across borders, languages and distances through 60 second videos. The OneMinutesJr project ...
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• Afghanistan – U.S. may send 9,000 Marines to fight Taliban in Afghanistan (Russian Information Agency Novosti)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 165
  U.S. may send 9,000 Marines to fight Taliban in Afghanistan (Russian Information Agency Novosti) The United States may send as many as 9,000 Marines to southern Afghanistan to fight Taliban militants just days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy, The Washington Post reported Allies push Afghan ...
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• Central Asian News Update – 2000 years later, Mongolian barbarians finally take down Great Wall (Shanghaiist)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 165
  2000 years later, Mongolian barbarians finally take down Great Wall (Shanghaiist) And no, unfortunately it’s not the Great Firewall. Apparently around 300 feet of the actual great wall,, located in a remote part of Inner Mongolia, has been irreparably damaged by Mongolian gold prospectors . The section, an ...
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• Bin Laden within grasp in 2001

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  The US military missed an opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, when he was "within grasp" in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001, a US report has concluded. The Senate foreign affairs committee report, released on Sunday, said that the failure to move in on Bin ...
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• Kyrgyzstan: Water Management

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Misha reflects on the problems of water management in Central Asia against the background of the news about glacial retreat in Kyrgyzstan.
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• Afghanistan: Empowering trading potential

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Sanjar shares his idea of creating opprtunities for market linkages between small entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, sellers and businesses in Afghanistan via the use of mobile technologies.
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• Afghans Detail a Secret Prison Still Operating on a U.S. Base

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  KABUL, Afghanistan — An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates for sometimes weeks at a time and without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. LINK TO ORIGINAL
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• Afghanistan – Afghan elders enlisted to sway Taliban (UPI)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 165
  Afghan elders enlisted to sway Taliban (UPI) JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Nov. 28 (UPI) — New U.S. efforts to persuade rank-and-file Taliban fighters to switch sides have begun in Afghanistan with a meeting of tribal leaders, observers say. World Karzai renews call for Taliban to lay down weapons (Japan Today) Afghan ...
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• You Get What you Vote For!

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  By Cindy Sheehan The so-called anti-war movement currently finds itself in somewhat of a quagmire: What to do when the man you raised money for, volunteered for, and yes, even voted for, actually fulfills one of his most repulsive campaign promises? First of all, I never understood why, or how, peace people could ...
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• Contrasting Towers

  
  Tamerlane's Thoughts — Authority: 136
  Pioneer Mill Smokestack ; Lahaina, Hawaii Emin Minaret ; Turpan, Xinjiang
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• A High-Level Two-Days Conference on the 2009 Potential of Kazakhstan – US Investments. “Kazakhstan, is the Center of Eurasia,” Rich in Resources and in direct contacts with West Europe, Moscow, Beijing, Istanbul, and Washington – its importance is growin

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 485
  Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world – equal in size to all of Western Europe, four times the size of Texas, five times the size of France, and has 16.5 million people. Its present GNP per capita is $6,140. It passed  a Sovereignty Declaration October 25, 1990 and became an Independent State ...
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• Afghanistan – UAE: Afghan cricket team defeats Saudis in Asian cup (Adnkronos)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 165
  UAE: Afghan cricket team defeats Saudis in Asian cup (Adnkronos) UAE: Afghan cricket team defeats Saudis in Asian cup (AKI) – Afghanistan’s national cricket team on Thursday handed a humiliating eight-wicket defeat to Saudi Arabia in the 12-nation Asian Twenty20 Cup at the Al-Zayed Cricket Village in Dubai, in the ...
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• Zionist war on Islam is also a war on America

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 507
  From Asia Times:“The other regional players [read China] are busily setting the stage for exploitation of Afghanistan’s natural resources, while the US remains bogged down with the war. This should change,” (former CIA Pakistan Station Chief Milton) Bearden said (to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations ...
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