Owners of Desta, the Ethiopian Restaurant on Greenville, Shot to Death on the Porch of Their East Dallas Home
Amidst a cluster of Ethiopian businesses near Greenville Avenue and 635 sits Desta, “one of a few restaurants in Dallas with the patience” to make their own injera, the classic Ethiopian spongy bread, as our food critic wrote last year. The owners of Desta were found dead on their porch just after midnight. It’s a process […]
Read More →Imagine flying from New York to London in under an hour
By Mike Mount, CNN Senior National Security Producer Perhaps Han Solo said it best in Star Wars when, describing his hyper-fast smuggling spaceship the Millennium Falcon, he said, “It may not look like much, but it’s got it where it counts.” While the Air Force might take exception to being likened to the Falcon, in […]
Read More →Free Media for Ethiopia Ethiopians to Forgo Food for Freedom of the Press
Ethiopian American Council (EAC) August 11, 2012 Free Media for Ethiopia Ethiopians to Forgo Food for Freedom of the Press Washington, D.C. – Free Media for Ethiopia, an activist group fighting for freedom of the press in that nation on the Horn of Africa, is organizing a 72-hour hunger strike to be held in Lafayette […]
Read More →Miscommunications; EPRDF’s usual way to escape crises
Not that previously unfamiliar to the readers; having a dialog about a topic and end up debating totally different issue or speaking twice on a topic and end up having two different closing arguments…it can happen in every day of our life. But, not easy-thing to skip when public officials do it. Such miscommunication can […]
Read More →Ethiopia stadium deal goes to Qatar, Australia consortium
Ethiopia’s to FIFA/Olympic-standard stadium is to be built by a Qatar and Australia consortium, the Doha-based Australian company Designsport said in a statement. The company, in partnership with local Ethiopian architects JDAW, won the bid based on its design for a sunken arena for a new national stadium and sports village in the Ethiopian capital, […]
Read More →Magic Mo-ment! Farah wins gold in the 5,000m to add to his 10,000m crown
Britain’s Mo Farah won his second gold medal of London 2012 with a thrilling victory in the 5,000 metres on the final night of athletics action. Seven days after claiming Britain’s third gold in the space of 45 minutes on ‘Super Saturday’ in the 10,000m, Farah produced another brilliant performance to complete the long-distance double. […]
Read More →U.S. and Turkey Agree to Tighten Coordination on Syria
ISTANBUL — Turkey and the United States agreed Saturday to accelerate preparations for the possible fall of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, creating a formal team to manage helping the opposition, providing aid to fleeing refugees and planning for worst-case outcomes that include a chemical weapons attack.  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet […]
Read More →The Most Influential Places in History
They are buildings, cities and natural wonders. They house the heights of cultural achievement and offer backdrops for our best ideas. Asked to name the most influential place in history, previous and present TIME 100 honorees reflect on locations that have seen and in some cases helped bring about some of the most transformative moments […]
Read More →The Most Influential Places in History
They are buildings, cities and natural wonders. They house the heights of cultural achievement and offer backdrops for our best ideas. Asked to name the most influential place in history, previous and present TIME 100 honorees reflect on locations that have seen and in some cases helped bring about some of the most transformative moments […]
Read More →LIFE AT THE 1948 LONDON OLYMPICS
As the 2012 London Olympics come to a close, Maledatimes.com looks back in photos — many of which never ran in maledatimes media— at another summer Olympiad in the great English capital, seven decades ago, when the city hosted the 1948 Games. Taking place just three short years after the end of the Second World War, […]
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