TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces entered the pro-Muammar Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid on Sunday and raised Libya’s new flag, a senior military commander said. “We have reached the city center (of Bani Walid) and have raised the flag,” Colonel Abdullah…
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces entered the pro-Muammar Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid on Sunday and raised Libya’s new flag, a senior military commander said. “We have reached the city center (of Bani Walid) and have raised the flag,” Colonel Abdullah…
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BANGKOK, Thailand-The government expressed confidence Sunday that Bangkok will escape Thailand’s worst flooding in decades, as the capital’s elaborate barriers held strong and floodwaters receded from submerged plains to the north. Agriculture Minister Theera Wongsamut said the largest mass of runoff water flowing southward had passed through Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river and into the Gulf of Thailand, and that the river’s levels would rise no higher. He stopped short of saying the threat to Bangkok had passed…
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Israel on Sunday published the official list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released on Tuesday in the first stage of a deal for the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit. The list of 450 Palestinian men and 27 women was published by Israel’s justice ministry on the website of the Israel Prisons Service, to give the public 48 hours to lodge any legal appeals against…
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Paris – Francois Hollande convincingly won the French Socialist Party’s presidential primary election on Sunday to become the candidate who will try to unseat Nicolas Sarkozy next April and return a Socialist to the Elysee Palace for the first time in 17 years. With about two-thirds of votes counted, Hollande’s victory in a runoff ballot against Martine Aubry was resounding, with his score topping 56 percent. “I will invest all my strength and energy to ensure that he is the president of France seven months from…
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When police fired tear gas canisters and water cannons at Italian “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, it evoked another violent and deadly demonstration against Wall Street. Evidently, a peaceful demonstration in Rome against corporate greed and in solidarity with the New York Occupy Wall Street Movement turned violent as some protesters started to smash windows belonging to multinational storefronts. Others threw rocks and incendiary devices at financial buildings in response to severe austerity measures. Back in 1920, an Italian-American immigrant and an anarchist named Mario Buda parked a horse-drawn wagon near Wall Street and the House of…
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When police fired tear gas canisters and water cannons at Italian “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, it evoked another violent and deadly demonstration against Wall Street. Evidently, a peaceful demonstration in Rome against corporate greed and in solidarity with the New York Occupy Wall Street Movement turned violent as some protesters started to smash windows belonging to multinational storefronts. Others threw rocks and incendiary devices at financial buildings in response to severe austerity measures. Back in 1920, an Italian-American immigrant and an anarchist named Mario Buda parked a horse-drawn wagon near Wall Street and the House of…
Continue reading …Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When police fired tear gas canisters and water cannons at Italian “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, it evoked another violent and deadly demonstration against Wall Street. Evidently, a peaceful demonstration in Rome against corporate greed and in solidarity with the New York Occupy Wall Street Movement turned violent as some protesters started to smash windows belonging to multinational storefronts. Others threw rocks and incendiary devices at financial buildings in response to severe austerity measures. Back in 1920, an Italian-American immigrant and an anarchist named Mario Buda parked a horse-drawn wagon near Wall Street and the House of…
Continue reading …International negotiators have called on ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, to renounce violence and for the Spanish and French governments to engage in talks with the group if it does so. The request, made after a conference on the conflict in the Spanish city of San Sebastien on Monday, falls short of the Spanish government’s demand that ETA be dissolved entirely. “The government reiterates that what the terrorist group ETA should do is definitively abandon violence, that is it,” said Jose Blanco, a spokesman for the government. ETA has been listed as a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States, and is blamed for the deaths of at least 829 people in its…
Continue reading …International negotiators have called on ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, to renounce violence and for the Spanish and French governments to engage in talks with the group if it does so. The request, made after a conference on the conflict in the Spanish city of San Sebastien on Monday, falls short of the Spanish government’s demand that ETA be dissolved entirely. “The government reiterates that what the terrorist group ETA should do is definitively abandon violence, that is it,” said Jose Blanco, a spokesman for the government. ETA has been listed as a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States, and is blamed for the deaths of at least 829 people in its…
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