Times Online: Tear gas has been fired at demonstrators in Greece protesting against the government’s planned austerity cuts to save their failing economy. Thousands of left-wing and union demonstrators have descended on Athens for a march to oppose the wage cuts, tax rises and pension reductions being proposed. Riot police deployed tear gas into the [...]
Washington Post; The Obama administration is likely to reveal a closely guarded secret — the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile — during a critical meeting starting Monday at which Washington will try to strengthen the global treaty that curbs the spread of nuclear weapons, several officials said. Various factions in the administration have debated [...]
The Washington Times: America’s first black president has deliberately shied away from spurring a national discussion on race, most recently by checking only “African-American” on his U.S. census form without offering a word of explanation about his choice. The studied silence from the bully pulpit held by President Obama has frustrated multiracial organizations, giving rise [...]
ATLANTA (AP) – Federal agents say they have arrested 596 immigrants with criminal records during a three-day immigration enforcement sweep across the Southeast. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Friday that the operation, dubbed Operation Cross Check, was the largest ever conducted by the agency targeting foreign nationals convicted of crimes. They said the [...]