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 Inquirer 
Benguet no longer 'marijuana country'
Sat 4 Jul 2009
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Philippines—There may still be marijuana fields in the province's most remote villages but the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said Benguet is no longer the country's... (photo: Public domain / )
 President-elect Umaru Yar´Adua, center, talks during a press conference at Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, April 23, 2007. The governing party candidate was declared the landslide winner of Nigeria´s deeply flawed presidential elections Monday as the
Commission   Country   Officer   Photos   President
 Modern Ghana 
At Last, Pay Cut for Public Officers Begins
Sat 4 Jul 2009
By Juliana Taiwo, AbujaThe pay cut for public and political office holders proposed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in February will take effect at the end of this month. Yar'Adua had, in a proposal... (photo: AP/Schalk van Zuydam)
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia attends the closing session of the Arab Summit in Doha, Qatar, Monday, March 30, 2009. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi stormed out of an Arab summit on Monday after denouncing the Saudi king and declaring himself "the dean of Arab rulers." Gadhafi disrupted the opening Arab League summit in Qatar by taking a microphone and criticizing Saudi's King Abdullah, calling him a "British product and American a  Daily Star Lebanon  Fri 3 Jul 2009
Lebanon tops agenda of foreign states

French minister to visit Beirut as Saudi king meets Syrian leader By Elias Sakr Daily Star staff Saturday, July 04, 2009 - Powered by BEIRUT: French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevalier announced... (photo: AP / Hassan Ammar)
Government   Lebanon   Photos   Politics   Saudi
Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) from Monteverde (Costa Rica)  The Guardian  Sat 4 Jul 2009
Costa Rica is world's greenest, happiest country

Latin American nation tops index ranking countries by ecological footprint and happiness of their citizens... (photo: Creative Commons / Eric Cha)
Environment   Europe   Netherland   Photos   World
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Man and woman (holding her child) walking by the road in northern Afghanistan BBC News Fri 3 Jul 2009
Country profile: Afghanistan
Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan has suffered from such chronic instability and conflict during its modern history that its economy and infrastructure are in... (photo: Creative Commons)
Afghanistan   Asia   Conflict   Economy   Photos
Cattle Farm  -  Cattle  -  Cows  -   Livestock  -  Trees Houston Chronicle Sat 4 Jul 2009
Tailing thieves in cattle country
Three heifers disappeared overnight from a Grimes County ranch. They were healthy, with years of calf-bearing ahead, and each was worth between $700 and $1,000. Their... (photo: WN / Trigedia)
Cattle   Ranchers   Photos   Livestock   Texas
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) holds talks with Moammar Gadhaffi, President of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The Guardian Sat 4 Jul 2009
Myanmar denies UN chief's request to see Suu Kyi, 6th Ld-Writethru, AS
JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press Writer= NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon could leave Myanmar empty-handed after apparently failing to win any... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Country   Military   Myanmar   Photos   Politics
Repsol-YPF's engineers work in Campo Rio Grande gas plant in Rio Grande, 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Wednesday, May 3, 2006. Campo de Rio Grande is the country's largest producer of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It also produces gasoline and dry gas to send to Brazil. Bolivia's President Evo Morales ordered soldiers on May 1 to occupy Bolivia's natural gas fields Monday and threatened to evict foreign companies unless they give Bolivia control over the entire chain of production. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)hg3 The Guardian Thu 2 Jul 2009
Repsol receives offers for YPF, Chinese bids seen
* Repsol has several offers, none firm, for YPF unit * CNPC, CNOOC mulling bids for stakes - report * Repsol shares up 2.0 percent (Adds analysts' comments, background)... (photo: AP Photo / Victor R. Caivano)
China   Madrid   Offshore   Photos   Repsol
Zadar, Croatia BBC News Wed 1 Jul 2009
Country profile: Croatia
Croatia went into the new millennium recovering from a decade of authoritarian nationalism under president Franjo Tudjman and bitter war. By early 2003 it had made enough... (photo: WN / bojana)
Country   Croatia   Diplomacy   Photos   Politicians
The first commercial airliner in a week of Thai Airways lands at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok, Thailand Syracuse Tue 30 Jun 2009
Discounts abound as tourism to Thailand drops

(AP) - BANGKOK-Thai Airways is trying to lure passengers from outside Asia with free domestic flights. Hotels on the resort island of Phuket are offering a fourth night... (photo: AP / Vincent Thian)
Asia   Bangkok   Photos   Thailand   Tourism


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