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That Political Video From Facebook: “Pickpocket” or “Get Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Mitt Romney”

• August 11, 2012 • Comments Off

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Those Packer Aaron Rodgers Associated Bank Commercials

• October 21, 2011 • Comments Off

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Governor’s Wife Has High-Profile Role After Florida Hurricane October 6, 2022
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Why We Are Surveying the MENA Community in the U.S. October 5, 2022
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Biden’s Choice After OPEC Cuts: Woo Saudi Arabia, or Retaliate? October 7, 2022
The announcement by the Saudi-led OPEC Plus energy cartel that it would slash oil production was widely seen in Washington as a stab in the back of President Biden.
Justice Dept. Is Said to Believe Trump Has More Documents October 7, 2022
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The Guardian, UK

Russian mercenaries ‘exploiting Africa to fund war in Ukraine’ October 6, 2022
US ambassador to the UN said Wagner Group are trafficking natural resources from African nationsThe United States has accused Russian mercenaries of exploiting natural resources in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and elsewhere to help fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine, a charge Russia rejected as “anti-Russian rage”.The US ambassador to the United Nations, […]
African countries urge rich nations to honour $100bn climate finance pledge October 6, 2022
Ministers rebuke ‘shameful’ failure to meet funding promises for poorer countries to cope with climate crisis ahead of Cop27 summit Ministers and high-ranking officials of African nations have urged rich countries to do more to combat the climate crisis, and called the failure to meet a funding promise from 2009 “shameful”.At a conference in Giza, Egypt, on […]
‘I have a voice’: African activists struggle to attend UN climate talks in Egypt October 6, 2022
Young campaigners from the continent most affected by the climate crisis face financial and accreditation difficulties for Cop27African climate activists from some of the countries most affected by global heating say they are struggling to get access to the UN climate talks in Egypt in November.Cop27, which has been termed “the African Cop”, threatens to tak […]
Warning over cough syrups after 66 children die in the Gambia October 6, 2022
WHO says the contaminated medications may have been distributed outside of the West African country, with global exposure ‘possible’ The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an alert over four cough and cold syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals in India, warning they could be linked to the deaths of 66 children in the Gambia.The UN health agency also […]
Drone footage shows orcas chasing and killing great white shark October 5, 2022
Scientists say behaviour, filmed in South Africa, has never been seen in detail before – and never from the airScientists have published findings confirming that orcas hunt great white sharks, after the marine mammal was captured on camera killing one of the world’s largest sea predators.A pod of killer whales is seen chasing sharks during an hour-long pursu […]
‘Shocking blow to Indigenous land rights’ as court dismisses Maasai herder claim October 5, 2022
Herders lodge appeal against ruling in their case against the Tanzanian government, which they say is violently evicting them from ancestral landLawyers for Maasai herders who say the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land to make way for a luxury game reserve have lodged an appeal against a court ruling that dismiss […]
Easter Island fire causes ‘irreparable’ damage to famous moai statues October 7, 2022
Forest fire that swept through more than 100 hectares of national park, with some moai ‘totally charred’A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities have said.The blaze reportedly swept through the Rapa Nui national park, 3,500km (2,175 miles) off the west coast of C […]
Canada mass stabbing suspect’s brother was victim not accomplice, police say October 6, 2022
Myles Sanderson, who died in RCMP custody, was responsible for deaths of all 11 victims, including that of his brother DamienCanadian police have concluded that Myles Sanderson, who led officers on a multi-day manhunt after a mass stabbing last month, was responsible for all 11 deaths – including that of his brother.Officers initially named Sanderson’s broth […]

The BBC

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Kevin Spacey on trial over New York sex abuse claim October 6, 2022
The actor denies inappropriately touching a 14-year-old boy at a Manhattan apartment party in 1986.