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By NASSER ISHTAYEH | AP Published: Oct 23, 2010 22:56 Updated: Oct 23, 2010 23:15 LUBAN AL-SHARKIYEH, West Bank: Vandals chopped down around 20 Palestinian-owned olive trees in the West Bank overnight Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks against Palestinian property during the important fall harvest season. The …

Published: Oct 28, 2010 14:48 Updated: Oct 28, 2010 15:20 SHANGHAI: Across Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Gobi Desert — it certainly was a long way to go without getting lost. Four driverless electric vans successfully ended a 8,000-mile (13,000-kilometer) test drive from Italy to China — a modern-day …

By ADIL SALAHI Published: Jul 29, 2010 22:12 Updated: Jul 29, 2010 22:12 A leading Arab writer of the twentieth century, Abbas Al-Aqqad, gave a short definition of the signs that indicate that someone is a messenger of God. He said: “A messenger of God is someone who has by …

By K.S. RAMKUMAR Published: Oct 27, 2010 20:40 Updated: Oct 27, 2010 20:40 Two young South Africans have pedaled their way to Saudi Arabia to perform this year’s Haj. Nathim Cairncross, 28, and Imtiyaz Ahmad Haron, 25, both from Cape Town, said on arrival at the Saudi border before reaching …

Number of dead tops 330 as questions are raised about the failure of an early tsunami warning system. Last Modified: 28 Oct 2010 08:11 GMT The death toll from Indonesia’s tsunami has soared to at least 337 with 370 others missing, as questions mount over whether an elaborate tsunami warning …

Powerful earthquake off western Sumatra triggers tsunami, leaving at least 113 people dead and scores more missing. Last Modified: 26 Oct 2010 20:50 GMT Dozens of people have been killed in a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake that struck off the western Indonesian island of Sumatra late on Monday. …

By Tom Peck Monday, 25 October 2010 Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, Lauren Booth, has become the latest in a long line of Western Islamic converts. From Chris Eubank to Jermaine Jackson to Alexander Litvinenko, she joins an eclectic list, yet she is markedly different from most of its names, for one …

October 12, 2010 by Alex Filed under Eugenics & Depopulation, Intel Hub Featured Articles, SCI & TECH Sergei Chuzavkov / AP Dr. Mark Sircus India has seen three vaccine disasters in 2010, resulting in four deaths after the measles vaccine and six deaths after the HPV vaccine, so is it …

Pools of standing water in southern Sindh province potentially home to disease-carrying mosquitoes that breed and hatch Declan Walsh in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Sunday 3 October 2010 22.00 BST More than 2m cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country’s devastating floods, …

Monday, September 27, 2010 Jeremy Lasko It’s now clear that the information the government has been giving out on vaccination is misleading at best. They are in fact urging parents to expose their children to risks they could easily avoid while unconstitutionally trying to stop parents from knowing about safe …