Nato air strike 'kills 25 Pakistani troops'
SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2011
Pakistan state TV reported that 25 soldiers were killed late last night in an alleged Nato helicopter attack on a Pakistani army checkpoint near the Afghan border.
The Pakistan military has blamed Nato helicopters for the attack on the checkpoint in the Mohmand tribal area.
Nato officials in Kabul said they were aware of the incident, and would release more information after they were able to gather more facts about what happened.
Vive le Canard
Beloved Classic French Car Goes Electric
The development order was issued in the fall of 1935 and was the culmination of a vast wealth of experience. The Great Depression had been surmounted, and Europe's economy resembled a field fresh for the tilling. Pierre-Jules Boulanger, then vice-president and head of engineering and design at the French carmaker Citroën, tasked his engineers with developing the practical vehicle.
Kabila expected to retain lead in grim DRC
Nov 26 2011
"Look at the way we students are surviving compared to the students of Libya," said Andre Lupaka, a 29-year-old at Kinshasa University. "They have scholarships and cars; we do not. We are having a miserable life, and I hope the president and his government will go away."
President Kabila, enjoying the advantages of 10 years in power, is the favourite to secure another term against divided opposition in Monday's elections. Such a result will mean business as usual for his international allies but will alarm those who believe Kabila (40) is well on his way to joining the first rank of African autocrats.
Still awaiting action on 26/11: India tells Pak
On the third anniversary of the 26/11 attack, India on Saturday reminded Pakistan it was still awaiting “decisive” action against perpetrators of the crime, and said evidence provided by it was sufficient to prosecute those behind the “inhuman act”.
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna also said that the use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in today’s world and is self destructive.
“We are still waiting for Pakistan to act decisively to bring to justice the perpetrators of the mindless violence that was unleashed on Mumbai. We are still waiting,” Mr. Krishna told reporters in New Delhi.
War-torn Colombian valley now produces butterflies
A mother-daughter team's butterfly raising and exporting business provides jobs to disadvantaged women and brings a new spirit to a long-suffering land.
November 26, 2011
Not long ago, Olga Lucia Salazar was breaking chicken necks and plucking feathers under scalding water for a living. Now, at double her former wage, the single mother of three raises gorgeous blue butterflies.
"All I had to look forward to was miserable arthritis and permanently swollen hands," Salazar said as she arranged about 60 pistachio-sized chrysalises in a cotton-lined white cardboard box. "I can do this at home taking care of my kids. And I work for myself. There is no one screaming orders at me."
The Slow-Pitch Ambassadors to Cuba
By BRUCE WEBER
Wearing orange jerseys— well, T-shirts, really — the Cuban players lined up along the first-base line at Mella Field. We were in blue, along third. All of us held our caps over our hearts, and the Cuban National Concert Band played two national anthems, first the United States’, then Cuba’s, followed, for some reason, by “The Pink Panther Theme.”
The flags of both nations were unfurled side by side behind the pitcher’s mound, and everyone posed for pictures. Teófilo Stevenson, the former Olympic heavyweight champion and a member of the Cuban Olympic Committee, signed autographs. Gerardo Hernández, a deputy of the Cuban National Assembly, andJohn Caulfield, chief of mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana, America’s top envoy in Cuba, threw ceremonial first pitches.
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