Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, have made an unprecedented public vow to work together to promote democratic reforms in the isolated and repressive south Asian state. Ending a historic three-day visit to Burma, the first by a US secretary of state in more than [...]
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December 2, 2011
November 17, 2011
Stop the tar sands destruction – outlaw this ecocide | Polly Higgins
Imagine this: ecocide is already a crime. Pipelines will no longer exist because we shall no longer be extracting oil. Instead, governments will be granting permits for clean energy solutions. Oil will no longer be part of our energy strategy – instead of pipelines for oil we will be building supergrids for clean energy to [...]
November 10, 2011
Vancouver takes legal action to shut down Occupy tent city
November 8, 2011 by walden9 ShareThis Vancouver takes legal action to shut down Occupy tent city 08 Nov 2011 Vancouver officials launched legal action to shut down the Occupy Vancouver tent city Monday, in the latest effort to dislodge the protesters’ camp from the city land it has occupied for more than three weeks. Vancouver [...]
October 23, 2011
Pakistan Forces Indian Helicopter to Land
Pakistan says it has forced an Indian military helicopter to land for allegedly violating Pakistani airspace and has detained the four-member Indian crew. Pakistani authorities say the helicopter entered Pakistani airspace Sunday in the northern Skardu region, near Indian-administered Kashmir. Investigations are underway as to why the helicopter flew across the border. A Pakistani army [...]
October 23, 2011
Fatal dose ‘not down to Jackson’
21 October 2011 Last updated at 02:34 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Dr Steven Shafer: ”The possibility of a direct self-injection seems extremely unlikely” Michael Jackson was so heavily sedated shortly before he died that he could not have self-administered an additional, lethal dose of the sedative propofol, a medical [...]
October 6, 2011
Sarah Palin in her own words
“They’re our next-door neighbours and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.“ – Palin explains that she is fit for high office because the proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her solid foreign policy experience (2008). “How’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out for [...]
October 3, 2011
Turbulence causes injuries in 2 flights that land in Boston
(CNN) — Severe turbulence contributed to injuries aboard two flights that landed in Boston, authorities said Sunday. In the first incident, seven people were hurt aboard a JetBlue Airways flight from Puerto Rico to Boston, authorities said. Six of those hurt suffered back or neck injuries, said Boston’s Logan Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella. The other [...]