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i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - Migrants are being denied the opportunity to land in Europe and receive much-needed humanitarian assistance. They are also exposed once again to the violence and abuse endured while trying to reach Italy.Rome - New Italian government policies to curb the influx of migrants have led to a sharp decrease in the number of migrants and refugees arriving by...
Gadling (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Africa , Europe , North America , Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Morocco , South Africa , Iceland , United States , Ecotourism , Travel Deals After a year of "travel slumps," " staycations " and other cringeworthy words and conditions, let's plan to get out on the road next year. Hey, economists are saying that the recession's already over, and the job market's recovery...
Solomonia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three months ago today, the 'terminally ill' Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, was released from prison on 'compassionate grounds' and returned home to cheering throngs in Libya. It was said he had three months to live. So...? I mean if...
Citizens Against ProObama Media Bia (Free subscription) | yesterday
November 18, 2009 Source: UK Mirror What was Gaddafi doing in Rome? Attending a world food summit. What did he do while he was there? Ordered 500 women from an online escort agency. Requirements: At least 5′ 7″ tall, between 18 to 35. Why were they summoned? Ostensibly to be taken back to Libya with him. [His bodyguards are women who are supposedly virgins. [...]
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bennie van Zyl says they're needed back home, and they would be crazy to go The fact that South Africa has farmers to export is somewhat bizarre - the country's population is 48 million and rising, while a small coterie of 37 000 farmers provides fo od not only for this number of people but for the surrounding African states as well. It is a very thin line. This achievement is arg uably unsurpassed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is apparently still alive Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the families of American victims of the Lockerbie bombing have reignited a row over the medical advice that allowed him to be freed early from his 27-year sentence. Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds from prison...
Alter Ego (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despite protestations from the SNP Government in Edinburgh about the quality of the advice they received concerning Mr Al Megrahi’s medical condition he would still appear to be alive and well, living in Libya. Having depended so heavily on the evidence that he should be released on compassionate grounds, as he had less than three months [...]
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | yesterday
[The following is an excerpt from a review on the Morning Star website by Brendan Montague of the recently-published history of MI5 The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew.] The secret service has enjoyed billions of pounds of funding since its formation 100 years ago and would like us to think that it has hired the finest young men and occasional woman from Oxbridge. However, an agent with...
Daniel1979 Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It has been three months since Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison and sent home to Libya to see out the final three months of his life in his home country. Today, Al-Megrahi lives, and according to Guido has been discharged from the medical centre that was treating him. Seems he is not so close to death after all. The Governments in Westminster and Edinburgh have lied...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not So Much You'd think that a guy who looks like this.. and who maintains a rather fetish-y all-female security team, would be an unserious sort, given to hedonism and self-indulgence. Well, yeah, but not full-time, apparently. 200 Italian women responded to this ad: "Seeking 500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches) tall, well-dressed but not...
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sen Charles Schumer said Thursday that the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber should be transferred back to a Scottish prison. Schumer (D-NY) said the terminally ill Libyan bomber released last summer has lived longer than the three months upon which his release was contingent. (...) “The bottom line is Megrahi should have never been released in the first place, but it would be even more outrageous if...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Charles Taylor did not support plans to attack Sierra Leone while he was in Libya, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today while being cross-examined by the prosecution.
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jasmine Anderson November 19, 2009 10:23pm 25 years ago a British journalist was kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Lebanon. But today a body was found and it is claimed to be the British journalist, Alec Collett. Collett was a free lance journalist commissioned by the UN Relief and Works Agency. He was sent to write about refugee camps in Palestine. While at the Beirut airport, he was abducted...
Asian Gazette (Free subscription) | yesterday
[pba] A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Burma on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. The 192-nation General Assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights issues, approved a resolution on North Korea 97-19 with 65 abstentions. A similar resolution on Burma (Myanmar) passed 92-26 with 65 abstentions....
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was only 90 days ago that we were told that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi had only three months to live. Well he lives and breathes today. Officials in Libya last week confirmed that Megrahi had been discharged from Tripoli Medical Centre. Colonel Gaddafi’s regime has publicly declared its hope that “a miracle from God” [...]
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