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...anniversary of the conflict in South Ossetia also saw Medvedev backing an initiative that would give a legal basis for deploying the Russian military abroad to defend Russian citizens and armed forces from attack - precisely the reason given by Moscow for its intervention last year. This raises concerns about the Kremlin's designs on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, which has a large ethnic Russian population and is home to the Black Sea Fleet. (Read: "A Year After War, South Ossetia More Dependent on Russia...
...without irrigation, also failed in 2002 and 1987 - and the government is responding in the usual way, by expanding rural subsidies. In his Independence Day speech to the nation on Aug. 15, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised to postpone the date for repayment of farmers' bank loans and to give breaks on interest payments for short term crop loans. This comes on top of last year's $14 billion farm loan waiver program, price supports for agricultural products and an ambitious jobs scheme, which guarantees 100 days of work to the poor in rural areas. "There's only so much...
Sometimes, vendors sell the good, the bad, and the ugly - and fairgoers dine accordingly. "We just come here one day so I guess I didn't give it much thought," says Jill Allen, 31, of Peru, Iowa, while her four children ate fresh fruit cups, as well as hotdogs, French fries and pork tenderloins served at Beattie's Melon Patch, near the popular Giant Slide...
IAAF director of communications Nick Davies stressed that the organization does not believe Semenya has been masquerading as a woman to give herself an unfair advantage. "It's a medical issue. It's not an issue of cheating," he told reporters before the final. Davies also said that the IAAF was trying to handle this sensitive situation as delicately as possible. "She is a human being who was born as a woman and who has grown up all her life as a woman, but who is now in a position where this is being questioned." Because there...
Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, also dismissed the claims. "I can give you the telephone numbers of her roommates in Berlin," he told South African news site News24. "They have already seen her naked in the showers and she has nothing to hide...