Washington Times: Following two days of testimony, a federal panel Friday voted against recommending changes to ease the current blood donation restrictions for gay men, saying more research was needed to help “create a road map forward†for future change. By a 9-6 vote, members of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [...]
Times Online: Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal. In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has [...]
Times Online: BP mounted a powerful fightback against its critics last night, visiting Downing Street for crisis talks over the Deepwater Horizon oil leak and drawing up a plan to defer a £1.75 billion payout to shareholders. In a dramatic day for the company, its chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, met the Chancellor George Osborne and spoke [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama said Friday that some members of Congress should share the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In an interview with POLITICO, the president said: “I think it’s fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea vowed Saturday to launch an all-out attack against South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along their heavily fortified border, warning it can even turn Seoul into a “sea of flame.” In 2004, the rival Koreas ended decades of propaganda campaigns as relations warmed following a landmark summit [...]
Fox News: White House energy adviser Carol Browner on Friday rejected accusations from a panel of experts who claim the administration misrepresented their views to justify a six-month ban on offshore drilling in response to the BP oil rig disaster. The denial came after the experts alleged that the Interior Department modified a report in [...]
