admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Story: Former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge, the subject of accusations of torture against suspects for decades, was convicted today on all counts of an indictment charging him with perjury and obstruction of justice. In retrospect, my failure to invest much in the opinion of this jury looks like a bad bet, I admit. [...]
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
3:25pm UK, Monday June 28, 2010 Ian Woods, Australia correspondent A woman who shot her husband dead but was cleared of both murder and manslaughter has described how she drugged his food [...]
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
click here to continue to articlecliquez ici pour lire l’articleweiter zum Artikelclicca qui per visualizzare l’articolo weiter zum Artikelir a la noticiaklik hier om door te gaan naar het artikel Read more
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Two 15-year-old boys charged with murdering a homeless man in a churchyard have been remanded into secure accommodation. Read more
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
WASHINGTON — The CIA lost track of Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks ever took place, and still has no good idea of where he is, the nation’s spy chief admitted yesterday. In a rare assessment on the war on terror, CIA Director Leon Panetta conceded that the United States hasn’t had [...]
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
This report was written by Alan Blinder of the Washington bureau. For the first 16 months of Barack Obama’s presidency, conservatives had a common rallying point: opposition to most anything the White… Read more
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Farmer Darrell Anderson burns whins in the hills on the outskirts of Menstrie in Perthshire. Fires are lit to clear undergrowth so that lambs don’t get trapped. I had hoped that this silhouette might work with a piece about the odd rural consituency of Ochil and Perthshire south, in which Gordon Banks is defending a [...]
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
GAZA STRIP 2 Palestinians killed in retaliatory strike Israeli aircraft struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing two Palestinians, in the first such attack since a deadly naval raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla heading for the territory last month. The Israeli army said the strikes were in response to the firing of [...]
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Top officials in President Hamid Karzai’s government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to U.S. officials who have provided Afghanistan’s authorities with wiretapping technology and other assistance in efforts to crack down on endemic graft. In recent months, the U.S. officials said, Afghan prosecutors and investigators have been ordered to cross [...]
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
When Sid and Barb Williams began searching for the perfect place to retire, they never thought they’d wind up living outside the United States. But they kept hearing about the benefits of retiring to Panama. Read more
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — The verdict this week was a milestone: A distant court affiliated with the Washington-based Organization of American States held the Colombian government responsible for the 1994 assassination of a prominent senator. Lion of a radical political party whose members were slain by the hundreds, Manuel Cepeda was shot dead in an operation [...]
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
TORONTO — Top world leaders opened talks on the economy Sunday with a call by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for quick deficit reduction in developed countries — an idea the U.S. and others fear could hurt economic growth if it proceeds too quickly. This Story G-20 leaders struggle to balance growth and budget cuts [...]
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Spain earns slot in round of 16 with win Spain learned from Italy and France. But Chile still is alive, and South America keeps on rolling. With Spain staring at an early exit from the World Cup, David Villa and Andres Iniesta each scored and the Spanish beat Chile, 2-1, on Friday in Pretoria, South [...]
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Some reports are deemed “a paranoid fabrication,” such as the claim that all Pakistanis are stripped naked in U.S. airports. Others are “false and malicious,” such as the one about the Americans moving Pakistani Taliban leaders to Afghanistan to prepare them for a battle against Pakistan’s army. So says the U.S. Embassy [...]
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
OSH Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan held an historic referendum on Sunday to create Central Asia’s first parliamentary democracy, with turn-out appearing high despite months of political turmoil and a wave of ethnic violence. Read more
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
TORONTO (Reuters) – With a global recession behind them, world leaders meeting on Sunday will seek to show they can bolster a fragile economic recovery while also cutting massive government debt levels. Read more
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The vote is being held amid tight security Kyrgyzstan is holding a referendum on a new constitution amid fears it could inflame ethnic tensions. The proposed constitution would give parliament more power and set the stage for a general election in September. Several hundred people died in clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the [...]
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
TORONTO (AFP) – The leaders of the world’s most powerful countries met in the eastern Canadian city of Toronto to settle their differences over how to nurse the fragile world economy back to health. Read more
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
AP – An Ethnic Uzbek woman reacts near burned houses in the Furkat district of Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, … 38 mins ago BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – Polls opened in Kyrgyzstan for a referendum Sunday to choose a new constitution that the interim government hopes will legitimize its power until new parliamentary elections in October. The Central Asian nation was on [...]
admin @ June 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Angela Merkel is facing a critical presidential contest next week that could end her political career after a Protestant pastor, nominated by the opposition, became favourite to win a vote widely seen as a challenge to her leadership. Read more