Trust in the Internet took a major blow as alarm spread that software commonly used to encrypt and secure online transactions could wind up giving away the store. Computer security specialists, website masters, and fans of online privacy were worriedly… Read More ›
Tuesday
EU to help Ukraine pay Russian gas bill
EEV: ? 04 Mar 2014 Brussels (AFP) The European Union will help Ukraine pay the $2.0 billion it owes to Russian gas giant Gazprom, a top official said Tuesday, as part of an aid package reportedly worth more than one… Read More ›
Turkey Scrambles Fighter Jets Over Russian Plane
Possible new front opens in Ukraine-Russia standoff, which has escalated with Russian missile tests and shots fired in air. – Eight F-16 fighter jets were scrambled in the event By Ari Yashar First Publish: 3/5/2014, 1:13 AM F-16 fighter jet… Read More ›
US army investigates hundreds of soldiers for recruitment fraud
Officials tell Senate that illegal kickbacks cost the US at least $29m as part of national guard program to boost enlistment Associated Press in Washington theguardian.com, Tuesday 4 February 2014 17.43 EST The recruitment program began to improve enlistment… Read More ›
Army Fires Back on Its right to experiment on military personel without informed consent pre-1988
– at least 7,800 soldiers had been used as guinea pigs in Project Paperclip. – Soldiers were allegedly administered at least 250 and perhaps as many as 400 types of drugs, among them Sarin , one of the most deadly… Read More ›
Hunt for mysterious interpreter who faked sign language at Mandela memorial / Catastrophic Security Failure
Published time: December 11, 2013 21:06 President Barack Obama delivers a speech next to a sign language interpreter (R) during the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.(AFP Photo / Alexander… Read More ›
WHO apologises for claiming half of Greek HIV infections are self-inflicted
WHO blames ‘gross editing error’ for report claiming half of new cases are acquired deliberately by people trying to claim benefits Associated Press theguardian.com, Tuesday 26 November 2013 09.53 EST A drug user gives a blood sample for a HIV… Read More ›
Obama was briefed earlier in year on health website problems
Source: Reuters – Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:17 AM Author: Reuters (Adds details of report and quotes from hearing) By Roberta Rampton and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, who has portrayed himself as surprised by… Read More ›
China says 99.9 per cent of graft defendants found guilty
AFP Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 BEIJING – A total of 99.9 per cent of the verdicts reached against Chinese corruption defendants find them guilty, judicial authorities said Tuesday. Nearly 200,000 people were investigated for embezzlement or bribery between January… Read More ›
Kentucky BANS handshakes after high school sports games unless they are ‘properly supervised’
Schools can choose to ignore the ban but will be penalised if altercations happen The Kentucky High School Athletic Association’s commissioner, Julian Tackett, posted the directive on Tuesday saying it was ‘disappointing’ to take such measures He said it comes… Read More ›
North Korean army placed on high alert
USS George Washington Photo: EPA The North Korean army is placed on alert to be ready to begin combat actions at any time in response to the US-South Korean manoeuvres that begin in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday, North… Read More ›
Say fromage! Agency denies censorship after withdrawing ‘gormless’ picture of Francois Hollande
Agence France Presse transmitted the unflattering picture to clients on Tuesday, then quickly issued a ‘Mandatory Kill’ order Rob Williams Thursday, 5 September 2013 Agence France Presse (AFP), the French press agency, has been forced to deny charges of self-censorship… Read More ›
India school lunch deaths: pesticide found in cooking oil
Alexander BesantJuly 20, 2013 14:36 The children died after eating a free school lunch of lentils, potatoes and rice in the Bihar region on Tuesday. School lunch that killed 23 children in India was found to have contained agricultural pesticide…. Read More ›
Woman sleeps with boyfriend with her family in the house
EEV: Enjoy what makes headlines in the rest of the world The Star/Asia News Network Friday, Jun 21, 2013 A twenty-year-old woman was caught sleeping in a room with her boyfriend although her family, including her grandmother, was in the… Read More ›
Erdogan of Turkey crosses the Rubicon, adopts hard line against demonstrators (Warning Graphic Includes Death)
Turkey: police occupy Taksim, Erdogan adopts hard line Premier attacks, we will cut Gezi Park trees 11 June, 19:50 (ANSAmed) – ANKARA, JUNE 11 – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has adopted a hard line against demonstrators who have… Read More ›
Michelle Obama loses her cool: First Lady threatens to leave fundraiser after lesbian protester heckles her – and the White House deletes exchange from official transcript
By David Martosko PUBLISHED: 22:39 EST, 4 June 2013 | UPDATED: 00:20 EST, 5 June 2013 First lady Michelle Obama, usually upbeat and positive in public, turned sour Tuesday night and threatened to leave after a gay-rights heckler… Read More ›
Military Sex Crimes Investigator Arrested as Congress Cracks Down
By ADAM KLASFELD (CN) – The sexual battery arrest of the U.S. airman who heads the Sex Assault Prevention and Response Unit shook up the coincidentally timed hearing Tuesday of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Lt. Col…. Read More ›
China, Japan tense over disputed islands : Eight Chinese government ships had entered waters near the contested islands
CNN — Apr 24 The fragile relationship between China and Japan came under fresh strain Tuesday as ships from both sides crowded into the waters around a disputed group of islands and nearly 170 Japanese lawmakers visited a controversial… Read More ›
One in four Americans says Obama the antichrist – poll
Photo: RIA Novosti About one in four Americans suspect that President Barack Obama might be the antichrist, more than a third believe that global warming is a hoax and more than half suspect that a secretive global elite is trying to set… Read More ›
Ohio county condemns two new Amish houses because they have outhouses and the owners refuse to install modern plumbing
By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 15:57 EST, 27 March 2013 | UPDATED: 16:59 EST, 27 March 2013 A county health board in Ohio has condemned two houses recently built by the Amish because they have outhouses… Read More ›
Cyprus rejects bailout deal leaving eurozone facing fresh crisis: May get Loan From Russia
Cash-strapped nation expected to seek funding lifeline from Russia after dramatic no vote in country’s parliament Angelique Chrisafis in Nicosia and Jill Treanor The Guardian, Tuesday 19 March 2013 A Cypriot protester outside the country’s parliament after hearing… Read More ›
South Korea calls for development of nuclear weapons
US ambassador responds that it would be a “huge mistake.” A South Korean protester sprays on a North Korean national flag during a rally a day after North Korea announced they conducted a third nuclear test on Feb. 13,… Read More ›
Almost one-third of chemotherapy used “off-label”
4:44pm EST By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About one-third of chemotherapies are used to fight cancers that drug regulators never approved them to treat, says a new study. Chemotherapies – drugs that kill rapidly dividing cells… Read More ›
Foreigners arrested for trying to spread Christianity in Libya: ” We are a 100 percent Muslim country and this kind of action affects our national security”
Feb 17, 2013 01:43 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Four foreigners have been arrested in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on suspicion of being Christian missionaries and printing books about Christianity, a security official said on Saturday. “They were arrested on… Read More ›
‘Unusual seismic event’ in North Korea -atomic test monitoring body
Reuters VIENNA, Feb 12 (Reuters) – An international nuclear test monitoring agency said on Tuesday that it had detected an “unusual seismic event” in North Korea, following weeks of speculation that a nuclear test was imminent in the country…. Read More ›
Greece: gov’t orders dock workers to get back on the job
After islands were cut off from mainland for the sixth day 05 February, 19:39 Unusual inactivity at Greece’s biggest harbour in Piraeus, as no ship or ferry-boat left Unusual inactivity at Greece’s biggest harbour in Piraeus, as no ship or… Read More ›
Egypt: protesters clash with police, Morsi flees palace
(ANSAmed) – CAIRO – Egyptian police on Tuesday fired tear gas at demonstrators trying to scale the barbed wire barrier separating them from President Mohamed Morsi’s palace, leaving dozens intoxicated, sources said. The president fled the palace after demonstrators smashed… Read More ›
San Francisco to foot bill for sex change operations
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:00:02 EST, 10 November 2012| UPDATED:00:28 EST, 10 November 2012 In just a few days, San Francisco’s legislature will vote on a landmark new bill that if approved would allow city employees to undergo sex… Read More ›
Beijing brands Tokyo’s “persistent defiance” in territorial dispute as “self-deception”: urged Tokyo to abandon its illusion of occupying the islands.
China bins Japan’s claim of easing tension Zhang Yunbi and Zhao Shengnan China Daily Publication Date : 31-10-2012 Beijing yesterday hit back at claims by Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba that Tokyo was trying to calm tensions with… Read More ›
Bloody hand prints, stolen documents and shocking security failings: Harrowing pictures inside the U.S. consulate as it is revealed ‘officials knew about attack plans 48 HOURS before and did nothing’: Sorry Unedited Includes Graphic Images
Dramatic images of bloody hand prints and crumbling buildings capture horror of Tuesday’s attack on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which fell on 11th anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks Revealed today that sensitive documents have gone missing from compound, including… Read More ›