Category: ENGLISH NEWS
Appeal denied: Troy Davis to be Executed Tonight at 7 p.m
(AP/HuffPost) ATLANTA — Yet another appeal denied, Troy Davis was left with little to do Tuesday but wait to be executed for a murder he insists he did not commit. He lost his most realistic chance to avoid lethal injection on Tuesday, when Georgia’s pardons board rejected his appeal for clemency. As his scheduled 7 [...]
Mass. balks at Arizona licenses
(Boston.com)State Police are investigating hundreds of people who converted Arizona driver’s licenses to Massachusetts licenses, according to a police spokesman, and since October the state has suspended the driving rights of 124 of them. Authorities said they have not found national security or identity fraud cases, but immigrants whose language barrier kept them from getting [...]
Norway ready to recognize a Palestinian state
(AP) OSLO, Norway — Norway’s foreign minister says the Scandinavian country will back Palestinian officials in their appeal to the U.N. for statehood.In a Facebook post late Saturday, Jonas Gahr Stoere wrote “Palestinians have the right to go to the U.N.” and Norway is “ready to recognize a Palestinian state.” He also urged for talks [...]
FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’
(WIRED.COM) By Spencer Ackerman The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.” At the Bureau’s training ground in Quantico, [...]
101-Year-Old Evicted Woman, Is Getting Home Back
DETROIT — A 101-year-old woman who was evicted from her longtime Detroit home after her 65-year-old son failed to pay the mortgage is getting it back, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said Wednesday. Texana Hollis was evicted Monday and her belongings were placed outside the home where she had lived for nearly [...]
Tanzania: Ship Sinks, Hundreds Killed
STONE TOWN, Tanzania — More than 240 people were killed when a crowded ferry sank off Tanzania’s coast and some 600 have been rescued, officials said Sunday, figures that indicate the boat was filled beyond capacity. Assistant police commissioner Mussa Ali Mussa, the head of police in Zanzibar, said Sunday that at least 240 people [...]
US ‘opposed Kenya on Somalia buffer zone” aka Jubaland
By KEVIN J. KELLY NATION Correspondent New York The United States strongly opposes Kenya’s effort to establish a buffer zone in southern Somalia, a leaked diplomatic cable shows. In the December 2009 message recently posted by WikiLeaks, a US State Department official is said to have “forcibly underscored” Washington’s concerns over reports that Kenya was [...]
Record: Salman Khan’s Bodyguard sprints to Rs 100cr mark in bollywood
(The Economic Times) NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding mixed reviews, Salman Khan’s Bodyguard has given Bollywood its biggest weekend. The movie, released last Wednesday, has grossed an estimated Rs 86 crore in the first four days of its screening in India, thereby surpassing the opening week net collections of previous Bollywood blockbusters such as Dabangg and 3 [...]
NATO Supported Libyan rebels round up black Africans
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift jails across the capital. Virtually all of the detainees say they are innocent migrant workers, and in most cases there [...]
Ivory Coast UN Peacekeepers Traded Food For Sex (Somalia too?)
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast enticed underage girls in a poor part of the West African nation to exchange sex for food, according to a United States Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks. The cable written in January 2010 focuses on the behavior of Beninese peacekeepers stationed in the western town [...]
Somali famine is local focus of concern
The humanitarian catastrophe spreading across Somalia took center stage in Minneapolis on Wednesday. During a 90-minute forum, Democratic congressional heavyweights spoke with members of the Twin Cities’ Somali-American community, the largest in the United States. The famine that has followed the drought in the Horn of Africa “has challenged the consciences of all humanity, and [...]
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says -MCLATCHY
By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of [...]
No relief for Somali refugees in Dadaab (has the world moved on?)
As Muslims around the world mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan and celebrate Eid Al-Fitr, many Somali Muslims will not be able to participate due to the ongoing famine in the Horn of Africa. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis, threatened by drought and civil war, have wound up at Dadaab - the world’s largest refugee camp. Situated on the [...]
Turkey sends water well drilling equipments to Somalia
A ship will set sail on Saturday to carry equipments to Somalia, Turkish Forestry and Water Works Minister Veysel Eroglu said on Friday.(World Bulletin) As part of recent campaign to help famine-stricken Somalia, Turkey will send water well drilling equipments to supply water for Somali people who have been fighting drought. A ship will set [...]
Islamophobia Roots Uncovered By New Report
By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) A small number of conservative foundations are propelling a handful of anti-Islamic activists who are fueling rising levels of Islamophobia, according to a report issued Friday (Aug. 26) by the left-leaning Center for American Progress. The 130-page report identifies seven conservative funders who between 2001 and 2009 gave [...]
LOVE….Gaddafi’s Crush On Condoleeza Rice Revealed (PHOTOS)
(Huffington Post) Among the many bizarre items uncovered as Libyan rebels ransacked Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli compound: an album filled with photos of former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The discovery was perhaps not surprising given Gaddafi’s much-professed admiration of Rice, MSNBC is noting. “I support my darling black African woman,” Gaddafi told al-Jazeera television [...]
New Graphic FDA Photos on Cigarette Packs
Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs: These are some of the images the federal government plans to use for larger, graphic warning labels on cigarette packages
King Abdullah starts fundraiser for Somali famine victims
Zawya newsinsiCuSof the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered a national fundraising campaign to alleviate the suffering of Somalis who have been hit by drought and famine. The campaign will be launched Monday. In a statement issued Saturday, King Abdullah urged Saudis to donate generously for the benefit of their Somali brethren. He quoted [...]
Somali rapper K’naan visits famine-struck homeland
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Somali-born rapper K’naan brought his waving flag back home Sunday, promising to help his countrymen as they struggle with a devastating famine that has killed tens of thousands of children. The rapper, who left Somalia as a child more than two decades ago to settle in Canada, made a brief visit [...]
Islamic Cooperation to Donate $350 million for Somalia Famine Relief
The Tripoli Post) The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, has promised to donate $350 million as a relief for famine that has hit Somalia. The decision was taken by the organisation’s memebrs during an emergency meeting in the Turkish city of Istanbul, on Wednesday. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, OIC’s Turkish general secretary, said in a press meeting [...]
Somali businesses warily return to war-hit market
The car-sized shell hole in the Hotel Fardoow’s second floor may deter some guests, but business is now returning warily to Mogadishu’s commercial heart after months of bloody battles. “Things were bad here, and the fighting was too heavy,” said Abdi Ali Nur, a store owner next to the hotel in Bakara, the sprawling network [...]
Watch: Indiana State Fair Stage Collapses, 4 killed
INDIANAPOLIS — At least four people were killed and dozens were injured Saturday night when stage rigging collapsed after an unexpected wind gust, trapping and injuring fans awaiting a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair, officials said. The fatality and injury count may rise, 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten of the Indiana State Police warned [...]
Pakistani Soldier Sentenced to Death For Shooting Unarmed Youth as He Begged for Mercy
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced to death a soldier who shot and killed an unarmed youth as he was begging for mercy – an incident that was caught on videotape and repeatedly broadcast on TV, triggering unusual public anger at the country’s powerful military. Five other soldiers and a civilian [...]
Man U Boss Urged fans to Support Somali Children
London, August 13 : Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has urged fans to support Somali children, who are grappling under a severe famine. “During the 90 minutes it will take to play the first match of the season, 15 children will die in Somalia,” Ferguson said. “When children are facing famine, because crops have [...]
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