Month: October 2005

Washington, 24 October, 2005— Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, October 22 to participate in a ceremony marking a 1963 event she defined as “homegrown terrorism of the worst […]

Washington, 24 October, 2005— President Bush nominated Ben Bernanke to succeed U.S. Central Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a position that Bush termed “one of the president’s most important appointments.” […]

Bisham, 24 October, 2005— As fresh tremors shook northern Pakistan on Sunday night, Zainab Khatoon from Bisham, a town of some 30,000 people, 250 km from the capital, Islamabad, began screaming in fear. The town […]

Islamabad, 22 October, 2005— UN agencies gathered in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Saturday, in a further effort to coordinate relief efforts with NGOs, donors and the government to quake-affected areas of the country. “It’s […]

Washington, 22 October, 2005— Hosting the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) third annual iftar dinner October 20, USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios spoke of the affirmation of faith and compassion through Islam as well as […]

Washington, 22 October, 2005— Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has described as “deeply troubling” a United Nations investigation that implicates Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and finds the […]

New York, 21 October, 2005— U.N. investigators have implicated both Lebanese and Syrian high-ranking officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. “There is probably cause to believe that the decision to […]

A recent Ghanaian News Agency (GNA) article had the Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) lambasting Fante immigrants in other parts of Ghana, who had achieved remarkable modicum of successes, […]