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Feb 22nd, 2012
On Tuesday the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said that Saudi Arabia which currently has very cold relations with the Shia-led government in Baghdad, has named its ambassador for Iraq for the first time ever since the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein in 1990. Iraq is currently preparing to host a summit of Arab League at the end of March, which has been delayed twice because of the strife going on between the Arab states of the region and Iraq due to the crackdown of the Bahraini government over the Shia demonstrators. Zebari told Reuters that since 1990 for the first time ever the Saudis have nominated an ambassador to Iraq. He s
Feb 22nd, 2012
Texas authorities stated Tuesday they removed eleven children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender resides after they discovered 8 confined in a small, dark bedroom with some tied to their beds with restraints.
Aside from the children, ten adults were living in the 1-story, 1,700-square-foot home in Dayton, about thirty miles northeast of Houston, Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter revealed. A month after the house was raided, authorities are still attempting to determine how the children are related and why they were there, she said.
The children ranged in age from five months to eleven years. Three who
Feb 21st, 2012
U.S. safety regulators are investigating an problem with side air bags that may fail to inflate in a crash.
The problem already has caused recalls of over 2,700 Toyota, Honda, Subaru and Nissan vehicles, but that number could grow if the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determines that more automakers used similar defective parts.
The recalled vehicles could have an ineffective mixture of the gas that inflates the side curtain air bags in a crash. That mix could mean air bags on one or both sides of the cars will not inflate in a crash, increasing the risk of injury, the agency said. No reports of anyone being hurt hav
Feb 18th, 2012
LAS VEGAS, NV--(CRWENewswire -02/18/12)- Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (OTC.BB: CRWE) (www.crownequityholdings.com) announced that its subsidiary Crown Tele Services Inc. has entered into a letter of intent with BBN Solutions.
BBN Solutions, located in India, and Crown Tele Services Inc. (www.crownteleservices.com) shall form a 50/50 Joint Venture corporation for the purpose of granting to Crown Tele Services Inc., exclusive rights in the United States to BBN's telecommunications marketing process and services.
Commenting on the Letter of Intent, Kenneth Bosket, President of Crown Tele Services Inc., stated: "This Joint Venture will give b
Feb 17th, 2012
Friday, Congress passed legislation, extending a tax cut for 160 million workers through December and continuing long-term jobless benefits, handing President Barack Obama a major victory in this election year.
The House of Representatives passed the measure 293-132, in two quick bipartisan votes, as the Senate passed it 60-36.
The legislation goes to Obama, who is expected to sign it into law.
Large numbers of Republicans in both chambers voted against the bill, laying divisions within the party over an issue that they have struggled with for months, threatening to hurt their 2012 electoral prospects.
The measure, while addin
Feb 16th, 2012
The U.S. and Afghan governments have started secret 3-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Wall Street Journal, revealing an important breakthrough in efforts to end the ten-year war.
Mr. Karzai, whose government had complained about being left out of recent talks between Washington and the Taliban, added he thinks most Taliban are "definitively" interested in a peace settlement.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that people in Afghanistan want peace, which includes the Taliban. They are also people like everyone else. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are going through
Feb 15th, 2012
Trapped inmates were screaming from their cells as a fire blazed through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates, authorities said Wednesday.
Chief of forensic medicine for the prosecutor's office, Lucy Marder, stateed early Wednesday that around 356 people on the prison roster are not accounted for among 852 prisoners.
She said the majority could be dead, though others may have endured burns, escaped or survived.
The fire erupted Tuesday night at a prison in Comayagua, a town 90 miles north of the Central American country's capital, Tegucigalpa.
Comayagua fire department spokesman Josue Garcia gave a description of th
Feb 10th, 2012
Scientists say they discovered that a drug used to treat a type of cancer reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice quickly.
Senior director, Maria Carrillo, for medical and scientific relations for the Alzheimer's Association said they saw very positive and robust behavior effects in the mice.
In the study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine induced mice mega-doses of bexarotene, a drug used to treat a type of skin cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and within 72 hours, the mice showed dramatic improvements in memory and more than 50% of amyloid plaque, a ha
Feb 9th, 2012
A senior Iraqi justice ministry official said that the country had conducted 14 executions in a single day this week, as most of them were members of Al-Qaeda. This has now brought the total number of executions this year to 65. The government person speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that on Tuesday fourteen Iraqis were executed. The official said further that the executed men were convicted on charges of terrorism and other crimes which were conducted during the period between 2006 and 2007. Most of these men belonged to Al Qaeda, which also included the leader from Mosul. The number of hangings conducted at the beginning of t
Jan 30th, 2012
Pep Boys (PBY: 14.89, +2.81, +23.26%) penned an $804 million deal on Monday that will go private by the Gore Group in a transaction that will value the retail auto-parts and service chain at a 24% premium.
The Gores Group stated that Pep Boys CEO Michael Odell and other senior executives are expecting to stay on in their present roles following the transaction’s closing.
Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack, based in Philadelphia, sells automotive services, tires, parts and other auto accessories. The company, founded in 1921, employed over 12,000 workers as of October 2011 and raked in $1.99 billion in revenue in its fiscal 2011.
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