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Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:23:46 PDT

News roundup: Morpheus gets frog DNA, Mad Men ratings and more (The Star-Ledger)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:39:03 PDT
Been out of the blogging loop for a bit, thanks to a lack of summer TV I wanted to watch and an Olympics preview story I just got out from under writing. So, after the jump, let's get caught up on various TV news stories out there in the series of tubes...

Death by stoning is abolished in Iran

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:13:25 PDT
Bess writes: Good news from Iran. Especially if you’re a woman and accused of adultery. Death by stoning, the legal penalty for sexual infidelity is apparently off the menu. According to the BBC, a spokesman for the state judiciary says that four Iranians sentenced to die by stoning have had their sentences commuted, while the rest (who have asked for forgiveness) have their sentneces under review. While it occurs relatively rarely, Iran’s penal code is fairly specific on the unpleasant det

CBC's Olympic broadcast a 'statement' (Slam! Sports)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:38:32 PDT
All Olympics, all the time, pretty much all of August.

CBC Newsworld : Passionate Eye Monday : Documentary

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:53:25 PDT
The story that showed on news world tonight.This is just another example of the futility and expense in money and lives that is the drug war.

Pride London reveal more details about trans toilet incident

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:49:02 PDT
ANALYSIS: What is the Christian Institute? Lillian Ladele's success at an employment tribunal today horrified many. But who bankrolled her case? INTERVIEW: Why supporting gay staff is good business Barclays was an early supporter of Stonewall's efforts to promote equality in the workplace as a member of the Diversity Champions programme. In fact they were the first bank to sign up. Cashman slams Iris over 'gay cure' stance An openly gay MEP has attacked a Northern Irish politi

Smoke Signals: The Redskins News Wire (8/6)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:33:54 PDT
… One things the Redskins should be excited about is the youth movement that took place at Safety, with Reed Doughty lining up opposite Laron Landry, and the emergence of late draft pick Chris Horton.

Diablo 3

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:55:52 PDT
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Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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