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Monday, March 29, 2010

Moscow Bomb

The head of Russia's main security agency says Caucasus rebels are believed to have carried out two sucide bombings on Moscow's subway system that killed 36 people. Officials say two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on trains as the subway was packed with rush-hour passengers Monday morning. In a televised meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the Federal Security Service said preliminary investigation points to terrorists connected...

China Miners Trapped

Rescuers raced Monday to free 153 coal miners trapped by a flood that may have started when workers digging a new mine in northern China accidentally broke into a network of old, water-filled shafts. Such derelict tunnels are posing new risks to miners across China even as the country ramps up safety in its notoriously hazardous mines, where accidents kill thousands each year. Rescuers raced to pump water from the Wangjialing coal mine in north China's Shanxi...

World Agenda: why can't international warships stop the Somali pirates?

It seems to matter little how many of the world’s warships gather in the Gulf of Aden to deter acts of piracy. The pirates still manage to ply their trade and in recent weeks there has been a spike in ship hijackings, including yesterday’s capture of a British-owned vessel. How can it be that with so much focus now on countering the pirates, they remain a significant threat to international shipping? There have been more than 40 attacks since the beginning of the year, ten of which...

Sarkozy down but far from out after French vote

As expected, French voters gave Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party a hammering in the run-off elections for regional councils. The left opposition won everywhere except Alsace and two overseas regions.  The revived Socialists are jubilant and dreaming of national power while no-longer-Super Sarko is locked in the Elysée Palace having a rethink with François Fillon, his Prime Minister [picture above]. Over on their hillside at...

China Only can Cripple Iran sayas US Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton used her first appearance as US Secretary of State before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to warn once again of "crippling sanctions" against Iran. Ever since she first uttered the phrase in April last year, "crippling sanctions" has been the benchmark for threats of international action against a defiant Tehran. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, repeated the mantra as he headed to Moscow this week to seek Russian support to halt Iran's suspected...

Identification of agents by Dubai police embarrasses Mossad

To have a dozen of your agents identified in police tapes after an extrajudicial killing is embarrassing. To have almost 30 operatives left with their covers blown — as appears to have happened after Dubai police released fresh details of the Hamas assassination last month — might be considered reckless. On the official website of Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, is the biblical verse from Prophets, 11:14 — “where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counsellors...

No settlement between US and Israel

Despite efforts to patch up the deepening row between Israel and America, it is unlikely that Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, will be able to avoid conflict with his country’s closest ally. Just as Israel’s deteriorating diplomatic ties with Turkey are linked to Ankara’s agenda of restoring its historical standing in the Muslim world, America has picked a fight in part because it fears the regional perception that it is soft on Israel will undermine its efforts to...

Chinese - US relationship Update

The message was delivered to the world in impeccable English by the fresh-faced Zhang Lu, who was translating the words of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at his annual press conference. After managing flawlessly to translate: "For the ideal that I hold dear to my heart, I would not regret a thousand times to die" and "My conscience stays unstained in spite of rumours and slanders from the outside", interpreting his more important words on the Chinese currency was relatively straight ...

Indonesia on Cyber Crisis

There are plenty of people in Indonesia who dislike the idea of the country’s new anti-pornography law, but few of them have quite so much to lose as the penis-gourd wearers of West Papua. The terms of the law, broad in the extreme, define pornography as “pictures, sketches, photos, writing, voice, sound, moving picture, animation, cartoons, conversation, gestures, or other communications shown in public with salacious content or sexual exploitation that violate the moral values...

African Culture turning British

The official second language has switched from French to English and is now taught in every school. The enthusiasm for cricket is burgeoning. Officials are even considering switching from driving on the right to the left. Last week the President of Rwanda was received by the Queen. His country’s flag was raised beside those of the other 53 members as Rwanda was welcomed into the Commonwealth, the newest member and one of only two never to have been ruled by Britain. Rwanda is one corner...

Hostage Released in Colombia

Leftist Colombian rebels Sunday released the first of two military hostages they have promised to free, with the liberation of the other -- one of this nation's longest-held hostages -- expected Tuesday.Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, released Josue Daniel Calvo, 23, to a team that included representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, a Brazilian helicopter crew and leftist Sen. Piedad Cordoba, a key intermediary in other FARC hostage...

Conflict in Congo

At least 321 people were killed and hundreds were abducted in one of the worst massacres by Africa’s most feared rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December. A three-year-old girl was burnt to death during the attack on men, women and children, an investigation by a human rights group has revealed. Villagers who escaped death were sent back with their lips and ears cut off as a warning to others of what would happen if they talked — a tactic...

Taylor Lautnerwon 2 Kids' Choice awards

Twilight star Taylor Lautner picked up two orange blimp trophies at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday. The 18-year-old actor was named favourite movie actor for his New Moon role as werewolf Jacob Black at the gala awards ceremony at the UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. He shared the inaugural cutest couple award with his co-star Kristin Stewart. Miley Cyrus, 17, snared the favourite movie actress blimp for her role in Hannah Montana: The Movie. The show's celebrities...

Reporters Speak With Missing Rights Lawyer in China

A Chinese human rights lawyer who has been missing for more than a year has told reporters he is living at a Buddhist landmark in northern China.Gao Zhisheng told reporters for Western news agencies by phone Sunday that he was living on Wutai mountain, a Buddhist landmark in Shanxi province.  The lawyer said he was free at the moment and that he wanted to "live a quiet life for a while."   Gao has not been seen since he was seized by police in February 2009 from his brother's...

Geely to buy Volvo

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group signed a binding deal Sunday to buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo Cars unit for $1.8 billion, representing a coup for the independent Chinese automaker that is aiming to expand in Europe. The purchase gives Geely a European luxury car brand with a reputation for safety and quality at a time when China, which last year surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest car market, is eager to improve its competitiveness by acquiring foreign automotive brands that might...

Obama in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, marking the end of a triumphant week at home with a secret flight and whirlwind tour to visit U.S. troops and Afghan officials. Obama arrived at Bagram Air Force Base north of Kabul at 7:25 pm Sunday local time - 10:55 am EDT Sunday - after an unscheduled 12-hour flight aboard Air Force One. It was his first visit as president and commander in chief of the war in Afghanistan and his second...

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