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Bustling gasoline black market thrives in Iran, spurred by fuel rationing

Published January 28, 2008

.BANDAR ABBAS, Iran (AP) - Each day, the boulevard in this port city derisively dubbed "OPEC Street" is lined with dozens of vendors selling plastic jugs of black-market gasoline to desperate drivers who...

Chinese New Year combines tradition and modern practice

Published January 28, 2008

Coffman Union's Great Hall was aglow Saturday night in "lucky red" for the Chinese American Student Association's annual Chinese New Year Celebration. The festive show encompassed the most fundamental...

Shooting spree in black settlement ignites racial tensions

Published January 25, 2008

>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Protesters tried to force their way Thursday into the court hearing of a white teenager charged with a shooting rampage in a black settlement that left four people dead,...

Brazil to send extra police to reduce Amazon deforestation

Published January 25, 2008

.BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically...

Fate of Kenyans rests with 2 men who show little inclination to compromise

Published January 24, 2008

.NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - As Kenyans die by the hundreds in gritty city slums and rolling cornfields in the countryside, their fate rests with two men who appear more intent on the struggle for power than...

Thousands of Palestinians cross into Egypt as border breached

Published January 24, 2008

>RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blown up by militants - puncturing a gaping hole in...

Taliban attacks onstudents increase

Published January 24, 2008

.KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks has tripled in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia,...

Study abroad program to Kenya continues

Published January 24, 2008
Violence in Kenya threatened the continuation of the program for spring.

One-time ‘dirty bomb’ suspect gets 17 years for terrorism conspiracy

Published January 23, 2008

.MIAMI (AP) - Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to a relatively lenient 17-year prison term on unrelated terror...

China’s top safety inspector calls for whistle-blowing

Published January 23, 2008

>BEIJING (AP) - China's senior safety inspector urged the public and the media Tuesday to expose workplace accidents in a bid to end corruption and official misdeeds aggravating the country's high rate...

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