HAVANA: A trade fair in Communist Cuba is perhaps the last place you would expect to find a Republican governor from the American heartland. Yet last week Governor Dave Heineman of Nebraska was here to sign a deal to export $11 million worth of his state’s wheat to the island. Asked the obvious question about […]
Who killed Bhutto? We may never know
ISLAMABAD: As with other assassinations in Pakistan’s bloody political history, the world may never know who killed Benazir Bhutto — but there is no shortage of potential culprits to choose from, analysts say. There could be almost as many motives as well, in a country with a murky nexus of intelligence agencies, dozens of Islamic […]
The History of Shenandoah Valley – the Garden of Virginia
The American writer Washington Irving, who died in 1859, described the Shenandoah Valley as "equal to the promised land in fertility and far superior to it for beauty." Just five years after Irving’s death, a local farmer deemed it a "desert." In the interim, the most beautiful valley in Virginia had become the focus of […]
Congress concedes defeat in Gujarat polls
NEW DELHI: The counting of votes in Indian Gujarat polls is still in progress on Sunday morning. According to an India news channel, India’s ruling Congress party conceded defeat in the Gujarat poll on Sunday as vote-counting trends showed that the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was heading for a strong majority. "It is […]
Father of Western Australia’s iron ore industry dies: reports
SYDNEY: Sir Charles Court, the former Western Australian premier credited with developing his state’s iron ore industry, now crucial to the nation’s resources boom, has died, reports said Sunday. Sir Charles, who was 96, passed away overnight, the local media reported. Tributes poured in Sunday for the conservative politician who opened up the mining industry […]
Bali’s global warming conference sends mixed signals
The world is getting mixed signals from the Bali climate change forum. And everything seemed not going pretty well between developed and developing countries in so far as limiting the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere are concerned. However, the European Union has already signified its intention by cracking down on automakers that exceed accepted […]
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