01/09/2009
Analysis: Money at root of Russia's gas war (AP via Yahoo! News)
Five months after Russia crushed the Georgian army in the foothills of the Caucasus, Moscow is once again embroiled in a conflict with a former Soviet neighbor: waging an economic war with Ukraine that has disrupted natural gas delivery across Europe.
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01/08/2009
Union soldier's bones found at Md. Civil War site (AP via Yahoo! News)
Cutting through a cornfield where soldiers were literally blown to bits on the bloodiest day of the Civil War, a hiker spied something near a groundhog hole: fragments of bone and a metal button, clotted with red clay.
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01/08/2009
'Old Glory', Neveu's Play About Fallout of Iraq War, Premieres in IL; Cast Announced (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Brett Neveu's Old Glory, one of a series of plays about how the Iraq War affects six interconnected people, will gets its world premiere production Feb. 3-March 29 from Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, IL.
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01/08/2009
Russia, Ukraine back off energy war, will send gas (AP via Yahoo! News)
Russia and Ukraine backed off from their energy war Thursday, promising to start resending Russian gas over Ukrainian pipelines to EU customers shivering through a widespread cold snap.
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01/08/2009
US election's 'Joe the Plumber' becomes 'Joe the War Reporter' (AFP via Yahoo! News)
"Joe the Plumber," the Ohio man who shot to fame last year after he challenged then presidential candidate Barack Obama over his tax proposals, is morphing into "Joe the War Correspondent" and heading to the Middle East Thursday, he told US television.
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01/08/2009
Prominent Sri Lankan editor, war-critic shot dead (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper that has been highly critical of the island's hawkish government and its war on Tamil rebels was shot dead Thursday, in the second attack on the press in a week.
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01/09/2009
Journalists and humanitarian workers at risk in war-ravaged Somalia (Amnesty International)
A worker with the United Nations World Food Programme was killed by unidentified gunmen in southern Somalia, highlights the dangerous environment in which journalists and humanitarian workers in the war-torn country continue to work.
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01/09/2009
War On Gaza – The Just Must Act (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
More than we will ever realise, we too can become victims of a war that is fought so far away in Gaza. Israel is fighting its war on two fronts – through its military and through its massive global public relations machinery.
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01/08/2009
8 Bosnian Serbs indicted for war crimes (International Herald Tribune)
Bosnia's war crimes prosecutor indicted eight Bosnian Serbs on Thursday suspected of taking part in a massacre of more than 200 Muslims and Croats early in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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01/09/2009
No victors in the war on dissent (Online Journal)
Among the wars currently being fought by the American government is one in which there can be no winners. Our prior law enforcement experiences warn us that the “war on terrorism” has spawned an internal “war on dissent” in which everyone loses.
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