Bush Says We’re Winning in Afghanistan? - Political Opinion
April 30, 2008
In a press conference yesterday, President Bush said, “I think we’re making progress in Afghanistan” — days after President Hamid Karzai was the subject of an attempted assassination plot. The Interior Ministry said the Taliban, nearly vanquished from the country in 2001, admitted to launching the attack. These rounds of violence are the latest in what has been an eroding situation over recent years. Read more
New Whale Detection Buoys Will Help Ships Take the Right Way Through Marine Habitat
April 30, 2008
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have teamed up with an international energy company and federal regulators to listen for and help protect endangered North Atlantic right whales in New England waters. Read more
Al Qaeda Leader’s Son, Wife Remain in Egypt After ’UK Visa’ Refusal
April 30, 2008
The son of the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his wife are reported to be staying in Egypt, after authorities in London banned him from entering Britain to live with his British wife, official sources informed APA Wednesday. Read more
GDP Report Grim, U.S. Technically Not in a Recession
April 30, 2008
This morning’s report that U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at a miniscule rate in the last quarter — just 0.6% — is more bad news for the economy, according to economist L. Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute. Nearly all the indicators in the report are grim. Despite the barely-positive growth, we are almost certainly in a recession, he said. Read more
Afghanistan: Key Road Toward Pakistan To Improve Trade, Security
April 30, 2008
A contract has been signed for a $100 million highway project in Afghanistan intended to dramatically reduce travel time from Kabul to border areas near Pakistan’s volatile tribal region of North Waziristan. Read more
French Agency Gives 500 Million Francs to Protect Cameroon Gorillas
April 30, 2008
The French Development Agency (AFD) has granted CFAF500 million (US1, 218, 090) to Cameroon to help protect big apes in the Den Deng Forest (east of the country), an official source told APA on Tuesday. Read more
