Arabs groping for new forms of governance
IANS | ZeeNews Arabs are groping for new models of governance in the wake of uprisings that began in 2010 that led to regime changes in some countries, an international expert has suggested. They have few models of governance to choose from, and that could be Turkish, Iranian or Iraqi, but they are still grappling [...]
Read More →Sudanese Govt. Continues to Victimize Christians
By Success Uchime | Ground Report The Sudanese Government has continued its onslaught on the Christian population with the recent killing of Christians during a bomb raid. This indication is contained in a report by Release International, (www.releaseinternational.org) a United Kingdom (UK) Christian advocate adding that least 11 people were killed in bombing raids on Christian villages [...]
Read More →How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists
By Robert Mazur | NY Times Last month, HSBC admitted in court pleadings that it had allowed big Mexican and Colombian drug cartels to launder at least $881 million. The bank also admitted to using various schemes to move hundreds of millions of dollars to nations subject to trade sanctions, including Iran, Cuba and Sudan, in [...]
Read More →Four people killed inside Colorado house, including gunman
RT A gunman has killed three people inside a townhouse in Aurora, Colorado. The gunman has been shot dead by officers, Denver’s 9 News reported. A SWAT team was called after gunshots were heard at the home around 3am local time, Police Sgt. Cassidee Carlson told KUSA-TV. The man was barricaded himself inside the house [...]
Read More →Tri-State bank hit by cyber attack
By Siavash | CWZ Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank is sending an email to customers Friday stating that its website is seeing a high volume of traffic that appears to be an attack from hackers. This is the second major attack from foreign hackers, the first hitting a half dozen US banks in late fall. That one [...]
Read More →Thousands Flee Wildfires in Southern Australia
VOA Australian authorities say thousands of people have fled wildfires raging through southern Australia, with one blaze destroying dozens of homes in the southern island state of Tasmania. The fires flared on Friday amid a record summer heat wave that pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius in Tasmania, which is normally known for its cooler [...]
Read More →UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson tells farmers to push GM
The Government will promote the benefits of genetically modified crops as part of the drive to modernise farming in the UK, Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, has said.
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7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes southeast of Alaska
A local tsunami warning was issued and has now been withdrawn. No Pacific-wide tsunami warning. Hawaii might get strong and unusual ocean currents, but no destructive sea-level rise.
Read More →Underwater volcano in Black Sea damaged 160km of fiber-optic cable
Trend.az The eruption of an underwater volcano damaged undersea Poti-Novorossiysk-Sochi fiber-optic cable. Presumably the 160-kilometer-long cable is broken in four places. As reported on Friday the owner firm’s management, on the damaged part of the cable, which was lifted on the side of the Poti station, clearly visible traces of fire, molten polyethylene sheath, the [...]
Read More →Crooked Cleanup: Government mishandled complaints about shoddy cleanup work
By Tamiyuki Kihara and Miki Aoki | AjwAsahi Environment Ministry officials failed to act on a flood of complaints from residents in Fukushima Prefecture about companies carrying out shoddy decontamination work. No effort was even made to record the number or contents of those complaints, in part because staffing shortages made such work difficult, and [...]
Read More →The astonishing airship set to revolutionise haulage, tourism… and warfare (Video)
Soaring cost of military drugs could hurt budget
Statesman Last year, the Pentagon spent more on pills, injections and vaccines than it did on Black Hawk helicopters, Abrams tanks, Hercules C-130 cargo planes and Patriot missiles — combined. Some of the prescription drugs that have fueled the military’s skyrocketing pharmaceutical budget are the same ones that have medicated the civilian world over the [...]
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