November 29, 2006
Catching up, in brief
Key stories of the past couple of days. Apologies for my delinquency. And if you have an RSS feed reader, you can get a feed of The Daily Clips -- particularly if you're using IE7.
Yesterday's News
Yesterday's News
- EU Knew about CIA prisons: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-11-28-cia-prisons_x.htm
BBC report on same: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6193010.stm - US tank kills five Iraqi girls: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6193620.stm
Al Jazeera on same: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DB52316F-0AF2-41BE-8566-DF565DE59F2F.htm - USA Today – Opium eradication hurts Afghanistan's poorest (and isn't working): http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-11-28-afghan-opium_x.htm
Afghan govt helps opium traffickers: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_DRUGS?SITE=ILROR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Today's News:
- Judge strikes down Bush's power to declare terror groups (incl. Tamil Tigers): http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2685935&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
- Bolivian gov't passes law to redistribute rich's land to landless Indians: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6D194F30-0E07-45EE-8327-0AB3F9D9CF1F.htm
- San Diego bans Wal-Mart: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E253CEEE-5EDC-4FF9-9649-0994186F5F53.htm
- Snoop Dogg arrested... again (this isn't news, actually): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6194530.stm
- National Security Advisor Hadley pens secret memo saying Maliki is ineffective (as Bush is meeting with Maliki in Jordan): http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/world/middleeast/29military.html?th&emc=th Text of the memo: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/world/middleeast/29mtext.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
- Ex-Russian PM and market reformer "near death from mystery illness" (Putin the Poisoner strikes again?): http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/29/russia.illness.reut/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
- NBC News, NYT begin referring to Iraq as "civil war": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6194646.stm
This format is a bit easier to maintain and is more comprehensive, so The Daily Clips may look like this moving forward. We'll still work in some longer-form pieces, too.
