Tag: Docudharma Times

Jeremy Laurance: A health debate outsiders find hard to understand

Indian coffee houses battle for custom on frontline of culture war

USA

Finding in Foreclosure a Beginning, Not an End

In North Dakota, waterlogged life goes on

Europe

Miles from the Kremlin, protesters aim fruit and fury at Putin

Nicolas Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement thrashed in regional elections

Middle East

Two more Palestinian youths shot dead by Israelis in bloody weekend

Netanyahu hits defiant note ahead of visit with Obama

Asia

Sahil Saeed ordeal exposes growth of homeland kidnap ‘trade’

China’s corrupt Communists in the frame for graft

Africa

Tanzania, Zambia demand one-off ivory sales

Latin America

Haiti races to house post-quake homeless before the rainy season

Vote on Health Bill Today Caps a Journey Back From the Brink

Finding a cure for Indonesia’s sick river

USA

California Tribe Hopes to Woo Salmon Home

New York schools’ ban on homemade goods at bake sales has parents steamed

Europe

Murder case of cheating wife and missing mattress grips France

Anger and disappointment in Ireland as the Pope’s letter fails to heal

Middle East

Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs

UN chief Ban Ki-moon demands Israel settlements halt

Asia

West Bengal villagers pay with blood for a steel plant

How the West poisoned Bangladesh

Africa

South African rapper Jub Jub accused over deaths of four schoolboys is targeted by angry pupil army

Years of conflict etched on a Congo village chief’s face

Latin America

After the revolution: Why are Farc’s young soldiers laying down their guns?

Web produces new generation of China activists

Separating fact from fiction in Iraq war films

USA

Acorn on Brink of Bankruptcy, Officials Say

North Dakota residents on tenterhooks, eyeing Red River’s rise

Europe

The Norway town that forgave and forgot its child killers

‘I was a victim of abuse. This is what the Pope must do to stop it’

Middle East

Netanyahu heads to US as settlement row rumbles on

In tight Iraq parliament vote, upsets point to future battles

Asia

Arabs throw in their lot with ‘global terrorists’ in war against the infidel

Former captive’s silence speaks volumes

Africa

Minister: Sierre Leone rattled by disaster hoax

Latin America

I am infected by the peace virus, says President Lula as he seeks UN job

Toyota used ‘game plan’ to escape early recall

Bolivia creates a new opportunity for climate talks that failed at Copenhagen

USA

School Suspensions Lead to Legal Challenge

House leaders announce $940 billion health-care compromise bill

Europe

Johann Hari: The Pope, the Prophet, and the religious support for evil

Adolf Hitler ‘wanted to use cricket to train troops for war’, new book claims

Middle East

Iran’s atomic ambitions cause impasse at disarmament talks

Iran protests: Is Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei winning?

Asia

The mysterious case of the Grey Lady of Bagram

Success of secret two-child policy could force Chinese rethink on family planning

Latin America

Colombia rejects U.S. extradition request

Most power plants still spewing toxic mercury, report says

Idaho first to sign law against health care reform

USA

Pentagon Sees a Threat From Online Muckrakers

Senator Smiley: Al Franken pulls no punches, but adds a few punch lines

Europe

Eta cell in deadly Paris shootout

Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatens to expel 100,000 illegal Armenians

Middle East

Tehran accused of arming Taleban with weapons and explosives

Brazil steps between Israel and Iran

Asia

North Korean executed for botched currency reform

Robert Fisk: Into the terrifying world of Pakistan’s ‘disappeared’

Africa

Nigeria leader Goodluck Jonathan dissolves cabinet

Inside Al Shabab: How the Somalia militant group rules through fear

Latin America

Rio protests: Sharing Brazil’s oil revenues will hurt 2016 Olympics

Afghan women fear loss of hard-won progress

William Shakespeare’s lost 18th Century play Double Falsehood ‘not a hoax’

USA

Defendants Fresh From War Find Service Counts in Court

Place names are the domain of an obscure U.S. board

Europe

Silvio Berlusconi faces inquiry over bid to block ‘hostile’ TV show

I will only resign if Pope asks me, says defiant Irish cardinal

Middle East

Supreme Leader tries to ban Charshanbeh Suri in attempt to quell protests

Palestinians clash with police in East Jerusalem

Asia

Sri Lanka opposition leader Sarath Fonseka to face court martial today

Afghanstan war: Are some Taliban ignoring Mullah Omar’s ethics code?

Africa

Nigeria is falling apart, says Nobel prize-winning author

In Egypt, rumors of President Hosni Mubarak demise fuel uncertainty. Who will lead next?

Latin America

Funky beach town of Jacmel could be key to Haiti’s economic revival

Worldwide arms trade flourishing despite recession, report warns

USA

Democratic leaders say health bill will pass

Obama losing chance to reshape judiciary

Europe

Asylum deportation flights need rights monitors, EU says

Sarkozy’s party humbled by left in French vote

Middle East

White House goes on the offensive against Netanyahu

Election monitors’ report increases doubts over fairness of Iraq election

Asia

Survivors of family killed in Afghanistan raid threaten suicide attacks

Kim Jong-il keeps $4m ’emergency fund’ in European banks

Latin America

Colombia vote: Former FARC hostages run for Congress

Korea OLEV concept vehicle sees the future, and it’s magnets

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

USA

In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt

At Afghan outpost, Marines gone rogue or leading the fight against counterinsurgency?

Europe

Vatican denounces attempts to draw Pope into scandal

Bogus TV report of Russian invasion panics Georgia

Middle East

Jail ordeal of hundreds of Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones

Iran arrests 30 accused of U.S.-backed cyber war

Asia

Taliban kill at least 30 in Kandahar

Thai protesters converge on Bangkok

Africa

Reporting on Nigerian massacre deaths seems to have hit a religious divide

Latin America

Unemployment among Latin America youths fuels ‘lost generation’

Report: Second American probed in terror plot

Looking for lizards across Los Angeles

USA

F.C.C. Plan to Widen Internet Access in U.S. Sets Up Battle

Democrats more hopeful on health-care vote

Europe

Pope’s former diocese implicated in abuse scandal

EU countries agree to €25bn Greece bailout

Middle East

Iran’s spies show how it’s done

Iraq PM uses early lead to pursue new govt allies

Asia

Nato ‘covered up’ botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five

When the Mekong runs dry

Africa

‘They herded us into one place and started chopping with machetes…’

Latin America

2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive

Torture, terror and table tennis: Iraq hostage Peter Moore tells of ordeal

Ground Zero workers win $657m settlement for health problems

USA

Report Details How Lehman Hid Its Woes as It Collapsed

Europe

Scientologists try to ban critical German feature film

Anti-austerity protests in Greece turn violent

Middle East

Johann Hari: Palestinians should now declare their independence

Iraq election: Nuri al-Maliki in close fight with rival as fraud allegations fly

Asia

Burmese dictator lives like a king, laments the nation’s last royal

Thai protest march starts with Buddhist chants

Africa

Ex-wife criticizes Nelson Mandela – and many South Africans agree

Latin America

Mexico City hosts nation’s first gay marriages

Decoded genome gives hope in fighting disease

Kim Jong-il’s personal shopper reveals how the North Korean leader lives in luxury

USA

Investors can soon make bets on movie box office

Governors, state school superintendents propose common academic standards

Europe

Merkel’s ‘dream team’ begins to unravel

Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican

Middle East

‘I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie’

Lebanon resumes defense talks on Hezbollah’s military wing

Asia

Great Himalayan Trail: trekking’s holy grail

Hundreds rounded up in Tibet crackdown

Africa

Why do Egyptians love Avatar?

Ex-rebels accused of extortion in DR Congo mines

Latin America

Chile’s new leader Sebastian Pinera to be sworn in

Buried alive: Half of Earth’s life may lie below land, sea

King’s Cross to Beijing in two days on new high-speed rail network

USA

Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases

Pentagon resists Army’s desire to stop development of MEADS missile system

Europe

Pope’s brother linked to new claims of child abuse by clergy

EU offers condolences to quake-stricken Turkey

Middle East

Interpol issues alert for 16 more suspects in Dubai hotel room assassination

Now the hard part for Iraq – and the US

Asia

Burma publishes new election laws

Pakistan delivers but doubts remain

Africa

Ethiopian PM denies aid was diverted

500 butchered in Nigeria killing fields

Latin America

Brazil slaps trade sanctions on US over cotton dispute