Leading Palestinian officials have rounded on the Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for his description of Palestinians as an “invented” people and “terrorists”. The Republican frontrunner insisted at a candidate debate on Saturday – to warm applause from the audience – that “these people are terrorists. They teach terrorism in their schools. They have textbooks [...]
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December 11, 2011
December 8, 2011
Nasa’s Voyager 1 enters interstellar space
Nasa‘s Voyager 1 has entered uncharted territory on the border of our solar system and the remainder of the Milky Way. Scientists at the US space agency said the craft had gone into a region at the edge of the solar system, describing it as “a kind of cosmic purgatory”. Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist [...]
November 27, 2011
Pakistan Orders US Out of Airbase
Pakistan has ordered the United States to move out of an airbase on its territory, after shutting down NATO’s two main overland supply routes into Afghanistan. Popular anger is mounting in Pakistan after NATO’s killing of 24 Pakistani military personnel in a cross-border airstrike Saturday. American forces have been given 15 days to vacate the [...]
November 27, 2011
US-Pakistan Relations in a Post-bin Laden World
In the past 10 years, analysts say the United States has provided Pakistan with about $20 billion in military and civilian aid, making it the third-largest recipient of U.S. security aid and reimbursements after Afghanistan and Israel. Both sides also have cooperated in targeting Taliban and al-Qaida-linked militants sheltered in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous and remote northwest. However, anti-Americanism [...]
November 15, 2011
6 Somali Pirates on Trial in Paris
France has opened its first Somali piracy trial with six men appearing before a Paris court. The trial comes amid growing international efforts, both on- and off-shore, to crack down on Somali piracy. The six men are accused of taking a French couple hostage on their boat off the coast of Somalia in 2008. Two [...]
November 5, 2011
Israel Begins Deportation of Gaza Flotilla Activists
The Israeli government has started deportation procedures for a group of pro-Palestinian activists who tried to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Authorities said several activists and journalists, who had been on the boats, were flying home Saturday. More than 20 other people are still being processed. Israeli forces intercepted the activists’ two ships in international [...]
November 5, 2011
Israel Navy intercepts Gaza-bound aid vessels
November 4, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Israel Navy intercepts Gaza-bound aid vessels 04 Nov 2011 The Israel Navy on Friday afternoon intercepted two boats that approached the coast of the Gaza Strip with the intent to violate Israel’s naval blockade of the territory. After the boats failed to heed calls to turn around or dock [...]
November 2, 2011
Israel to speed up settlement construction in Jerusalem, West Bank
November 1, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Israel to speed up settlement construction in Jerusalem, West Bank –Official: Construction will take place in areas that are expected to be part of Israeli territory 01 Nov 2011 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for speeding up the construction of 2,000 housing units in East Jerusalem [...]
October 23, 2011
Regions and territories: Puerto Rico
Hispanic, Afro-Caribbean and North American influences meld in Puerto Rico, a self-governing commonwealth that belongs to the United States. The subtropical Caribbean territory is urbanised, industrialised and relatively prosperous. Overview Overview Facts Leaders Media The US invaded and occupied Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War of 1898, ending centuries of rule from Spain. The US [...]
October 4, 2011
Good can come of military force | Andrew Brown
Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union. In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons [...]
October 4, 2011
Tax havens: G20 has failed to crack down, says campaign group
The tax haven infrastructure that has enabled global financial crime and malpractice to flourish has barely been reformed, despite a pledge by the G20 leaders in 2009 to close it down, according to an index published by campaign group the Tax Justice Network. Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and the US are placed [...]