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October 23, 2007, WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As fires continue to rage throughout communities in Southern California, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is swiftly mobilizing federal resources and assets in coordination with the state of California and other federal agencies. DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and FEMA Administrator David Paulison traveled to the affected area today to meet with state officials and asses the federal response to the wildfires. President Bush will visit California Thursday. Mike O'Sullivan reports, fire has destroyed more than 1,000 homes in San Diego, and hundreds in other parts of the state. Fires being spread by hot, dry winds, and have burned more than 165,000 hectares from Los Angeles in north, to the Mexican border south of San Diego. The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced that the President declared an emergency exi...

UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari today asked India to act with concrete action in regard to bringing about democracy in Myanmar. Gambari, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today, said he had conveyed a message from UN Secretary General Ban ki Moon with regard to early solution to the problem in Myanmar. "Theoretically, all of us can do more," he told reporters here when asked about his expectations from India in resolving the crisis in Myanmar. He said he expects India to continue to encourage the authorities in Yangon to work with the United Nations to achieve the common objective of peaceful, stable and prosperous Myanmar that embarks on a national reconciliation process. Gambari said he was "very satisfied" by India's response and stressed on the need for "qualitative results" for accelerated democratisation process. UN envoy will visit China next as a part of his six-nation tour to urge Asian countries to take lead in resolving the crisis in Myanm...

Louisiana Governor U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal,36-year-old Son of Indian Immigrants Beats 11 Opponents In Louisiana Gubernatorial Race Print article Print article Refer this article Refer to a friend 2007-10-22 07:31:34 - The Oxford-educated Jindal had lost the governor's race four years ago to Gov. Kathleen Blanco. He won a congressional seat in conservative suburban New Orleans a year later but was widely believed to have his eye on the governor's mansion. Louisiana Governor U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal "Let's give our homeland, the great state of Louisiana, a fresh start," Jindal said to cheers and applause from a crowd that began chanting his name at his victory party. U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal,36-year-old Son of Indian Immigrants Beats 11 Opponents In Louisiana Gubernatorial Race. His nearest competitors: Democrat Walter Boasso with 208,690 votes or 18 percent; Independent John Georges had 1167,477 votes or 14 percent; Democrat Foster Campbell had ...

Kurdish rebels ambushed a military unit near Turkey's Talabani and Iraqi Kurdish president Massud Barzani hold most sway over Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters best suited for any operations Iraq could launch. Print article Print article Refer this article Refer to a friend 2007-10-21 21:22:43 - A statement from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office condemned what it described as a "terrorist action" carried out by the PKK against Turkish soldiers, after a meeting of Iraq's security committee. SIRNAK, Turkey - Kurdish rebels ambushed a military unit near Turkey's border with Iraq early Sunday, killing 12 soldiers giving way on the Turkish government to stage attacks against guerrilla camps in Iraq. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the referendum at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. Turkey's leaders hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to decide what steps to take against PKK- Kurdish rebels, following an ambush t...

Gorbachev forges Union of Social Democrats Former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev founded the Union of Social Democrats in Moscow on Saturday in an attempt to lead Russia towards a social democratic path. Some 200 people from 58 Russian regions took part in the constituent congress of the union, which was, as claimed, aimed at eliminating the extremities of left-wing and right-wing forces and building an integrated society. "The Western countries found the solution (in combining left- wing and liberal values)," Gorbachev said, taking the coalition of Social Democrats and Christian Democrats in Germany as an example. It's the former president and Communist Party chief's second attempt to lead his country towards a social democratic path. In 2000, he founded the Russian United Social Democratic Party, which grouped a number of other social democratic parties and organizations in 2001 and was renamed to the Social Democratic Party of Russia (SDPR). In May...

Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin and Li Changchun have been elected Sunday morning into the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Party's top decision-making body. More than 2,200 delegates elected 204 members and 167 alternate members of the 17th CPC Central Committee at the closing session of the 17th CPC National Congress. Xi Jinping, 54,may succeed Vice President Zeng Qinghong and Li Keqiang, 52,may become the executive vice premier with responsibility for financial services, led the new members onto a stage at China's Great Hall of the People in Beijing, putting them in line for top central government positions when the country's rubber-stamp parliament meets in March. Xi, who took over as Shanghai party chief in March after Chen Liangyu was fired for corruption, is a so-called ``princeling,'' the son of an army veteran and former vice premier.A chemical engineering graduate of Tsinghua, he was previously governor of Fu...

News Type: Event — Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:28 AM IST world-news, blast, pak Naresh kumar sagar Twin blast Benajir convoy kills 150 people and 500 injured. Bhutto wept as she emerged from a plane that brought her from Dubai to Karachi. At the airport, she climbed aboard the roof of a truck and began a triumphant procession through Pakistan's largest city.She said that our agenda is for the Poor and our agenda is for peace and prosperity to the country.Her homecoming after self imposed exile of eight years after she fled for corruption charges in year 1999 for money Laundering by her country,Spain and Switzerland as her accounts were frozen.An amnesty agreement with president Musharaff to trade off deal she landed to participate in parliament election. With parliamentary elections due in January, she hopes to campaign for a third premiership. Political analysts call it risk her popularity by tie-up deal with unpopular military ruler, President General Pervez Musharraf. Celebratory process...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is scheduled to fly to Moscow on Thursday. Putin and Olmert the two leaders are expected to discuss an arms deal that Russia is to sign with Syria and Russia's role in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking efforts. President George W. Bush said Wednesday that he wanted to get a report directly from Putin about his visit to Iran and warned that a nuclear-armed Iran could trigger World War III. Olmert "will be very clear on the Israeli position that in no way can Iran achieve nuclear capability, that Iranian nuclear capability threatens the world, including Russia," Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said Thursday. Olmert's one-day visit was announced only after Putin had returned from Iran, where he vowed Tuesday to support Iran's pursuit of nuclear energy and warned "outside forces" - hinting at the United States - against using force against Iran.

Belarus' president pledged Thursday to begin construction of the country's first nuclear power plant next year, news agencies reported. Alexander Lukashenko said the plant would help guarantee the ex-Soviet republic's national security. The project "is dictated not by some political ambitions, but by the necessity to ensure the country's energy security in case of a decrease in gas and oil resources, supply problems or the increase in energy carriers' costs," Lukashenko was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying. Nuclear Power plant would take four to eight years at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion to $2.8 billion. Belarus' Soviet-style economy has long been propped up by cheap energy resources from Russia. Moscow this year sharply hiked prices for oil and gas, angering Lukashenko and prompting him to threaten to walk out of the economic union the two nations are moving toward. This announcement likely to anger some environmentalist Belarusians d...

Russian Military-Technical Cooperation said on Thursday. "We have signed an agreement on cooperation in the development and production of an advanced multi-purpose fighter aircraft," the spokesman said. "This document will allow our countries to implement a project that envisions equal-share financing and engineering efforts in the creation of a fifth-generation fighter." Russia and India also signed an agreement on joint production of spare parts for Su-30 Flanker fighters.Last week, Moscow and New Delhi signed a $1.6 billion contract for the supply of 40 Russian Su-30 fighter assembly sets to India by 2010 as a compliment to the contract on licensed production of 140 Su-30MKIs in India, which was signed in December 2000. Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who attended the signing ceremony on Thursday together with his Indian counterpart, A. K. Antony, praised the current level of bilateral military-technical cooperation. "Russian-Indian military-tech...

Race row sparks on comments Noble Laureate 18.10.2007 14:57:51 Race row - London museum cancelled a talk Noble LaureateScience Museum in London has cancelled a talk schedule by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. (live-PR.com) - Dr James Watson to lecture on Friday who is in Britain to promote his new book "Avoid Boring People- Lessons From A Life In Science". Doctor James Watson Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States who said, "That black people are less intelligent than whites".Dr Watson is quoted as saying he was inherently gloomy about the prospect for Africa because he says, "All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really". Doctor James Watson, won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1962 as one of three people who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine for his part in discovering the structure of DNA. Science Museum, due to host Watson on a visit to Britain ...

18.10.2007 06:21:33 Libya, Burkina Faso and Vietnam, Costa Rica and Croatia have been elected non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for 2008-2009, the UN General Assembly announced on wednessday. (live-PR.com) - Crotia and Costa Rica in third roound voting and West African Burkina Faso,Libya and Vietnam easily obtained a two-thirds majorityin first round voting on Tuesday, after being endorsed by regional groupings to stand unopposed for the five non-permanent seats available for African and Asian nations of United Nation Security Council. The new non-permanent members will replace Congo, Ghana, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia in the UN Security Council, when the countries' mandates expire on December 31. U.S. had labelled Libya as a pariah state after Gadhafi came to power in a 1969 coup and turned his country against the West. Gadhafi Libya was the target of U.S. airstrikes in 1986, in his bunkers and thereon subject to sanctions. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen...