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Egypt: 3500-year-old oasis trading post discovered
Desert   Discovery   Egypt   Photos   Trading   		 NZ Herald 
Egypt: 3500-year-old oasis trading post discovered
Thu 26 Aug 2010
By Paul Schemm 4:06 PM Thursday Aug 26, 2010 Email Print Expand Shrink | CAIRO - Egypt's antiquities department yesterday announced the discovery of a 3500-year-old settlement in a desert oasis, showi... (photo: WN / marzena)
Spanish aid worker, Roque Pascual , left, Spanish Secretary of State Soraya Rodrigues, 2nd left, Spanish aid worker, Albert Vilalta, 2nd right, and the Spanish Ambassador Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil talk after leaving a helicopter in the grounds of the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso after their release Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid _ a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Monday. Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania.
Africa   Al Qaida   Photos   Spain   Wikipedia: Maghreb   		 The Independent 
Aid worker hostages released by al-Qa'ida after nine months in Sahara
Tue 24 Aug 2010
| Two Spanish aid workers held by al-Qa'ida's North African wing were freed yesterday, ending a kidnapping in the Sahara Desert lasting nearly nine months. | Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) sa... (photo: AP / Brahima Ouedraogo)
Top 10 autumn sunshine holidays  The Guardian  Tue 17 Aug 2010
Top 10 autumn sunshine holidays
| Hold on to that summer feeling - and beat the August heat and crowds - with an autumn break to one of these sunny short-haul destinations | Autumn is a great time to get away for a final blast of su... (photo: WN / marzena)
Autumn   Egypt   Holidays   Photos   beach  
Cheetah in zoo.  Newsvine  Mon 16 Aug 2010
Cheetah in India
| After prolonged deliberations Government of India has decided to reintroduce the Cheetah in the country. As many as eighteen cheetahs will be sourced from Africa and will be introduced into three si... (photo: Creative Commons / Vladsegrt)
India   Nature   Photos   Wikipedia: Cheetah   Wildlife  
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Les nigriens et les burkinabs sont devenus des vendeurs de tout ceinture cigarettes des jeans au grand march et partout en ville.The natives of Niger and the Burkinabes became salesmen of any belt cigarettes of the jeans at the large market and everywhere downtown. The Miami Herald Sat 14 Aug 2010
Aid workers warn of famine disaster in Niger
| DAKAR, Senegal -- Niger is now facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, with almost half the country's population in desperate need of food and up to one in six c... (photo: WN / Eteh)
Dakar   Disaster   Famine   Photos   Wikipedia: niger  
All in a day's adventures: the globe-trotting adventures of travel writers . Seattle Post-Intelligence Thu 12 Aug 2010
All in a day's adventures: the globe-trotting adventures of travel writers
| Staring at the square oak crossbeam inches from my nose - a slab of rock-hard tree that would leave its signature on my forehead by morning - and trying to contort my l... (photo: WN / marzena)
Adolescent   Adventures   Photos   Tourism   Travel  


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In this picture taken from video and provided by The Sunday Times London, showing September 11, 2001 suicide pilots identified as Ziad al-Jarrah, left, and Mohamed Atta, appear together joking about making their will in a video dated January 18, 2000, mo 9/11 Suspect Was Detained and Taped in Morocco The New York Times
Women walk past rubble and building debris after a minaret collapsed during Friday prayers at a crowded mosque in the old town of the historic Moroccan city of Meknes, central Morocco Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. Morocco to close 1,250 'unsafe' mosques BBC News
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Tree To kill a tree The Times Of India
Climate Change - Environment - Global Warming Pledges of climate aid, vital to UN deal Khaleej Times
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks at Moscow's President Hotel, Friday, March 27, 2009. Friday's conference on coordination of global efforts to combat terrorism and drug-trafficking in Afghanistan, whose participants include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China and the ex-Soviet Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan UN Appoints Persons To Support World's Poorest Scoop
South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the gold medal in the final of the Women's 800m during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Semenya heading to Commonwealth Games in India The News & Observer
Mauritania
Spanish aid worker, Roque Pascual , left, Spanish Secretary of State Soraya Rodrigues, 2nd left, Spanish aid worker, Albert Vilalta, 2nd right, and the Spanish Ambassador Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil talk after leaving a helicopter in the grounds of the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso after their release Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid _ a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Monday. Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania. Aid worker hostages released by al-Qa'ida after nine months in Sahara The Independent
Albert Vilalta, right, and Roque Pascual gesture after arriving at the airport in Prat Llobregat, Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Spanish aid workers freed by Al Qaeda in Mali The Jordan Times
Mauritania plants trees to hold back desert  Mauritania plants trees to hold back desert Independent online
Looking for a Heavenly Sign to Start Ramadan Looking for a Heavenly Sign to Start Ramadan The New York Times
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