22 January 2012 Last updated at 19:08 Share this page Email Print Yemen's President Saleh 'leaves country' for treatment Ali Abdullah Saleh seized power in 1978 Continue reading the main story Related Stories Yemen 'amends Saleh immunity law' Is al-Qaeda gaining ground in Yemen? Yemen unrest 'may delay election' Yemen...
Click on this link to view this beautiful video. Make sure you have the image maximised on your screen for best effect. This is what Lukas Augustin wrote about his production:- As each of us has his...
by Stephen Goodwin 31/Aug/2011 The death of George Band at the age of 82 brings British mountaineering suddenly perilously close to the end of a generation – those who as young men in the 1950s...
Flying the flag for North Africa's 'Berber spring' By Sylvia Smith Morocco The Berber flag, seen here in Agadir, symbolises peace and Amazigh unity Continue reading the main story Related Stories Trail-blazing for Berber speakers Learning written Berber Is Algeria immune from the Arab spring? While there has been much talk of the Arab spring, ethnic Berbers have played a key role in the changes sweeping through North Africa, which is leading to greater recognition for their culture and language...
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Carl Medearis has also posted some recent thoughts on what we are referring to in our previous blog. Yemen is unique. It is desperately poor. It is homogeneous almost 100% Sunni Muslim. But it is extremely tribal. If the current President’s tribe is ousted, which tribe will reign? This has caused a lot of confusion and hasn’t allowed for any clear grassroots goals. Yemen is not likely to go well even if President Saleh has to step down.
90% of your country’s export revenue comes from oil yet the wells will have run out completely in 6 years time. You and your fellow countrymen are already the poorest in the Arabian Peninsula with...
BSSM Intern, Joel Hill, received a call that was a wrong number on his cell phone. A lady was trying to reach her granddaughter. Fellow intern, Ben Church, whispered, “Dude, get a word of knowledge...
World demographics fascinate me. Fascinate as in watching a horror move unfold. The more I read the more I ask myself what G7 leaders and their systems are truly planning as far ahead as 2050? Maybe...
Anyone seen The Adjustment Bureau? Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in this sci-fi movie in which Hollywood tries to address this question. I have to say that on my way home after seeing the film, I...
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The Irish Times - Tuesday, January 11, 2011President extends sympathies to dead mountaineer's family In this section » Union says report on education 'confused' Health insurance changes due in 2013 Penneys goes folksy with flares, florals and maxis Councillor denies assault on Harney Norris in election plea to councillors Hanafin, Andrews to run in Dún Laoghaire LORNA SIGGINS PRESIDENT MARY McAleese has extended her sympathies to the family of the Irish and international mountaineer Joss Lynam...
The news that fresh doubts are being cast on the Korean Oh Eun-Sun’s claim to have summitted Kangchenjunga has raised again the spectre of false summit claims among the high altitude mountaineering community. Miss Oh had been engaged in a race with the Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Spaniard Edurne Pasaban to become the first woman to climb all fourteen of the world’s mountains over 8000 metres, a race which most people, including Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner herself, had accepted she had won. We had our own unproven...
A Photographic Workout So, you want to get better at taking photos. Ok, great. Are you ready to work at it? I often get this comment either in the form of a question or a declarative statement. It reminds me of my own declarative statement that I keep coming back to: “I need to lose weight.” In many ways both of these problems and their solutions are similar. For both losing weight and getting better at photography, you need to be determined and willing to work hard to see progress. This is not something...
Four dates in 2011 for this great 8 day Pyrenean Mountain Journey in the Ordesa and Cirque du Gavarnie regions have just been posted on our website. June 5-12; June 12-19; Sept 11-18; Sept 18-25...
Follow that microlight: Birds learn to migrate By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Click to play Click to play...
King Mohammed VI of Morocco (right), pictured with Gabonese president Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba earlier this year. Photograph: Abdeljalil Bounahr/AP Leading Moroccan journalist Ahmed Benchemsi has difficulty speaking about Nichane, the vibrant Arabic-language news magazine he started four years ago, in the past tense. A passionate advocate for secularism, gender equity and individual rights and a vociferous critic of Islamist ideologies, Benchemsi was forced last Friday to close Nichane after major state...
Posted: Aug 30, 2010 11:56 am EDT via explorersweb.com There's no break for Oh Eun-Sun. Thursday, the Korean Alpine Federation (KAF) declared her summit claim for Kangchenjunga 2009 "unlikely." Their doubts add to those previously brought forward by rival Edurne Pasaban, which moved Himalayan chronicler Elizabeth Hawley this spring to tag the summit as “disputed." ExplorersWeb/AdventureStats previously investigated but found no proof to invalidate Miss Oh’s summit, and no new evidence seem to have showed...
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