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Breaking NewsAll British forces to be pulled out of Iraq within a yearWednesday, June 11th, 2008 Mail Online | All British forces are set to be pulled out of Iraq within a year, it emerged today. Plans for a phased withdrawal are back on track after a reduction in violence in Basra over recent months. Whitehall officials are now working on a new timetable for the move....
Site Broken? Hacked? Abducted?Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
You may have noticed there's many errors on the site at the moment, including a broken forum. We do not have an explanation just yet. After speaking with our ISP they are currently unable to determine what has caused these problems. On the face of it, it looks like a normal php error but we (and the ISP) are locked out of FTP access to the site and the log files have been ...
Libya releases ‘disappeared’ dissident, says rights groupFriday, May 30th, 2008
London: The Libyan government has freed a political prisoner after he was arrested 15 months ago, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. Juma Boufayed was arrested along with 13 Libyan political activist in February last year. The group had planned to protest what they called police brutality.
Boufayed was freed on Tuesday, erasing fears he might have been killed.
Of the remaining group of 13 detained last year, 11 ...
The last Briton in Guantanamo faces death penaltyFriday, May 30th, 2008 By Robert Verkaik | A British resident who is facing the death penalty in Guantanamo Bay has made a final desperate plea to Gordon Brown to end his six-year ordeal and bring him home today.
In a letter delivered to Downing Street, Binyam Mohamed, the last Guantanamo inmate with the automatic right to British residency, calls on the Prime Minister to ...
Autism Risk Linked to Distance From Power PlantsFriday, May 30th, 2008 By Leslee Dru Browning | How do mercury emissions affect pregnant mothers, the unborn and toddlers? Do the level of emissions impact autism rates? Does it matter whether a mercury-emitting source is 10 miles away from families versus 20 miles? Is the risk of autism greater for children who live closer to the pollution source?
A newly published study of Texas school district ...
Vets for Peace Booted from National Memorial Day ParadeThursday, May 29th, 2008 By Matthew Rothschild | There is one group of veterans that isn’t allowed to march in the national memorial parade in Washington on Monday. That’s the Veterans for Peace, Delwin Anderson Memorial chapter, based in D.C. It’s named after a World War II vet who fought in Italy and then worked for the VA for many years designing programs ...
Monbiot plans citizen’s arrest of John BoltonMonday, May 26th, 2008 By George Monbiot | We have all but forgotten the war with Iraq. We tend to see it now as little more than a "political mistake", like the 10p tax fiasco or Labour's mishandling of the byelection campaign in Crewe. The press and public attention have moved on and focused on more pressing matters, like the price of property.
But this mistake has ...
Oil: A global crisisSunday, May 25th, 2008 The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should, says a leading expert. How are our lives going to change as we struggle to cope with the $200 barrel? Geoffrey Lean reports.
The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 ...
100 arrested in Indonesia over fuel protestSaturday, May 24th, 2008
AFP | Police arrested more than 100 protesters in the Indonesian capital Saturday after some burnt tyres and threw molotov cocktails during a rally over fuel price rises, police said. Indonesia hiked the cost of fuel by nearly 30 percent from Saturday in response to soaring global oil prices, and a ballooning subsidy bill, leaving hard-pressed households facing even more economic woes.
"More than 100 people have been detained for questioning," ...
McCain’s Plan - Millions Will Lose Insurance CoverageSaturday, May 24th, 2008 By Jo Hartley | Americans need to be aware of what Senator John McCain's health care plan entails. Under the guise of fighting health care inflation, he is targeting the employer-provided system that currently covers over 60 percent of the non-elderly population. This would effectively force people who now have health insurance through their employers to purchase individual health care ...
Burma ‘to allow in all aid workers’Friday, May 23rd, 2008
AP | Burma's ruling junta has agreed to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said today.
Mr Ban's comments came after a crucial two-hour meeting today with the junta leader, Senior General Than Shwe.
When asked if he thought the agreement was a breakthrough, Mr Ban said: "I think so."
Burma's junta has until now refused to allow an unimpeded influx of foreign ...
DU Shells Used by U.S. Worse Than Nuclear WeaponsWednesday, May 21st, 2008 NaturalNews | The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II. DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of its high density, it is ...
Heart experts warn Tasers deadlyWednesday, May 21st, 2008 By Suzanne Fournier | Tasers can cause fatal cardiac arrest and are even more dangerous if the subject is agitated, stressed and experiencing pain from the high-voltage device, two top Vancouver heart specialists said Tuesday.
Dr. Michael Janusz, a heart surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC told the Braidwood Inquiry into Taser use Tuesday that "Tasers almost certainly can cause ...
I was tortured to confess, Pervez tells appeal courtMonday, May 19th, 2008 By Kim Sengupta | Pervez Kambaksh, the Afghan student sentenced to death after being accused of downloading internet reports on women's rights, yesterday pleaded innocent to charges of blasphemy. He told an appeal court in Kabul that he had been tortured into confessing.
Mr Kambaksh, 24, vehemently denied that he had been responsible for producing anti-Islamic literature. He insisted the prosecution ...
China Says Quake Death Toll Could Top 50,000Thursday, May 15th, 2008 VOA News | China says nearly 400 dams and reservoirs near the epicenter of Monday's deadly earthquake were damaged, triggering new worries as Chinese officials warned Thursday that the death toll could top 50,000.The military is in a race against time to rescue tens of thousands believed buried beneath the rubble from Monday's quake. Officials in southwestern Sichuan province say ...
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