August 21st, 2008
Russia has informed Norway that it plans to suspend all military ties with NATO, Norway’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The report comes a day after NATO foreign ministers said they would make further ties with Russia dependent on Moscow making good on a pledge to pull its troops back to pre-conflict positions in Georgia. However, they [...]
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August 21st, 2008
The Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” is ready to head from Murmansk towards the Mediterranean and the Syrian port of Tartus. The mission comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is open for a Russian base in the area. The “Admiral Kuznetsov”, part of the Northern Fleet and Russia’s only aircraft carrier, will head [...]
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August 20th, 2008
A red triangle with a skull and cross bones symbol gives the first indication that this area on the outskirts of Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan is no rural idyll.
Women may use their heads to carry wood back home while men snooze in the shade of the trees, but a slight odour hangs in the [...]
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August 20th, 2008
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Emily - the woman in the above animation - was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.
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August 20th, 2008
Production was shut down at Maple Leaf’s plant on Bartor Road in north Toronto after contaminated meat was discovered.
Public health officials are investigating whether an outbreak of food poisoning that killed one person is linked to contaminated cold cuts produced at a north Toronto plant.
Seventeen people, 13 of them in Ontario, have fallen ill in [...]
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