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EAST Timor is continuing to entertain plans to drill for oil in waters as deep as 1900m.

In one instance, it is using the contractor that was operating the Deepwater Horizon rig which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in May.

The similarities between proposals before the East Timor government and the circumstances surrounding the Gulf of...

The MV York merchant vessel, above, was the first ship to be boarded by suspected Somali pirates off the coast of Kenya this weekend. A second ship, Beluga Fortune, was seized on Sunday.

BERLIN - Pirates seized a German freight ship off the coast of Kenya on Sunday — the second foreign vessel to be captured in the region in as many days,...

Ayn Rand stood in the tradition of Classical Liberalism and Francis Parker Yockey stood against it. That’s the long and the short of it.

I was never a big fan of her novels...

Cities Weigh Letting Noncitizens Vote


Oct. 19: Claude Rwaganje, a resident of Portland, Maine, for more than 13 years, speaks at a news conference. Portland residents will vote in November on a proposal that would give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Like his neighbors,...

There is a myth among the herd that loners are people without social
skills. But this is just a copout excuse to ostracize others and try to
place them below you on the pecking order. The truth is something quite
different and outside the box, beyond the paradigm of the conformist.

Many loners are people who have discovered how to live an...