World History Timeline
Chilean Miners Get First Hot Meal
Positive Side Of Africa Not Shown In US Mainstream Media
Australia's Labor Party Leads Opposition 74-73
Israeli & Palestinian Leaders To Meet In Washington
US Prosecuters Charge Pakistani Taliban Leader With Killing CIA Employees
Rare Roman Lantern Found in Field
Snapshot 02 September 2010
Chilean Miners Get First Hot Meal
Chilean miners trapped underground after a rock collapse have received their first hot meal in 26 days.
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Meatballs, chicken and rice were piped through a tube to the 33 miners, who are stuck 700m (2,300ft) below the surface.
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Previously the miners have received only glucose tablets and high-protein milk.
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A team from the US space agency Nasa has arrived at the mine to offer their advice on keeping the miners healthy.
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Chile's Trapped Miners
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The team of four experts was requested by the Chilean government to share their experience of coping in confined spaces.
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A nutritionist from the team helped put together the menu. Read More| |
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Positive Side Of Africa Not Shown In US Mainstream Media
Africa Society president Bernadette Paolo says many Africa-related events continue to feature less prominently in mainstream US media
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The president and CEO of the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa says that important stories about Africa continue to feature less prominently in mainstream American media outlets.
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The Africa Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that strives to educate Americans about the richness and diversity of Africa, as well as the economic opportunities that the continent offers.
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Bernadette Paolo said, despite the fact that the month of August featured many Africa-related events in Washington, those events did not make the mainstream American media.
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She said there is a need to demand positive coverage of Africa by providing the media with information that contrasts with the usual negative stories. Read More| |
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Israeli & Palestinian Leaders To Meet In Washington
The Israeli and Palestinian leaders were to open direct peace negotiations Thursday after committing to work to end the conflict that has endured for six decades.
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The talks are to be held at the State Department, where they will take place under the eye of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The negotiations follow a remarkable tableau at the White House Wednesday night, where President Obama, flanked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, vowed to do everything within his power in the next year to achieve the comprehensive agreement that has eluded negotiators since Israel was established.
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“We are but five men,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday night. “But when we come together, we will not be alone. We will be joined by the generations of those who have gone before.”
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In somber, emotional tones at the White House Wednesday night, Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas expressed their own determination to make peace.
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Mr. Netanyahu, turning toward to Mr. Abbas, called him his “partner in peace.” He said he came to find a “historic compromise” but warned that any deal must be anchored in ensuring Israel’s security. Read More| |
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Middle East Current Events
Can Netanyahu Bring Peace
David Rubinger, one of Israel’s best-known photojournalists and a man firmly on the political left, cast his ballot last year for Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister, the first time he had ever voted for the right-leaning Likud Party.
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“The left wants to make peace but cannot, while the right doesn’t want to but, if forced to, can do it,” he said in an interview. “So last year I decided to vote not with my heart but with my head.”
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As Mr. Netanyahu joins Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, at the State Department on Thursday to start direct peace negotiations, Mr. Rubinger’s theory — and it is not his alone — will be tested. Will the Israeli leader who built a career opposing a Palestinian state be the one to help bring it into being?
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In some fashion, that is Mr. Netanyahu’s own claim — that only someone like himself, with hawkish credentials, can and will produce lasting peace because only such a leader can bring his people with him.
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“I intend to confound the critics and the skeptics,” Mr. Netanyahu said in July at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. At age 60 and in his second tour as prime minister, Mr. Netanyahu, who grew up partly outside Philadelphia and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says he did not return to power for the pleasure of it. It is not that pleasurable, he notes, and he aims to get something important done. Read More| |
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Australia's Labor Party Leads Opposition 74-73 Seats
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard inched closer to a return to power on Thursday after one of four independent lawmakers holding the balance of power threw his support behind her Labor Party.
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Labor has promised to introduce a new tax on mining profits tax and a $38 billion telecoms project if it wins a second term after an indecisive August 21 election.
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Independent Andrew Wilkie's decision to back Gillard means Labor can now claim 74 seats in the 150-member lower house of parliament, still two short of the number required to rule.
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The conservative opposition has 73 seats, but it could still win the race to form a government if the three remaining rural-based independents line up behind its leader, Tony Abbott. Their decision may not come until early next week. Read More | |
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Rare Roman Lantern Found in Field
A metal detecting enthusiast has found what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain.
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Danny Mills, 21, made the find in a field near Sudbury in Suffolk.
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The area was dotted with plush Roman villas and country estates in the second century.
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The object, described as a rare example of Roman craftsmanship, has been donated to Ipswich Museum where is it now on display.
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In the autumn of 2009, Mr Mills, a metal detector user, found a large bronze object whilst metal detecting in a field near Sudbury.
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He immediately reported the discovery to Suffolk Archaeological Unit. Read More| |
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US Prosecuters Charge Pakistani Taliban Leader With Killing CIA Employees
U.S. prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, in the plot that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
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Mehsud, believed to be hiding in the tribal areas of Pakistan and head of the group known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, was charged with conspiracy to kill Americans overseas and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.
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On December 30, a Jordanian doctor who had gained the trust of the CIA employees as a source detonated a bomb hidden under his clothing after entering a heavily fortified compound outside Khost. It was the second-most deadly attack in CIA history.
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"Criminal charges are meant to deal with Hakimullah if he's captured," said a U.S. official who declined to be identified. "He can face justice in other ways, too. That hasn't changed."
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U.S. military forces have tried to kill Mehsud since the attack with strikes by unmanned aerial drones. The State Department is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his location. Read More | |
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