By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing China says military competition in the Asia-Pacific region remains fierce China says the United States is increasing its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, which is becoming more “volatile”. It also says there has been a rise in operations directed against China. The views were made in China’s National [...]
Archives: March 2011
March 31, 2011
March 31, 2011
US subsidies to Boeing ‘illegal’
The dispute between Boeing and rival Airbus has been going on for six years US aircraft manufacturer Boeing received at least $5.3bn (£3.3bn) in unfair aid from Washington, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has concluded. The subsidies included money for research and development from the Nasa space agency, a panel of international trade judges has [...]
March 31, 2011
Gaddafi ‘not at breaking point’
Pro-Gaddafi forces are locked in a pattern of advances and retreats in the east Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi’s armed forces are not close to breaking point despite hundreds of allied air strikes, American military chiefs have said. Adm Mike Mullen told a US Congress committee Col Gaddafi’s troops still had 10 times the rebels’ firepower. [...]
March 31, 2011
March 31, 2011
Wake Up America! Obama Blessed by the Neocon’s…
Wake up America! Wake up America! Wake up America… “People who voted for Obama got 4 more years of Bush… ” How is that Change? Coffee Talk!
March 31, 2011
March 31, 2011
Carter criticises US Cuba policy
Raul Castro said Mr Carter’s visit was helpful Former US president Jimmy Carter – on a visit to Cuba – has criticised US policy towards the island. Mr Carter said the decades-long US trade embargo and travel ban damaged the Cuban people and hindered rather than helped reform. He also urged the Cuban government to [...]
March 31, 2011
Ohio passes ‘anti-union’ measure
Governor John Kasich says the measure is needed to try to close the state’s billion-dollar budget gap Legislators in the US state of Ohio have passed a bill that will severely limit the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers. The bill, which will affect teachers, nurses and other government workers, would allow unions to [...]
March 31, 2011
Top US judge fined over car crash
Justice Antonin Scalia can contest the ticket in court US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was given a traffic ticket after a four-car road crash in Washington DC. No one was injured in the shunt about 0900 local time (1400 GMT) on Tuesday. Mr Scalia, 75, was driving to work at the US Supreme Court, [...]
March 31, 2011
US in deadly hospital germ probe
The culprit: Serratia bacteria tend to spread in hospital patients’ respiratory and urinary tracts Federal officials are investigating an outbreak of a bacterial blood infection that killed nine patients and made 10 others ill in Alabama hospitals. The victims, already seriously ill, were stricken with Serratia marcescens bacteraemia this month. All had been given an [...]
March 30, 2011
Germany is no longer playing the Anglo-American game
Germany is no longer playing the Anglo-American game. We earlier cited the refusal to increase bailout aid and the proposal to cut proposed aid. That was followed by an abstention on the UN Security Council vote to impose a no-fly zone over Libya. The cohesion that bound the US, UK, France and Germany may well [...]
March 30, 2011
China ‘to overtake US on science’
China’s surge in progress could soon overwhelm the US, say experts China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country that invented the [...]
March 30, 2011
Facebook removes ‘intifada’ page
Israeli released a screen grab said to show the Facebook page before its removal Facebook has removed a page calling for a new Palestinian uprising against Israel after more than 350,000 people signed up to it. The page which appeared on the social networking site was called Third Palestinian Intifada after two previous uprisings against [...]
March 30, 2011
Jimmy Carter meets Raul Castro
Details of the meeting have not been made public Former US President Jimmy Carter has held private talks in Havana with Cuban leader Raul Castro. Earlier, Mr Carter said he had raised the case of imprisoned US contractor Alan Gross with Cuban officials. But he said he had not come to Cuba to secure the [...]