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bunnyhugs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Genever is a true old worldly spirit. Genever’s old fashioned credentials are highlighted by the way its producers play fast and loose with spelling. You can buy genever, geneva, genievre, jenever, jeniever, junever, and probably more; in English you might also find it called ‘Holland gin’ or ‘square gin'. Mark Twain once [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
GENEVA -- A cargo ship carrying relief supplies for more than 1,000 cyclone victims in Myanmar has sunk.
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday
DPA Geneva, May 12 (DPA) The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) said its first aid shipment to cyclone-hit Myanmar sank Sunday after hitting a submerged tree while travelling by river. The crew and four Myanmar Red Cross workers managed to reach safety but relief supplies intended to help around 1,000 people were lost, Geneva-based [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Geneva - The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) said its first aid shipment to cyclone-hit Myanmar sank Sunday after hitting a submerged tree while travelling by river. The crew and four Myanmar Red Cross workers managed to reach safety...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | yesterday
GENEVA (AP) — A cargo ship carrying relief supplies for more than 1,000 cyclone victims in Myanmar has sunk…. Share This
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The Cutting Edge (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mother's Little Angel, Norman Rockwell's cover for the Literary Digest, January 20, 1921. Follow that link for more info on Norman Rockwell's work. Norman Rockwell's "Mother Spanking her Child". Mom's definitely not reading the Geneva Convention, Dan, but a new-fangled book on Child Psychology. This painting adorned the front cover of the Saturday Evening Post dated November 25, 1933. We see...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
GENEVA -- A cargo plane chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross carrying 35 tons of aid for victims of a devastating cyclone in Myanmar landed in Yangon early Sunday, the ICRC said. ...
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | yesterday
Extreme and unrealistic? I never dreamed the President of the United States and our Military would engage in widespread violations of the Geneva Conventions by knowingly and willfully abusing prisoners, and deny people the right of Habeas Corpus. Nor would I have dreamed our goverment would snatch people and take them someplace to be tortured....or systematically violate our laws in the name...
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Luxist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Timepieces , Auctions , Men's Style A one-of-a-kind, oversized 1930s Patek Philippe chronograph that belonged to dashing Italian racecar driver Count Felice Trossi is expected to fetch close to $2 million at Sotheby's in Geneva today. Famed Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli probably copied Trossi's habit of wearing his Patek over his shirt cuff, the better to keep time while winning...
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CICR (Free subscription) | yesterday
Geneva / Yangon (ICRC) – A cargo aircraft chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrived early Sunday in Yangon. It was carrying 35 tonnes of equipment and materials urgently needed for medical care, drinking water and sanitation, and the safe disposal of bodies. The arrival of the supplies and their subsequent transfer to the ICRC and the Myanmar Red Cross Society...
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
(letter published on Saturday May 10 in the International Herald Tribune , written by Jakob Kellenberger, Geneva President, International Committee of the Red Cross) Note how the proposed new Treaty is not to ban cluster munitions outright: it is to prevent the deployment of ineffectual bombs that do not explode during a conflict, and despite having zero military strategic or tactical value,...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
GENEVA: The first UN aid convoy for victims of last weekend's devastating cyclone to arrive by land reached Myanmar without incident on Saturday from Thailand, the UN refugee agency announced. ...
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Library Boy (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The International Law Commission is meeting in Geneva for its 60th session later this month and will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a special commemorative event . The Commission was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 for the "promotion of the progressive development of international law and its codification." The work of the Commission has led to the adoption of...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
GENEVA: The first UN aid convoy for victims of last weekend's devastating cyclone to arrive by land reached Myanmar without incident on Saturday from Thailand, the UN refugee agency announced. ...
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raimondo | 11/13/2007
Print | Close this window Diplomats near deal on earmarking world radiowaves Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:28am EST By Laura MacInnis GENEVA (Reuters) - An agreement on how to divide the world's radio-frequencies among satellite operators, mobile phone companies and broadcasters is close, industry and diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. Insiders said participants in the month-long World Radiocommunication Conference,...
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ws | 10/26/2007
MALAGA, Spain and GENEVA, Switzerland, October 25 /PRNewswire/ -- OISTE will help the government of Malaga become the new Euro-African Hub, with the aim of optimizing economic-social-cultural relations between Europe and Africa. This will be accomplished using the infrastructure of the Technology Park of Malaga and its unique geopolitical location. The project will be financed by the private sector,