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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  5 hours ago

• Seven rebels killed in bombing raid in Colombia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Bogota, Nov 29 (EFE) At least seven rebels were killed Saturday in the bombing of a rebel camp by the military in the jungles of the southeastern province of Guaviare, officials said.The insurgent base, located in a rural area near the town of Calamar, belonged to the First Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ...
  9 hours ago

• Separation, Divorce and Parental Alienation Syndrome: Straightening Them Out One Social Worker at a Time.

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 482
  Separation, Divorce and Parental Alienation Syndrome: Straightening Them Out One Social Worker at a TimeFiled under: Activism, American Psychological Association, Best interest of the child, Child Custody, Child Custody Battle, Child Custody Issues, Child Custody Mediation, Child Custody for mothers, Child custody for ...
  10 hours ago

• Iraqis stories must be heard | Norman Kember

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Four years ago, I travelled to Iraq to talk with its besieged people. Chilcot cannot ignore them now Four years ago this week I was kidnapped in Baghdad . My trip to Iraq had been motivated by frustration at the governments deafness to all voices of reasoned opposition to the war in Iraq. I went to meet Iraqis to ...
  1 day ago

• Freed in Somalia, 2 Journalists Arrive in Kenya

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  A Canadian and an Australian were getting medical care after 15 months held by Somali insurgents.
  2 days ago

• Remains of Alec Collett found in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley

  
  UN-Truth — Authority: 126
  This is an ugly and traumatic story. Alec Collett, a former colleague accredited as a journalist at UNHQ/NY in the early to mid-1980s, was one of those internationals kidnapped during the long Lebanese civil war.  Alec was taken from a car near Beirut airport in March  1985, while on a temporary assignment for ...
  2 days ago

• Philippine Massacre Death Toll Reaches 57

  
  Baby Boomer Advisor Club|Baby Boomer Health and News — Authority: 441
  Philippine Massacre Death Toll Reaches 57 after authorities find 11 more bodies Wednesday, November 25th, 2009, at the site of an attack on an election caravan in southern Philippine. Authorities stat e that they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the president’s administration, for the ...
  3 days ago

• Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brenan released!

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 596
  Finally some good news. The hell that Amanda and Nigel had to endure for 16 months is over. It seems like $1 million was handed over to al Shabaab for Amanda and Nigels release. Although Im happy that Amanda and Nigel are finally free again, paying terrorists ransom will only encourage further kidnappings in the ...
  3 days ago

• On contract negotiations

  
  Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck. — Authority: 127
  On contract negotiations "Right, thats the contract agreed. We pay you three million pounds on successful completion, and your company supplies us with the computer and delivery system as set out in the requirements documentation." "Fantastic - all we need are your signatures and the whole transaction is ...
  4 days ago

• Why Not Sarah?

  
  Katy's Conservative Corner — Authority: 411
  This morning, your blogger was discussing with a friend, how amazed we are why those on both the right and left get so negatively emotional when they discuss former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin ?  "Why are her naysayers so afraid", we wondered. Palin has it all and is a politician out of central casting. She is ...
  5 days ago

• Philippines hostage bodies found

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  Twenty-one people who were among a group abducted in the southern Philippines have been killed by armed men. Major General Alfredo Cayton said in a radio interview on Monday that the bodies had been found, but could not confirm who carried out the killings. "Our army troopers have reached the area where the ...
  5 days ago

• Somali Pirates Free Spanish Hostages

  
  Baby Boomer Advisor Club|Baby Boomer Health and News — Authority: 441
  Somali Pirates Free Spanish Hostages who had been held on a Spanish ship. It is a dangerous word on the high seas. Especially off the Somalian coast.
  6 days ago

• Yemeni tribesmen’s hostage ‘now held by al Qa’eda’

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  SANA’A: One week after a Japanese engineer was kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen, there are conflicting reports about the fate of the man, including the possibility he was taken by al Qa’eda members. “The Japanese engineer who was held at Bait al Gob village in Arhab district was kidnapped by members of al ...
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• Iraq Working for Release of Americans Held in Iran

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  BAGHDAD — An Iraqi official says Baghdad has contacted Tehran in a bid to secure the release of three Americans detained in Iran, but has received no reply. Foreign undersecretary Labid Abawi said Saturday that Iraq has sent messages and made "several efforts" to ensure the release of the Americans. He ...
  1 week ago

• Al Qaeda Takes Japanese Hostage from Tribal Kidnappers

  
  Armies of Liberation — Authority: 508
  Damn. An earlier report here . As an aside, the reason the 22 year old was held by the state without charges after fighting in Iraq is that jihad (murder) abroad is not illegal in Yemen and is often encouraged by the President on national TV, for example during the Lebanon crisis. Hammoud Mounassar, AFP ...
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• Video Plea From Kidnapped British Couple

  
  The Lede — Authority: 708
  On Friday Britains Channel 4 News broadcast a video appeal for help by Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates last month. The tape was apparently filmed this week in Somalia.
  1 week ago

• Family Held Hostage for 3 Days

  
  Strange Fruit — Authority: 136
  Its crazy how a whole family can fall off the face of the earth and no one even notice...smh neighbors? co-workers? friends? Armed intruders forced their way into a Florida home and held a family of three hostage for nearly three days before the mother was able to jump from a second-story window and run for help, ...
  1 week ago

• Merz blames Geneva newspaper photos for Libya debacle

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 539
  Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss president Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz has no regrets about his actions in the on-going disputes the country has with Libya, he says in a lengthy interview with 20Minuten , the German edition of the daily free newspaper. “I would do everything ...
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• Somali pirates get $3.3M ransom, free 36 hostages

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  MOGADISHU, Somalia — As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat Tuesday and Somali pirates freed a Spanish trawler and its 36 crew members. Spains prime minister did little to deny paying off the hijackers — one reason the lucrative attacks are on the rise. "The government ...
  1 week ago

• Japanese Engineer Still Kidnapped

  
  Armies of Liberation — Authority: 508
  Tribesmen in Yemen have kidnapped foreigners for years in order to pressure the government for the release of family members, often held as official hostages by the state or as a result of a tribal dispute. The Yemeni government cares not a whit about kidnapped Yemenis, ergo its the foreigners who get snatched. In ...
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