Angelina Jolie
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Angelina Jolie, UN High Commission for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador, and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice launch World Refugee Day.
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Libya to Deport 1 Million Illegal Immigrants
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I nearly spit out my Turkish coffee when I read this BBC headline.
The Libyan government is planning to expel all immigrants who cannot normalize their status, a population of one million that includes not only economic migrants, but refugees from conflicts in Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
Libya has been improving its relationships with […]
Would your opinion of Abraham Lincoln change if you learned that he owned slaves?
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In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s actual birthday on Tuesday, here are portions of an online interview I conducted with my long-time friend Gerald J. Prokopowicz, history department chairman at East Carolina University, former historical director of the Lincoln Museum in Fort Ft. Wayne, Ind., and author of the new Random House/Pantheon book, “Did Lincoln Own […]
What Are The Best Web Videos Today?
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight. Here are the links to all the stories, blogs and videos - including this ‘box race’ - featured.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Gary Newlove’s Widow Wants Death Penalty
Man U Fans Angry At Munich Memorial Scarf On Ebay
Ricky Gervais Hits Out At Tax Exiles
Call To […]
Prophet Mohammed Cartoon Murder Plot - Arrests Made In Denmark
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Police say two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin were arrested.
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Global criticises Hazlitt’s GCap plans
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Charles Allen has poured cold water on Fru Hazlitt’s plans for GCap - which were intended to fend off a takeover by his company Global Radio.
GCap’s chief executive yesterday announced how she hoped to raise its game, mainly by reducing investment in DAB.
The restructuring proposals were aimed at preventing Global, which offered £313m for the […]
East Timor president in stable condition
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“He’s a very simple man … a man of the people and sometimes you pay a price for that.â€
East Timor’s president was in “extremely serious” but stable condition at an Australian hospital Tuesday after surgeons worked through the night to remove bullet fragments he suffered in a failed coup attempt, …
via The South Mississippi Sun […]
HARD DAY’S FIGHT
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February 12, 2008 — Heather Mills armed herself yesterday with boxes of documents and video of a paparazzi chase in hopes of bolstering her divorce case against Paul McCartney.
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McCain vs. Clinton vs. Obama
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Team Clinton is dismissing polls showing that Barack Obama beats likely GOP nominee John McCain in a national matchup. Top Clinton strategist Mark Penn said Clinton has been vetted by the Republican attack machine that misportrayed Al Gore and took John Kerry down from a 17 point lead in early 2004 against President Bush to […]
Super Tuesday’s high drama and high stakes: The world watches
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It was known as “Súper Martes” in Mexico and much of Latin America and as “Super Dienstag” in the German press. France’s Libération had a special “Super Mardi” news blog dedicated to yesterday’s “Super Tuesday,” a major voting day filled with two dozen primary elections and caucuses in the U.S. Overseas news media have always […]
The art of looking good on patrol in Iraq
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Elbow or knee pads strapped deliberately to ankles and goggles worn back to front over helmets, some Iraqi soldiers have a unique sense of style. Efforts to mimic their American mentors or simply spruce up and re-enforce their regular army gear result in a variety of different outfits whenever the troops are on patrol.Sejad Mehdi, […]
Burning Bright
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Four of us were driving on Sunday from Banda Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra, to the town of Calang on Aceh’s western coast. It was a seven hour drive; we were five hours in. The road ran along the coast past wide empty beaches of pale sand, and then over high cliffs where […]
Is the Archbishop just misunderstood?
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has stubbornly occupied the front pages of websites and newspapers for the past four days after his speech on Islamic law in the UK created one almighty row.
The head of the Church of England has successfully united the government, Muslim leaders and members of his own church in condemnation. A […]
Musharraf and the Con Game
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There always seems to be a good reason to support a dictator. In the late 1970s, Jeane Kirkpatrick argued that it was better to support a “right-wing” dictator lest he be replaced by communists. Right-wing dictatorship — today some call it “liberal autocracy” — was in any case a necessary way station on the road […]
July’s Calm Disrupted by Stormy Events
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In mid-July, Embassy Row usually quiets down as occupants retreat to their home capitals to sip lemonade in the shade or escape to a favored vacation spot. But Washington’s diplomatic world was in the grip of high drama this week with the resignation of Colombian ambassador Andrés Pastrana and the Lebanese government’s decision to […]
Archbishop Defends Remarks on Islamic Law in Britain
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LONDON, Feb. 11 — The spiritual leader of the global Anglican church on Monday defended controversial remarks that Britain should consider formally recognizing aspects of Islamic law, but conceded that his choice of words in broaching the issue may have been misleading.
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Top Taliban Commander Is Captured In Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 — A top Taliban commander in Afghanistan who claimed close ties to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was captured Monday in southwestern Pakistan, according to a Pakistani military official.
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Arrests, Slaying Underscore Mexico’s Drug Crisis
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MEXICO CITY, Jan. 22 — Soldiers arrested 11 suspected hit men Tuesday at drug safe houses in the Mexican capital. Authorities said the safe houses were linked to the violent Sinaloa cartel, a group whose caches had not previously been discovered in the city.
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Drug Traffic Beneath the Waves
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BAHIA MALAGA, Colombia — In the annals of the drug trade, traffickers have swallowed cocaine pellets, dissolved the powder into ceramics and flown the drug as far as Africa on flimsy planes — anything to elude detection and get a lucrative product to market. Now, the cartels seem to be increasingly going beneath the waves, […]
Hispanics
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ALBUQUERQUE — Inside an accounting office-turned-volunteer hub in the southwestern part of this city, Evangeline Martinez-Donkersley made nearly 85 calls on behalf of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sometimes in English, often in Spanish, the 70-year-old said, “Necesitamos su voto para Hillary Clinton” — “We need your vote for Hillary Clinton.”
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