 The great drought: Disaster looms in East Africa
 03.10.2009 6:33  23 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: East, Singh
On the plains of Marsabit the heat is so intense the bush seems to shiver. The leafless scrub, bleached white by the sun, looks like a forest of fake Christmas trees. Carcasses of cattle and camels are strewn about the burnt red dirt in every direction. Siridwa Baseli walks out of the haze along a path of the dead and dying. He passes a skeletal cow that has given up and collapsed under a thorn tree. A nomad from the Rendille people, he is driving his herd in search of water. He marks time in seasons but knows that it has not rained for three years: "Since it is not raining there is no pasture," he says. Only 40 of his herd of sheep and goats that once numbered 200 have survived. Those that...
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| VandenHurk, Marlins again beat NL East champion Phillies, 7-2
03.10.2009 5:32 59 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Rich, East, Hugo
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rick VandenHurk overcame Ryan Howard's early home run and the once again beat the NL East champion , 7-2 Friday night. Cameron Maybin had four hits, scored three times and drove in a run, and Jorge Cantu drove in three runs. The Marlins have won six...
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| Scrap Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN
03.10.2009 0:00 39 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: South, East, Party, India, Asian, From, Communist
NEW DELHI: Conveying its opposition to India having a Free Trade Agreement with the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations), the Communist Party of India on Friday demanded that it be scrapped. At the end of its two-day national ... Czytaj więcej »
| Germans celebrate Unity Day to mark storming of trains and fall of Berlin Wall
02.10.2009 23:52 17 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: German, October, East, Germany, Berlin, Thousands, Union
Vladimir Lenin famously joked that if German revolutionaries were to storm a railway station they would first queue up for a platform ticket. Thousands of desperate East Germans proved the old Bolshevik wrong when, on October 3, 1989, they stampeded into Dresden station in an attempt to jump on to trains taking their fellow countrymen to the West. Now, October 3, also the day in 1990 that the East German state was finally dissolved, ranks as German Unity Day, a sedate holiday in which flowers are laid and speeches are made. Then, though, it was a very unGerman chaos that presaged the collapse of the Berlin Wall,...
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| Current Weather Conditions Across The 48 Contiguous United States
02.10.2009 22:44 29 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: United, United States, States, East, Rain, Weather, Across, Across The, Current Weather, Current, Conditions Across, Conditions, Weather Conditions, Contiguous, Contiguous United
Rain headed East with pair of storms. For more details... Czytaj więcej »
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