The Olympic flame is due to be handed over to organisers of the London Games at a ceremony in Athens. Since it was lit in Olympia on 10 May the flame has been carried in a week-long relay across Greece. After receiving the flame in the Panathenaic Stadium, a British delegation including David Beckham will flyRead More
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Plans to strike Iran ready, says US Israel envoy
Washington: US plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is “fully available”, the US ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear arms. Like Israel, the United States has said it considers military force a last resortRead More
Sikhs in turbans can now serve Washington police
Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans and other religious items while on the job. The new uniform policy announced by Washington DC police Chief Cathy Lanier Wednesday makes it the first major metropolitan police department in the US to permit Sikhs to maintain their articles of faith. Developed withRead More
Chinese in bold call for official’s removal
Communist Party veterans write open letter for the sacking of security chief Zhou Yongkang. “It has been known for some time there has been a power struggle between the reformers and the new-leftists who are calling for the return of the old Maoist ideals.” http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/05/201251701345290712.html
Teen Killed During Cambodia Land Eviction Protest
PHNOM PENH - A 14-year-old girl was shot and killed on Wednesday following a violent land eviction in the Cambodian countryside. The shooting happened as armed police tried to clear roughly 1,000 villagers from their land in the northeastern province of Kratie, according to rights groups. According to witnesses, officers fired live ammunition against theRead More
Greece’s interim Cabinet to be sworn in
Women try to salvage their belongings after a fire in a slum at Shyamoli in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters)
Chávez vs. Putin By FRANCISCO TORO
Vladimir Putin? Hugo Chávez? Both fit the description. Yet while many in the West tend to see through the thin veneer of democracy that Putin has pasted over his autocratic rule of Russia, they fail to see the Venezuelan version so clearly. Why is that? http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/why-are-westerners-softer-on-chavez-than-putin/?hpw
Filipino Militants Free Kidnapped Malaysian
Philippine officials say a Malaysian man has been freed by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants after a year of jungle captivity in the country’s south. Sulu provincial Gov. Abdusakur Tan said Wednesday that Mohammad Nazarudin bin Saidin was released by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants in his province on Friday. It was not immediately clear if any ransomRead More
Taiwan scholar anticipates calm in China-Philippines conflict
China‘s announcement of a two-and-a-half-month fishing moratorium in the South China Sea, which will start on May 16, is expected to ease a standoff between China and the Philippines over a disputed atoll in the area, a Taiwan researcher said Monday. Song Yann-huei, head of the South China Sea research group at Academia Sinica, said heRead More