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August 2008:
July 2008:
Sixth month of job losses in the USA
(BBC News)
Israel may strike Iran
(BBC News)
Colombia frees Western hostages
(BBC News)
Manual for Guantanamo interrogations copied from old communist manual
(New York Times)
Al Qaeda grows in Algeria
(New York Times)
June 2008:
Al Qaeda grows in Pakistan
(New York Times)
The USA is preparing a military campaign against Iran
(New Yorker)
The USA Supreme Court forbids individual states to ban guns
(BBC News)
The Taliban rule a piece of Pakistan
(New York Times)
Afghanistan accuses Pakistan's secret services of trying to assassinate its president Karzai
(New York Times)
Cleansing of Christians in Iraq
(New York Times)
Berlusconi's first law is to help himself stay out of jail
(BBC News)
Obama leads over McCain by 12%
(Los Angeles Times)
Myanmar/Burma's new capital
(New York Times)
Jewish terrorists filmed on camera
(New York Times)
Yet another crisis in Argentina
(New York Times)
Mainland China stops tourists from visiting China during the Olympics
(New York Times)
Inflation
(New York Times)
McCain keeps flip-flopping on taxes
(New York Times)
Only 20% of Russians want to abolish the death penalty
(BBC News)
80% of Japanese approve of the death penalty
(Japan Today)
Japan executes three convicts
(Yahoo News)
China scolds the USA on economics
(New York Times)
Honda unveils the first mass-market hydrogen-propelled vehicle
(New York Times)
Dealing with Pakistan-caused nuclear proliferation
(New York Times)
Dealing with Pakistan-caused nuclear proliferation
(Times of India)
China spies into USA computers to catch dissidents
(Yahoo News)
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Pew Center's poll on worldwide attitudes towards the USA
(Pew Center)
Protests in Korea over USA beef fueled by Internet articles
(Yahoo News)
Record unemployment in the USA
(BBC News)
Turkey and Iran attack Kurds in Iraq
(New York Times)
Report accuses Bush of misleading the nation on Iraq
(Yahoo News)
Latinos more likely to use drugs, alcohol and suicide
(Yahoo News)
Cell phones danger
(New York Times)
The Taliban control a piece of Pakistan
(New York Times)
May 2008:
The food crisis
(BBC News)
The food crisis
(New York Times)
Curriculum designed to unite art and science
(New York Times)
Limit your exposure to plastic
(Knox)
Islamists win elections in Kuwait
(New York Times)
Al Jazeera virtually banned in the USA
(New York Times)
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The Democratic Recession
(New York Times)
China's ship of shame
Al Qaeda offended by conspiracy theories
April 2008:
The USA trade deficit keeps increasing despite the weak dollar
(Associated Press)
The USA shifts war from Al Qaeda to Iranian-backed militias
(Yahoo News)
Chinese repression in Tibet
(New York Times)
More ethnic riots in China
(New York Times)
Chinese video on Tibet
(Sina)
Reforms in Cuba
(Yahoo News)
Fall of the American empire and rise of the new economy
(Biddho)
Islamists advancing in Somalia
(New York Times)
The USA supporting Ukraine in NATO
(BBC News)
Hamas' racism
(New York Times)
March 2008:
Anti-Tibetan video from China
(Sina.com)
Russia to help Egypt build nuclear power plants
(BBC News)
China forbids journalists to cover the Olympic Games
(New York Times)
Chinese intellectuals condemn crackdown on Tibet
(New York Times)
The king of Bhutan introduces democracy
(New York Times)
Bush protects China's crackdown on dissidents
(New York Times)
Prominent Muslim converts to Catholicism
(Yahoo News)
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Murders per capita in the world
(Nation Master)
Chinese represssion in Tibet
(BBC News)
Poll shows most Palestinians favor violence over talks
(New York Times)
Islam to sue what it perceives as offensive to Islam
(Yahoo News)
Yemeni accuses USA of secret jails
(BBC News)
Tibetans protest against Chinese rule in Lhasa
(BBC News)
China bans the Everest for fear of Tibetan protests
(BBC News)
Collapsing dollar and stock market
(Financial Times)
China foils a terror plot
(The West)
Iraq costing $12 billion a month
(Yahoo News)
Italy tops global wiretap league
(The Register)
Italy and Holland Are number one and two in Europe in wiretapping their citizens
(New Int)
Richest people in the world
(Forbes)
Venezuela funded FARC rebels in Colombia
(BBC News)
February 2008:
China to increase military spending
(BBC News)
Islamic boycott of a book fair
(BBC News)
Venezuela and Ecuador support Colombian rebels
(Yahoo News)
Israel attacks Palestinians
(Yahoo News)
Israel attacks Palestinians
(Jerusalem Post)
Israel attacks Palestinians
(Al Jazeera)
More than 1% of USA adults are in prison
A new war looming on Sudan
Drug resistant tuberculosis on the rise in the former Soviet Union territories
No free speech in Russia
Life forms in Antartica
(Yahoo News)
Academic exodus from Israel to the USA
(Jerusalem Post)
Middle-age suicide skyrockets in the USA
(CDC)
Turning greenhouse gases into gasoline
(New York Times)
Bloody battle with Maoists in India
(BBC News)
Another gun-related masscre in the USA, the fourth shooting at a US education establishment within a week
(BBC News)
Education in the Arab world
(World Bannk)
Al Jazeera in English
(International Herald Tribune)
Muslim call to prayer in Oxford
(Reuters)
Yet another reason not to eat meat
(New York Times)
Militant killed in Syria
(BBC News)
Haliburton planning to move its headquarters to Dubai
(ABC News)
An interview with Samuel Huntington
(Islamica)
Education lagging behind in the Arab world
(World Bank)
Islamists win constitutional amendments in Turkey
(BBC News)
The need for a Muslim fourth state
(Islamica)
January 2008:
China cracks down on dissidents
(New York Times)
The Taliban kill schoolchildren and teachers
(Yahoo News)
Hillary Clinton for Democratic candidate
(New York Times)
John McCain for Republican candidate
(New York Times)
Record growth in China
(BBC News)
Where the money for Iraq went
(Center for Public Integrity)
Bush's lies about the war in Iraq
(Center for Public Integrity)
Global Islamist and Palestinian Terrorism
(Mideastweb)
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Population of Palestine before the creation of Israel
(Mideastweb)
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