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Breaking News Sun, 14 Mar 2010
High numbers of police personnel are deployed into wooded areas on Tuesday March 4, 2008 in Singapore. Authorities believe a top Muslim terror suspect has not managed to flee Singapore and have launched an investigation into how he escaped from a high-security prison, a senior government official said Sunday. More than a thousand security personnel were involved in a nationwide search for Mas Selamat Kastari, who is accused of plotting to hijack a plane and crash it into the Singapore's international airport
Photos   Security   Shipping   Singapore   Terrorism
 BBC News 
Singapore boosts security over threat to oil tankers
Fri 5 Mar 2010
Singapore has bolstered security on land and sea, after receiving reports of a possible plot to attack oil tankers in the Malacca Strait. Home Minister Wong Han Seng said the threat to the country was... (photo: AP / Wong Maye-E)
Head of a  sea turtle
Female   Mass   Nesting   Photos   Turtles
 Kalinga Times 
Olive Ridley sea turtles turn up for mass nesting
Fri 26 Feb 2010
By Manoj Kar Kendrapara, Feb. 26: The endangered Olive Ridley turtles have commenced their annual rendezvous to Gahirmatha marine sanctuary for mass nesting since past 24 hours night with thousands of... (photo: GFDL / AlejandroLinaresGarcia)
Menhaden -Fish/aaeh  Wtop  Sun 14 Mar 2010
Is an important fish being overfished in the Bay?
By REX SPRINGSTON Richmond Times Dispatch RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Some oily little fish in the Chesapeake Bay are causing a big stink. The fish are called menhaden, and depending on who's talking, they... (photo: Creative commons / Brian.gratwicke)
Animals   Chesapeake   Fishing   Photos   Population
A Panaromic view of Mumbai from the Bandra-Worli Sea Link  The Siasat Daily  Sun 14 Mar 2010
Bandra-Worli Sea Link:lanes to open
Mumbai, March 14: Four additional lanes of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link will open to traffic by March 24, instead of March 16 as scheduled earlier. Motorists moving from South Mumbai to the suburbs can... (photo: Creative Commons / Akshaykanade)
India   Media   Mumbai   Photos   Traffic
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 Karel De Gucht, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium, and President of the Security Council for June, reads a presidential statement on the deaths of peacekeepers in Lebanon, at UN Headquarters in New York. (mb1) The Examiner Sun 14 Mar 2010
EU Commissioner De Gucht Regrets US Refueling Tanker Contract Fallout
... (photo: UN /Eskinder Debebe )
Aerospace   Business   Defense   Military   Photos
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. The Times Sun 14 Mar 2010
Does Barack Obama give a damn about us?
WHEN President Barack Obama declared himself "the first Pacific president", some thought he was merely waxing lyrical about his birth in Hawaii and school days in... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
Leader   Photos   President   US   Washington
Tom Hanks            (js1) The Boston Globe Sat 13 Mar 2010
Greatness, from one generation to another
Tom Hanks stood just a few yards away inside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. But Sandra Manzella wasn't looking at him. She was looking into the eyes of her... (photo: Public Domain / Dennythequeen)
Generation   Greatness   Hanks   Marine   Photos
French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers his speech during the opening session of the international conference on major forest areas, in Paris, Thursday March 11, 2010. Sarkozy opened daylong conference of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change. The Independent Sat 13 Mar 2010
Leading article: Mr Sarkozy places France at the centre of Europe
To the British eye, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France appears the very model of Gallic style and verve - and never more so than when he shares a stage with that most... (photo: AP / Philippe Wojazer, Pool))
British   Europe   France   Photos   Sarkozy
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, embraces French President Nicholas Sarkozy, as he arrives in Downing Street in London, Friday, March 12, 2010. The Independent Sat 13 Mar 2010
Leading article: Mr Sarkozy has a chance to show regional leadership
To the British eye, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France appears the very model of Gallic style and verve - and never more so than when he shares a stage with that most... (photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth)
France   Government   Photos   President   Sarkozy
Pakistan Navy Officers On Guard By the National Flag The Press Democrat Fri 12 Mar 2010
Pakistan navy tests missiles in Arabian Sea
While the two nuclear-armed neighbors have taken slow steps toward restarting peace talks, they also have a history of using weapons tests as a form of diplomatic... (photo: Creative Commons / Jitam)
India   Missiles   Navy   Pakistan   Photos


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