Washingto: The Pentagon has created a vast database of millions of Americans as young as age 16, full of personal data such as grades and Social Security numbers, to help find potential military recruits, officials said on Thursday, in a program condemned by privacy advocates. The database contains information on U.S. high school students ages […]
BRUSSELS – European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso sowed fresh doubts on Wednesday about Turkey’s prospects of joining the EU, saying the bloc needed a serious debate about its future ties with Ankara. Barroso said the European Union should discuss the signal that French and Dutch voters had sent about Turkey’s accession when they rejected […]
WASHINGTON – Iran has among the strictest Internet censorship in the world, blocking access to sexual content, political websites, information on women’s rights and «blogs,» a study by Internet researchers showed Tuesday.(afp)
Det skjer mye i Midtøsten, regionen hvor alt var frosset langs klare frontlinjer i lang tid. Hariri jr. og den pro-nasjonale fronten har vunnet flertall i parlamentsvalget i Libanon, til tross for at Michel Aoun brøt ut og dannet allianser med pro-syriske grupper. Condi er på rundreise, og sjokkerte nok egypterne. Mener de virkelig det […]
«Please remember, absolutely no ranting and raving about Bush or Blair and the Iraq war. We want to bring Bush in, not run him away.» Bob Geldof
PARIS: A female French journalist is being expelled from Iraq, but the decision has yet to be formally announced by authorities here, the media rights group Reporters without Borders reported Tuesday. Anne-Sophie Le Mauff contacted the group, known by its French acronym RSF, to inform them of the measure, adding: «Iraqi interior ministry officials explained […]
Buenos Aires: Guillermo Suarez Mason, a former general in Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship who reportedly boasted ordering at least 50 killings a day, died Tuesday at age 81, media reports said. Suarez Mason had been in prison awaiting trial for the alleged stealing of babies from parents who were killed or disappeared during the military’s […]
I Irak går folket til valgurnene i tross mot opprørerne, og viser at de vil ha demokrati. I Iran stjeler prestestyret valget fra folket. Det spilles om en stor innsats i begge land. Maksimum 20 prosent av iranerne tilhører den ideologiske rene, uforsonlige linjen. Mahmood Ahmadi-Nejad mener Iran har vært for ettergivende overfor USA og […]
Chirac får huden full etter EU-nederlaget, også av sine egne: Han er «an old gentleman who does not really understand what is happening to him» … «He says nothing, he listens to conversation without hearing. I have never seen him like this.» «Under the headline «Chirac, sick man of Europe», Libération called Mr Chirac a […]
Islamabad: A key Taliban commander said that Al-Qaeda terror network chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar are both alive and in good health after more than three years on the run. «He is healthy, there is no problem, I would not comment further,» Mullah Akhtar Usmani said when asked about bin […]
