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• BoI chief upbeat on FDI flow

  
  Bangladesh Economic News — Authority: 443
  http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=113288 BoI chief upbeat on FDI flow Star Business Report The state-run investment promotional body chief is upbeat on foreign direct investment flow to Bangladesh at an amount of at least $5 billion a year, despite the present declining trend. i”It is ...
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• See No Evil

  
  Kamil Pasha — Authority: 471
  Muslims don’t commit genocide. Iran doesn’t have nuclear ambitions. – PM Tayyip Erdogan Image from Wikipedia BBC News ( click here for full report): Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, indicted by the International Criminal Court, has pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul, officials say… The ...
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• Racists Protest Outside The White House

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 432
  Just don’t expect any hyperventilating from Chris Matthews : Decrying Barack Obama as “white power in black face,” hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home. More than 200 people gathered for ...
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• Of Course They Dont, The Wall Street Owns Them

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 452
  Click for full size Note: These numbers are inflation adjusted So, after Gordon Brown finally comes out in favor of a Tobin tax on financial transactions , Timothy "Eddie Haskell" Geithner comes out categorically against it : A day-by-day financial transaction tax is not something we are prepared to ...
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• Social media expert says he hasnt bought a newspaper in four years

  
  milne media — Authority: 413
  BUSY day today between one thing and another which meant a rare frustration - I didnt get out for the Sunday papers at all.  Milne Towers this Sunday was paperless. Naked of printed news. Of course Ill catch up with them all on Monday in the office, and I had a quick run down from the guys working at HQ ...
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• Learn Spanish Course: Why Should People Learn Spanish?

  
  Learning Foreign Languages — Authority: 130
  I recollect the first time I went to Mexico to take a Learn Spanish Course Its a gorgeous country. Not one of us could talk more than some words of Spanish. We had an obscure concept of the way in which the Mexican currency worked, but we were clueless when it came to how much to pay folk at restaurants and the ...
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• Palestine, Peres, Pledges And Poppycock

  
  American Conservative News Politics & Opinion - The Land of the Free — Authority: 440
  Israel’s current President - Shimon Peres - has used the 14th anniversary of the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister - Yitzchak Rabin - to pledge that the former Prime Minister’s vision of peace would not be abandoned. “The goals bravely sought by Yitzhak, with a bold vision and diplomacy, will not ...
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• A war-criminal comes to London

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 686
  contribution by Ben Six So, on Tuesday, Liam Fox, the man who’s likely to be our next Defence Secretary, will step onto a platform somewhere in London and celebrate one of the 20th Century’s most notorious war criminals : Henry Kissinger, a man whose bloody footprints trail through Laos, Vietnam, ...
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• The Great Game, Cont’d

  
  waka waka waka — Authority: 128
  For those of you who were puzzled by the sudden withdrawal of challenger Abdullah Abdullah from the runoff election in Afghanistan the other day, the Asia Times has the answer: he did so under U.S. pressure, as part of a complex deal brokered by our Secretary of State during her recent visit to Pakistan. Mr. ...
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• The Same Old Drama

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 659
  Commentary By Ron Beasley Thomas Friedman has been taking some reality drugs . The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It isobvious that all the parties are just acting out the same old scenes,with the same old tired clichés — and that no one believes any of itanymore. There is no romance, ...
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• Christopher Fitzgerald obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  CIA officer tasked with finding a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine Christopher Fitzgerald, who has died aged 88, was the CIA agent responsible for building the ship the Hughes Glomar Explorer, designed to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the Pacific Ocean floor in a secret operation in 1974. In February ...
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• East Germany’s Gone – Boo Hoo

  
  QandO — Authority: 139
  Y ou have to read this one to believe it.  Bruni de la Motte, a child of the GDR , tells us how hard life has been for her since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  The irony is that while she tries to convince of all that was good and wonderful about her former homeland, she never mentions the fact that if she’d have ...
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• Dumas Looks Back

  
  French Politics — Authority: 484
  Roland Dumas, very relaxed and quite jovial, looks back on the fall of the Soviet bloc and Mitterrands attitude toward German reunification, in a fascinating conversation , which I would recommend viewing with a skeptical eye.
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• China Pledges $10 Billion to African Nations

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  China offered African governments a multibillion-dollar package of financial and technical assistance, stepping up a courtship that has gained Beijing access to oil and minerals.
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• Money & Policy

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 539
  WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement. After a daylong clash with ... The Caucus found this ...
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• China To Loan Africa $10 Billion

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offered Africa $10 billion in concessional loans over the next three years on Sunday, saying China was a “true and trusted friend” of the continent and its people. The aid offer is double that unveiled by President Hu Jintao at the last summit in Beijing in 2006, as China aims to boost ...
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• Defence chiefs condemn mixed messages on Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Senior commanders say public not convinced British troops can succeed as MoD announces deaths of two more soldiers Growing frustration among Britains most senior military commanders over the governments handling of the war in Afghanistan burst into the open today as plans to restrict the number of areas in which ...
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• Gordon Brown pressured to back David Miliband for EU job

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Prime Minister faces intense pressure to put forward David Miliband as a candidate for European Union foreign minister.
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• Nuclear-Power Fuel Too Close to Nuclear-Weapon Fuel for Comfort

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 568
  THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- Recent statements by its chief representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency suggest that Iran may be backing away from an agreement to ships it low-enriched nuclear fuel to Russia for further enriching. Even, though, after agreeing to the deal, President Ahmadinejad, ever the master ...
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• Tehran Fumbles Diplomatic Ball With Turkey Over Nukes

  
  Shadowed Forest of World Politics — Authority: 121
  Following up instantly on my thought about Turkey as a neutral guarantor of everyone’s honesty in the delicate negotiations over Western reprocessing of Iranian uranium, El Baradei has proposed the idea only to have Iranian media immediately throw cold water on it, leaving Erdogan just a bit humiliated. That is no ...
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