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Interview with Herta Mueller, 2009 Nobel prize for literature
October 08, 2009Romanian-born author Herta Mueller today won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature. Mueller, whose parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania, spoke to RFE/RL's Romania-Moldova Service in 1999 about growing up under Ceausescu and how...
Tsunami advisory for the state of Hawaii after earthquake
October 07, 2009The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami advisory for the state of Hawaii effective at 12:17 pm HST: “An earthquake has occurred with these preliminary parameters (origin time - 1203 pm HST 07 Oct 2009; coordinates - 13.0 south 1...
7.8 earthquake struck off the Santa Cruz Islands
October 07, 2009A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck off the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific Ocean today, triggering a tsunami warning for several nations in the region. The quake hit at 9:03 a.m. local time at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles), about 260 kilometers...
RFE/RL to Launch Program to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Russian
October 07, 2009Next month, RFE/RL will launch a news program in Russian to the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The new 60-minute daily radio broadcast, called Ekho Kavkaza (Echo of the Caucasus), will focus on local and international news and current...
3 US Based Scientists Capture the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine
October 05, 2009By Tom Rivers Three U.S. based scientists have won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine for their discovery into how chromosomes are copied and protected. The work casts important light on cancer and the aging process. Elizabeth Blackburn from the University...
TV Producer Indicted in Letterman Extortion Plot
October 02, 2009A senior news producer in New York for the CBS television network has been charged in connection with an attempt to extort $2 million from U.S. late-night talk-show host David Letterman. New York City District Attorney Robert Morgenthau told reporters...
Russia Owes Its Greatness to the Golden Horde, Gainutdin Says
September 28, 2009By Paul Goble Ravil Gainutdin, the head of the Union of Muftis of Russia (SMR), has touched off a firestorm by his comments about the role of Islam in the past and future of Russia, a reminder if one is needed of how sensitive almost all historical...
US Charges Terror Suspect with Bomb Plot
September 24, 2009An Afghan-born man detained in the United States as part of a terror investigation has been charged with conspiring to detonate bombs in the U.S. The indictment unveiled Thursday in New York alleges Najibullah Zazi spent more than a year plotting the...
A 19.5-foot giant squid caught in the Gulf of Mexico (photo)
September 23, 2009On July 30, 2009, a 19.5-foot (5.94-metre) giant squid, hauled up in a trawl (seen in the photo), had been pulled 1,500 feet below the surface off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico on the NOAA research vessel Gordon Gunter. Pictures released...
False claim to U.S. citizenship may result in deportation
September 12, 2009By Robert L. Reeves and Nancy E. Miller As everyone who has applied for a job in the United States knows, you have to show that you have the right to work before you can be hired. As every non-citizen should know, falsely claiming to be a United States...