I confess I do not like football very much, but… all my neighbours are cheering and singing “campeones” on the event… And it’s a bit difficult to substract oneself from the general joy… And Zapatero wanted Barcelona to win, so… this is the best result!!!
Cannavaro despeja un balón de cabeza en presencia de [...]
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Posted in France, elections on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The polls are out and:
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s allies won a large majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday but fell short of the predicted landslide after talk of a sales tax hike appeared to cost them votes.
When voting ended, leading polling institutes projected Sarkozy’s centre-right allies would win 341-350 seats in the National Assembly, [...]
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What is going on here?
JERUSALEM – Two Katyusha rockets fell on northern Israel Sunday, the first fired from Lebanon since last summer’s inconclusive war with Hezbollah guerrillas. No one was hurt, but there was some damage, police and the military said.
Hezbollah denied firing the rockets in a broadcast on the militant group’s Al-Manar [...]
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Yesterday it was 4, today the number is 35.
An enormous bomb ripped through a police academy bus at Kabul’s busiest transportation hub Sunday, killing at least 35 people in the deadliest insurgent [as ever] attack in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
The thunderous explosion in Kabul, which sheared the metal [...]
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Daimnation!: The root cause of the violence in Darfur
According to the new UN Secretary, it’s all about global warming [excerpts out of sequence]:Two decades ago, the rains in southern Sudan began to fail. According to U.N. statistics, average precipitation has declined some 40 percent since the early 1980s. Scientists at first considered this to be [...]
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