Home » 2009 » January (Page 4)
Hamas Agrees to One-Week Cease-Fire
JERUSALEM (CNN) – Palestinian militants agreed Sunday to a one-week cease-fire against Israel, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha said. The Hamas announcement came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral cease-fire in the country’s assault on Hamas in Gaza. “We in the Palestinian resistance movements announce a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip,” Moussa [...]
Obama to crowds: ‘I love you back’
(CNN) – Barack Obama’s historic train ride to Washington on Saturday drew large, cheering crowds of people who braved freezing weather and gathered along the tracks in cities and small towns along the way in hopeful anticipation of getting a glimpse of the nation’s next president. In Baltimore, Maryland, alone, about 40,000 people stood shoulder-to-shoulder [...]
The Amazing Molly
After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans many lost animals scattered about the city, anything from dogs to cats, even horses. But this story is of one minature horse in particular, and her name is Molly. Molly was very scared not to mention HUNGRY!! Disaster struck when a very large abandon pit bull took it’s rage [...]
‘We can’t pay you yet,’ California to tell creditors
(CNN) – The check isn’t in the mail, and it’s not going to be for at least 30 days, California will start telling some of its creditors in February. The state, facing a $42 billion deficit, will delay some crucial payments to stay liquid, state Controller John Chiang announced Friday. Among those who will be [...]
Include Africa in G2 Summit
In the midst of an international economic crisis, world leaders are getting ready to discuss major changes to the global financial system. We need to be sure the world’s poorest people have a voice in this process, and one of the best ways to do that is to give the African Union (AU) and/or the African [...]
Coal-ash waste poses risk across the nation
Hundreds of landfills and slurry ponds – like the one that failed in Tennessee – are dotted across the US, endangering communities and water supplies. The billion-gallon wave of toxic coal-ash sludge that burst from a power-plant retention pond and buried 300 acres of rural Tennessee hints at a far larger problem: hundreds of [...]
Israel tightens grip on Gaza City; Hamas stays defiant
GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) – Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza City early Tuesday from two directions despite U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling on both sides in the conflict to “just stop.” The rumble of artillery fire and airstrikes continued throughout the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory as Israeli troops and armor pushed into Gaza City from the northwest [...]
English
Let's Build Networks ...