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...Nigeria and Africa as a whole are starting to push back. In 2003 the World Health Assembly adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a treaty designed to attack smoking through a mix of methods including bans and tax hikes. So far, 164 countries have joined the pact, including 48 in Africa. The U.S. signed the treaty in 2004 but has yet to implement it, though the President is expected to seek Senate ratification soon, adding a very big player to the team...
Dobbs, Lou • becoming by of a national laughingstock (and a humiliating embarrassment to CNN) - thanks to the obsession of with the thoroughly debunked "birther" conspiracy theory that Obama was actually born in Kenya and is therefore an "illegal" president - provokes Agnewesque attack by on "limp-minded, lily-livered lefties...
...basis, the slow withdrawal of American forces does not make a big impact on Korea. The troops here have few protective duties; they serve as a “tripwire,” insurance against a possible North Korean attack. However, this tripwire will likely become a vital part of international security in the next few years. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is a dying man. He has not prepared his 24-year old son and heir, Kim Jong-Un, for succession. Now, the world is stuck with a boy-king who is ill-trained to fend off power...
...Begged police not to reveal that he had survived the attack because the LeT had sent him to die, and if it were revealed that he had survived, he would be killed by members of the organization. (Video: Watch Mumbai residents describe the terrifying ordeal...
...There no doubt as to why the subject is so sensitive. Whenever an authoritarian leader's children are the subject of scandal, a potential avenue of attack for that leader's enemies is opened. Hu Jintao is no different. At the top levels of the ruling Communist Party, power is balanced almost evenly between Hu's supporters and their main opponents, the "princelings," a lose amalgamation of the offspring and relatives of former senior party officials. Signs of a power struggle were already evident to some scholars earlier this year, when several senior party officials in Guangdong province...