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width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>News and Music Free Radio Stations RadioZX</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and Music Free Radio Stations Radio">home</A>                              back to  <A HREF="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News">News</A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>World News 08-25-08</B></I></div> <div> <B>Monday, August 25, 2008 --</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Bank Worries Weigh on Markets as Stocks Drop</B></div> <div> Shares that went up on Friday plummeted on Monday. The markets dropped on Monday after a flurry of disappointing</div> <div> news about several major financial institutions.</div> <bR> <div> At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 241.81 points, or 2.08 percent, and the broader Standard &</div> <div> Poor's 500-stock index had declined 25.36 points, or 1.96 percent. The technology heavy Nasdaq was down 2.03 percent of 49.12 points.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Russian troops</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> holding some checkpoints in Georgian</B></FONT></div> <div> Most Russian troops have withdrawn from eastern and western Georgia, but they still maintain some checkpoints in the country.</div> <div> <B>Georgian President Vows to Rebuild Army</B></div> <div> Mikheil Saakashvili said he would continue to pursue a policy of uniting Georgia’s two separatist enclaves under one flag.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>US deaths reach 101 for the year in Afghanistan</B></div> <div> By JASON STRAZIUSO   <B>KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -</B></div> <div> Taliban insurgents once derided as a ragtag rabble unable to match U.S. troops have transformed into a fighting force - one advanced enough to mount massive conventional attacks and claim American lives at a record pace. </div> <bR> <div> The U.S. military suffered its 101st death of the year in Afghanistan last week when Sgt. 1st Class David J. Todd Jr., a 36-year-old from Marrero, La., died of gunfire wounds while helping train Afghan police in the northwest.</div> <div> The total number of U.S. dead last year - 111 - was a record itself and is likely to be surpassed.</div> <div> <A HREF="afghanistan_082408.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Afghanistan 082408">CLICK HERE</A> for more info</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>US Grain Exports Delayed by 1930's Infrastucture and Technology</B></div> <div> With a booming global demand for U.S. corn, wheat and soybeans, it is revealing inefficiencies in the country's railways, highways and rivers that carry the grain that helps feed the world.</div> <div> <A HREF="global_demand_for_us_grain.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Global demand for U.S. Grain">CLICK HERE</A> for more info</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Democrats open convention with Prayer</B></div> <div> The Associated Press  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >DENVER (AP) -</FONT></div> <div> At the first official event Sunday of the Democratic National Convention, a choir belted out a gospel song and was followed by a rabbi reciting a Torah reading about forgiveness and the future.</div> <div> <A HREF="democratic_national_convention.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2008 Democratic National Convention Open">CLICK HERE</A> for more info</div> <bR> <div> Culled from <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/"><IMG SRC="40899170.gif" border=0 width="153" height="23" ALT="NY Time" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Drilling Boom Revives Hopes for Natural Gas </B></div> <div> By <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >CLIFFORD KRAUSS   </FONT>HOUSTON — </div> <div> American <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >natural gas</FONT> production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices of the fuel and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic gas fields were in irreversible decline.</div> <div> The new drilling boom uses advanced technology to release gas trapped in huge shale beds found throughout North America — gas long believed to be out of reach. Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, releasing less of the emissions that cause <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >global warming</FONT> than coal or oil.</div> <div> Rising production of natural gas has significant long-range implications for American consumers and businesses. A sustained increase in gas supplies over the next decade could slow the rise of utility bills, obviate the need to import gas and make energy-intensive industries more competitive.</div> <div> <A HREF="natural_gas_boom.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Natural Gas Boom">CLICK HERE</A> for more info</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="7a344060.gif" border=0 width="580" height="6" ALT="stars and stripes line" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Make your opinions known to the U.S. Congress, Senate and State Officials</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_in">U.S. Senators Contact info</A>     <A HREF="http://www.house.gov/writerep/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.house.gov/writerep/">Congressperson in the U.S. House of Representatives</A>     <A HREF="http://congress.org/stickers/?dir=congressorg&officials=officials&lvl=L" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://congress.org/stickers/?dir=congre">Governors & State Officials</A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="7a344060.gif" border=0 width="580" height="6" ALT="stars and stripes line" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.adamschocolate.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.adamschocolate.com/"> <img src="HTMLobj-2914/aniGif.gif" alt="Adams Secret Dark Chocolate" border="0" align="bottom" width="468" height="60">  </A></div> <div> Holiday Gifts - Birthday Gifts - Unique Gifts - Personalized Gifts</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>The Newspaper  </I></FONT>Hot <I> </I>Headlines . . .<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>     </I></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="04b23230.png" border=0 width="35" height="35" ALT="newspaper" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >for people on the Run   </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="57d31110.gif" border=0 width="49" height="17" ALT="UPDATED" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> 24/7 - 365</FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2a7be0f0.gif" border=0 width="190" height="15" ALT="Our Business is Information" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2e6be0f0.gif" border=0 width="190" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="contact_us.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us">Email Us your questions</A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Get Rid of Life's Little Annoyances</B></div> <div> <B>VOTE</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>