In the dry state of Chihuahua, south of the Texas border, 68-year-old Amado Trevizo became an accidental outlaw last year when his son planted 10 sacks of seeds of GM corn, banned in Mexico. Trevizo was left with the 10-hectare (25-acre) harvest when his son was killed in a car accident, making him the unwitting [...]
March 23, 2008
Dutch Islam film website ’shut’
A website that a Dutch right-wing politician was planning to use to release a film expected to be fiercely critical of Islam has been suspended. The US hosting service, Network Solutions, said it was investigating complaints that it may have breached guidelines on hate language.
Dutch politician Geert Wilders says the 15-minute film describes Islam as [...]
March 23, 2008
World Meteorological Day
Each year, on 23 March, the World Meteorological Organization, its 188 Members and the worldwide meteorological community celebrate World Meteorological Day. This Day commemorates the entry into force, on that date in 1950, of the WMO Convention creating the Organization. Subsequently, in 1951, WMO was designated a specialized agency of the United Nations System.
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March 23, 2008
His Royal Dictator Perez Musharraf
At a military parade to mark Pakistan’s national day, the Pakistani dictator Mr. Musharraf said a new era of …democracy was beginning. The remarks came a day after his political opponents nominated Yusuf Raza Gillani as candidate for PM. The man has humor!
March 23, 2008
Kimi Raikkonen won the Malaysian Grand Prix
World champion Kimi Raikkonen kicked his title defence into life with victory in the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Finn passed his Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa thanks to a stunning lap before his first pit stop, after which he dominated the race. Massa spun out of second place, gifting it to BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica, with [...]
March 23, 2008
Billionaire Leonid Rozhetskin …spy mystery
Jet-setting billionaire Leonid Rozhetskin, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, vanished from his £1 million home just outside the Latvian capital Riga a week ago. Last night, Latvian authorities expressed fears that Mr. Rozhetskin, one of the co-founders and major shareholders in British business newspaper City AM, may have been murdered.
Latvian police say [...]
March 23, 2008
Chinese …Tibet version
With restive Tibetan areas swarming with troops and closed to scrutiny from the outside world, China’s government has turned up efforts to put its own version of the unrest before the international public. Information barely trickled out of the Tibetan capital Lhasa and other far-flung Tibetan communities, where foreign media were banned and thousands of [...]
March 23, 2008
Mugabe the emperor
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has told a rally in Harare ahead of next week’s elections the main opposition party would not rule in his lifetime. And the man definitely knows something to say that and surely he’s going to do something!
“It will never happen as long as we are still alive – those (of us) [...]
March 23, 2008
Easter’s Ovi magazine
PROJECT “Future Without War” by Alexandra Pereira
Objective of this project – built up over 30 years – together with its worldwide cooperation partners: freeing the earth from violence and war.
The X euros generation by Thanos Kalamidas
Berlusconi, while on a televised press conference, was asked by a female student how she would survive all this financial [...]
