Russia Thursday proposed a new draft resolution condemning the violence in Syria, giving rise to hopes the U.N. Security Council will end its relative silence on the nine month crackdown on protestors. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States is ready to work with Moscow on the proposal. Officials here say the Russian [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
Court explains acquittal of Knox
15 December 2011 Last updated at 22:51 GMT Amanda Knox was cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia Lack of motive and faulty evidence led to the acquittal of Amanda Knox, an Italian court has said. Knox, 24, saw her conviction for the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher overturned on [...]
December 14, 2011
Sandusky skips Penn State hearing
13 December 2011 Last updated at 15:03 GMT Eight accusers gave evidence to a grand jury before Jerry Sandusky’s arrest A former US football coach at Penn State University has briefly appeared in court but waived his right to a hearing on child abuse charges. Jerry Sandusky, 63, will now face trial on charges of [...]
December 10, 2011
Is war with Iran inevitable?
As tensions between Iran and the west escalate, and US politicians call for regime change, Susanna Rustin talks to former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Iranian-British academic Abbas Edalat, founder of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, about Iran’s nuclear programme and the likelihood of war. Malcolm Rifkind: I do not [...]
December 9, 2011
Millions of drivers won’t hang up, study shows
Washington (CNN) — Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. A federal study says one in 20 drivers observed at any given moment is holding a mobile phone to his or her ear, and that almost one in 100 can be observed sending a text message or otherwise manipulating a digital device. At the typical daylight moment, [...]
December 9, 2011
Obama backs morning-after ruling
8 December 2011 Last updated at 20:36 GMT Kathleen Sebelius did not cite safety concerns as her reason for blocking the drug’s access US President Barack Obama has defended a decision by his administration to maintain age restrictions on sales of an emergency contraceptive pill. He said that as a father of two girls, he [...]
December 8, 2011
War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us | Seumas Milne
They don’t give up. After a decade of blood-drenched failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, violent destabilisation of Pakistan and Yemen, the devastation of Lebanon and slaughter in Libya, you might hope the US and its friends had had their fill of invasion and intervention in the Muslim world. It seems not. For months the evidence [...]
December 7, 2011
Military a Growing Terrorist Target, Lawmakers Warn
December 7, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Military a Growing Terrorist Target, Lawmakers Warn 06 Dec 2011 There is growing evidence that homegrown terrorists see military personnel and bases as legitimate, high-value targets, lawmakers said ahead of a joint session of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees on Wednesday. “People in uniform are symbols of [...]
December 6, 2011
Israel stole uranium from U.S., report will show
December 6, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Israel stole uranium from U.S., report will show 05 Dec 2011 A U.S.-based research institute will soon publish what it says is “indisputable” evidence that Israel stole weapons-grade uranium for its still-undeclared atomic weapons program from a nuclear reprocessing plant in western Pennsylvania. The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern [...]
December 2, 2011
Iranian TV station accused of faking reports of Somalia drone strikes
An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Press TV, which was fined £100,000 by Ofcom on Thursday after the station hid the fact that a 2009 “interviewee” was being forcibly detained in Iran, has reported the deaths [...]
December 1, 2011
November 24, 2011
FBI downplays water supply ‘hack’
23 November 2011 Last updated at 13:19 GMT Reports of a hacking attack raised fears about the security of the US water system US officials have cast doubt over reports that a water pump in Illinois was destroyed by foreign hackers. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said they had “found no evidence [...]
November 24, 2011
November 20, 2011
In DC, knowledge is not only power – it’s money, too | Ana Marie Cox
CBS’s 60 Minutes report on insider trading by members of Congress. Video: CBS It’s hardly the most important question that comes to mind when reviewing the evidence of congressmen buying and selling stock based on their knowledge of upcoming legislation, but I confess it’s the riddle that fascinates me the most: what counts as “inside [...]