"Iraqis living in Diaspora cast their votes," Dubai TV, UAE "Iraqi students not motivated by elections," BBC- Arabic "Gordon Brown: the decision to invade Iraq was right," BBC- Arabic
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(Mosaic Intelligence Report: March 5, 2010) Dubais Police Chief declares that hes certain that the Israeli Mossad killed Hamas commander al-Mabhouh. Israel is accused of forging European, and other countries passports. But is Israel acting alone? And did the CIA know of the Mossads caught-on-tape operation in Dubai ?
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Dramatic amateur video was released on Thursday showing how a tsunami that followed the massive magnitude 8.8 quake wreaked havoc in the small town of Penco in southern Chile on Saturday. (March 5)
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Syria's president has been rubbing shoulders with his Iranian counterpart despite calls from the US to move away from his neighbour. The call comes as Washington takes steps to normalise ties with Syria. Have US overtures failed to break the three-decade Syrian-Iranian alliance? And how will it affect the nuclear issue?
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Yangon, March 10 (DPA) Myanmar's new election laws have barred opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other political prisoners from contesting polls planned this year, state media reports said onWednesday. Under the Political Parties Registration Law, published in state-run newspapers Wednesday, all prisoners are barred from joining political parties that register to contest a general election. This condition effectively excludes Suu Kyi and 2,100 other political prisoners from running in the upcoming polls, which would be the first in Myanmar in...
The aftershocks of the Port-au-Prince earthquake are hitting especially hard among displaced women, who face an outbreak of sexual violence. Liesl Gerntholtz on the awful toll—and how to help. Driving through Port-au-Prince’s Parc Jean Marie Vincent camp, the first thing I notice is how massive and congested it is. After that, the smell and the heat hit me. I had come to the camp to interview a young rape survivor, as part of a Human Rights Watch mission to Haiti to investigate sexual and other violence against women in the aftermath of the earthquake. Sexual violence often increases in emergencies, when normal structures have...
The Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has confirmed that the terror suspect Dulmatin was killed in a police raid in Jakarta. Indonesian security forces said they had killed three suspected militants in two raids on Tuesday. But they could not confirm that Dulmatin, alleged mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings, was among those killed. Mr Yudhoyono is on a three-day trip to neighbouring Australia. The raids were said to be linked to an ongoing operation against militants in...
The Greek prime minister has welcomed the US response to his call for a crackdown on speculators he blames for damaging Greece's economy. George Papandreou met President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday to discuss his country's financial woes. "We have found a positive response from President Obama which means this issue will be on the agenda in the next G20 meeting," Papandreou told reporters, refering to the G20 meeting in June, outside the White House after the talks. Greece wants to see the US impose stricter...
New Election Law Bars Myanmar Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi From Election Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A new election law issued by...
By AMY DOCKSER MARCUS CLAREMONT, Calif.—Staff members at the Food and Drug Administration are doing something unusual. They are leaving Washington to help drug makers take a crucial step in developing drugs for rare diseases. View Full Image Hempel Family Twins Addison, left, and Cassidy Hempel, who have a fatal cholesterol metabolism disorder, get cyclodextrin infusions April 13 in Reno, Nev. The staffers help administer the Orphan Drug Act, which provides incentives to create therapies for so-called orphan diseases—those that affect fewer than 200,000 Americans. There are about 7,000 such maladies, most of them serious, that have few or no drugs to treat them, from adenoid...
updated 5:54 p.m. ET March 9, 2010 LONDON - United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday. Eliza Manningham-Buller, who retired in 2007 and is now a member of the House of Lords, said the U.S. deliberately suppressed details of its harsh handling of some detainees, including accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. "The Americans were very keen that people like us did not discover what they were doing," Manningham-Buller told a meeting at Britain's Parliament.advertisement | Britain's spy agencies have come under heavy...
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