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Peace talks between Nepal’s government and Maoist have broken down after the two sides failed to agree on key differences. The talks between Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist chief Prachanda stalled on the issues of rebel disarmament and the monarchy’s future. A truce has been in place since April after an uprising forced King Gyanendra to end his direct rule. The rebels, who backed the uprising, subsequently entered into peace talks to end the conflict that has left 13,000 people dead.

President Evo Morales is to nationalise Bolivia’s mining industry following deadly violence between rival miners’ groups. Sixteen people were killed in clashes this month between state-employed miners and those working for an independent co-operative. They were fighting for control of the state-owned Huayuni mine which both groups see as a source of steady employment. While now under state control, the Huanuni mine was operated between 2000 and 2005 by British firm Allied Deals. Government officials are continuing negotiations with the independent miner’s co-operatives.

The United Nations on Monday accused Eritrea of moving 1,500 troops and 14 tanks into a buffer zone established after a 2 1/2-year border war with Ethiopia in “a major breach” of a cease-fire agreement reached in 2000.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the Eritrean government to withdraw its troops from the buffer zone immediately, and to cooperate with the United Nations in restoring the cease-fire arrangements, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Read the rest of this entry »

LILONGWE (Reuters) - A small private jet carrying the one-year-old Malawian boy pop star Madonna hopes to adopt took off from the southern African country on Monday, a Reuters witness said.

“They (government) haven’t followed the law. What has happened is a shortcut,” said Boniface Mandere, a spokesman for Eye of the Child, which is among the groups seeking the injunction.

    JERUSALEM, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — An eighth allegation of sexual assault has been filed against Israeli President Moshe Katsav on Wednesday, Israel’s daily Ha’aretz reported on Thursday.

    The report said that the newly emerged complainant accused Katsav of assaulting her while she was working for him during his tenure as a cabinet minister a few years ago.

Notes: In 1492, in the process of seeking a shortcut to India, Christopher Columbus encountered a continent which was not on his maps - an abundant land inhabited by tens of millions of hospitable people with unsophistivated weapons. In order to legalize the plundering of the lands of their indigenous hosts, the Pope proclaimed the Doctrine of Discovery, a law that said that only Christians could hold title to lands, and this lands inhabited by nonChristians were available for taking. Read the rest of this entry »

Amid an intensifying civil war, the Sri Lankan defence authorities have set out tough new guidelines for the media, which amount to de facto censorship of reporting on military activities. In a letter issued to all news organisations on September 28, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse called for all coverage to be submitted to the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) for vetting.

MIGHT TAKE A SERIOUS LOOK AT THIS FOLKS–NOT A JOKE
It is found that mixture of Honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Today’s science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients. Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, on its issue dated 17 January 1995 ! has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by Honey and Cinnamon as researched by western scientists.

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But it appears David was offered for adoption without his father’s knowledge when his picture was sent, along with those of 12 other “suitable” boy babies, to Madonna by email.

Mr Banda said the first he knew about the adoption was on September 30, when two officials from Malawi’s Ministry of Gender and Child Welfare came to his village.

“They told me a mzungu (white foreigner) had seen David’s picture and liked him very much. They said she wanted to take him to America.

“They said she would give him a better life. At first I wasn’t sure. I asked if it meant I would never see him again.

“They said I would be sent pictures, and when David was older he would be able to visit the village.

“My family and I agreed this was a very good opportunity for David to get an education and grow up healthy.”