Does the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico mean that the U.S. should not drill there?
Yes
21%
No
50%
Not sure
29%
Total votes: 14
World Civ: 20th and 21st Centuries
Viewpoint: Religious freedom is not tolerance
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 20:59.Here's an essay question, students: Religious freedom and religious tolerance are not the same thing, or are they? Discuss. read more »
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Netherlands releases Yemen flight suspects
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 13:59.Neither of the two men, reportedly US residents, was on any watch lists. read more »
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Obama's speech on August 31 declares combat in Iraq over
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:38.Saying it is "time to turn the page" on one of the most divisive chapters in American history, President Obama declared the U.S. read more »
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NewsHour Extra Video: Ethiopian Farms Going Global
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 22:08.Israel to open peace talks with security, water demands
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 20:08.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources. read more »
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Vendors Who Alerted Police Called Heroes
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 19:54.Even in Times Square, where little seems unusual, the Nissan Pathfinder parked just off Broadway on the south side of 45th Street — engine running, hazard lights flashing, driver nowhere to be found read more »
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U.S. and Russia Sign Nuclear Arms Pact
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 08:04.PRAGUE — With flourish and fanfare, President Obama and President Dmitri A. read more »
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Nigerian houses swallowed by sand
Submitted by newscaster on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:37.Ciroma Mohammed is standing on the spot he says was once occupied by his house in north-east Nigeria. read more »
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Obama tells Karzai to clean up corruption
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:11.United States president Barack Obama has urged Afghan president Hamid Karzai to clean up corruption and rallied troops to defeat the Taliban during a surprise visit to Afghanistan. read more »
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Enormous Icebergs Could Affect Ocean Currents
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 12:09.A mammoth iceberg that struck a glacier off Antarctica, dislodged a newer chunk of ice that could affect ocean currents and also lower the levels of oxygen in the world’s oceans, according to Austra read more »
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China Lodges Protest of Dalai Lama's White House Meeting With US Ambassador
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:33.Officials in Beijing have summoned the U.S. ambassador to China to protest President Barack Obama's meeting Thursday with the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. read more »
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Mussolini iPhone application is withdrawn
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 22:39.An iPhone application that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn.
Its developer says he is removing it after legal threats. read more »
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Haiti Tent City Residents Cope With Shortages
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:49.Residents of makeshift tent cities throughout Port-au-Prince say that conditions have improved since the earthquake three weeks ago, but shortages of food and relief supplies still make life difficult read more »
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Obama vows 'much tougher' stance on US-China trade
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:40.President Barack Obama says he will be much tougher with China to make sure it opens its markets to trade with the US. read more »
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French citizenship denied to man with veiled wife
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:32.French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the Moroccan man, who had married a French woman, failed to respect the “values of the [French] republic” by forcing his wife to wear a burqa. read more »
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India loses 'substantial land' in 20-25 years along LAC to China
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 23:16.NEW DELHI: Government officials may have so far denied claims of violations committed by China across its borders with India, but it has been confirmed now that the latter has lost “substantial” a read more »
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Concerns that Robinson affair may threaten powersharing (N. Ireland)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 22:58.THE BRITISH and Irish governments are maintaining high-level contacts to ensure the personal and political crisis affecting the Robinson family and the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party] does not collaps read more »
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Same-sex marriage set for big day in federal court
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 22:01.LOS ANGELES -- After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that read more »
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Danish cartoonist defiant despite threats
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 17:10.Copenhagen: Kurt Westergaard has remained defiant in the face of repeated death threats following his controversial drawing of the prophet Mohammed, AFP reports. read more »
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Rwanda: Govt Blames Sudan for Darfur Attacks
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 12/06/2009 - 23:27.Kigali — Rwanda has accused the Khartoum government of being behind the ambush in which three RDF peacekeepers were killed and two injured at Saraf Umra in Darfur on Friday. read more »
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The Story of Veterans Day
Submitted by newscaster on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 15:42.1.November 11 is Veterans Day. A veteran is a soldier who has served his/her country. read more »
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Bloomberg Wins 3rd Term as Mayor in Unexpectedly Close Race
Submitted by Ms. AuCoin on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:55.Read the following article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/nyregion/04mayor.html?_r=1&hp
Questions to Consider:
1. Why was this election controversial? read more »
Malawi windmill boy with big fans
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 21:27.The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. read more »
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Bangladesh awards farmer who killed 83,000 rats
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 21:04.DHAKA, Bangladesh—Bangladesh on Wednesday awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and reduce the need f read more »
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Army used profiles to reject reporters (Afghanistan)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 11:59.WASHINGTON — The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to Americ read more »
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