Khaled Al Ga’aeem, under-secretary of Libya’s foreign ministry, phoned Al Jazeera on Monday night. This is a translation of part of the subsequent conversation, which aired live.
Continue reading …The rumors of Moammar Gadhafi’s Venezuelan vacation are greatly exaggerated: The embattled Libyan leader made a bizarre, minute-long appearance on state TV at 2am local time, declaring, “I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. Do not believe the channels belonging to stray dogs.” Gadhafi appeared in a small vehicle,…
Continue reading …To most of us, he’s “the former president,” “Bill Clinton,” or maybe “Bubba.” But to Chris Matthews on this Presidents’ Day, Clinton is President of the World, the name of his much ballyhooed, frenetic TV special airing tonight at 10pm. Taking a look at the decade since Clinton left office,…
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David Cameron meets military rulers of Egypt. He said last year that trade should be a top foreign policy priority Steve Bell
Continue reading …North Carolina today charged Elisa Baker with second-degree murder, alleging that she alone brutally killed and dismembered her freckle-faced stepdaughter, Zahra Baker. Autopsy results released today show the 10-year-old died of “undetermined homicidal violence,” and the Charlotte Observer reports that several bones had not been recovered, including her head.
Continue reading …In Tennessee, an attempt to merge two school systems has turned into a full-blown fight, studded with accusations of racism. The struggling Memphis City Schools system, comprised of 85% black students, wants to force a merger with the more successful suburban school district in surrounding Shelby County, which is only…
Continue reading …Tea Partiers are taking their fight to state halls around the country, and Justin Elliott over at Salon rounds up some of the more creative pieces of legislation they’ve put on the table. Without ado: Yay, global warming: Montana not only wants to proclaim that global warming is a natural…
Continue reading …It’s a grisly and mysterious effort: Japan today began excavations at a former army medical school—in the search for human remains linked to the military’s shadowy Unit 731. It ran a notorious World War II program that allegedly conducted live experiments on foreign prisoners of war, most of them…
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