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...plume of acrid smoke is drifting eastward after a huge explosion rocked the Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead, 20 miles northwest of London, at 6:03 a.m. local time Sunday. The blast was heard more than 50 miles away. Windows and doors were blown out and walls were cracked in nearby houses, whose residents have been evacuated by police. ?Keep out of the flume, keep away from the area,? said Frank Whiteley, Chief Constable of Hertfordshire police, in a hastily called press conference. He also warned that some smaller explosions might occur later today as other tanks...
...This club is a necessity. It’s really been too long.” President Margen Cuko ’06 estimated that there are about 10 Albanians currently at the College. According to the World Fact Book, Albania, which is to the northwest of Greece, has a population of about 3.5 million. “It’s a small country,” Cuko said. But he added, “It has an interesting history and traditional values that we want to share with the Harvard community.” Sharing these values...
...considered in W.A., where the federal government is funding a feasibility study into building a dingo barrier fence similar to the dog fence which runs from Queensland to South Australia. Though exclusion fences are notoriously costly to maintain, federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says pastoralists in the state's northwest and eastern Goldfields region are desperate to combat wild dogs hunting "in plague proportions." There, too, the problem is mixed breeds - Campbell says pastoralists haven't complained about dingoes to him - devastating stock and wildlife. The minister says pest hybrids should be treated differently to native animals - and believes...
...station awning in Milan; but Franco still lies in a grand tomb funded and carefully maintained by the country he subjugated. On Sunday, the 30th anniversary of his death, several thousand Franco supporters will make their annual journey to the Valley of the Fallen, some 50 km northwest of Madrid, where a colossal basilica is carved into the craggy Guadarrama Mountains. There, they will lay wreaths and offer fascist salutes, as they do every year. But this time, their pilgrimage will take place in a country that is ready to confront the dark chapter of its dictatorship - and perhaps finally...
...With current trends," Professor Bernard Lewis has said, "Europe will have Muslim majorities in the population by the end of the 21st century." The future? "Europe will be part of the Arab west, of the Maghreb [Muslim northwest Africa]." Today's rioting youth are just a bit ahead of their time in claiming their upcoming patrimony...