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Norwegian scientists detect mutated form of swine flu
Scientists in Norway announced Friday they had detected a mutated form of the swine flu virus in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill.
Read article...The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won’t)
Sure, the quote in the over-title is only my fantasy. No one in Washington — no less President Obama — ever said, “This administration ended, rather than extended, two wars,” and right now, it looks as if no one in an official capacity is likely to do so any time soon.
Read article...China ramps up espionage against US: study
China is sharply stepping up espionage against the United States as the rising Asian power grows more sophisticated in cyber warfare and spy recruitment, a report to Congress warned Thursday.
Read article...US concerned about definition of aggression as international crime
A United States ambassador said Thursday that Washington was concerned about how aggression will be defined as an international crime.
Read article...Obama admits Guantanamo won’t close by Jan. deadline
President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline he set, but he said he hoped to still achieve that goal sometime next year.
Read article...Franco-German EU presidency pact revealed as leaders prepare to choose a candidate
France and Germany have joined forces to throw their weight behind Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy for Europe’s first president.
Read article...White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving
President Barack Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said on Thursday.
Read article...Obama renews threats against Iran
US President Barack Obama says the door is still open for Iran to accept the IAEA-backed proposal on a nuclear fuel deal but warned of “consequences” if Tehran does not change its mind.
Read article...Top US officer: We have until May to reconsider Iraq drawdown plan
The top US military officer in Iraq warned on Wednesday of attacks in the run-up to an expected January general election and said he would ask Washington to alter troop drawdown plans if necessary.
Read article...CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week.
Read article...Doctors say most Britons reject swine flu vaccine
More than half of Britons being offered vaccination against pandemic H1N1 flu are turning it down because they fear side-effects or think the virus is too mild to bother, a survey of doctors showed on Wednesday.
Read article...Gen. Wesley Clark calls for exit from Afghanistan
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark — the onetime Democratic candidate for president — told Congress Tuesday in little-reported remarks that the United States should begin planning for an exit from Afghanistan.
Read article...Police prevent teen high school massacre
A 13-year-old French boy set out on Tuesday to mow down his teachers with a shotgun but abandoned the plan when he arrived at the school and found it surrounded by police, officials said.
Read article...Developing nations outstrip rich on greenhouse gases
DEVELOPING countries now emit more greenhouse gas than rich countries, according to a study that will intensify demands for all countries to set targets for cutting emissions.
Read article...Poll: Majority in US now see Afghan war as not worth fighting
Support for the US mission in Afghanistan has slipped to a new low, with 44 percent of Americans now saying the war there has been worth the cost, according to a recently released poll.
Read article...UN nuclear chief in secret talks with Iran over deal to end sanctions
United Nations and Iranian officials have been secretly negotiating a deal to persuade world powers to lift sanctions and allow Tehran to retain the bulk of its nuclear programme in return for co-operation with UN inspectors.
Read article...Propaganda attack on Iran?
Former Rep. Bob Ney was forced to resign in 2006 ostensibly over his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, but new evidence shows that Ney had ties to Iran and former President Mohammad Khatami.
Read article...Army tells its soldiers to ‘bribe’ the Taleban
British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday.
Read article...Attacking Iran over nuclear ambitions ‘would make world more dangerous’
Sir Richard Dalton, a former British ambassador to Iran, has warned against attacking the country over its nuclear ambitions, saying doing so would “make the world a more dangerous place”.
Read article...Australia ’sorry’ for child abuse
Australian PM Kevin Rudd has apologised to the hundreds of thousands of people, some British migrants, who were abused or neglected in state care as children.
Read article...India puts nuclear plants on alert – report
India has put its nuclear power plants under alert and tightened security around them after intelligence about possible attacks, a report said on Monday.
Read article...Iraqi claims sexual abuse by British soldiers: report
British troops forced an Iraqi detainee to wear an orange jump suit and told him that he was to be executed at Guantanamo Bay camp, according to allegations published in a newspaper on Monday.
Read article...Medvedev says Russia to step up navy presence in world’s oceans
Russia plans to increase its naval presence in the world’s oceans, President Dmitry Medvedev said on board a Russian warship during an official visit to Singapore on Monday.
Read article...British scientists testing Ukrainian ’super flu’ that has killed 189 people
British scientists are examining the strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to see if the virus has mutated.
Read article...Chavez asking Cubans to ‘bomb clouds’ amid drought
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to “bomb clouds” to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing.
Read article...World leaders back delay to final climate deal
U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action.
Read article...Obama Says Time Running Out for Iran in Negotiations
President Barack Obama said time is running short for Iran to accept terms of a deal offered by international negotiators seeking to prevent the Islamic republic from building a nuclear weapon.
Read article...China dissidents ‘detained ahead of Obama visit’
China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP Saturday.
Read article...Islamabad demands US end drone attacks
Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff tells visiting US advisor on National Security that Washington should put an end to drone attacks in his country.
Read article...Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja
Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting.
Read article...Chavez warns of US war against Venezuela
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has renewed his charges that the US and Colombia have sealed a “devil’s pact” to wage war against Venezuela.
Read article...Ukraine; Virus Is Mixture Of H1N1 And Parainfluenza, Causes Cardiopulmonary Failure; Indicates BioWeapon
Professor Victor Bachinsky, PhD., is a coroner in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine. He provides evidence which indicates that parainfluenza mixed with the H1N1 virus, not pneumonic plague, has caused so much illness in Ukraine. Yet more strains of influenza which have combined, a strong indication that we are dealing with a laboratory developed bio-weapon.
Read article...NWO Puppet Eric Holder: 9/11 Patsies Will Have Show Trial
AG-Eric Holder talks about a show trial to reinforce the lie known as the inside job of 9/11 – for clueless idiot that still believe 9/11 was orchestrated by a Bush business partner in a cave.
Read article...300 Seat Airliner Crash Test will Prove Official 9/11 Story False
We learned today that Channel 4 plans to smash a 300 seat passenger jet into the desert filled with data collection sensors and video cameras as a scientific experiment as reported in the Guardian.
Read article...Swine flu: Some pregnant women shunning H1N1 vaccine
For months, Rachel Aguayo, who is pregnant with her first child, has been bombarded with messages urging her to be among the first in line for the H1N1 flu vaccine.
Read article...Quantitative Easing Has Been A Monetary Failure; Persistent Deflation Means More Fed Intervention Coming Soon
As more and more pundits discuss the spectre of inflation, with gold flying to all time highs which many explain as an inflation hedge, not to mention stock price performance which is extrapolating virtual hyperinflation, the market “truth” as determined by Fed Fund futures and options is, and continues to be, diametrically opposite.
Read article...Feds to seize 36-story NYC skyscraper, 4 mosques belonging to Iran-linked group
US federal prosecutors said Thursday they were moving to seize four mosques and a 36-story New York skyscraper from a non-profit Muslim group suspected of having ties to the Iranian government.
Read article...US envoy to Kabul urges against new troops: report
The US envoy to Afghanistan has written memos to Washington expressing deep concern over possible deployment of thousands of new troops to the country, US media said Wednesday, citing senior US officials.
Read article...Quebec nationalists interrupt Prince Charles tour
Prince Charles’s official visit to Canada has been marred by anti-monarchy protests as a group of Quebec nationalists clashed with riot police during a demonstration in Montreal.
Read article...Is China headed toward collapse?
The conventional wisdom in Washington and in most of the rest of the world is that the roaring Chinese economy is going to pull the global economy out of recession and back into growth.
Read article...Bush torture ‘architect’ sits on court that will rule on another torture ‘architect’
John Yoo, the former Bush administration lawyer who gained notoriety for penning a number of the so-called “torture memos” justifying the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorism suspects, has filed an appeal of a lawsuit against him with a court on whose bench sits another torture “architect” from the Bush administration.
Read article...Iran president vows defence of nuclear assets: report
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Wednesday that his country would defend its nuclear facilities, while adding that Iran wanted to cooperate over its controversial nuclear drive, state media reported.
Read article...US wants more Nato troops for new Afghanistan surge
President Obama is to ask members of Nato to provide up to 4,000 more troops to help to break the deadlock in Afghanistan.
Read article...Czech officers caught wearing Nazi symbols in Afghanistan – report
Two commanders of the Czech rapid reaction brigade are facing disciplinary actions after reports surfaced that they had Nazi symbols on their helmets during their deployment in Afghanistan.
Read article...Brazil’s largest cities hit by blackout
A major electricity outage left tens of millions of people in Brazil’s two biggest cities without power on Tuesday night due to problems with the transmission lines that connect to the massive Itaipu dam.
Read article...British soldier faces 10 years in jail after being arrested during anti-war demonstration
A soldier facing charges of desertion for refusing to return to Afghanistan has been arrested and charged with five further offences after joining an anti-war demonstration.
Read article...Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
Read article...US threatens Iran again with ‘all option’ scenario
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has once again threatened Iran, warning that Washington has kept every option on the table when it comes to halting Tehran’s nuclear program.
Read article...Obama: US military presence serves Japan
US President Barack Obama, who is due to travel to Japan this week, says the presence of US military bases in the country is in the interest of the nation.
Read article...Korean naval ships clash at sea
A South Korean warship has exchanged fire with a North Korean naval vessel, reports from both countries say.
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