Italy’s leading trade union pulled tens of thousands onto the streets Saturday to protest against the social and economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing government.
According to union figures, 50,000 people demonstrated in the central region of Emilia-Romagna alone, another 30,000 in southern Naples, 20,000 in Sicily’s Palermo, 10,000 in northern Genoa as well as 15,000 in the capital itself.
when a government run monopoly has been such a financial disaster world wide?
Britain’s Treasury was conducting talks on Sunday aimed at rescuing the bank and said Alistar Darling, the finance minister, said he would make a statement before stock markets begin trading a day later.
The bank’s $44bn (£24bn) savings business and 200 branches could be sold off and $92bn (£50bn) of loans nationalised under plans being discussed, the BBC reported.
It was paintball and jihad, Dunkin’ Donuts and Osama bin Laden—terrorism come to suburbia.
And if the plot had been carried out, prosecutors say, the bodies of U.S. Army personnel would have been strewn across the fields of the Fort Dix military base.
Jury selection begins tomorrow for the trial of five foreign-born Muslims from the Philadelphia area charged with planning a jihad-inspired attack on the South Jersey military complex.
The arrests are thought to be linked to a fire at a property in Islington, north London, which is used as the home and office of publisher Martin Rynja.
His company, Gibson Square, recently agreed to publish a controversial novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride, entitled The Jewel of the Medina. The blaze, which led to people being evacuated from the house, may have been started by a petrol bomb pushed through the letter box.
Recently I migrated the site to a new server and service. It gave me an excuse to change the site after seven years.
Well they have had some problems recently. Growing pains. I know it was painful for me.
Looks like everything is back. Thanks for continuing to check in.
You might want to turn down the music.
Jorg Haider used to be Austria’s far-right scourge, the populist who could win elections. Now Heinz-Christian Strache, his former protege, has stepped into his shoes. The two men hate each other, but dissatisfaction among Austrian voters this Sunday could give them unprecedented power.
It’s not like this wasn’t predicted. So not the per person ticket cost will go from $34 up to $50. The ticket price will stay at $8.
South Africa’s Parliament chose the deputy president of the ruling ANC party, Kgalema Motlanthe, as interim president Thursday to replace outgoing President Thabo Mbeki, the African National Congress said.
Kgalema Motlanthe would remain in office until elections in South Africa next spring.
Mbeki resigned last weekend at the request of the ANC, which holds a majority in the National Assembly.
Motlanthe, a left-leaning intellectual with roots in South African labor unions, will be sworn in Thursday. He will remain in office until the general elections, now scheduled for April.
Somalia’s notorious pirates staged perhaps their most brazen attack yet, seizing a Ukrainian ship that could be carrying dozens of heavy tanks , maritime and diplomatic officials said on Friday.
The ship was seized Thursday night about 200 miles off the coast of Somalia, and it is feared that the heavy weapons could fall into the hands of insurgents who are wreaking havoc on a country teetering on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.
A pipe bomb that exploded late on Wednesday night outside the Jerusalem home of Zeev Sternhell, a Hebrew University professor, left him lightly wounded and created only a minor stir in a nation that routinely experiences violence on a much larger scale.
But Sternhell was noted for his impassioned critiques of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, once suggesting that Palestinians “would be wise to concentrate their struggle against the settlements.” And the authorities found fliers near his home offering nearly $300,000 to anyone who kills a member of Peace Now, a leftist Israeli advocacy group, leading them to suspect that militant Israeli settlers or their supporters were behind the attack.
I have no Idea where to go with this one.
The raids that took place on Thursday hit PKK sites in the Qandil mountains on the Iranian-Iraqi border, where the Turkish army says the outlawed group’s leaders are based.
The Yemeni Ministry of Interior has announced the arrest of a media cell affiliated with the Islamic Jihad in Yemen, the organization which claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the American embassy in Sana’a last week.
The attack, carried out by two vehicles including a car bomb, resulted in the death of seven Yemeni security guards, five citizens -including a Yemeni girl holding American citizenship- and five of the attackers, according to the latest official statistics.
War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević is expected to visit Albanian in October regarding an investigation into Kosovo kidnappings.
“There are positive signals coming from Tirana regarding our requests to allow an on-the-scene check of information which we have uncovered,” prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekarić said, confirming that the prosecutor is planning a trip to Albania in October.
Vekarić said that the prosecution is primarily investigating murders, while the trafficking of organs, which the murders are believed to be linked with, is of secondary interest.
... at least the ‘organ traffic’ part is.
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