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USSURIYSK, Russia — As a young officer fresh out of a Soviet military academy, Alexander Primak was assigned to serve in this frontier city in the Russian Far East, eight time zones away from his home town in Ukraine. Read more
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BANGKOK, May 26 — Burma’s military government has officially ended the six-year house arrest of opposition leader and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, but she remains in prison while awaiting the outcome of her trial for breach of the terms of her detention. Read more
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QUITO, Ecuador — Beneath the tropical jungles of northeastern Ecuador lies a vast pool of oil, representing one-fifth of the small Andean country’s petroleum reserves and potentially billions of dollars in revenue. Directly above that pool, the Yasuni National Park is home to a diversity of wildlife that is among the richest on the planet, [...]
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U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures, and didn’t learn that the deaths were caused by a rare strain of the influenza until after Canadian officials did. Read more
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PARIS, May 25 — When the nightmare finally ended — seven years at Guantanamo Bay, two years of force-feeding through a tube in his right nostril, the long struggle to proclaim his innocence before a judge, and finally 10 days of hospitalization — Lakhdar Boumediene celebrated with pizza for lunch in a little Paris dive. [...]
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TOKYO, May 26 — North Korea reportedly fired two more short-range missiles into waters off its east coast Tuesday, undeterred by the strong international condemnation that followed its detonation of a nuclear device and test-firing of three missiles a day earlier. Read more
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea, defiant in the face of international condemnation of its latest nuclear test, fired two more short-range missiles off its east coast on Tuesday and accused the United States of plotting against its government. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama nominated Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, selecting a woman who would be the court’s first Latino to replace retiring Justice David Souter. Read more
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US President Barack Obama intends to nominate Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the Supreme Court, officials say. Read more
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Reuters – Traders stand outside the New York Stock Exchange in this March 27, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/Files Slideshow:Stock Markets Play Video Wall Street Video:Mad About Options: Baxter International Flashback TheStreet.com Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 8,277.32 -14.81 ^GSPC 887.00 0.00 ^IXIC 1,692.01 0.00 By CARLO PIOVANO, AP Business Writer Carlo Piovano, Ap Business Writer [...]
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AP – A Jewish settler builds a structure at the outpost of Migron, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, … Slideshow:Israeli troops invade Gaza Play Video Mideast Video:Biden: ‘Lebanon should choose leader’ BBC Play Video Mideast Video:Biden pledges US support in Beirut Reuters By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer Amy Teibel, Associated Press Writer – 17 mins ago [...]
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Oxford University‘s first female professor of poetry resigned yesterday after ack-nowledging she had helped publicise charges that her rival for the post had sexually harassed a former student. Read more
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KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia (May 25) – Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite. Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world’s largest lizard were not afraid — until the dragons started to attack. Read more
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The shocking figures, police believe, can be put down to binge-drinking and the so-called ‘ladette culture’. Read more
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YANGON, Myanmar – Prosecutors in the trial of Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Syu Kyi have withdrawn nine remaining witnesses, paving the way for her to testify Tuesday and suggesting that the military government wants to wrap up the trial. Read more
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South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, his wife Kwon Yang-Sook and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il listen to the North Korean deputy leader Kim Yong-Nam at welcoming ceremony on Oct. 2, 2007, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Read more
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Because, simply, the opposition has been using the social networking site to get the word out about reformist candidates that could prove an embarrassment to the all-but-certain-to-get-another-term President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Specifically, reports the Financial Times, backers of Mir-Hossein Moussavi had been using the popular site to campaign. More: “‘The filtering is certainly [...]
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I’ve been recommending Slate editor David Plotz’s recently published “Good Book — The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.” Read more
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North Korea is preparing to launch a missile off its west coast today or tomorrow, a South Korean official is reported to have said. North Korea upset the international community by launching [...]
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Hideo Kojima’s next project is rumoured to be Konami action title Lord Of Shadow, according to CVG. Read more