Radovan Karadzic
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France's Worst Serial Killers?
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
As Olympics Open, Chinese Hear First Free Radio Broadcast Since 1949
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Most clandestine radio broadcasts trying to get into China use short wave signals that are routinely blocked by Chinese authorities. But using miniature transmitters and antennas, just hours before the Olympics’ opening ceremonies Reporters Without Borders was able to get a 20-minute broadcast on the FM band on a station they called Radio Without Borders.
Hosted […]
Early warning: Here comes the `Baby Killer!’ brigade
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Buckle your seatbelt. Make sure your nausea bag is at the ready. Because the slimiest accusation yet aimed at Barack Obama is on the verge of having its moment in the mainstream media.
Within certain fringe elements of the anti-abortion right, it’s been an article of faith for some time that Obama’s support of abortion rights […]
Russia-Georgia Conflict Escalates
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Russia simply MUST show force otherwise before you know it, there will be a 2nd Yugoslavia on their hands… There will be a lot more blood flowing regrettably because the russians know no mercy when its a matter of “their” Territory…. Wait and see what’s going to happen when they all start cutting up […]
Grammer, Costner sued over ‘Swing Vote’
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‘Swing Vote’
Kelsey Grammer and Kevin Costner have been sued over their new film Swing Vote, reports TMZ.
Screenwriter Bradley Blakeman filed suit in New York yesterday claiming that the movie was based on his script Go November, which he allegedly sent to Grammer “in confidence” in spring 2006.
Blakeman stated that his script was plagiarised by Grammer, […]
Russia Sends Troops Into Rebel Enclave in Georgia
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Russia sent troops rolling into a breakaway region of Georgia on Friday, after Georgian troops entered the capital of the pro-Russian enclave, in a sharp escalation of the conflict.
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SERB GOON SEEK ‘N’ HIDE
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BELGRADE, Serbia - The lawyer of the Serbian basketball bully wanted on assault charges in the pummeling of a Brooklyn student says his client will not voluntarily return to the United States to face trial.
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Obama: Luck O’ The Irish?
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Obama: Luck O’ The Irish?
Maybe they should call him Barack O’Bama.
That’s because new, in-depth geneological studies from the Emerald Isle have looked into Obama’s family tree, and found that he’s got some interesting roots in Tipperary — a successful politician, a wigmaker, a university provost and even a bishop.
Of course, you’ve all heard the […]
The Guantánamo show trials begin
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Yesterday, in the first show trial to be carried out in its military court at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an American “military jury…convicted Osama bin Laden’s former driver,” Salim Ahmed Hamdan, “for providing material support to terrorism but tossed out a more serious charge of conspiracy….Hamdan faces a maximum sentence of […]
On Immigration, It’s the Economy, Stupid
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WASHINGTON — A new effort to clear this country of illegal immigrants comes courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which this week began asking more than 450,000 people who are in violation of deportation orders to come forward, get their personal affairs in order and volunteer to return to their home countries.
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Iran Seeks Details on Nuclear Offer
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 5 — The Iranian government said Tuesday that it is ready to respond to an incentives package that the United States and five other world powers have offered in exchange for suspension of its uranium-enrichment program. But Iran insisted that the big powers “simultaneously” provide a more detailed explanation of the offer, […]
Early Lessons Forgotten, AIDS Conference Told
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6 — Twenty-five years after AIDS was branded the “gay plague,” the virus is again exacting a disproportionate toll on men who have sex with men, not only in the United States but also in countries where the epidemic is just emerging.
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Foreign Activists Manage to Pierce China’s Broad Security Apparatus
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BEIJING, Aug. 7 — China’s intense efforts to block any protest that would mar the Olympic Games were challenged Wednesday by foreign activists equally bent on diverting attention to issues as varied as Tibetan independence, the crisis in Darfur and religious freedom.
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In Iraq, Regional Politics Heats Up
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BAGHDAD — A growing number of Iraqi groups are choosing to pursue their agendas through politics instead of bloodshed, a trend that has helped bring down levels of violence. But as Iraqis leave behind the sectarian cataclysms of recent years, ethnic and regional political disputes in several parts of Iraq are becoming more pronounced.
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Pakistan Ruling Parties Agree to Impeach Musharraf
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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7 — Pakistan’s ruling coalition parties agreed Thursday to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, setting up a major showdown between the former military chief and the newly elected civilian government.
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Georgia surrounds breakaway city, rebels defiant
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MEGVREKISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Georgia sent troops into its breakaway province of South Ossetia and surrounded the capital Tskhinvali on Friday after a short-lived ceasefire collapsed.
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