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Stable Africa attracts Middle East money
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 5:57 AM EDT (Times Live)
Flush with cash from oil but stuck with few options for growth in developed markets, Middle East investors are increasingly looking to Africa. Though the fast-growing continent offers plenty of opportunities, bankers say there are also a raft of problems for Middle East investor …
World War II Airplane, Kittyhawk P-40, Found In Egyptian Desert 70 Years After Crashing (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 1:50 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
A World War II airplane belonging to Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) has been found in the Sahara Desert nearly 70 years after it crash landed, Metro reports. According to Vintage Wings, a Canadian aviation news website, Jakub Perka, who works for an oil company, came …
Integrating American Bandstand
Seeded on Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:52 PM EDT (Articles ยป peoplesworld)
The year was 1961. I had graduated West Philadelphia High School in January 1959. All through high school my close friend and I had been following the civil rights developments going back to Little Rock. We couldn't believe the violence, the hatred and ignorance coming from …
Ahmed Ben Bella, First President of an Independent Algeria, Dies at 93
Seeded on Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:18 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Ahmed Ben Bella, a farmer’s son who fought for France in World War II, turned against it in the brutal struggle for Algerian independence and rose to become Algeria’s first elected president, has died at his home in Algiers, the capital. He was 93. The state news a …
Slavery's Last Stronghold
Seeded on Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:25 AM EDT (CNN)
Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master’s goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die. The usually stoic mother — whose jet-black eyes and cardboar …
George Clooney Arrested
Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:30 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
George Clooney and at least one congressman were arrested Friday outside of the Sudanese embassy in Washington D.C. The arrests were anticipated and part of the actor's effort to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. The actor, his father and politicians were …
Israel war crimes worse than Sudan
Seeded on Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:49 PM EDT (Haaretz)
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused Israel of committing greater crimes against Palestinians during its war in the Gaza Strip than those for which Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir had been indicted
Israelis imagine a better future for Sudan's girls
Seeded on Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:54 PM EDT (Israel21c)
West of Eritrea and Ethiopia, and north of Uganda, a new African state has emerged from decades of civil war to gain its independence.
Apartheid--Not! (An Israeli Arab defends her country in South Africa)
Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2012 5:13 PM EST ()
Israel has sent a delegation of 100 students to represent it in the annual Apartheid Week in South Africa, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday. The report in Maariv noted one unusual participant in this year's delegation -- a 25-year-old Muslim Bushra Khalilieh, a member …
Muslim and African nations walk out of UN panel on gay rights
Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2012 4:56 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Walkout comes after UN secretary-general and human rights high commissioner tell session gay people should be protected
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