Reuters: (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law enforcement and corporate sources said. But U.S. investigators have found little to substantiate allegations of phone hacking [...]
Daily Mail: The Russian web was ablaze with bizarre theories today at an extraordinary explosion seen by thousands of commuters in St Petersburg. It must have seemed like the end of the world was nigh when motorists driving along this busy motorway saw a huge flash light up the night sky on the horizon. So [...]
Daily Mail: Wealthy men are being tricked into bed by single women who deliberately get pregnant because they view a baby as a career option, a top lawyer warned yesterday. Soaring numbers of men are being forced to part with their money once they have been ensnared in this way by pretty young females. They [...]
Jerusalem Post: TEHRAN – Iran’s parliament said on Tuesday it was ready to impose a ban on oil exports to some European states, the country’s English-language Press TV reported. “In retaliation to the Zionist (Israel)-backed measure of the European countries to ban Iran oil, we are ready to impose a ban on oil exports to [...]
The Telegraph: In a new book, Father Amorth, the exorcist for the diocese of Rome, gives a bizarre account of how he and two assistants brought a pair of “possessed” Italian men to one of the Pope’s weekly audiences in St Peter’s Square in May 2009. In his book, “The Last Exorcist – My Fight [...]
Flashback NY Times Article – New York Times: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — To many Americans, Maya Arulpragasam, known as M.I.A., is the very pregnant rapper who gyrated across the stage at Sunday’s Grammy Awards. Yet in Sri Lanka, where she spent her childhood years, M.I.A. remains virtually unknown. And some who do know her work [...]
The Weekly Standard: On February 3, during a rare Friday prayer lecture at Tehran University, Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran would “support and help any nations, any groups fighting against the Zionist regime across the world, and we are not afraid of declaring this.” Khamenei continued, “The Zionist regime is a true [...]
OSLO, Norway (AP) – The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in the worst peacetime massacre that Norway has ever seen told a court Monday that he deserves a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free. Anders Behring Breivik smirked as he was led in to the Oslo [...]
Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus and pulled all American diplomats out of Syria. Officials say Ambassador Robert Ford and other diplomats left Syria on Monday. It’s the most dramatic U.S. move so far after 11 months of a violent crackdown on dissent by President Bashar [...]
WND: The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people. The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide. Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah [...]
Translated from El Nuevo Herald: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) evaluated the possibility of selling uranium to the government of President Hugo Chavez, for what it offered to “friends in distant lands,” according to emails found on computers in the killed rebel leader Raul Reyes, that mention the availability of up to 50 [...]
Big Peace: This weekend, thousands of protesters gathered in cities all over the US and in several other countries to march against alleged US plans to make war on Iran. In the US, the ultra militant, pro Cuba and North Korea Workers World Party is taking a leading role to coordinate the demonstrations. From Workers [...]
This occured on the day 400 people were massacred by Assad’s troops. (February 4th, 2012) No info on whether he received proper treatment or survived.
(INN) — The Iranian parliament’s official website has published an article calling on the government to attack Israel before the end of the year. According to Israeli TV Channel 2?s veteran Middle East expert, Ehud Yaari, the article cites three reasons for the call. First – a religious fatwa allowing such a strike. Second – [...]
Washington Post: CAIRO — Nineteen Americans will face criminal charges as part of a probe of the funding of pro-democracy groups, Egyptian officials announced Sunday, a provocative move that could deprive Egypt of crucial aid from the United States and upend one of Washington’s most important bilateral relationships. The development added pressure to an already [...]
Jerusalem Post: CAIRO – An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel on Sunday, witnesses and state television reported. The pipeline, which also supplies gas to Jordan, has come under attack at least 11 times since Egyptian resident Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011. The latest blast took place in the Massaeed [...]
