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Thursday


  • June-06 -- Pope Francis Asks for Initiatives to End War in Syria
    A ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy.
    The pontiff dedicated his weekly audience in St Peter's Square to the United Nations World Environment Day to draw attention to the excesses of consumerism and food wastage. More...

  • June-06 -- Coroner asks for public inquiry into spy's death
    A coroner has called on the Government to hold a public inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
    More...

  • June-06 -- Burma must make economy boom for all, says Oxfam
    Myanmar President Thein Sein will personally open the World Economic Forum on East Asia (WEF) on Wednesday when Myanmar hosts for the first time an international event of this stature.
    Sushant Palakurthi Rao, Asia head of the WEF, said the Myanmar forum was "by far the largest" meeting of the group, saying the numbers show "the tremendous interest" in the country. More...

  • June-06 -- UK, French claims challenge Obama's 'red line' credibility on Syrian chemical ...
    Some experts cautioned that the type of evidence currently available to investigators - videos, witness reports and physiological samples of uncertain origin - leaves wide doubts.
    Even if inspectors could get on the ground, it would be difficult to obtain evidence in the midst of a brutal conflict between rebels and government troops. More...

Wednesday


  • June-05 -- China's Xi in Mexico with trade gap on agenda
    Mexico has initiated 17 actions against China in the WTO, and vows to "rebalance" the countries' commercial relationship dominate Mexico's discourse on China.
    Mexico was the last country to approve China's entrance to the World Trade Organization in 2001, largely because it foresaw the potential for fierce competition. More...

  • June-05 -- Where illegal abortion leads: Column
    The woman, given the pseudo name Beatriz, is afflicted with lupus and her unborn child was diagnosed with anencephaly.
    The Health Ministry made the decision last week to allow the C-section following the court's ruling to prohibit the abortion in accordance with the country's strict laws regarding the procedure. More...

  • June-05 -- System in Gulf could be season's first tropical storm
    MIAMI, Florida -- Atlantic Tropical weather is already showing activity just two days into the 2013 Hurricane Season.
    The Acadiana forecast calls for a 30 to 40 percent chance of showers beginning on Thursday and continuing into the weekend. More...

  • June-05 -- Syria bombards Qusair, tells Red Cross to wait
    Qatar and regional Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia have been supporting the rebels.
    Then there's Israel, which is believed to have conducted at least two airstrikes inside Syria to prevent Syrian forces from transferring advanced missiles to Hezbollah. More...

Tuesday


  • June-04 -- Pope Francis reflects of the life of Blessed John XXIII
    This was the focus of Pope Francis' remarks to the faithful gathered for Mass on Saturday morning in the Domus Sanctae Marthae residence at the Vatican.
    THE Pope said that "atheists can be good" - which is a major improvement on burning us at the stake for having no need for "the god bit" and refusing to have anything to do with religious mumbo jumbo. More...

  • June-04 -- US-China summit: calls for 'robust' discussion of human rights on Tiananmen ...
    "The 24th anniversary of the violent suppression in Tiananmen Square on June 4 prompts the United States to remember the tragic loss of innocent lives.
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States of "prejudice" on Saturday after the U.S. State Department renewed a call for Beijing to fully account for its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in June 1989. More...

  • June-04 -- US Targets Iranian Currency With Sanctions
    "The steps taken today are part of President Obama's commitment to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, by raising the cost of Iran's defiance of the international community," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
    The sanctions imposed on the rial on Monday included a ban on maintaining significant accounts outside Iran denominated in that currency. More...

  • June-04 -- Egypt: Politicians advise attacking Ethiopia
    An Egyptian protester joins a demonstration against the construction of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
    Bereket said the river Nile shouldn't be a divisive issue and shouldn't be held prey to old colonial agreement that feeds zero-sum-game politics. More...

Monday


  • June-03 -- Iran police detain aides of presidential candidate
    Reformist presidential candidate Hassan Rohani says the next administration should give the private sector a greater share in the economy.
    "In the next section, the candidates were shown a series of photos -- including of a cargo ship, cars backed up in traffic, and clock showing the time of 7:15 -- and asked to give their impressions. More...

  • June-03 -- I have no right to contest for President office: Zardari
    Zardari termed the democratic transition of power in the country a landmark achievement following the elections in which the PPP lost to Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
    The PPP currently is in power only in Sindh and controls the Senate or upper house of parliament. More...

  • June-03 -- Trial begins in espionage case of Bradley Manning over WikiLeaks documents
    DUBAI (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was forced to make an emergency landing in a mountainous region north of Tehran on Sunday but no one on board was hurt, the president's website said.
    No one was harmed in the Sunday incident as the pilot managed to land the helicopter skillfully and safely in the heights of the Alborz Mountain range, the official website of the Iranian administration reported. More...

  • June-03 -- Iran censors press ahead of July's presidential poll
    DUBAI (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was forced to make an emergency landing in a mountainous region north of Tehran on Sunday but no one on board was hurt, the president's website said.
    Iran's official news agency says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's helicopter experienced an unspecified "incident" while touring a rural area, but the Iranian president's pilot landed the aircraft safely and the leader was unhurt. More...

Sunday


  • June-02 -- Oscar Pistorius trial: Detective Hilton Botha reveals star could go free because of ...
    JOHANNESBURG May 31 (Reuters) - Lawyers for "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius demanded answers from South African police and prosecutors on Friday after pictures of the bathroom and toilet where he shot dead his girlfriend were leaked to a British television station.
    One of the pictures depicts the toilet door with markings of the bullet entry points. More...

  • June-02 -- Michael Adebolajo charged as second suspect in killing of British soldier Lee ...
    The regiment, which is a largely ceremonial one, is famed for firing gun salutes on royal anniversaries and state occasions, and for providing a gun carriage and a team of black horses for state and military funerals.
    The attack has raised questions about whether Britain's intelligence services could have done more to prevent Rigby's murder. More...

  • June-02 -- Inmates Kill 2 Guards at Prison in Niger
    Today we mourn the loss of Captain Don Filliter of Skead, Ontario; First Officer Jacques Dupuy, of Otterburn-Park, Quebec; Primary Care Flight Paramedic Dustin Dagenais, of Moose Factory, Ontario; and Primary Care Flight Paramedic Chris Snowball, of Burlington, Ontario.
    Giguere says the chopper crashed on a relatively flat terrain and visibility was good at the time of the crash. More...

  • June-02 -- Investigators recover voice recorder in fatal Ornge crash
    Today we mourn the loss of Captain Don Filliter of Skead, Ontario; First Officer Jacques Dupuy, of Otterburn-Park, Quebec; Primary Care Flight Paramedic Dustin Dagenais, of Moose Factory, Ontario; and Primary Care Flight Paramedic Chris Snowball, of Burlington, Ontario.
    Chris Snowball, 38, had worked as a paramedic in Nova Scotia and Ontario for 19 years. More...





Saturday


  • June-01 -- Palestinians to Get Bank Deposit Insurance as Abbas Signs Law
    There, Palestinian and Israeli businessmen agreed to produce a document pressuring the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership to return to negotiations.
    On May 31, 2010, six ships were sailing toward the shore of the Gaza Strip carrying humanitarian and medical aid in an attempt to break the blockade that Israel imposed after Hamas took control of the Palestinian enclave in 2007. More...

  • June-01 -- Taliban Deny Responsibility for Attack on Red Cross
    The targeting of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) by gunmen and suicide bombers indicates that no group can assume it is safe.
    The ICRC provides medical support to two government-run hospitals as well as technical and financial help to 47 clinics across the country run by the Afghan Red Crescent Society. More...

  • June-01 -- East-west split endures in Germany, new census figures show
    "Compared with the number of inhabitants applicable so far on the basis of official intercensal population updates, there were about 1.5 million fewer inhabitants in Germany on the census reference date than assumed so far," said Roderich Egeler, President of the Federal Statistical Office, at a press conference held in Berlin to present the results of the 2011 Census.
    The findings of the census were unveiled by Roderich Egeler, the president of the Federal Statistical Office, at a press conference in Berlin earlier today. More...

  • June-01 -- NBI joins probe of deadly Serendra blast
    Two hours following an explosion which caused the lives of three people, President Benigno Aquino III together with Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas arrived at the site of the explosion in Serendra, Bonifacio Global City in Taguig Friday night.
    MANILA (AP) - A powerful explosion suspected to have been caused by a faulty appliance ripped through a residential building in an upscale district of the Philippine capital on Friday night, killing three people in a passing delivery van that was hit by debris, the authorities said. More...

Friday


  • May-31 -- UK arrests five Rwandans over 1994 genocide
    Five Rwandans living in Britain for more than a decade were today arrested on an extradition warrant by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of involvement in their native country's 1994 genocide.
    All of the men except Mr Mutabaruka were arrested as part of the previous failed extradition attempt. More...

  • May-31 -- UN Report Urges Fresh Efforts Against Poverty
    In the report, the 27-member Panel calls for the new post-2015 goals to drive five major transformational shifts: move from "reducing" to ending extreme poverty, leaving no one behind; putting sustainable development at the core of the development agenda; transforming economies to drive inclusive growth; building accountable institutions, open to all, that will ensure good governance and peaceful societies; and forging a new global partnership based on cooperation, equity and human rights.
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon tapped David Cameron, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the heads of government in the United Kingdom, Liberia, and Indonesia respectively last year to lead a High Level Panel on Development. More...

  • May-31 -- Nigeria arrests Lebanese suspected of Hezbollah ties
    Speaking to newsmen at the raided Bungalow, Commander, 3 Brigade of the Nigerian Army headquartered in Kano, Brigadier-General Ilyasu Abbah recalled that one of the suspects, Tahini, an Abuja-based business man, was once arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, over undeclared 60,000 U.S. Dollars on his way to Lebanon.
    The report said the items recovered from the warehouse on Wednesday included 40 air-to-surface missiles, 50 cluster bombs, 200 rocket-propel launchers, eight AK-47 rifles, 200 military hand grenades and some military hardware capable of destroying Armoured Personnel Carriers. More...

  • May-31 -- A perfect example of Britain's EU problems
    The European Commission is to announce today that it is taking Britain to the European Court of Justice - for failing to correctly assess whether EU migrants are entitled to social security benefits.
    "The 'right to reside' part of our habitual residence test is a vital and fair tool to ensure that benefits are only paid to people who are legally allowed to live in Britain. More...

Thursday


  • May-30 -- Is Israel's right-wing deputy foreign minister secretly an Arabophile?
    Last year, Israel's inner cabinet decided to speed up construction of homes for Jews in Arab East Quds (Jerusalem) and in other nearby settlements to punish the Palestinians for winning membership in the UN cultural agency, UNESCO. Since then, Israel has issued announcements for the construction of 2,057 new homes in Arab East Quds and 1,241 in the West Bank, official figures show.
    All these proposals sound like wonderful ideas when sitting around a table negotiating so-called peace for Israel and the Palestinians, but there is a major fallacy associated with a peace agreement. More...

  • May-30 -- Kenya's police accused of torture, rape, abuse of refugees near Nairobi: report
    While rape and torture may be the most extreme examples of police abuse of Somali refugees, the most common forms of harassment are arrest, detention and extortion of bribe money.
    In January, the High Court blocked the planned relocation. More...

  • May-30 -- Canada bans nearly all Iranian imports, exports but allows certain tech tools
    Though members have been divided in recent years, the conference and its predecessors have negotiated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament efforts, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
    With U.S. involvement, a combination of bombing and missile strikes would be apt to destroy the Iranian nuclear program or at the very least set it back a decade. More...

  • May-30 -- Jonathan Kay: For his renown on the left, Morgentaler was a capitalist who saw ...
    Wednesday, May 29, 2013 by: Kate Adams Dr. Henry Morgentaler who led the charge on abortion rights in Canada died in his Toronto home this morning.
    By a 5-to-2 vote, Canada's highest court struck down Section 251 of the Criminal Code as unconstitutional. More...

Wednesday


  • May-29 -- F-15 crashes in Pacific, pilot safe
    According to information provided by the Japanese government, the F-15 plane left the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa archipelago, and crashed into the sea 100 miles off the coast around 8:45 a.m. local time.
    The pilot survived the incident by ejecting before impact and was recovered safely, according to military officials. More...

  • May-29 -- Capsized Ferry Leaves More Than 20 Missing in Malaysia
    An overloaded ferry capsized after hitting rocks in a remote river in Malaysia's part of tropical Borneo island on Tuesday, leaving an unknown number of people missing, police said.
    At least 21 people are unaccounted for following an accident during which an overloaded boat capsized in a river in Malaysia, officials say. More...

  • May-29 -- Coronavirus patient dies in France
    The new coronavirus first emerged in the Middle East last year and is known to have infected at least 44 people, including 23 people who died of the illness.
    The new coronavirus, which first emerged in June 2012 and has been named by the World Health Organisation the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS CoV), has infected in less than a year 44 people around the world, of whom 24 have died. More...

  • May-29 -- Gunfire at Caracas Strip Club Hurts 2 US Officials
    A police official identified one of the victims as military attache Roberto Ezequiel Rosas.
    More...

Tuesday


  • May-28 -- EU Welcomes Agreement Reached Between Colombian Gov., FARC Rebels
    The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government of Colombia have come to an agreement over land reform.
    Colombias government wants to minimise outside pressure during the process, keen to avoid the fate of previous, failed talks: it argues that any final peace agreement will be put to a referendum. More...

  • May-28 -- 60 years of being there
    KATHMANDU, May 25, 2013 (AFP) - An 80-year-old Japanese man who underwent heart surgery in January reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the worlds highest mountain.
    More than 3,000 people have successfully scaled Everest but more than 300 have died on the mountain since it was first conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. More...

  • May-28 -- Chile: Mandatory Evacuation Around Copahue Volcano
    According to the Sernageomin (National Geological and Mining Service), the volcano is now in a process that could culminate in an eruption, for that reason we've issued a red alert and the evacuation," Chilean Interior Minister Andres Chadwick told a nationally televised news conference.
    The authorities in Chile have ordered the evacuation of more than 2,000 people living near the Copahue volcano in the south of the country. More...

  • May-28 -- French Soldier Injured in Attack Outside Paris
    PARIS: A man armed with a box cutter on Saturday attacked a French soldier patrolling the business district of Paris and stabbed him in the neck, police sources said.
    Interior Minister Manuel Valls said police had arrested around 100 far-right protesters who refused to leave following the end of the demonstration. More...

Monday


  • May-27 -- Woolwich attack: Cameron under fire as MI5 terrorism blunders emerge
    The UK government was just too busy to have the time in between arresting a whole bunch of Brits who said offensive things about Muslims on social media.
    Two men arrested at the scene of the killing are now under guard in South London hospitals after being shot in a confrontation with police. More...

  • May-27 -- Japan, India to Bolster Ties as China Looms
    TOKYO: On the eve of his visit here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has hoped that India and Japan will reach an early agreement on civil nuclear energy cooperation even as he acknowledged that there are "problems" in Japan on the issue.
    On bilateral trade, which totals 17.5 billion (about 1.8 trillion)a year, Mathai said Singh will press for greater access for Indian goods to the Japanese market. More...

  • May-27 -- Kerry Calls on Nigeria to Stop Human Rights Abuses
    ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- The United States is concerned about what it says are "continuing" human rights abuses by Nigerian security forces in their fight against Islamic militants.
    SECRETARY JOHN KERRY: We have talked about the imperative of Nigerian troops adhering to the highest standards and not themselves engaging in atrocities or in human rights violations. More...

  • May-27 -- Full Honors Given To 7 Marines Killed In Sulu Firefight
    At least 12 people were killed, including seven Marines and five Abu Sayyaf bandits, while nine other soldiers were wounded in a fierce firefight at a remote village in Patikul town in Sulu Saturday morning, a military spokesman said.
    Two of the slain ASG men were identified as a certain commander "Apong Idol" and Kausar Sawadjaan. More...

Sunday


  • May-26 -- Russia Cracks Down on Gay Activism
    Gay-rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at that country's first-ever gay pride march.
    Dozens of activists at a gay pride march in Moscow have been arrested by Russian police. More...

  • May-26 -- Zoo worker has died after being mauled by tiger in front of visitors as she fed it in ...
    Sarah McClay, 24, was attacked by a Sumatran tiger at South Lakes Wild Animal Park, in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, yesterday afternoon.
    The park's owner, David Gill, told BBC radio that McClay had worked at the park for several years and was "very proficient" in handling big cats, but that the park had strict safety protocols in place against entering the tiger's enclosure. More...

  • May-26 -- Syria opposition seeks to unify as momentum for talks builds
    AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet privately in Paris on Monday to discuss their efforts to bring Syria's warring parties to a peace conference, a U.S. official said on Friday.
    Why is Russia speaking on behalf of Syria?" opposition figure Louay Safi said. More...

  • May-26 -- U.K. Police Question Two After Pakistan Air 777 Flight Diverted
    The Pakistan International Airlines flight from Lahore to Manchester airport with 347 passengers on board was diverted to Stansted with an escort of Typhoon jets from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire after the pilot raised the alarm.
    An airport source said it was thought a fight led to the aircraft being diverted. More...





Saturday


  • May-25 -- New al-Qaeda threat to Africa
    NIAMEY (Reuters) - Islamist suicide bombers struck an army barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more in attacks that showed militant violence spreading across West Africa.
    The two organizations have promised to strike at French interests in western Africa after Paris launched a military campaign in January that ended the Islamists' 10-month control over the northern two-thirds of Mali. More...

  • May-25 -- Turkey Bans Retail Alcohol Sales at Night, Promotion of Drinking
    Turkey's parliament approved a law banning retail alcohol sales at night and promotion of alcoholic drinks as opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of pushing an Islamist agenda.
    Conservatives argue that the alcohol law is to protect the youth from alcohol and to fight against alcoholism. More...

  • May-25 -- Uganda President Ousts Army Boss Amid Dispute
    General Aronda Nyakarima was moved to the civilian post of internal affairs minister, while General Katumba Wamala was named new head of the army.
    The history of the army in Uganda has been dominated by a factionalised force controlled along tribal, religious and ethnic lines but today the ragtag National Resistance Army under the leadership of Museveni has been successfully transformed into a national army and named the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces. More...

  • May-25 -- Qatar drops bid for ICAO headquarters: Canada
    Qatar has abandoned its bid to relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Canada to the tiny emirate, ending a bitter fight between the two nations, both countries said Friday.
    The campaign, which blindsided Ottawa in April, gave the Canadian government a scare, as the wealthy Gulf nation was gunning for an agency that employs almost 600 in Montreal. More...

Friday


Thursday


  • May-23 -- BeyoncĂ©, Shakira And The World's Most Powerful Female Celebrities
    Forbes' most estrogen-heavy annual list, The World's 100 Most Powerful Women , is a who's who of politicians, celebrities, and CEOs.
    U.S. Vogue editor-in-chief saw her ranking rise ten places this year to make number 41 on the list. More...

  • May-23 -- Stockholm Riots Continue for Third Night
    HUSBY, Sweden Police have arrested four people after a second night of escalating riots in a Stockholm suburb, during which some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in anger over the police shooting death of an elderly man.
    Incidents were reported in at least nine suburbs of the Swedish capital and police made eight arrests. More...

  • May-23 -- The Churches still need their exorcists
    The Catholic Church is tying itself in knots over whether Pope Francis last Sunday performed the public exorcism of a disabled man from Mexico.
    Many in the crowd planned to stay in the square overnight to pray and prepare for Francis' Mass on Sunday, when the Catholic Church marks Pentecost, the day it teaches that the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles. More...

  • May-23 -- Cruise Ship Captain to Be Tried for Manslaughter
    Francesco Schettino (frahn-CHEHS'-koh skeh-TEE'-noh) was ordered today to stand trial for manslaughter in the shipwreck that killed 32 people.
    The Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Giglio near Tuscany in Italy on the evening of January 13 last year, resulting in the death of 32 people and injuring hundreds of the 4,200 passengers and crew on board. More...

Wednesday


  • May-22 -- Kenya, US ties under scrutiny as Obama skips country again
    WASHINGTON, May 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will start a week-long visit to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in late June, the White House said on Monday.
    Obama will meet officials, businessmen, and civil society leaders, including young people, on the trip between July 26 and August 3 -- an unusually long journey for a president who normally dashes across timezones on trips abroad. More...

  • May-22 -- Philippines Protests Chinese Warship's Presence
    "What the Philippines claims as its own, is what it really owns."
    Last week, the mayor of Kalayaan municipality in Palawan also alleged that Filipino fishermen sighted two foreign vessels in the disputed waters. More...

  • May-22 -- Fighting Spreads in the Congo
    Government forces and militants of the March 23 Movement (M23) exchanged heavy weapons fire for a second day on Tuesday, said a spokesman for the Congolese Armed Forces, Colonel Olivier Hamuli.
    NGO employees adhere to strict curfews, and there are no clear lines of authority within a city split between the national army, the UN's army, and a municipality that barely exists. More...

  • May-22 -- Branding NGOs as Agents is Mistake - Council of Europe Chief
    The European Union and the Russian government held their 17th round of human rights consultations in Brussels, allowing the EU to raise its growing concerns over the developments affecting human rights in Russia.
    It's an absolutely vital source not only for me, but for academics, businesses NGOs, and essentially anyone interested in Russia who is unsatisfied by analysis via anecdote. More...

Tuesday


  • May-21 -- Kevin Rudd announces he now supports same-sex marriage
    The post, titled "Church and State are able to have different positions on same sex marriage," represents a pronounced shift in Rudd's policy position on marriage equality.
    "For me, this change in position has come about as a result of a lot of reflection, over a long period of time, including conversations with good people grappling with deep questions of life, sexuality and faith." More...

  • May-21 -- Irish prime minister tells BC graduates to 'be successful, be well'
    BOSTON (AP) - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is speaking at commencement ceremonies at Boston College on Monday, so Boston's Roman Catholic Cardinal Sean O'Malley is staying away.
    We need clarity on the protection of the life of the mother and a requirement to do everything that is possible and practicable in the sense of saving the life of the unborn child as well," Mr Kenny said. More...

  • May-21 -- David Cameron to Tories: 'I'm not sneering at you'
    Earlier, Conservative Party chiefs came under intense pressure to name the senior figure said to have been involved.
    Two issues -- Europe and same-sex marriage -- have been seized on by grassroots activists to claim that Mr Cameron and his inner circle are "out of touch" with the views of ordinary party members. More...

  • May-21 -- Canada's Harper under cloud after chief of staff resigns
    The Prime Minister's chief of staff has resigned in the midst of the most serious scandal to hit Stephen Harper in his seven years in office.
    Of course Harper's first chief of staff, Ian Brodie , got caught up in a scandal about leaking diplomatic information in an attempt to sabotage Barack Obama's presidential campaign back in 2008. More...

Monday


  • May-20 -- Pakistan army chief meets incoming prime minister in 'good omen'
    The army chief met the Sharif brothers at the Model Town residence of Shahbaz Sharif.
    "Mr Haqqani faulted Mr Sharif for the creation of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a virulently anti-India militant movement," reported the AFP. Haqqani further cautioned saying "he will definitely try to assert himself far more than past civilian rulers have, including him in his previous incarnation." More...

  • May-20 -- Obama to detail terrorism policy including drone attacks and Guantánamo Bay ...
    On April 5, the UN human rights chief called on the United States to close down the Guantanamo prison camp, saying the indefinite imprisonment of many detainees without charge or trial violated international law.
    Around 100 inmates at the centre in Cuba are refusing to eat in protest against being detained for years without trial. More...

  • May-20 -- Israeli panel: Palestinian boy 'killed' by IDF at start of intifada did not actually die
    Palestinian boys carrying Hamas flags in the Gaza Strip walk past graffiti showing Muhammad al-Dura.
    While many pro-Palestinian French groups are considered to be among the most supportive in Europe, the French state has repeatedly backed Israel. More...

  • May-20 -- Role Reversal: Pakistan Fears Terrorists From Afghanistan
    New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit, India said Saturday it was ready to discuss and consider Afghanistan's reported request for arms supplies provided it is raised through the proper fora.
    A foreign news agency has quoted the Afghan envoy saying, "If we don't bother with the sensitivity of Pakistan, why should India bother?" In any case, the coming few days will tell which way Karzai's camel sits in New Delhi. More...

Sunday


  • May-19 -- Doug Ford breaks silence on crack story about brother Rob
    TORONTO May 17 (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, a target of criticism for his often unconventional conduct, on Friday denied media allegations that he had been caught on video smoking crack cocaine.
    In a post at 8:28 p.m. Thursday night, Gawker editor John Cook detailed a trip to Toronto for a meeting with an anonymous tipster who claimed to have a video, recorded within the past six months, of Mr. Ford inhaling from a glass pipe. More...

  • May-19 -- Effort to Strengthen an Afghan Law on Women May Backfire
    The bill would also make domestic violence punishable by up to three years in jail, and in clear cut language, says rape victims should not face criminal charges for fornication or adultery.
    The law criminalizes forced marriage and child marriage. More...

  • May-19 -- Google Maps helps Chinese man find home 23 years after abduction
    A Chinese man has used Google maps to locate his family, 23 years after he was abducted.
    As the crime took place 23 years ago there is no information about the kidnappers and very little chance they will ever be prosecuted (which is why I don't mention it in the post). More...

  • May-19 -- Blast kills 4 near Pakistan mosque
    In the first major militant attack after May 11 general elections in Pakistan, two powerful bomb blasts rocked near two mosques in Malakand Division's Bazdara area in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, killing 15 people.
    The blasts went off during Friday prayers at two Sunni mosques in Baz Darrah village, a mountainous area west of Pakistan's Swat Valley. More...





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