June 10th, 2011 by admin
A South Korea’s K1 tank fires smoke shells during a joint military drill between South Korea and the US in Paju near the inter-Korean border on June 8, 2011 aimed at deterring North Korea’s military threat. Tensions on the Korea peninsula are high following two deadly border incidents last year which Seoul blames on its [...]
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January 3rd, 2011 by admin
When U.S. President Barack Obama visited China last December, he and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao issued a joint statement promising "the initiation of a joint dialogue on human spaceflight and space exploration, based on the principles of transparency, reciprocity and mutual benefit." But don’t expect space to be on the agenda when Hu comes [...]
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January 3rd, 2011 by admin
Incoming House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa discussed WikiLeaks and Attorney General Eric Holder with Chris Wallace on: Fox News Sunday: And when it comes to WikiLeaks, at the end of the last Congress we couldn’t get a whistleblower bill passed because ultimately the next whistleblower bill has to deal with WikiLeaks and the loss [...]
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January 3rd, 2011 by admin
Pakistan left with minority government after defection Top news: The second-largest party in Pakistan’s governing coalition quit on Sunday, leaving Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani with a minority government and calling into question the Pakistani leadership’s ability to deal with the country’s internal strife and spiraling economic crisis. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced that [...]
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December 31st, 2010 by admin
The Internets are buzzing about an interview Julian Assange gave to Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel Wednesday, in which the WikiLeaks frontman reportedly threatened to release cables showing that various Arab officials were working with the CIA. He vowed to do so "if I am killed or detained for a long time." “These officials are spies [...]
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October 26th, 2009 by admin
Devastating bombing raises fears in Baghdad Top story: A day after their country’s deadliest terrorist attacks in over two years, Iraqis mourned the more than 155 dead and raised questions about the government’s ability to keep the country safe with elections approaching and U.S. troops continuing to pull out. Two synchronized suicide car bombings on [...]
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August 23rd, 2009 by admin
A new proposal in Australia plans to slaughter thousands of camels that are wrecking havoc in the outback. First introduced to the country in the 1840s to help explorers traverse the harsh deserts, feral camels now number more than one million, with a population that doubles in size every nine years. The herds roam unchecked [...]
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February 24th, 2009 by admin
As part of an overall package of regulations, European leaders pledged to crack down on tax havens over the weekend. “We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences,” said French President Nicolas Sarkozy. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who’s had tax havens in her crosshairs for a while, [...]
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February 19th, 2009 by admin
It’s hard to be a Russian billionaire these days: The number of Russian billionaires has halved since last year, according to an annual ranking by Finans magazine, and the missing names read like a brief history of the financial turmoil over the past six months. The ranking of Russia’s 400 wealthiest individuals puts the number [...]
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February 19th, 2009 by admin
Great rant from blogger David Galbraith via Boing Boing: Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world’s worst business idea and there isn’t even any oil. Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where sex and drugs and rock and roll are an anathema. This is effectively the [...]
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