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Current News for August 06, 2008

US News Expands The Ranking Service

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:14:05 PDT
US News&World Report, an authoritative source for US university rankings has launched an auto ranking website in what seems to be an expansion move towards a general online ranking service.

CNN vs. Fox: Battle For The Lamest Jesus Story Ever

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:44:52 PDT
This is an awesome example of the filler news stories that these two channels try to shove down our throats.

Dogtown Wire News - Dobbins Return Blocked by AR House

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:52:45 PDT
In a special caucus of the Arkansas House of Representatives this morning, Aug. 5th, the legislators enacted a rule change which bars anyone who has resigned from public office as part of a felony plea agreement from becoming a member.

US President Bush Makes Massive Land Purchases In Paraguay

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:28:39 PDT
Russian Intelligence Analysts are reported that the American President’s daughter, Jenna Bush, has secured on behalf of her father, the American President, and the Bush Family, the purchase of nearly 100,000 acres of land in the South American Nation of Paraguay, and which is also confirmed by the Latin American News Service

Talk Therapy Falling by Wayside - Just Give Me Some Drugs

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:20:37 PDT
The trend, noted by researchers publishing in the August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, appears to be due to fewer psychiatrists trained or specializing in psychotherapy and an increase in the number of drugs available, along with a reluctance by managed care to pay for psychotherapy.

All Headline News Announces Free RSS News Reader

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:01 PDT
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The All Headline News has launched an RSS news feed reader to allow users of its website to be automatically informed of the latest news. In order to...

Internet Marketing - Marketing Journal: News Paper Kids

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:52:42 PDT
internet marketing, marketing journal, niche market, sales and marketing, offline marketing, online marketing, competition, mentality

Mortgage: How To Organize The Best Contracts

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:08:01 PDT
One fundamental thing that you should always try to keep in mind is that all the solid wisdom of what a solid mortgage deal is for the most part, will always stay the same. Therefore, you can see why you must not take too much notice of short-term trends. When you need to research what's available in this specific area of the financial...


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7:39 AM

Mauritania officer takes over president palace

Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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