‘News’ Archives
Our view: Election integrity
It’s been disappointing this week to see the apparently baseless claims of a tainted electoral process in the Republican primary for U.S. senator. We shouldn’t have to tell any campaign that it ought not to cry election fraud, much less attack the integrity of an opponent, without a sound basis. Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller [Read More]
PA arrests dozens of Hamas operatives over fatal attack
Palestinian Authority security forces arrested over two hundred Hamas-affiliated suspects in the Hebron area overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, on suspicion of connection with a shooting attack in Kiryat Arba which left four Israelis hours earlier. The Hamas members were being investigated by the PA forces in an effort to locate suspects in the [Read More]
Obama Speech on Iraq War Also Turns to Economic Issues, Draws GOP Fire
President Obama’s Oval Office address Tuesday evening was timed to mark the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, though it also came two months before midterm congressional elections that could hinge on the state of the domestic economy — and Obama didn’t shy from drawing links and contrasts between the two. Obama portrayed [Read More]
NEPAL: Another blow to food security
KATHMANDU, 31 August 2010 -Farmers may reap as little as half of their normal harvests this year due to late monsoon rains in Nepal, a country constantly battling malnutrition and food insecurity, the World Food Program (WFP) warns. “What we’re concerned with is the mid and far west – the hills area,” said Dominique Hyde, [Read More]
Nepal’s food supply at risk
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 31 (UPI) — Nepal, already struggling with high levels of malnutrition and food insecurity, could see its harvests cut in half this year due to late monsoon rains, the World Food Program says. Of particular concern, said Dominique Hyde, deputy country director of WFP in Nepal, is the mid and far western [Read More]
Oval Office makeover: more taupe, same old desk
Washington D.C. August 31, 2010- The Oval Office has been redecorated! But it’s still, you know, oval. The fireplace is in the same place. It’s not that different, really. It wasn’t an extreme makeover, no matter what other people are saying. It was more of a refurbishment. Think of it as a notional episode of [Read More]
AP source: Unlikely that 2 men plotting terror
WASHINGTON — The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious items turned up in one of the men’s luggage is finding they were probably not on a test run for a future terror attack, a U.S. official said Tuesday, casting doubt on earlier suggestions even as Dutch authorities held the pair on [Read More]
Hurricane Earl menaces East Coast; set to soak Labor Day weekend
Tuesday, August 31st 2010, -Hurricane Earl began to menace the East Coast Tuesday, stirring up the seas and promising a soggy and potentially dangerous Labor Day weekend. The Category 4 storm is not expected to make landfall, but will howl up the Eastern Seaboard at week’s end, bringing high waves, soaking rains and damaging winds. [Read More]
‘Prostitute’ Carla Bruni deserves death Iranian Media said
TEHRAN August 31, 2010-A hardline Iranian newspaper stepped up its attack on French first lady Carla Bruni, saying on Tuesday that the “Italian prostitute” deserved to die for supporting an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning. “This Italian prostitute’s indignation at Kayhan’s report came while she has had illegitimate [Read More]
Earl hits Category 4, but course may change
Bahamas August 31, 2010-According to the National Weather Service, Earl’s maximum sustained winds surged to 135 miles per hour yesterday as it was about 100 miles north-northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Kevin Cadima, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, said the storm is moving north-northwest and is expected to be somewhere [Read More]
