Thursday, December 7, 2006
Iraq’s National Library and Archive, Caught on the Front Line of
Sectarian Fighting, Is Closed
By BURTON BOLLAG
After months of determined efforts to keep going amid Iraq’s
deepening violence and chaos, the National Library and Archive, the
country’s largest depository of books and documents, has closed.
Category: News (Page 8 of 13)
Babies die everyday of a million causes: poverty, hunger, disease. And yet this story is particularly maddening because not only the baby did not have to die, but the mother was detained for having been raped!
POSTED: 1:18 p.m. EST, November 20, 2006
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean’s surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.
A very cool story from Egypt. It doesn’t say, however, if the tomb discoverers were indeed eaten by a crocodile and a snake.
(AP)October 22,2006 | SAQQARA, Egypt — The arrest of tomb robbers led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists, protected by a curse and hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of Egypt’s most ancient pyramid, officials announced Sunday.
The thieves launched their own dig one summer night two months ago but were apprehended, Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters.
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