Archive - Jul 9, 2010

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK])

By Rob Taylor

KABUL, July 10 (Reuters) - Foreign troops in Afghanistan killed six civilians and wounded several others with stray artillery fire ...

Reuters - Foreign troops in Afghanistan killed six civilians and wounded several others with stray artillery fire just a day after a NATO air strike accidentally killed five Afghan government soldiers.

AP - Federal health scientists have panned a GlaxoSmithKline study that the company used to defend the safety of its embattled diabetes drug Avandia, a once blockbuster-seller that has fallen out of favor because of potential ties to heart attacks.

AP - U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle on Friday denounced Majority Leader Harry Reid as a "desperate man" who was distorting her conservative record while ignoring a state that leads the nation in joblessness, foreclosures and bankruptcies.

Source: Reuters By Sayed Salahuddin

KABUL, July 10 (Reuters) - An Afghan insurgent group rejected on Saturday reports that it was providing intelligence on the Taliban to the government and foreign troops.

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Geri and The Atrics — Who Put The Bomp, from The Muppet Show.

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AP - Feverishly giving speeches on the final day of campaigning Saturday, candidates tried to woo Japanese voters before parliamentary elections that are widely considered a referendum on the Democrats' 10 months in power.

AP - Airlines will have to inspect the cockpit window heaters on 1,212 Boeing airliners and perhaps replace the windows under a safety order the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it plans to issue next week.

7:45am - Gov. Gary Herbert (R-UT)

8:30am - Sara Haile-Mariam, Campus Progress, Communications & Outreach Associate

9:15am - Neil Irwin, Washington Post, Economics Reporter
Length: 3 hr.

Published: Today at 7am (ET)

Michael Newton, co-author of “Enemy of the State,” talks about the trial of Saddam Hussein and the myths that have developed around it. Mr. Newton was an advisor to the Iraqi lawyers and judges who conducted the trial.
Length: 58 min.

Published: Today at 10am (ET)

History professors from Georgia Southern University, San Francisco State University, and Nova Southeastern University participated in a panel discussion on the presidency and civil rights. Speakers discussed recent presidents, the Supreme Court, voters' rights, and the 2000 presidential election.
Length: 1 hr. 55 min.

Published: Today at 11am (ET)

Prior to the Civil War, secessionists in the thirty-sixth

Congress worked actively to undermine the Union, both in

Congress and around the South. The U.S. Capitol Historical

Society held a conference recently about the issues of

secession and war in Washington.
Length: 37 min.

Published: Today at 1:30pm (ET)

European immigrants played a key role as soldiers fighting

primarily for the Union during the Civil War. The U.S.

Capitol Historical Society presented a conference recently

about the war’s impact in the nation’s capitol.

Length: 39 min.

Published: Today at 2pm (ET)

Susumu Ito served during World War II in the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the famed all-Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. In this oral history recorded for Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project in Seattle, Ito recalls his California childhood, the attack on Pearl Harbor and joining the 442nd.
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Published: Today at 2:45pm (ET)

JERUSALEM – What led the Middle East hit parade this week was less the chords struck harmoniously at the White House Tuesday by two deft diplomatic dancers than the slick dance routine performed by a squad of Israeli soldiers patrolling the streets of the occupied Palestinian city of Hebron. Israeli Television collated scores of reports [...]