Friday, 18 November 2011 23:06

Peace Corps Leaves Kazakhstan After 18 Years

The U.S Peace Corps is withdrawing nearly 120 volunteers from Kazakhstan, ending its 18-year presence in Central Asia's largest economy in a move that follows a wave of Islamist militant attacks.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:06

Colombia's FARC Pick New Leader

 

Bogota - The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced the appointment of a new leader Tuesday, 11 days after its chief was killed by the country's armed forces.

U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford, a critic of President Bashar al-Assad's response to the Syrian uprising, has been pulled out of Syria over security concerns.

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has killed at least 240 people in eastern Turkey and a frantic search for survivors is underway.  The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers sift through rubble and make their way to the outlying regions.
Tuesday, 04 October 2011 22:04

Amanda Knox Freed From Italian Prison

 

Amanda Knox, tabloid fodder on two continents and resident of an Italian prison for the past four years, is now a free woman.

 

Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending military ships close to the United States' Atlantic coast, in what would be a major escalation of tensions between the long-standing adversaries.

Vladimir Putin declared on Saturday that he planned to reclaim the Russian presidency in an election next March that could open the way for the former KGB spy to rule until 2024.


Sunday marks the tenth anniversary of the deadliest single attack on US soil. As we all know on the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. Hijackers crashed a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. When passengers attempted to take control of the fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, preventing it from reaching its intended target in Washington, D.C.  In all 2,995 people perished as a result of the four coordinated suicide attacks.

Sunday, 11 September 2011 15:10

Korean Authorities Raid Google Offices

The Korean Fair Trade Commission, that country's antitrust agency, raided Google's offices in Seoul on Thursday, CNET has reported. Regulators are apparently interested in information about Google allegedly limiting access to rival search engines on its Android mobile operating system. In April, two Korean Internet companies--NHN, which operates the popular Naver search engine there, and Daum Comminications--asked the country's Fair Trade Commission to investigate Google's business practices regarding mobile search.

Sunday, 28 August 2011 12:08

Greek Police Smash Violent Doughnut Ring

 

It took an undercover operation, but Greek police have blown a hole in a ring of alleged crooks who had cornered the doughnut market in a beach resort. It started with complaints that two Bulgarian men and a former Greek wrestling champion were using violence to choke off the trade by other doughnut vendors on Paliouri beach in the Halkidiki Peninsula near Thessaloniki.

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