INDIA’S foreign minister, S.M. Krishna, gushes about the close “civilisational, cultural” ties his country shares with Sri Lanka. He notes how India is the biggest trading partner and source of tourists for the island nation, plus one of the largest investors. It dishes out pots of aid, including roughly $300m for 50,000 Tamils, displaced in [...]
Hundreds of South African women in mini skirts have marched in Johannesburg in a mini skirt protest. The protest was a mark of protest against an assault on two women who were attacked for wearing mini-skirts. The two women were attacked at a Johannesburg rank for minibus taxis in December, allegedly by waiting drivers. A [...]
Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died, Fox News confirms. She was 48. The Beverly Hills Police Department responded to an emergency call at the Beverly Hills Hotel Saturday, Lt. [...]
A group of mutinying police officers in the Maldives have taken control of the state broadcaster amid protests. Soldiers have used tear gas to break up a demonstration in the capital Male by supporters of ex-President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. Police were said to be among the protesters. Sources in the office of the current president, [...]
Police in New York have seized two bags containing 16 kg of cocaine at the UN’s mail center. The unusual shipment had been sent from Mexico City and apparently was not intended to end up at the global organization’s headquarters. In a statement on Thursday, a spokesman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said two suspicious [...]
Over 18 months period four progressive leaders of Latin America and their fellow citizens were shocked by the diagnosis delivered by their physicians – cancer. Fernando Lugo, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Hugo Chavez, and recently Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner were given this diagnosis. The Presidents of Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina suspiciously simultaneously turned [...]
A seven-year-old girl was ritually murdered and her liver offered to the gods in return for a good agricultural harvest in the central state of Chhattisgarh, India, police said on Sunday. According to Narayan Das, police chief of Bijapur district, in a telephone conversation with AFP: “A seven-year-old girl was sacrificed by two persons superstitiously believing [...]
Police said three Mercedes Benz cars and a Lamborghini Diablo were also involved in the massive crash at the weekend on the Chugoku Expressway, in the country’s south-west. Witnesses reported hearing a “tremendous noise” just a few moments before the accident on the Yamaguchi prefecture highway amid terrible driving conditions. While the majority of the [...]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Saturday that Iran is getting closer to developing a nuclear bomb, and that new and more crippling sanctions should be imposed on the Islamic Republic. Speaking on “Meet the Press,” a Channel 2 program, Barak denied however that the latest blasts that occurred in Iran mark the beginning [...]
TOKYO – Honda Motor is recalling 304,000 vehicles globally for air-bags that may inflate with too much pressure in a crash, send metal and plastic pieces flying and cause injuries or deaths. Honda said there have been 20 accidents so far related to the problems, including two deaths in the United States in 2009. The [...]
Protesters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have broken into the UK embassy compound during a demonstration against sanctions imposed by Britain. Militant students are said to have removed the British flag, burnt it and replaced it with Iran’s flag. State TV showed youths smashing embassy windows. The move comes after Iran resolved to reduce ties [...]
The Arab League approved sanctions against Syria to pressure the regime to end its deadly eight-month crackdown on dissent. Damascus slammed the move as a betrayal of Arab solidarity. At a press conference in Cairo, Qatar Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim said 19 of the League’s 22 member nations approved the sanctions, including cutting off [...]
Phrases such as “beat your meat,” “fairy,” and “lovegun” are among the list of words banned in text messagesby the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority. On November 14, mobile phone companies operating in the Islamic country were handed the list of words with a letter explaining that they have to block those words on their networks within seven [...]
The jubilant reaction of Western powers and the foes of Muammar Gaddafi to his barbaric murder on October 20, 2011 raises some serious questions about war crimes committed by the Western-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters and NATO forces. There are two serious violations of international law here, namely, (1) in relation to the Third [...]
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