Irish voters appear likely to vote again on the Lisbon Treaty in a bid to sustain progress toward a more streamlined and powerful European Union.
Meeting in Brussels, European Union leaders signaled their intent to prevent a two-tiered union by ensuring that all 27 member states ratify the treaty. Even as they did, however, concerns rose about the Czech Republic's ability to do so, as the Czech senate has demanded a court ruling on the treaty's constitutionality.
Society's Child
A building worker who was found hanged in a village near Bridgend is believed to be the third young victim from the same street.
Carwyn Jones, 28, and the two other victims Neil Owen, 26, and Sean Rees, 19, who grew up in the street in Bettws and were reported to be friends, died within two months of each other. Each of them was found hanged from trees.
Mr Jones, who was found by a woman passer-by in woodland, died on Monday, on the eve of the funeral of Mr Owen, and eight weeks after the death of Mr Rees.
The latest death brought to 22 the number of young people who are believed to have died in apparent suicides in the Bridgend area since the start of last year.
Carwyn Jones, 28, and the two other victims Neil Owen, 26, and Sean Rees, 19, who grew up in the street in Bettws and were reported to be friends, died within two months of each other. Each of them was found hanged from trees.
Mr Jones, who was found by a woman passer-by in woodland, died on Monday, on the eve of the funeral of Mr Owen, and eight weeks after the death of Mr Rees.
The latest death brought to 22 the number of young people who are believed to have died in apparent suicides in the Bridgend area since the start of last year.
At least 40 people drowned and around 100 are missing after a boat carrying illegal immigrants from Libya to Italy capsized, an Egyptian security official said on Monday.
Forty bodies have been recovered after the boat sank shortly after leaving the port of Zuwarah, about 100 kilometres (63 miles) west of Tripoli, on June 7, the official said, citing a report from the Egyptian embassy in Libya.
An Egyptian and a Bangladeshi man are the only passengers known to have survived, with the Egyptian survivor saying that around 150 people were on the boat, including 50 Egyptians from the Nile Delta town of Zagazig, when it sank.
Forty bodies have been recovered after the boat sank shortly after leaving the port of Zuwarah, about 100 kilometres (63 miles) west of Tripoli, on June 7, the official said, citing a report from the Egyptian embassy in Libya.
An Egyptian and a Bangladeshi man are the only passengers known to have survived, with the Egyptian survivor saying that around 150 people were on the boat, including 50 Egyptians from the Nile Delta town of Zagazig, when it sank.
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Irish voters, making up a fraction of one per cent of the population of the European Union, have rejected a crucial EU reform treaty by a narrow margin, leaving itself isolated in Europe and the European Union in crisis.
ALBEMARLE, N.C. - For two decades, Al Gentry begged investigators to take another look at the mystery of who killed his brother, Harold, and left his gunshot-ridden body sprawled on the floor of the home he shared with his wife.
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Tripoli - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Wednesday criticised Democratic White House candidate Barack Obama for saying that Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel and said he hoped the next US president will be a man of peace.
Kadhafi, whose country is Africa's number two oil producer, also blamed US foreign policies and a weak dollar for skyrocketing oil prices, during a speech to mark the 38th anniversary of US evacuation of bases in Libya.
Kadhafi, whose country is Africa's number two oil producer, also blamed US foreign policies and a weak dollar for skyrocketing oil prices, during a speech to mark the 38th anniversary of US evacuation of bases in Libya.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has declared a nationwide campaign to slow down population growth in the Arab world's most populous nation.
Speaking at a national conference on population, Mubarak urged the government, the private sector, and civil society to take measures against overpopulation - something he called a "major challenge" to the country's development.
Egypt is suffering from rampant unemployment and some 40 % of the population lives below or $2 per day.
Speaking at a national conference on population, Mubarak urged the government, the private sector, and civil society to take measures against overpopulation - something he called a "major challenge" to the country's development.
Egypt is suffering from rampant unemployment and some 40 % of the population lives below or $2 per day.
Emotional tributes were last night paid to a young man who is the latest to be found dead in Bridgend.
South Wales Police yesterday confirmed they were investigating the death of Neil Owen - a 26-year-old from the Bettws area of the borough.
Neil, who spent five years working as vice-chairman at his local football club, Bettws FC, lived in the same area where 19-year-old Sean Rees was found hanging in woodlands in April after he had been socialising with friends.
South Wales Police yesterday confirmed they were investigating the death of Neil Owen - a 26-year-old from the Bettws area of the borough.
Neil, who spent five years working as vice-chairman at his local football club, Bettws FC, lived in the same area where 19-year-old Sean Rees was found hanging in woodlands in April after he had been socialising with friends.
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Press coverage of the Bridgend suicides has caused offence and alarm, but a news blackout is not the answer
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Part V
June 6, 2008
"Call them freaks, the underground, the counter-culture, flower children or hippies - they are all loose labels for the youth culture of the 60s ..."
Barry Miles, author of Hippie
"This is how I remember my life. Other folks may not have the same memories, even though we might have shared some of the same experiences."So begins David Crosby's autobiography, Long Time Gone (co-written by Carl Gottlieb). As it turns out, quite a few other folks seem to remember some people in Crosby's life who are all but ignored in the lengthy book. The names are casually dropped only once, and not by Crosby but rather in a quote from manager Jim Dickson in which he describes the scene at the Sunset Strip clubs when The Byrds played: "We had them all. We had Jack Nicholson dancing, we had Peter Fonda dancing with Odetta, we had Vito and his Freakers."
Following that brief mention by Dickson, Gottlieb briefly explains to readers that, "Vito and his Freakers were an acid-drenched extended family of brain-damaged cohabitants." And that, in an incredibly self-indulgent 489-page tome, is the only mention you will find of "Vito and his Freakers" - despite the fact that, by just about all other accounts, the group dismissed as "brain-damaged cohabitants" played a key role in the early success of Crosby's band. And the early success of Arthur Lee's band. And the early success of Frank Zappa's band. And the early success of Jim Morrison's band. But especially in the early success of David Crosby's band.
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