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in the
Middle East. "Don't you think that
continuation of genocide by expelling
Jews from Europe was one of their aims in
creating a regime of occupiers of Al-Quds
(Jerusalem
) Isn't that an important question?" He went
on to say that Europe should cede some of their territory for a
Jewish state, and that anti-Semitism
has a long history in Europe, while Jews have lived peacefully
among Muslims for centuries. (Reuters)
natural gas supplier
Gazprom cuts gas supplies to Ukraine
, following
Ukraine's rejection of a 460% price increase. President
Vladimir Putin had offered a
three-month price freeze if Ukraine would agree to pay the higher
price thereafter, but this was rejected. Ukraine currently pays
US$50 per 1000 cubic metres, Russia claims the market rate is $230.
(BBC)
, becoming only the second North Atlantic tropical cyclone to exist across two
calendar years and extending the already historic 2005 Atlantic hurricane
season even further. (CNN)
, despite
Israel Defense Forces'
Operation Blue Skies.
At least
one Qassam rocket landed in Sderot
, in which
the Red Dawn alert system
was activated around 15:30. Two Qassam rockets landed in an open area
near Israeli communities
in the western Negev. In all the cases there were no
injuries. (Ynetnews)
coal miners are trapped after an underground
explosion in Upshur County
, West
Virginia
.
(ABC) disconnected supplies to Ukraine
yesterday. Russia accuses Ukraine of stealing 100 million
cubic metres of gas yesterday from pipelines transiting the
country; Ukraine denies this but has previously claimed the right
to 15% of the gas as a transit toll. Hungary
reports supplies are down by 40%, France
and Italy
by 30%, and
Poland
by
14%. Germany
, Russia's principal customer, also reports
reductions. Russian supplier Gazprom
says that it will increase supplies and return them to normal by
Tuesday night. (Sky News)
home, which was then set afire. Harvey was
former singer and guitarist of 1980’s band House of Freaks and his wife was the
half-sister of Steven Culp, who played
Rex Van De Kamp on Desperate
Housewives. The fire was discovered by Johnny Hott, HOF bandmate and drummer for the
band Cracker (ABC) wikinews
(New York Daily News) (Billboard)
in Bad Reichenhall
, southern Germany, under the weight of recent snowfall, trapping some
50 skaters underneath. (CNN)
issued a
statement that his group, the People's Liberation Army,
will resume its war with the monarchy after a four month
truce. (New Kerala)
, leading to flooding and landslides. At least 57 people are believed to have
been killed in the flooding and up to a further 200 people were
assumed to be buried alive in the town of Cijeruk 350 kilometers
east of Jakarta
. (BBC) television
claims that Police in Tel
Aviv
found evidence that proves Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon's family took bribes while Sharon
was running for the leadership of the Likud
Party. An aide dismissed the allegations. (BBC)
: In West
Virginia, USA, family members now say only one trapped miner has
been brought out alive from the collapsed coal
mine. All 12 others are dead. Earlier news reports, at
approximately 10:30 p.m. EST, indicated that 12 miners were found
alive. Rescue crews found one body late Tuesday after 13 miners
were trapped following an explosion on Monday. (Yahoo!) (ABC) and Ukrainian natural gas companies agree to end their dispute
and resume gas supply to Ukraine under a complex price scheme in
which OAO Gazprom will sell gas to the Rosukrenergo trading company
(owned by Gazprom Bank and Raiffeisen Bank)
for US$230 (E195) per 1,000 cubic meters as of Jan. 1, and
Ukraine will buy gas from the company for US$95 (E80). (IHT)
journalist and whistleblower Jiang
Weiping, who was jailed in 2000 for
violating the State Secrets Law on
charges of "subversion," is
released after the one year left on his prison sentence is
commuted. In 1999 Jiang wrote two
articles for a Hong
Kong
magazine accusing Bo Xilai,
who at the time was governor of Liaoning
province, but is now China's economic minister, of covering up corruption. (Reuters)
.
(BBC), southern
Germany, leaving at least 10 people dead, some of them
children. It is thought many are
still trapped under the rubble. (BBC)
-- the latest bid, C$4.9 billion, came Tuesday from
German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp
AG. (CBC Business News)
pays its USD 9.57 billion debt with the IMF
.
(Reuters)
, a power generation company that filed for
bankruptcy court protection in July 2003,
emerges from chapter 11 status after converting more than $6
billion of debt and liabilities into equity. (company website)
announces
two confirmed human cases of the avian
influenza. (BBC)
in Delhi
, India
. The
King also offers to fund education in India. (BBC), including a
suicide bomb at a Shia funeral which left 36 mourners dead.
(BBC)
has been
"successfully scouring Europe" for the
equipment needed to create a nuclear
bomb, as well as parts for a ballistic missile. (The Guardian)
after flash floods in
the region. It is the second such incident in the region
within a week. (BBC), with one person still trapped in the
rubble. (New York Times) shells eight
roads in Palestinian
areas of the Gaza Strip
. (IMEMC) targets by Palestinian insurgents.
Two
rockets land near a gas station on a road leading to the Israeli town of
Sderot, and another
five land near Kibbutz
Zikim
. There are no reports of injuries or damage.
(B92)
recalls
Carlos Urrutia, its ambassador to Venezuela
, after Venezuelan
President Hugo Chávez praises
Peruvian presidential hopeful Ollanta
Humala for his left-leaning policies. A spokeswoman for
the Peruvian Foreign Ministry
stated, "There are concerns of political meddling in Peru's
electoral affairs and comments by President Chávez were out of
place." (Yahoo! News)
Liberal Democrat
Party, Charles Kennedy, admits
being treated for alcohol-related
problems for the last 18 months but has not drunk for the last
two months. The revelation comes following mounting
criticism of his leadership from party MPs. He calls a party leadership
election, in which he will stand. (BBC) cities of
Kerbala
and Ramadi
.
(BBC)
. The
death toll is expected to rise. Most of the dead are foreign
Muslim pilgrims who had made their way there
for the Hajj. (Forbes) border into Chad
and
attack the villages of Boroto, Ade, and
Moudaina, killing nine and seriously wounding three
others. Chad once again warns Sudan that it will retaliate
for attacks by Janjaweed and UFDC rebel
attacks. (Reuters)
. The organization now has a total of 106
children with missing parents in its care. SOS announces that the last surviving member of the
Gang of Four, Yao Wenyuan, died on December 23, 2005.
(BBC)
to unite
social movements for positive change. The tour coincides
with presidential
election campaigns. Marcos claims that the all the party
candidates are liars and criminals who don't care about the Mexican
people. (Scotsman) dies of
H5N1 avian
influenza. Hülya Koçyiğit, 11, was the sister of Mehmet
Ali, 14, who died last weekend, and of Fatma, 15, who died on
Thursday. She was the third human fatality outside
China
and South-East
Asia. A six-year-old brother is also being treated for
the same disease. (Reuters) (Times)
denies access to the Alang
port to
the French warship
Clemenceau since it
contains tonnes of asbestos.
(BBC)
, Thailand
, where the South Thailand insurgency
continues since an increase in violence in January 2001.
(The Nation)
, General Urano Teixeira da Matta
Bacellar, is found dead. UN officials believe his death
to be suicide. (BBC News), announces his resignation with immediate effect
after unprecedented criticism from his party's MPs. This
comes despite previous vows to stand in the leadership
election he declared two days earlier. (BBC News)
soldiers are killed when a boat manned by Tamil Tiger rebels and
filled with explosives rammed into a naval ship in the port city of
Trincomalee
. (CNN)
military helicopter
UH-60 Blackhawk has crashed in
northern Iraq near
Talafar
. All 12 persons on board have been killed.
(BBC), Saudi
Arabia
(CNN).
holds its largest civil counter-terrorism exercise,
codenamed Exercise Northstar V,
simulating bombing and chemical attacks at four Mass Rapid Transit stations
and a bus interchange. Thirteen MRT stations and part of
Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
are closed for three hours, causing travel disruptions for over
15,000 commuters and triggering a response from some 2,000
personnel from 22 governmental
organizations. (CNA)
at
13:34. The earthquake's epicentre was in the sea region 25 km east of
the island of Kythira
, about 200 km south of Athens
.
Although
it was felt as far as Sicily, south Italy, Egypt
, and
Amman
in Jordan
, it was
not disastrous due to its deep hypocentre
and the sea-bed epicentre. Little damage (mainly in Kythira)
and few light injuries are reported. (CNN.com) (USGS)
, has told the BBC that British Prime Minister Tony Blair should be "impeached" over the war in
Iraq. (BBC)'s Revolutionary Guards
ground forces, and ten others have been reportedly killed when
their plane crashed in northwestern Iran. (IRNA) (BBC)
Vice President Dick Cheney was hospitalized when he complained
of breathing trouble. He was later released from the hospital.
(AP via Yahoo!)
with its 7,486th performance.
in Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba
.
(Forbes)
whalers and anti-whaling
environmental groups continue to clash in Antarctic waters near Australia, as calls for the Australian Government to intervene
intensify. (ABC)'s parliament
dismisses the Cabinet over its gas deal with Russia.
(Yahoo!)'s standoff
from the UN and the west deepens as
the UN seals on the Natanz
nuclear
processing plant are broken. (BBC) Prime Minister Tony Blair sets out his Respect agenda. (BBC).
However, the Turkish government
declares that the virus is "under control". (BBC)
army announces that seven soldiers and fourteen
suspected militants have been killed in fighting in the Waziristan area. (BBC)
, Australia. (BBC)
and stabs
at least eight people. (BBC)
, Vladimir
Arutinian is convicted of the attempted assassination of U.S.
President George W. Bush
and terrorist charges and sentenced with life imprisonment. (BBC)
, France, and
Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its
nuclear program have reached
a "dead end." They recommend that Iran be referred to the
United Nations Security
Council, where the nation may face sanctions. (ABC)
, Saudi
Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim
pilgrims. A similar crush claimed 244
pilgrims' lives at the same spot in 2004. (BBC) warship
Clemenceau reaches
Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal
. Two Greenpeace
activists board the ship. (BBC)
CIA attempts to kill Ayman
al-Zawahiri by bombing
Damadola, Pakistan, a village near the Afghanistan
border. The attack kills at least 18 people:
eight men, five women and five children. Anonymous U.S. government
sources claim he was invited to a feast in the village, but did not
attend. (CNN)
in Alaska
has
erupted five times in the past three days, the first eruptions in
nearly two decades. The island is uninhabited. (National Geographic)
has
declared the ongoing
drought a national disaster and has appealed for US$150 million
to feed the hungry. 2.5 million people have been left close
to starvation due to the lack of rains over the last three years
and corrupt officials who steal food aid. (Reuters) and Ukraine are set to
enter more diplomatic troubled waters over the alleged occupation
of a lighthouse in the Black Sea
. (BBC)
, is alleged to have made a journey to China as part
of a fact-finding mission in the region. (BBC): Tony Blair to grant new
powers to spy on Members of
Parliament. (Independent) warship
Clemenceau's transit
through the Suez
Canal is approved by Egyptian authorities. This decision is heavily
criticized by Greenpeace and other
environmental groups. (BBC)
diplomat Glyn Berry is killed and two Canadian soldiers
critically injured by a bomb blast in Afghanistan. He is the first Canadian diplomat to be
killed on duty. (CBC)
, Sheikh
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber
Al-Sabah, dies at age 79. Kuwait's cabinet
names crown prince Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim
Al-Sabah as the new emir. (Al-Jazeera) announced
it will hold a conference to evaluate the validity of the Holocaust, which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently referred to
as a "myth". (CBC)
in Strasbourg
leaves twelve French police
officers injured. (BBC). (CNN)
's new president.
She becomes Africa's first female elected
head of state. (CNN)
amid allegations of blocked emergency exits and
fire code violations. (CBC) bans
CNN from the country after a translator
mistranslated a remark by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in which he
defended Iran's right to nuclear
energy. The comment was translated as the right to
construct nuclear weapons. (ABC News)'s electoral
commission rules Monday that more than 99 percent of the ballots
from the Dec.
15
parliamentary elections are valid, opening the way for a new
government to start coming together. (CBS News)
Supreme
Court rules in Gonzales
v. Oregon by a 6-3 vote that Oregon
's
"Death with Dignity
Act" providing for physician-assisted suicide is
consistent with the federal Controlled Substances Act.
(BBC) peacekeepers, serving as part of the United Nations
Stabilization Mission in Haiti, have been killed by gunfire in
Port-au-Prince
. (Reuters)
, supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo attack United
Nations peacekeepers after the Ivorian Popular Front withdraws from
the Ivorian Civil War peace
process. (BBC)
scientist Hwang
Woo-suk has been offered a job at Clonaid studying human embryonic stem cell
lines. Clonaid is a subsidiary of the cult known as the Rael, who
believe that cloning is the first step toward immortality. (Reuters) company Huser's president
Susumu Ojima receives a summons of a witness by the
Diet because of suspicions etc that he
instructed one-class authorized architect Hidetsugu Aneha to reduce quantity of
reinforced concrete.
(The Japan Times Online), saying "it became disturbingly clear that the
abuse of detainees had become a deliberate, central part of the
Bush administration's strategy of interrogating terrorist
suspects". (CBC) ( BBC
News) ( Human Rights Watch press info)
UN peacekeeper are
attacked by Laurent Gbagbo's
"Young Patriots"
in Côte
d'Ivoire. At least three people have been killed,
and the UN has warned that the
country is sliding towards war. (BBC) has recorded its sixth death from the avian flu virus, according to a report on the Chinese
Health Ministry's Web site. (CNN)
leader Kim Jong-il says
he is committed to a peaceful resolution of the standoff over his
country's nuclear ambitions. (CBS)
on Wednesday, trapping at least 15 people in the
rubble. (CNN)'s northeast, injuring six sailors and a
civilian. (CBC) but offering a "long-term truce" to rebuild
Iraq and Afghanistan. (MSNBC)
(BBC) warns of a
world oil crisis if sanctions are imposed
over its nuclear program even as the United States and Europe struggle to get
support for UN Security Council
action. (AFP) could respond with nuclear weapons against any State-sponsored terrorism
attack. (ABC News) (BBC) capital, Baghdad
, leave at least 22 people dead and 26
wounded. (BBC) will
conclude its mission in Iraq by the end
of the year, in the first clear timetable for Rome
to withdraw
its troops, says Defense Minister Antonio Martino. (ABC)' largest independent
film festival, the Sundance
Film Festival, begins in Salt Lake City
and Park City
, Utah
.
This year's entries include documentaries about prominent
politicians Al Gore and Ralph Nader. (Reuters)'s central bus station. Palestinian Islamic Jihad's
al-Quds brigades claims
responsibility for the attack. It's the first terrorist attack of the year
in Israel.
(YNETnews)
Antonov An-24 military aircraft carrying troops back
from Kosovo
crashes
into a mountainside in northeastern Hungary, killing 42 people. Only one person
survived. (CNN) where
temperatures have plunged to as low as
-42° C (-44° F). (CBC)'s Foreign Office
reveals that that the British government had a
strategy aimed at suppressing a debate about the US practice of
transporting detainees to secret centres where they are at risk of
being tortured. (Guardian Unlimited).
Pluto probe New
Horizons successfully launches at 14:00 EST.
(NASA) (BBC)
, two students (Turan Aliev from Baku
State University
and Namik Feiziev of Azerbaijan State
Pedagogical University) are readmitted and end their 22-day
hunger strike, started in protest at
their expulsion which they claim resulted from their political
activities. (IWPR)
's Pluto probe New
Horizons crossed the orbit of the Moon, eight hours and thirty five minutes after
launch. This is a new Earth-to-Moon-distance flight
record.
nuclear power plant in Ohio are indicted for
repeatedly falsifying inspection reports and other information to
the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. The plant's owner, FirstEnergy Corporation, accepts a plea bargain
and $28 million in fines in lieu of criminal prosecution. (Toledo Blade)
, Rome, Italy, discover a tomb estimated at 3000
years old, predating the creation of the Forum by several
centuries. (USA Today)
soldiers in Afghanistan have defused a huge car bomb found not far from
their base near Kandahar
. The discovery comes just days after a
suicide bomber killed Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry and seriously wounded three soldiers
travelling with him. (CBC) says it is
moving funds out of Europe to shield them
from possible U.N. sanctions. (Reuters)'s election
commission says that an alliance of Shiite
religious parties, the United
Iraqi Alliance, has won the most seats in Iraq's new National Assembly after the
December 2005
legislative elections . (CBS)
. (CBC) says it has
proof that Iran financed
the bombing of a fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv, and that Syria
carried it out. (ABC) miners
missing after a coal mine fire. (ABC) has halted
the import of U.S. beef after an animal spine was found in a beef
shipment at Tokyo International Airport
. A ban has now been reinstated. (CNN) police are reported to have taken into custody,
Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man who
shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 after an appeals court ordered his return to
prison to serve more time for killing a journalist. (CNN)
passing upstream of the Houses
of Parliament
. The "River
Thames whale" is believed to have passed through the Thames
Barrier
about 1515 UTC on Thursday afternoon.
Attempts
are being made to guide it back to the Thames estuary, where a
second whale has been sighted off Southend on Sea
. (BBC), (Sky News) end after their leader, Charles Blé Goudé, tells them to
"go home and clean up the streets". (BBC)
Palace of Congresses. (New York Times)
, are found dead. (CNN) diplomats are accused of
spying on Russia using a fake
rock. (BBC)
, becoming the country's first indigenous American
president. (ABC News)
Republic suspend gas supply to Georgia and Armenia
. (BBC). Brazilian
foreign minister Celso
Amorim branded the US attempted veto as "indefensible
nonsense". The US recently failed to block a large sale of
Spanish military equipment to Venezuela. (El Universal), (Spain Herald).
. (Al-Jazeera) emir
Sheikh Saad
Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah has agreed to abdicate his
position. (Al-Jazeera)
, a village nine miles northeast of Podgorica
in Montenegro
, killing at least 39 and injuring more than 130
people, in the country's worst
train disaster. (BBC News) but officials don't expect international
borders to close to Canadian beef as a result. (CBC)
special forces soldiers
deployed as U.N. peacekeepers in eastern DR
Congo
were killed and five wounded in a battle with
Ugandan LRA rebels. (Reuters)
, Kenya,
collapses and kills at least eight people, burying dozens
more. Rescuers use their bare hands to dig through the
rubble. (Sky News) (BBC) (CTV) has started supplying Russian natural gas to Georgia, the Georgian gas company says, helping
compensate for a fuel cutoff caused by explosions in southern
Russian pipelines that brought a new energy crisis to the region
this weekend. (International Herald Tribune) (CBC)
Supreme
Court rejects an appeal from Research In Motion Ltd. which had asked
it to reverse a lower-court ruling that found its BlackBerry wireless email device in violation of
patents held by NTP, Inc., a Virginia
patent-holding firm. The case now moves to a federal
district court in Virginia, which will decide whether to
reinstate an injunction against the U.S. sale of the popular
BlackBerries. (MarketWatch) federal judge issues a summary judgement against Christopher William Smith and
awards AOL US$5.3 million in damages and
US$287,000 in legal fees, after Smith refused to participate in the
lawsuit filed against him by AOL under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Smith is
accused of sending millions of spam
e-mails to AOL customers. ( The Seattle Post-Intelligencer) buys a further US$312 million of Argentina's national debt, adding to the US$1 billion already
purchased. The government of Hugo Chávez says that the scheme will
further South American integration.
(Reuters) (Bloomberg)
by the State
Great Khural. (BBC) entertainment industry: Disney and Pixar Animation Studios will merge
in a US$7.4 billion
deal. (Story from E! Online via Yahoo.com) And CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. announce they will merge UPN and The WB
television networks into a new network called The CW in fall
2006. (AP/Yahoo!) city of Ahvaz
kills six and injures up to 40.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was due to have
visited the city today, however the trip was called off at the last
minute. Lebanon
's al-Manar television
said the president had called off his trip after a security
tip-off. Local MP Nezam Molla-Hoveyzeh accused Britain of being behind the attack. (Reuters) (BBC)
over threat
of "retaliation" against Israel.
Moqtada Sadr has vowed to defend Iran.
(Turkish Weekly), (LKBN
ANTARA) market. (VNUNet), (iT News)
dictator Augusto Pinochet, asks for political asylum in the United
States following her arrest at Washington Dulles International
Airport
on a Chilean arrest
warrant for tax evasion.
(Miami Herald) is a "black day" for freedom of expression, says
leading international media watchdog Reporters without Borders.
(BBC)
joins the Eurasian Economic
Community. (Interfax) elections ends four decades of rule by the Fatah party. Hamas secures
76 seats in the 132-member legislature through parliamentary
elections. Prime Minister
Ahmed Qurei announces he will resign and
Fatah declares it will not join a Hamas-led coalition, although
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
plans to continue negotiations with Israel through the Palestine Liberation
Organization. (BBC) (Haaretz) foreign secretary Shyam Saran reacts sharply to
US Ambassador
David Mulford's warning over the
future of the Indo-US nuclear deal, saying on Thursday that it was
"inappropriate" and not conducive to good relations between the two
countries. (Express India) ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza claimed
that Mexican soldiers had helped drug
smugglers to escape pursuit by Texas state police on US
soil near El Paso,
Texas
, Mexican Secretary of Foreign
Affairs Luis Ernesto Derbez
suggested that the people involved may have been US soldiers
wearing the uniforms of Mexican
military. (Forbes) objections
to a proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline
for natural gas saying "It is in our
economic interest. If somebody wants to stop us they should
compensate us ... But at the moment we are going ahead". Musharraf
also repeats his condemnation of the recent U.S. air strike in northern
Pakistan which killed 18 people, including women and children.
(VOA News), Sarah Ludford, who is
leading a European
Parliament investigation into the U.S. policy of
"extraordinary rendition",
says she may invite Vice President of the United
States Dick Cheney, United States Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld or
United States Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice to
testify. (Irish Independent Newspaper) to India, David Mulford, has warned India to back the US
plan to refer Iran to the United Nations Security
Council or face cancellation of a US-India nuclear
deal. (Financial Times) India's foreign ministry
calls the comments inapproapiate and summons the ambassador to
Delhi for an
explanation (BBC news). The Foreign Ministry of China says "We
oppose impulsively using sanctions or threats of sanctions to solve
problems" and also indicates that they would support Russian efforts to resolve the dispute. (Reuters).
Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud is
in India as chief guest for the Republic Day celebration. (NDTV)
issues red notices
against Pakistan ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali
Zardari. (BBC) recalled their envoy from Denmark
after Muhammad
Drawings controversy, and has initiated a boycott of Danish
products. (BBC)
death camp. (Yahoo!)
of eastern Indonesia. (USGS) pledges to end his country's energy crisis by
importing Iranian natural gas.
Starting
Monday, Georgia will import 2 million m³ of gas a day at $120/m³,
$10 more than for Russian gas. Georgia's supply of Russian gas has
been interrupted since Sunday due to pipeline explosions.
Saakashvili has accused Moscow of sabotage for political gain. (RIA Novosti) President
Hugo Chávez threatens to jail any
United
States spies caught gathering information about
Venezuela. (BBC) collapses with several hundred people inside,
trapping many beneath the wreckage, 62 people are killed and over
160 injured. Poland declares a day of national mourning.
(CNN)
closes its embassy in Denmark over the Muhammad Drawings
controversy. (BBC)
, Iraq.
(ABC News)
on Chinese New
Year. (Reuters) and
Russia agree to refer Iran to the
United Nations Security
Council for its nuclear
program in March 2006. (Reuters), the High Court
has ordered 10 Internet service providers to
hand over the details of 150 UK customers accused of illegally
sharing software. (BBC)
Capitol Building for refusing to cover up a t-shirt she was wearing
to protest the war and occupation of
Iraq. (CNN) Capitol Building was Beverly Young, wife of GOP congressman Bill Young, for wearing a t-shirt that read
"Support the Troops: Defending Our Freedom" (ABC). reacts with
anger to its referral to the U.N. Security Council, saying diplomatic
avenues have been closed. (CNN)
has announced it has evidence within its report for
the Thursday meeting that Iran obtained documents showing how to
mold highly enriched grade uranium into the core of
warheads. (Reuters), the
British Armed Forces records
its 100th military death. (ABC), a female ex-postal worker opens fire in a
mail-processing plant, killing six people and critically wounding
another before committing suicide in what's believed to be the
deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out by a woman in
U.S.
history. (CNN)
nominee Samuel Alito is
confirmed by the United States
Senate and sworn in. President
Vladimir Putin has voiced renewed
opposition to the U.S. decision to
abandon the 30 year old Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
in favour of missile defence saying
it would damage world security. He also claimed that Russia
has developed a new category of hypersonic intercontinental missile which can
zig-zag in flight and is immune to any missile defense system.
(Washington Post)
, by Academy President Sid
Ganis and actress Mira
Sorvino. ( CNN)
for use in Iraq.
(UTV) (The Limerick Blogger) (Live 95FM)
If true, this would be a major breach of Irish neutrality and Irish-US agreements on
the use of Shannon. The airport's use by the US military is already
highly controversial, in part due to the connection with CIA captives.
(IOL.ie) oil company
ExxonMobil announced profits for 2005 of
$36.1 billion, a record amount in US corporate history. In
anticipation of a public backlash, the company simultaneously
posted newspaper advertisements in the US to explain its success.
(Seattle Times) on the
highway between Hurghada
and Luxor
kills 14 and injures another 30 people.
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