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 (Mar 05 2010) - Huffington Post : Vatican Hit By Gay Sex Scandal
ITALY -- The Vatican has been thrown into chaos by reports that one of the Pope's ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the elite Vatican choir, were running a homosexual prostitution ring. The allegations came to light after Italian newspapers published transcripts of phone calls recorded by police, who had been conducting an unrelated corruption investigation. The tapes appear to record Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem ...
(Mar 04 2010) - Norway Post : Norway requests Iranian diplomat to leave
NORWAY -- Norway has requested an Iranian diplomat to leave the country, after Iran had first asked a Norwegian diplomat to leave Iran. This was a protest against Norway granting asylum to an Iranian diplomat. (Photo: Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre) On 24 February, the Norwegian Ambassador in Teheran was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry. During the meeting he was given an official note and a letter addressed to Foreign Minister Støre, in which Iran protested against Norway having granted asylum to Mohammed Reza Heydari.
(Mar 03 2010) - Bangkok Post : Nissan recalls nearly 540,000 vehicles
JAPAN -- Nissan Motor said Wednesday it would recall nearly 540,000 vehicles worldwide, most of them in the United States, due to brake pedal defects and faulty fuel gauges. Nissan, Japan's third-largest carmaker and partnered with France's Renault, said it plans "to inspect and, if necessary, repair brake pedal pins and fuel-gauge components on certain trucks and minivans. No accidents or injuries have been reported with these issues," it added.
(Mar 02 2010) - Yorkshire Post : Coldest winter since '79 confirmed
UNITED KINGDOM -- The UK winter has been the coldest for more than 30 years, according to Met Office figures. The mean UK temperature was 1.5C (34.7F), the lowest since 1978/79 when it was 1.2C (34.16F), the organisation said. The mean is worked out by taking the average of the daytime maximum temperature and night time minimum over a 24-hour period.
(Mar 01 2010) - Jerusalem Post : Benizri asks for presidential pardon
ISRAEL -- Shlomo Benizri, the Shas politician who served as minister of health and minister of labor and welfare before being sentenced to four years in jail last year, asked President Shimon Peres on Sunday to pardon him. Benizri, who was convicted of accepting a bribe, fraud, breach of faith and obstruction of justice, has been in jail so far for less than six months. In the letter to Peres, which was included in a request for a pardon drawn up by Benizri’s lawyers, Yehoram Malka and Avi Himi, the attorneys wrote ...
(Feb 28 2010) - Copenhagen Post : Paper apologises for Mohammed cartoons
DENMARK -- Danish newspaper enters deal with organisations and offers apology for offending them with images of the Prophet Mohammed. Politiken newspaper, one of 11 Danish newspapers that reprinted the Mohammed cartoons, has issued an apology to eight Muslim organisations for offending them in exchange for dropping future legal action against the newspaper. The settlement reached between the paper and the organisations does not, however, apologise for the printing of the cartoons, nor prevent the paper from reprinting them in the future.
(Feb 27 2010) - Saturday Evening Post : The Wild Heart of Sam Houston
U.S.A. -- Sam Houston’s birthday on March 2 prompted us to search our archives for contemporary accounts of the charismatic statesman. The Post ran several stories between 1825 and 1861 that reflect the erratic progress of Houston’s career and personal life. As a boy, Houston fled his fatherless family to live among the Cherokee in Tennessee. By 1812, he returned to the white community to join Andrew Jackson’s struggles against the British and their American Indian allies
(Feb 27 2010) - Jakarta Post : 8.8-magnitude earthquake hits Chile
SANTIAGO -- A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake capable of tremendous damage struck central Chile early Saturday, shaking the capital for a minute and a half and setting off a tsunami. Buildings collapsed and phone lines and electricity were down, making the extent of the damage difficult to determine. At least 6 people were killed, President Michele Bachelet said. "We have had a huge earthquake," Bachelet said, speaking from an emergency response center in an appeal for Chileans to remain calm.
(Feb 26 2010) - Patriot Post : ObamaCare in the Emergency Room
WASH D.C. -- There are no two ways about it -- the health care summit that took place Thursday in Washington was a sham and a farce. But it's a fitting chapter for the bill being debated. Barack Obama invited various congressmen to join him for a "discussion" about his latest health care takeover plot, which looks an awful lot like last year's Senate proposal, only more expensive.
(Feb 25 2010) - Krakow Post : Poland Admits Aiding CIA
POLAND -- After two human rights groups revealed evidence that showed U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) rendition planes landing in Poland in 2003, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency has admitted for the first time that Poland played a role in the controversial program.
On 22 February, the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights released flight records showing that airplanes involved in the U.S. government's CIA extraordinary rendition program had landed on Polish soil at least six times between February and September 2003.
(Feb 24 2010) - Frontier Post : Toll of US dead in Afghanistan hits 1,000
WASH D.C. -- The number of US soldiers who have died in Afghanistan reached 1,000 on Monday, according to website icasualties.org, a grim milestone in the war launched more than eight years ago. The independent website, which tracks military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, said 54 US soldiers have died in Afghanistan so far this year, compared with a toll of 316 last year -- the worst since the US-led invasion of 2001. The top-ranking US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, warned of more casualties as US-led forces press an offensive in Marjah, a key Taliban stronghold, where foreign troops have faced strong militant resistance.
(Feb 23 2010) - Financial Post : Toyota faces grilling in Congress
WASH D.C. -- Toyota Motor Corp's president braced for tough questions from a U.S. congressional panel on Wednesday after the Japanese automaker conceded it had let safety standards slip and could still not explain most incidents of unintended acceleration. The pressure was set to increase after Japan's transport regulator said it would look into 38 reports of unintended acceleration with Toyota cars over three years, the first official probe into the issue in its home market
(Feb 22 2010) - Global Post : Beijing wants to play war in Thailand
THAILAND -- In early February, 6,000 U.S. marines and sailors staged the planet’s largest war games in Thailand, which hosted two weeks of beach storming, mock hostage rescues and live-fire drills. This 29-years-running exercise, called “Cobra Gold,” is America’s largest display of military might in Asia. It is also the envy of Chinese generals, who now have their own plans to play war in U.S.-allied Thailand. The Chinese have proposed a 2010 rebuff to Cobra Gold: an all-expenses paid buffet of air, naval and land drills throughout Thailand’s jungles and coasts
(Feb 21 2010) - Christian Post : Florida School Sued over Prayer Ban
FLORIDA -- A Christian legal group announced on Saturday that it will sue a Florida county school district in an attempt to restore the rights of faculty to pray. The lawsuit comes in response to a federal judge's ruling on Friday that rejected a Christian educators association's motion to overturn a consent order between the Santa Rosa School District and the American Civil Liberties Union. The decree bars school officials from "promoting, advancing, endorsing, participating in, or causing Prayers" and from "orally express[ing] personal religious beliefs to students during or in conjunction with instructional time or a School Event."
(Feb 20 2010) - Filipino Post : Inside China’s booming hacker industry
CANADA -- Chinese websites sell hackers all sorts of Trojan horse programmes and other malicious software designed to penetrate computer security systems. Online gaming in China alone presents hackers with a market whose value, according to a recent estimate by the state broadcaster CCTV, is 10 billion yuan annually. Using Trojan software secretly implanted in targeted computers, hackers steal users’ personal information and game accounts and logins and then transfer valuable, hard-won virtual items and sell them via online sites. Meanwhile, non-hackers dip deep into their pockets to stay competitive in the online games.
(Feb 19 2010) - China Post : China protests Obama meeting with Dalai Lama
BEIJING -- China on Friday protested President Barack Obama's meeting with Dalai Lama, saying Washington had interfered in Chinese domestic affairs and demanding that the U.S. take steps to improve ties.
Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai summoned U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman to lodge a "solemn representation" over Thursday's meeting at the White House, the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site. "The behavior of the U.S. side seriously interferes in China's internal politics ..."
(Feb 18 2010) - New York Post : Goldman's Greek grab
NEW YORK -- Global leaders are bearing down on Goldman Sachs, demanding to know whether the firm helped cover up Greece's cash crisis in order to peddle $15 billion in government IOU's to unsuspecting investors. Outrage swelled yesterday following new reports that Wall Street's most profitable bank concocted financial transactions in 2001 that allowed Greece to sweep its debt troubles under the rug, making its bonds seem like safe bets. At the same time, Goldman was selling $15 billion of Greece's government bonds and IOUs to clients without disclosing Athens' deficit, according to reports.
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