Positive news from Tunisia
Tunisia counts votes in historic free electionTunisian election officials are counting votes after Sunday's election, the first free poll of the Arab Spring.
"Just as so many Tunisian citizens protested peacefully in streets and squares to claim their rights, today they stood in lines and cast their votes to determine their own future,"
- President Obama |
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Tunisia counts votes in historic free electionTunisian election officials are counting votes after Sunday's election, the first free poll of the Arab Spring. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Jewish Holocaust Memorial Honors Arab MuslimLos Angeles, CA - A Jewish organization in Los Angeles has honored an Arab Muslim who saved Tunisian Jews from Nazi persecution. |
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Sahara’s Edge Studied From Ground, Air And Space To Improve Water ManagementSass, Tunisia - An international team worked on the verge of the Sahara to gather data on the ground and in the air, to be compared with imagery of the same region acquired by ESA satellites. |
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$100 laptop for the poor unveiled at WSISTunis, Tunisia - United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and a leading United States IT expert, Nicholas Negroponte, on Wednesday unveiled the bright green and yellow working prototype of a $100 laptop aimed at millions of schoolchildren in poor countries. |
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Tunisia Pledges to End Long Solitary ConfinementTunis, Tunisia - The Tunisian government promised yesterday that it will no longer place prisoners in solitary confinement for more than 10 days, Human Rights Watch said. |
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