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Well, this seems quite unprecedented: telling cruise ship passengers to disembark until the pirates have passed. What a statement about how the Somali miscreants have really hijacked the high seas, and not just freighters: “A German cruise ship plans to evacuate passengers in Yemen and fly them to the next port of call Wednesday [...]
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« Paul runs the Anka leg in “Most Embarrassing Song” contest | Main | On the `politics as usual’ watch » Originally posted: December 2, 2008 Unscientific but compelling survey results A little before 11 a.m. Tuesday: Tribune click survey –Should President Bush set former Gov. George Ryan free? Yes -18%No -82% (1940 responses) Sun-Times [...]
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this country and others are becomeing police states new biometric passports compulsory identity cards you canott even demonstrate outside the house of commons without being arestted they can even stop you on the way to a demonstration and make you turn round armed police at airports 10.000 tasers issued to the [...]
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Rex Features Jennifer Aniston has spoken for the first time about musician boyfriend John Mayer, describing him as “extraordinary”. In an interview with The Mirror, she said: “He’s a rare one. He is extraordinary and it is wonderful to watch him…the way his brain works and the way he thinks thoughts…it’s beautiful. “It’s an amazing [...]
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Security forces overran a militant camp on the outskirts of Pakistani Kashmir’s main city and seized an alleged mastermind of the attacks that shook India’s financial capital last month, two officials said … Read more
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The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants told a military judge Monday they want to immediately confess at their war-crimes tribunal, setting up likely guilty pleas and their possible executions. Read more
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Funny Keith Olbermann take Monday on the breaking news that NBC is giving Jay Leno a nightly 10 p.m. prime time show when his “Tonight” show gig is up that will focus on politics and comedy: Read more
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There she was late last week in Islamabad, George W. Bush’s hapless envoy, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, fresh from a visit to India, where she had told the government of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the United States stands behind it in solidarity in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, which [...]
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A group of Nepalese men living rough near Baghdad airport in the hope of finding work at a US military base are victims of human trafficking, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said yesterday.The Geneva-based body is also looking into the case of another 1,000 workers from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Nepal who were [...]
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Damian Green in the Commons By Nico Hines 6.13pm The Government’s win is already looking extremely shabby. The Liberal Democrats and the Tories have both declared that they will boycott the committee. We have certainly not heard the end of this debate. 6.09pm Time for the votes and the Government wins by a majority of [...]
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MOSCOW, Dec. 4 — Confronting growing public anxiety over a faltering economy, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin assured Russians on Thursday the country would make it through the global financial crisis with “minimal losses” and pledged to boost pension payments and other spending to help those suffering in the downturn. Read more
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TOKYO, Dec. 8 — A much-heralded U.S. program to restart food aid to North Korea has run into difficulty as Washington and Pyongyang haggle over the terms of access, according to U.S. and overseas officials. The previously undisclosed problems come amid estimates of growing hunger in the isolated communist country. Read more
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 7 — All this month, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has explained in one speech after another how he would like nothing more than to leave office when his term ends in 2013. But the Venezuelan people are urging him to remain in the presidency, Chávez has said, and he will not disappoint. [...]
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 7 — Ghanaians lined up Sunday to choose a new president to lead one of Africa’s most stable democracies as it enters a new era as an oil-producing nation. Read more
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IRBIL, Iraq — Hawjin Hama Rashid, a feisty journalist in bluejeans and a frilly blouse, had come to the morgue in this Kurdish city to research tribal killings of women. “A week doesn’t pass without at least 10,” the morgue director said, showing Rashid pictures of corpses on his computer screen. Read more
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VITORIA, Brazil — Fabiana Nunes Rodrigues didn’t know much about trains. But she wanted a good job, she said, something stable, maybe as a mechanic, like her grandfather. Brazilian college courses didn’t offer much in the way of technical instruction. But one company in her home town did, and she already knew it well. Read [...]
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ATHENS (Reuters) – The funeral on Tuesday of a teenager shot dead by police was expected to provoke more riots in Greece following three days of the country’s worst unrest in decades. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House voiced concern about a Democratic plan on Monday to bail out stricken automakers with up to $15 billion in loans, and provide longer-term help if certain conditions were met. Read more
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Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants have said they want to plead guilty at a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay. Read more
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WASHINGTON – With momentum building toward new clearinghouses for complex investments partly blamed for the financial crisis, executives of competing exchanges on Monday touted their plans to operate the new entities. Read more