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December 2007:

European carmarkers oppose limits on carbod dioxide (BBC News)
The USA unilaterally cuts nuclear stockpile (Reuters)
USA approves Turkey's bombing of Iraq (BBC News)
Iraqi civilian casualties (Iraq Bodycount)
>>> The very bad science of global warming (Daily Mail)
Fujimori to stand trial in Peru (New York Times)
Putin chooses Dmitry Medvedev to replace him as president of Russia (BBC News)
Gang that raped an Aboriginal child set free by Australian judge (BBC News)
Muslim fanatics kill and mutilate 50 women in southern Iraq (Yahoo News)
USA casualties in Iraq (Iraq Coalition Casualties)
Coal mine accident in China (BBC News)
Yet another mass terrorist attack in the USA (Yahoo News)
An Afghan woman becomes a suicide bomber in Pakistan (BBC News)
Multiple civil wars in Chad (BBC News)
Chavez admits defeat (BBC News)
Iran halted its nuclear program in 2003 (Yahoo News)
Chavez loses the referendum in Venezuela (BBC News)
Chavez threatens to expel Spanish companies if the Spanish vote for Spain's right-wing party (International Herald Tribune)

November 2007:

Punjabi women committing suicide to escape arranged marriages (World Sikh News)
Chad rebels declare war on France (BBC News)
Muslims ask for detah penalty for a woman who named toys "Mohammed" (BBC News)
Immigration into the USA is at record levels (New York Times)
Israel's Nuclear Arsenal Vexed Nixon (New York Times)
NATO strike kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan (New York Times)
Immigrants are 6% of Italy's popoulation (ADN Kronos)
A population boom in Britain (This Is London)
Corruption in the Bush administration even affected protected species (CNN)
Honeybee colony collapse disorder is threatening the food chain (News Target)
Honeybee colony collapse disorder is threatening the food chain (Farm Futures)
Speculation drives oil prices up (CNN)
The Dalai Lama calls for a referendum in Chinese-occupied Tibet (Voice of America)
Islamic terrorism in Sudan (BBC News)
>>> The USA leads the productivity index (World Economic Forum)
France supplies China with nuclear technology (New York Times)
Rethinking the European opposition to genetically-modified food (BBC News)
Riots in Paris (BBC News)
Poll shows Hillary Clinton losing to any Republican candidate (Zogby)
Steep increase of cocaine use in Europe (BBC News)
Internal crisis in Iran (BBC News)

October 2007:

USA defeating Al Qaeda in Iraq (Washington Post)
Ammar al-Hakim proposes a federal solution for Iraq (Yahoo News)
>>> USA has the lowest approval rate for globalization (Pew Center)
Marines who massacred 24 people in Haditha to be let free (Yahoo News)

September 2007:

Iraq deaths fall by 50% (Yahoo News)
Elections in Ukraine (BBC News)
Iran designates the CIA a terrorist organization (Yahoo News)
Deflation in Japan (BBC News)
USA statistics (USA Government)
Israel attacks Gaza town (Yahoo News)
Tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea (BBC News)
Violent crime increases in the USA and 17,034 people are murdered (FBI)
Syria, Israel and North Korea (New York Times)
How corruption determines which body armors the army will buy (NBC)
Islamists want to kill another cartoonist (International Herald Tribune)
Islamists want to kill another cartoonist (Mypetjawa News)
Britain has plutonium for 17,000 bombs (BBC News)
>>> Naval power in the Pacific (New York Times)
France's tough stand on Iran (Yahoo News)
Osama bin Laden calls for a revolution in Pakistan (BBC News)
Anti-Syrian politician killed in Lebanon (BBC News)
Saudi women ask to drive (BBC News)
Morales' success in Bolivia (New York Times)
Buddhist monks lead protests against the regime in Myanmar (New York Times)
Israel bombs a nuclear site in Syria (New York Times)
Unemployment in Europe and the USA (University of Bristol)
The FBI's ten most wanted criminals (FBI)
USA voters trust the military over the politicians about Iraq (New York Times)
Training camps in Pakistan for Western terrorists (New York Times)
BBC poll in Iraq (BBC News)
Most suicide bombers in Afghanistan are Arabs, Pakistanis and Central Asians (BBC News)
The USA accuses Eritrea of supporting Islamic terrorists (BBC News)
The USA accuses Eritrea of supporting Islamic terrorists (International Herald Tribune)
Eritrea hosts meeting of Somali Islamists (Voice of America)
>>> Conflict inside the Bush administration about Iraq (Washington Post)
Islamists win elections in Morocco (BBC News)
Osama urges Americans to convert to Islam (Yahoo News)
Denmark arrests Islamic terrorists (Washington Post)
The budget deficit is bigger than Bush claims (CNN)
USA troops engaged in torture (CNN)

August 2007:

Sunni clerics call Shites "heretics" (Yahoo News)
Hu Jintao fires five ministers (International Herald Tribune)
Sarkozy urges France to join globalization (New York Times)
Protests in Burma (Christian Science Monitor)
Victims of Soviet nuclear testing (CNN)
Newt Gingrich confesses to extramarital affair while he was prosecuting Clinton for an extramarital affair (CNN)
Haditha beastly killers to set free (Washington Post)
How Iran outsmarted the USA in Iraq (Washington Post)
Abu Ghraib swept under the carpet (New York Times)
Afghan opium sets new record (Washington Post)
Sarkozy threatens force against Iran (Chicago Tribune)
Sarkozy's foreign policy (Guardian)
Yahoo helps Chinese arrest dissidents (BBC News)
>>> NASA admits the warmest years of the century occurred before 1940 (CNS News)
NASA admits the warmest years of the century occurred before 1940 (Associated)
NASA admits the warmest years of the century occurred before 1940 (Real Climate)
Texas to execute its 400th victim despite international outrage (BBC News)
Bush makes it harder for children of middle-income families to get health coverage (Mercury News)
Average income in the USA is still below the 2000 peak (Boston Globe)
Iran releases two Chinese spies (BBC News)
172 miners trapped in a mine in China (BBC News)
Okinawa's massacre may have been committed by retreating Japanese troops (IPS News)
Okinawa's massacre may have been committed by retreating Japanese troops (Asia Times)
Russia claims North Pole (BBC News)

July 2007:

The world stock markets crash (BBC News)

>>> Attitudes in the Developing World (including Muslims on suicide bombings) (Pew Center)

Muslims reject suicide bombings (BBC News)

Riots between Shiites and Sunnis in Nigeria (BBC News)

Terrorists targeting Chinese workers in Pakistan (Times)

Civil war in Pakistan between Islam and the government (Yahoo News)

Failure to fight Al Qaeda in Pakistan (New York Times)

Switzerland refusing to return the money of Congo's dictator (BBC News)

Iran accepts United Nations inspectors (BBC News)

>>> The Physical Science behind Climate Change (Scientific American)

Amnesty International report on mainland China (Amnesty International)

Thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed with impunity by USA troops (The Nation)

Adulterer stoned to death in Itan (BBC News)

Israel kills 11 Hamas militants (Yahoo News)

Tourists killed by suicide bombers in Yemen (New York Times)

Riots between police and Islamists in Pakistan (BBC News)

The USA accuses Iran of helping militias kill USA soldiers (New York Times)

June 2007:

Riots in Iran over gasoline rationing (BBC News)
>>> Pew's Global Attitudes poll (Pew Center)
Daniel Ortega hits record low approval ratings in Nicaragua (Angus Reid)
ALBA (Mathaba)
Morocco and Western Sahara fail to reach agreement (BBC News)
Terrorists destroy the minarets of Samarra's mosque (BBC News)
Bush advocates independence for Kosovo (Yahoo News)
Russia proposes joint missile shield with NATO (BBC News)
Mass graves of the nazi holocaust in Ukraine (Yahoo News)
Kurdish rebels kill seven Turkish soldiers (BBC News)
Germany praises Bush on global warming (Yahoo News)
Russia warns the USA over missile defense system (Yahoo News)

May 2007:

>>> An interview with Maulana Sami ul Haq, the "father of the Taliban"
Escalating violence between Hamas and Fatah in Palestine (Yahoo News)
>>> Mass extinction and the Hazards of Earth's Vanishing Biodiversity (Mother Jones)
A leasing giant based in California owns the planes of many airlines (New York Times)
Rescueing the Galileo satellite project (International Herald Tribune)
Brightest supernova ever (BBC News)
Al Jazeera journalist jailed for exposing Egypt's torture (All Africa)
Experts predict that a USA pullout from Iraq will be catastrophic (CNN)

April 2007:

The war between Morocco and Western Sahara (Middle East Times)
Al Qaeda is planning a nuclear attack (Sunday Times)
China is cracking down on dissidents before the Olympic Games (Amnesty International)
Iran outlaws westerrn hairstyles (BBC News)
Tenet assails Bush (New York Times)
The Iraqi government criticizes USA plan to withdraw (BBC News)
Saudi Arabia foils a terrorist attack (BBC News)
California governor Schwarzenegger threatens to sue the Bush administration (San Francisco Chronicle)
Chinese workers kidnapped by Ethiopian separatists (BBC News)
Iraq Coalition Casualties (ICC)
Astronomers discover a habitable planet (Yahoo News)
Talk of democracy in China (New York Times)
China's economy grows 11% (New York Times)
Russia plans an undersea tunnel to Alaska (BBC News)
Russia develops floating nuclear power plant (BBC News)
Tangtze Kiang dying of pollution (Shanghai Daily)
Russia requests the extradition of Boris Berezovsky (BBC News)
Professional killing gangs in Brazil (BBC News)
Pollution harms children's brains (Independent)
Wolfowitz asked to quit after scandal at the World Bank (Yahoo News)
Iran training insurgents in Iraq (Yahoo News)
Torture in Egypt (BBC News)
Africa's economy grows 5.7% yearly (BBC News)
>>>Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

March 2007:

Record low unemployment in the euro area (BBC News)
San Francisco to ban pastic bags (CNN)
Condy RIce criticizes Egypt's Mubarak (BBC News)
Poll of Iraqis (Economist)
Iraqi insurgents use children as shilelds and decoys (Guardian)
>>>Report on crime increase in the USA (Police Executive Research Forum)
Health damage from plastic (Mindfully)
Health damage from plastic (Snopes)
Health damage from plastic (Ecology Center)
Health damage from plastic (Mindfully)
Plastic invasion (Mindfully)
Plastic invasion (Ecology Center)
Caution urged on climate change theories (BBC News)
The United Nations asks countries not to leave Iraq (BBC News)
Northern emisphere has the warmest winter since 1882 (BBC News)

February 2007:

January 2007:

Foreign aid to Lebanon's reconstruction (BBC News)
Serbia's fascists win elections (Yahoo News)
China tests anti-satellite weapon (Yahoo News)
China's Islamic policies (Asia Media)
Iran offered peace to te USA in 2003 (BBC News)
Israel's government appoints an Arab Muslim minister (BBC News)
Al Qaeda rebuilding in Pakistan (BBC News)
China attacks Islamic militants (BBC News)

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