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Pashmina Shawl: How To Take Care Of It

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Find Out More About: Http://Www.Victoriahouseneedlecraft.Com.Au By Christopher Granger Pashmina shawls can be very delicate, however with the materials that it is made of and knowing the proper way to care for a person’s pashmina, it will surely last for years. The best way to clean pashminas when it is dirty is to bring them into […]

Mass evictions from Oakland’s public housing

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Monday, May 15, 2006 Due to an Oakland housing official’s acts of fraud, 34 poor families face eviction from Lockwood Gardens, by order of the Oakland Housing Authority. Fear and panic have set in at some of East Oakland’s public housing units, as police agents from the Oakland Housing Authority have been making late-night visits […]

Suspected assassin of Turkish-Armenian journalist arrested

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Sunday, January 21, 2007 A suspect has been arrested in the case of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist who was assassinated yesterday. Dink was known for writing about the controversial issue of Armenian genocide, the mass killings of Armenians by Turks under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Ogün Samast, a 17-year-old unemployed, high-school drop […]

China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 […]

Chechen rebels surrender

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Friday, August 18, 2006 A younger brother of Chechen warlord Doku Umarov is the latest of around 120 rebels whom have surrendered in the Russian republic Chechnya alone since an amnesty was declared following last month’s killing of rebel leader Shamil Basayev. In an attempt to capitalize on Basayev’s death and other recent successful developments […]