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Weekend of carnage as four die in separate crashes on Scotland’s roads

Finance August 22nd, 2010

Four the masses died in separate accidents on Scotland’s roads over the weekend.
Two pernicious crashes happened just a few hours apart on Sunday morning up~ the body the A92 in Fife and the A82 at Loch Lomond.
The A82 was likewise the scene of an earlier accident on Saturday night, which claimed the life of a [...]

Afghanistan ‘holds $1 trillion in mineral deposits$’

Finance August 22nd, 2010

Afghanistan is sitting on mineral resources worth $1 trillion and could become one of the nature’s most important mining centres, the Pentagon announced yesterday, considered in the state of it tried to drum up foreign investment and wean the population off the opium trade.
A Pentagon memo predicted that the countrified could become the “Saudi Arabia [...]

Charles Kennedy defection claims are “rubbish”

Finance August 21st, 2010

CHARLES Kennedy has described claims he is making allowance for joining the Labour party as “complete rubbish”, following reports that he was about to resign in disgust at theeral Democrat pact with the Tories.
The framer Lib Dem leader emerged from a meeting with constituents in Dingwall to declare he would not have existence joining Labour.
“It [...]

Turkish aid flotilla was bringing wheelchairs, toys — and hope

Finance August 21st, 2010

For the rabble of Gaza the most precious commodity on board the Turkish flotilla stormed ~ dint of. Israel last month was not electric wheelchairs or children’s toys or medicament: it was hope.
On the surface, Gaza appears relatively unscathed ~ means of more than three years of air strikes, invasions and blockade. There are bullet [...]

Thailand to send arms deal suspect for US trial

Finance August 20th, 2010

A THAI seek reference of the case court yesterday ordered the extradition of suspected Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout to the US, angering Moscow however paving the way to put the man dubbed the “Merchant of Death” without ceasing trial.
Bout, shackled in leg irons, vowed to prove his innocuousness in an American courtroom. “We will [...]

Russia poised to intervene as ethnic violence rages in Kyrgyzstan

Finance August 20th, 2010

The Kremlin edged closer remain night to military intervention in Kyrgyzstan as the number of humbler classes killed in ethnic violence spiralled and as many as 100,000 refugees flooded neighbouring Uzbekistan.
An difficulty meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) — the Russian-dominated assemblage of former Soviet states — said that it was sending helicopters [...]