The General News Archives

Our votes must be counted accurately even if computer software fails. That simple concept has been championed by technology experts in Virginia and around the country.

Most of the world's major weapons exporters, including the United States, supported a UN resolution Friday that calls for a treaty aimed at strengthening controls on the international arms trade.

Manama, Bahrain- Setting a new record in the region and sending a strong message to the government, thousands of Bahrainis on Friday formed a 4 km human chain calling for an end to political naturalization.

Thirty-five million items of post have piled up in post rooms due to this week's strikes, Royal Mail has revealed.

The Saskatchewan government has added to the list of those eligible to receive H1N1 flu shots next week, despite receiving less of the vaccine than expected.

How meaningful is the mortgage modification program? What have we gotten for the billions committed to this initiative? Are you sitting down? For frame of reference, the U.S. Census Housing Data indicates there were 110.3 million occupied housing units in the country in 2007.

President Barack Obama signed today the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act, which strengthens existing U.S. laws by expanding federal hate crime protection to cases where the victim was targeted because of their sexual orientation, gender, disability or gender identity.

Now that the original of the Action Plan to Fight Reactionaryism is in the hands of civilian prosecutors, the creators of the plot have nothing left to protect them from judicial accountability.

Pressure continues to mount on Chief of General Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug for necessary steps to be taken against a military plot aimed at destroying the country's ruling party and a faith-based civil society group, with a wide segment of the society -- including politicians, intellectuals and jurists -- asking the army chief to intervene and punish ...

Sarah Stevens Director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas Posted: October 26, 2009 10:58 AM On October 28th, the United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution condemning the United States embargo against Cuba.

Unemployed workers at a labour office in England in 1939. Between 1919 and 1939 the country experienced high unemployment.

Broadcasting & Cable is selecting the 2009 station General Manager and Multiplatform Broadcaster of the Year.

On October 23, 2009 Kamra Complex - the heart of Pakistan's Aeronautical Industry and various research and development programmes - has been hit by the recent wave of suicide bombers.

The General Tire & Rubber Co. in Waco announced it was closing in 1985, devastating a community that could point with pride to an industrial powerhouse that employed 1,400 people and had a $42 million payroll.

When the Prime Minister meets Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of the Asean-East Asia summit, he will have to deal as much with inscrutable Chinese diplomacy as his counterpart's guile, writes RAJU SANTHANAM Now that Hu Zhrengue, the Chinese assistant foreign minister, has confirmed that both sides have been working for a week to formalize details of ...

World Council of Churches - News Release Contact: +41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363 media@wcc-coe.org For immediate release - 22/10/2009 16:26:09 CHRISTIAN LEADERS ADVOCATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONDURAS AFTER >COUP Ecumenical Delegation to Meet With High-Level Officials to Promote Peace and Reconciliation An emergency delegation of international ...

Courtney Cowger, a seventh-grader at Lindale Middle School, was chosen by her guidance counselor and principal to attend the Junior National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. To qualify for this nomination students must show leadership and role model skills.

Renewed international efforts to reign in Iran's atomic program have shrouded another unresolved Middle East nuclear challenger, Syria.

Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, admitted he had been caught unawares. The Roman Catholic Church today moved to poach thousands of traditional Anglicans who are dismayed by growing acceptance of gays and women priests and bishops.

South Carolina lawmakers said Monday they will return to the Capitol next week to ensure thousands of state residents receive extended unemployment benefits.

When Republican state Rep. Jeff Barnhart began serving as a Cabarrus County commissioner almost 20 years ago, there were fewer people like himself, a recent upstate New York transplant living on the edges of Charlotte.

Vietnamese lawyers are expected to play an important role in helping establish the ASEAN Community when Viet Nam is chair of the regional association.

U.S. Congressman Todd Tiahrt introduced legislation Thursday he hopes will help boost general aviation aircraft sales.

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Reinforcing its commitment to literacy and education, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer products companies, presented $80,000 in total grants today to 15 Charlotte-area schools and Speedway Children's Charities at the NASCAR Nationwide Series Dollar General 300.

A spate of suicides in France is raising new questions about precarious working conditions imposed by authoritarian management models.

The candidates for Virginia's next attorney general launched verbal attacks against each other during their first formal debate Oct.

An inflammatory anti-Israeli television show in Turkey on Tuesday did what Ankara's cancellation of Israeli participation in an international military exercise last week failed to do - lead the foreign ministry to call in Turkey's envoy to register a protest.

What spurred the cancellation of this week's NATO air force exercises in Turkey was yet another delay in the delivery of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to Turkey by Israel, and not Turkish opposition to the country due to its devastating offensive into the Gaza Strip, an air forces official told Today's Zaman.

China has banned foreign investment in online games operating in the country. The announcement came Saturday in a circular jointly released by China's General Administration of Press and Publication and the National Copyright Administration that said foreign businesses were banned from investment in online game operations either through wholly ...

NEW DELHI: Celebrating its 25 years in civil services examination books publishing, Tata McGraw-Hill Education Private Limited launched the silver jubilee edition of its bestseller "General Studies Manual 2010" here over the weekend.

The Pennsylvania State Capitol building seen from State Street in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania has reached an embarrassing milestone.

The 18th session of the UNWTO General Assembly concluded with unanimous endorsement of a Roadmap for Recovery to mainstream travel and tourism into economic stimulus packages being considered by global leaders.

Cases of serious sexual violence, including the recent rape of at least one woman by soldiers on an invaded farm, are being investigated, as members of the armed forces continue their illegal seizure of the land.

The 12th Indie Memphis Film Festival begins this week with more than 150 films - features, documentaries, short films, local films, etc.

When I visit schools I often tell students and staff that the most important card in my wallet is a library card.

See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now REVIEW & OUTLOOK OCTOBER 7, 2009 Obama and the General The White House finds a four-star scapegoat for its Afghan jitters.

The former head of the army is to be made a Tory peer after accusing Labour ministers of 'smearing' him.

INTENSITY BLAST: Police inspecting the site at the Sholavandan Railway Station near Madurai on Tuesday.

In the heart of the Civil War's only urban battle, the General Lewis Inn in Lewisburg, WV offers over the top comfortable beds, delicious food in their dining room... and ghosts.

Eric Pickles: Mr Pickles said the Tories were not prepared to sit back and watch Labour 'implode' Photo: REUTERS Tory supporters were warned today the party still had a ''mountain to climb'' to win the next General Election.

Afghan general pegs 2013 as date country's army can take over New recruits for the Afghan National Army train with rifles at the Kabul Military Training Centre on Sept.

Suburban lawmakers say they've gained new support from a key Chicago political leader in their attempt to overturn the much-maligned Cook County sales tax increase.

When the top U.S. commander in Iraq appears before a House panel Wednesday, he'll tell lawmakers thousands of troops will come home by the end of October.

The London News.Net Thursday 1st October, 2009 The situation in Afghanistan is 'serious', with victory not something that can be taken for granted, the commander of NATO forces in the country said Thursday in a speech to a London audience.

My same-sex partner of seven years and I were married in Palm Springs last year.