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CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — U.S. officials in Iraq have turned prisons once described as training camps for would-be insurgents into something more closely resembling American-style vocational schools. Religious and technical training are offered to detainees, who are allowed to visit with relatives through teleconferencing calls. Read more
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 5 — Fateh Khan doesn’t know much about the fight against terrorism. He doesn’t know much about the attacks that killed more than 170 people in Mumbai last week, either. But if there is one thing the Pakistani taxi driver feels sure about, it’s that after three wars, India — not terrorism [...]
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KOLKATA (Reuters) – Indian police said on Saturday they had arrested two men who helped the Mumbai attackers get mobile phone cards which they used for communications during their three-day rampage. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats and the White House buckled down on Saturday to set terms for U.S. automakers to receive up to $17 billion in bailout loans on the condition the companies prove they can compete and restructure, officials said. Read more
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Pakistan feared India was planning to launch a military strike at the height of tensions over the Mumbai attacks, a senior Pakistani diplomat has said. Read more
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BERLIN (AFP) – Executives from eight major German companies, including Volkswagen, Adidas and BASF, say the government has not done enough to combat the financial crisis, a magazine reported. Read more
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SRINAGAR, India – Security officials say one of two Indians arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks is a counter-insurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission. A senior police official in Indian Kashmir says the man, identified as Mukhtar Ahmed, is part of [...]
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At first sight, the two couples who entered the Harry Winston store in Paris resembled the sophisticated international clientele that frequents this exclusive jewellers. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Dec. 5) – Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards have been indicted and a sixth was negotiating a plea with prosecutors for a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead and became an anti-American rallying cry for insurgents, people close to the case said Friday. Read more
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Power companies are under increasing pressure to pass on the benefit of the plummeting price of oil. Read more
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A weary and beaten-looking O.J. Simpson was today put away for at least nine years – and perhaps the rest of his life – for an armed robbery in a hotel room, bringing a measure of satisfaction to those who believed the football star got away with murder more than a decade ago. Read more
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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 [...]
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For example, Gery Chico, former chief of staff for Mayor Richard J. Daley, filed papers with the Federal Elections Commission on May 16, 2002, making him the first official candidate in an election for U.S. Senate that would not be held until November of 2004. Read more
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6:57am UK, Saturday December 06, 2008 Emma Hurd, Africa correspondent There is growing international pressure for Robert Mugabe to leave power as the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe deepens. Zimbabwean [...]
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Rex Features Shakira has been lined up to perform at the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama. The Latin singer will celebrate by singing live at the event held in Washington on January 20, 2009, according to El Comercio. The star was a vocal supporter of Obama during his campaign, which saw him elected as [...]
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that it is “well past time” for Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to leave office as evidenced by the nation’s calamitous cholera epidemic and health care crisis. Read more
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PARIS – Armed robbers – some disguised as women – snatched $108 million worth of diamond rings, necklaces and luxury watches from a Harry Winston boutique on a posh Paris avenue in one of the largest jewel heists in history, officials said Friday. Read more
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Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, as it is known by its English-language acronym, is the molecule in human beings and other creatures “that make[s] each species unique.” DNA, “along with the instructions it contains, is passed from adult organisms to their offspring during reproduction”; it determines exactly which physical characteristics the offspring of reproducing human beings [...]
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PARIS, Dec. 4 — Facing a drastic slowdown, France announced a $33 billion economic stimulus plan Thursday, including cash payments to the poor, a bigger rebate on new-car purchases and a speedup in high-cost public works projects. Read more
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MUMBAI, Dec. 4 — In the course of the three-day battle between security commandos and the 10 gunmen who laid siege to Mumbai last week, many Indians found a new villain — the politician. Read more