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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
President of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) Jacinto Suarez said on Monday that the presidents of the Central American countries did not support Panama's request of withdrawal from the Parlacen. Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli had been making phone calls to his Central American counterparts to seek support for his decision to withdraw from the organization, but Guatemalan President...
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News From A Parallel World (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Lather, rinse, repeat... That’s your brain trying to keep up with the news, the political circus of pols and media and grand players slipping each other the odd fiver. Nearly twenty years ago, when George Bush the elder was President, the United States invaded the Panama Canal. U.S. troops seized the hospitals, radio stations, and newspapers. Thousands were arrested and held in airport hangars...
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Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Erwin reminds us that today is the day of the annual protest against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as the School of the Americas. The name-change happened back in 2001, when the Bush administration realized the School's name had been associated with some of the worst crimes against humanity in the 20th century in the Americas. Rather than closing...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Panama and Spain signed the "Program of the Enterprise Opportunities for Poor Families" on Wednesday to reduce the poverty rates in Panama's rural zones. According to the program, a fund of 8 million U.S. dollars will be given to Panama by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), under the mediation of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Rosa Beltran,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
As an oil-starved East Africa intensifies its search for the product, Tanzania is expecting a drilling ship to dock next month to propel the country's off-shore exploration.
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
SIR – Bagehot’s column about the Conservative Party’s allies in the European Parliament was particularly one-sided (October 31st). He attacked Michal Kaminski for “alarming” remarks made about a wartime massacre of Jews by Poles at Jedwabne, even though the chief rabbi of Poland has said that Mr Kaminski is not anti-Semitic and his party is mainstream. Bagehot also suggested...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Analysis has revealed that an "alien" discovered by a group of teenagers in a Panama creek, was actually a dead and bloated sloth.
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
UN News Centre : A United Nations-backed gathering of experts kicked off today in Panama to initiate for the first time an assessment of the effect climate change has on the future threat of natural disasters and how nations can better manage an expected rise in severe weather patterns. The first global scientific effort examining the linkages between disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Four of the 11 Russian sailors from the a cargo ship stranded off Panama's coast since April flew to Russia on Saturday
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Cuaderno Latinoamericano (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Manuel Solis, who served briefly as president during Manuel Noriega 's military regime, died Friday. He was 91. Solis died at his home from respiratory failure , said Mitchell Doens, the secretary general of the Democratic Revolutionary Party to which Solis belonged. Solis served as education minister during the military regime dominated by Noriega and then was named acting president in February 1988...
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trymi | 11/22/2008
We present you the new Porsche Panamera (let’s hope that is a real image and not a photoshoped one). According to our sources the first sport sedan from the German manufacturer will measure 4.97 meters in lenght, 1.93 meters in width, 1.42 meters in height and will have a wheelbase of 2.92 meters while the drag coefficient will be 0.29, enough to take the vehicle to speeds over 124 mph (250 km/h)!