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• CIA Held Key; Bush Told Truth, Wilson Lied

  Published: September 8, 2007, 11:39 pm

  Tags: Political Opinion, Link Fest, Niger, Wilson, Uranium, Sixteen, Factcheck, Exaggerated

  During a State of the Union Address President Bush uttered the now famous sixteen words that critics have insisted showed he exaggerated his case for going to war with Iraq. Those words; “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Anna Politkovskaya, Gordon Brown, Judith Asuni, Switzerland, Chechnya, Niger Delta, Nizhny Novgorod, Augusto Pinochet, Bern, Guantanamo Bay, Juan Eduardo Fuentes, Moscow Kremlin, Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin, Germany, Nigeria, Nigerian Embassy, U S Armed Forc

  Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday ruled out calling an early election, ending weeks of speculation that he would soon seek a stronger mandate from the British electorate.

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• Leaving for the Chinese Dream

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Leaving, For, The, Chinese, Dream, China, Moatasem Anwar, Khaled Rasheed, Adamou Salissou, Iraq, United States, Beijing, Shanghai, Niger, Arbil, Baghdad, Xiamen University, Fujian Province, Zhejiang Province, Al Sabeel General, Bala Barzam, Caribbean, Nanjing, Nour Mahamane, Sad

  YIWU, China -- For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where?

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• Chasing the Chinese Dream

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Chasing, The, Chinese, Dream, China, Moatasem Anwar, Khaled Rasheed, Adamou Salissou, Iraq, United States, Beijing, Shanghai, Niger, Arbil, Baghdad, Xiamen University, Fujian Province, Zhejiang Province, Al Sabeel General, Bala Barzam, Caribbean, Nanjing, Nour Mahamane, Saddam

  YIWU, China -- For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where?

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• Valerie Plame, Telling the (Edited) Inside Story

  Published: October 22, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Valerie, Plame, Telling, The, Edited, Inside, Story, Valerie Plame, Central Intelligence Agency, Joe Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Iraq, United States, The White House, George W Bush, Laura Rozen, Niger, Africa, Saddam Hussein, New Mexico, The American Prospect Magazine, The New Yor

  FAIR GAME My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House By Valerie Plame Wilson Simon & Schuster. 411 pp. $26 Mothers who are spies, it turns out, face the same juggling act as other working moms. After a year at home following the birth of twins, Valerie Plame Wilson returned to work in A...

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• Plumpynut--the peanut concoction that is saving lives

  Published: October 26, 2007, 9:42 am

  Tags: Anderson Cooper, Famine, Niger, Peanut Butter, Plumpynut

  Filed under: Television/FilmSo often here on Slashfood we focus on tasty things to eat that we often forget about the places in the world where the people don't have enough to eat. CNN's Anderson Cooper has been in Africa recently, doing special reports for 60 Minutes and on Sunday night presented a story about Plumpynut. It's a combination of

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• Oil's Recent Rise Not as Familiar as It Looks

  Published: November 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Oil S, Recent, Rise, Not, Familiar, Looks, Opec, Saudi Arabia, United States, Exxon Mobil Corporation, China, India, Iran, Iraq, New York Mercantile Exchange Inc, William Nordhaus, Kuwait, Nigeria, Venezuela, Niger Delta, Texas, Cambridge Energy Research Associates Inc

  After a week of new records for crude oil prices, the question is: How high can they go?

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• Nigeria: Industrial Lockout at the Nigeria LNG

  Published: November 14, 2007, 4:30 am

  Tags: World, American, Asian, Australian, Benefits, Contract Staff, European, Foreign Oil Workers, Industrial Strike, Lockout, Niger Delta, Nigeria Lng, Permanent Staff

  The strike started by the Nigerian contract staff of the Nigeria LNG Limited on Monday became worse early Wednesday as the aggrieved Nigerian contractors embarked on a lockout of the Nigeria LNG Port Harcourt office and Bonny Plant Complex in Rivers state in the volatile Niger Delta region.

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• Suck It Up! Nigersaurus taqueti Breaks The Rules :: Oblate Spheroid

  Published: November 17, 2007, 7:59 am

  Tags: Niger, Paul, Tyler, Wilson, Breaks, Chomping, Keillor, Life, Paleontologist, Rules, Saurus, Sereno, Structure, Suck, Taqueti, Unusual, Widen

  " Life forms here, found on the Oblate Spheroid, at times, become really baffling.  read more

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• Niger

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:19 pm

  Tags: Afrika, Niger

  1919 hatte mit der Niederschlagung des Aufstandes im Norden doe gewaltsame Kolonisierung des Niger ein Ende gefunden. Immer wieder freilich gab es lokale Konflikte um Chefs und administrative Massnahmen.

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• Niger

  Published: December 19, 2007, 6:45 am

  Tags: Geschichte, Informationen, Niger, Reise, Reisen, Sahara

  wurde, blieb der Norden des Niger unter milit rischer Kontrolle - Agadez bis nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Tibesti wurde dem Tschad angegliedert. Nach 22 Jahren Milit rverwaltung bestand die koloniale Infrastruktur im sozialen Bereich aus zehn Grundschullehrern, f nf rzten und einem Tierarzt - alles Ausw rtige. Im Rahmen des Afrique

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• The Evil Man Does In The Name of God

  Published: January 11, 2008, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Culture, Africa, Society, Witch Hunts, Religion, Children, Christianity, Niger

  children, in West Africa's Niger Delta.As the video reports, there are so-called evangelical pastors who are extorting money from Nigerian parents by promising to cure their children from witchcraft. These religious charlatans are spreading ignorance, encouraging abuse and in many cases the deaths of innocent children.This brand of

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• New York Merchants Embrace Euro

  Published: February 25, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: New, York, Merchants, Embrace, Euro, Billy Leroy, United States, Times Square, New York City, Apple Ipod, Jk Electronics, Alex Zaidi, George Fertitta, Jay Z, Joe Perez, Manhattan, Michael Bloomberg, Paris, Pia Staedtler, Robert Chu, Stu Loeser, Germany, Niger, New York

  NEW YORK -- "Euros Only" reads a handmade sign in Billy's Antiques & Props on East Houston Street in Manhattan. But that's really just an attention grabber. Actually, owner Billy Leroy explains, the store will accept Canadian dollars and British pounds, and U.S. dollars, too.

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• Up $10.9 Billion, Exxon Worries About New Tax

  Published: May 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: 10 9, Billion, Exxon, Worries, About, New, Tax, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Kenneth P Cohen, Henry Hubble, Nigeria, John D Rockefeller, United States, Charles Schumer, Ed Markey, Peter O Neill Executive, William E Kovacic, Angola, Dow Jones Amp Co Inc, Kuwait, Niger River

  Bolstered by winter's record crude oil prices, Exxon Mobil yesterday reported a huge first-quarter profit and provoked new congressional vows to come up with legislation that would tax windfall profits or demonstrate concern about high gasoline prices.

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• Irregularities and Violence Mar Nigerian Elections

  Published: April 14, 2007, 5:52 pm

  Tags: Abuja, Cases, Cast, Lagos, Niger, Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Assailants, Ballot, Confusion, Cracked, Deadline, Election, Fraud, Governors, Inadequate, Intimidation, Irregularities, Legislatures, Missing, Nigerian, Obasanjo, Officials, Olusegun, Opposition, Outcome, Papers, Politics

  UPDATE:The stakes are high: this election could see Nigeria's first fully democratic transition of power." Police inspector general Sunday Ehindero told state television that a preliminary tally showed 21 dead,...

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