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2009-01-04 DNA - Entertainment - Food author Asha Khataus world travels have refined her palate

In fact, now ask her to make a vegetarian dish from any part of the world and Asha can present it to you. Its the fun element that gets me going, laughs the sprightly lady, her lithe figure belying her love for food. And my kids challenge me too; just yesterday my son wanted me to make Greek giros the way we had eaten it in Greece and I did so perfectly, she smiles.

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For someone who didnt know how to make chai, being in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and writing six bestselling cookbooks has been quite a journey for Asha Khatau.

2009-01-04 OpEdNews The New York Times and the missing story of milk

Which is also Monsantos legacy to all this glut of milk (even if they recently sold it). While there is huge resistance against rBGH-milk here with some concerned about its link to breast cancers, prostate cancers, colon cancers. So, are we exporting diseases to countries which have previously had low levels of breast cancer. How much is corporate advertising and fast food multinationals responsible for demand for milk and ice cream and cheeses in countries that never depended on dairy to begin with What has this done to health in these countries

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There are two stories happening about farming in this country - one of failure at a global level and one of success at a local level. The USDA is wiping out the latter - the sustainable agriculture Obama promised.

2009-01-04 CCTV International

The agency has launched an emergency appeal for 34 million US dollars to buy food, medical supplies and other goods. Israel has kept open certain crossings into Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to pass through.

Palestinians have been lining up in Gaza for UN food aid. There were long lines on Friday at a United Nations Relief Distribution Center as sacks of aid were handed out.

Palestinians have been lining up in Gaza for UN food aid.

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2009-01-04 Gaza diary: Do Israel pilots feel happy killing innocent women and children World news

The Israeli army is destroying the tunnels that go from Rafah into Egypt. For the past year and a half the Israeli government has intensified the economic blockade of Gaza by closing all the border crossings that allow aid and essential supplies to reach Palestinians in Gaza. This forced Palestinians to dig tunnels to Egypt to survive. From our house we can hear the explosions and the house is shaking. At night we cant go out. No one goes out. If you go out you will risk your life. You dont know where the bombs will fall. My mother is so sad. She watches me writing my reports and says: "Fida, will it make any difference"

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Gaza diary: A Palestinian in Gaza chronicles life under Israeli bombardment - Israel and the Palestinian territories World news World news

2009-01-04 The Seventh Day of Israeli Air Strike on Gaza

We want Egypt to open the border and we want to go to our children. There are bombs and death in Gaza. Gaza is burning and we want to see our houses again. Our children have no food, no wheat or sugar. Also the electricity is cut. We are dying slowly. "

Its very bad, there is no food no nothing and lots of people are dying and, where are you Arabs Where are you No-ones coming to help us and its very bad. "

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2009-01-03 The Real News Network - Rafah - Report from the ground

As the fifth day of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip begins, Rafah and Gaza City, the two main targets, have witnessed hundreds of deaths. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blames Hamas, the ruling party in Gaza, for inciting Israels attack. Hamas, vows to keep shelling Southern Israel with rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. Lia Tarachansky spoke to Fida Qishta in Rafah, located in Southern Gaza. Qishta reports one of the first targets of the Israeli bombardment were the tunnels dug by Palestinians under the wall, which separates Rafah in two, half in Palestine and half in Egypt. These tunnels, says Qishta, have been used since the beginning of the siege to smuggle food, and according to Israel, weapons. Qishta also reports of the wall being breached by Palestinians desperate to escape to Egypt. Though unsuccessful, this is

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2009-01-03 K Robin

Have worked as a grantwriter for the local Food Bank (served 28 Counties of SW VA) and as a consultant to Virginia Tech investigating the potential for a linkage program between VT and Alexandria University, Egypt, did a research paper for the Near East Foundation on the potential for Women in Agroforestry in Egypt Jordan and Sudan, and worked the other side of the food industry running a fine dining restaurant.

My Masters studies at Virginia Tech were in Geography and International Development. I was particularly interested in Agroforestry, Sustainable Food Systems, National and World Hunger Issues, GIS, Remote Sensing.

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2009-01-03 VOA News - Egyptian, Turkish Diplomacy Tries to End Gaza Conflict

Protests engulfed many cities across Egypt, after Friday prayers, putting additional pressure on the Egyptian government to help broker a Gaza cease-fire. Many protesters are demanding that Egypt expel Israels ambassador and close the Israeli Embassy.

Israel is demanding that Hamas stop firing rockets into its territory before a cease-fire can be reached, while Hamas is demanding that Israel open all six border crossings with Gaza to food, fuel, and other traffic.

Mr. Erdogan has met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the past several days. Prime Minister Erdogan is also due to meet with Saudi Arabias King Abdullah, Saturday.

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Egypt, Turkey sound out parties ceasefire demands: Israel demands Hamas rockets stop; Hamas wants Gaza border crossings reopened - Border ceasefire diplomacy Egypt Erdogan gaza Hamas Israel Conflict meshaal monitor mubarak protests Turkish

2009-01-02 Saba Net - Yemen news agency

The president directed the government for sending theses assistances by air transport service to Al-Arish Airport in Egypt to be transported then to the Gaza Strip for ensuring quick arrival of the assistances to the people there.

SANAA (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh issued directives on Thursday to the government for sending quickly food and medical assistances to Palestinian people in Gaza.

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2009-01-02 Tehran times : Doctors ready for mission into Gaza

Iran has loaded 2000 tons of food, fuel and medicine onto a ship now en route to Gaza. The country has also sent several consignments of humanitarian aid to the strip via Egypt.

A representative of the Palestinian Hamas, Abu-Osama Abd-al-Moti, says Gaza needs at least 700 trucks packed with food and medicine to fulfill its basic needs.

Public and private hospitals are also prepared to hospitalize Palestinians injured in Gaza provided that Egypt opens the (Rafah) crossing, added the official.

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