California Hopes for Slowing Winds (The San Francisco Examiner)
Crews were anticipating an injection of additional firefighters and equipment from other states, mostly throughout the West. Frustration over the firefighting effort began to emerge Tuesday when a fire official said not enough had been done to protect homes....more...Cardero Initiates Geophysical Study at La Poma High-Grade Silver-Lead Project (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Cardero Resource Corp.(AMEX: CDY)(Frankfurt: CR5) is pleased to announce that an Induced Polarization Geophysical Survey been initiated on its recently acquired high grade La Poma Silver-Lead property, Salta Province, NW Argentina....more... Poll fiasco: Alexander 'must resign' (The Scotsman)
DOUGLAS Alexander, the International Development Secretary, faced calls for his resignation last night after being heavily criticised in the official report into this year's Holyrood voting fiasco....more... The Globalization Index 2007 (Foreign Policy Magazine)
The world may not be flat for everyone, everywhere, but there?s no turning back the clock on globalization. For the seventh year, FOREIGN POLICY partners with A.T. Kearney to measure countries on their economic, personal, technological, and political integration....more... Brian Coleman (The New Statesman)
The deaths of a couple of dozen Turkish troops in operations against the Kurds and the vote by the Turkish Parliament to in effect invade Northern Iraq to pursue operations against the Kurdish people has focused world attention on a conflict which the modern state of Turkey has pursued for many decades....more... Ramona, surrounding area under mandatory evacuation (North County Times)
NORTH COUNTY ---- The entire town of Ramona ---- more than 36,000 people ---- and hundreds of residents in surrounding areas were forced to flee their homes Sunday night after a Santa Ana-whipped fire burned through 5,000 acres on both sides of Highway 78, leaving blazing structures, power outages and dead animals in its wake. View A Slide Show...more... Ramona wildfire forces about 11,000 evacuations (North County Times)
NORTH COUNTY ---- A local emergency was called today after a 3,000-acre wildfire fueled by Santa Ana winds burned on both sides of Highway 78 near Witch Creek Road and spread toward Ramona, causing road closures, power outages and the evacuations of some 11,000 residents, authorities said....more... Keegan Extends Mangoase Target Area to 16 Km in Length and Finds Gold in Bedrock at Bia Target Area at Asumura Gold ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Keegan Resources Inc. is pleased to provide an update and release the latest results of step out soil sampling at the Mangoase anomaly, infill soil sampling at the NW anomaly and augur drilling on the Bia anomaly at the Asumura Property in southwest Ghana.....more... 15,000 Scots are refugees in own land (The Scotsman)
THOUSANDS of Scots have been made refugees in their own country as a result of councils dumping the homeless in neighbouring areas, Scotland on Sunday can reveal....more... |