Update 31 July 2008"A man has been arrested after blank passports worth £2.5m were stolen from a van. He is the delivery man who accompanied the driver of the van, sources said.A spokesman for Greater...
There are only 265 of them in the world, and a new study shows that 150 are at risk. Northern white Rhino? Mexican Spotted Owl? Nope: the endangered species in question is a U.S. embassy (genus: building). " A lack...
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Allrighty then..." Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma's military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime's recent crackdown: sending female...
The so-called "foreign embassies" that London Mayor Ken Livingstone set up during his time in offer are likely to end up on teh chopping block after a review launched by new mayor Boris Johnson. Johnson is today in Turkey taking a look at one of those embassies, which...
This is interesting, it's a new sevice launched by teh UK Foreign Office to track British citizens if they're abroad during an emergency, so friends and family can see if they're ok. The effort has been given new impetus as several British tourists went missing during the...
"Myanmar`s military government Thursday warned foreign embassies not to support Aung San Suu Kyi`s pro-democracy party as the nation gears up for a constitutional referendum next month.The warning carried in the official New Light of Myanmar newspaper came the morning after...
"Police in Denmark have arrested a number of people suspected of plotting to kill one of the cartoonists whose depiction of the Prophet Mohammed sparked anger across the Muslim world.
The arrests were made in the town of Aarhus on the Jutland peninsula.
Jyllands-Posten, the...
"Trepidation over Wilders' anti-Islam film
by Michel Hoebink*
18-01-2008
Islam specialist Maurits Berger talks to RNW's Edwin Mooibroek (mp3)
Tensions are growing over the expected release of a film by Geert Wilders,...
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"The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation.Instead, China’s leaders are tarnishing their own...
A group of Lakota activists have declared independence from the United States. They intend to withdraw from existing treaty agreements and establish a Lakota country that would issue its own passports and drivers'...
"In Nubia, Northern Sudan, there is growing anxiety about the planned construction of three dams on the Nile. The Sudanese government refuses to reveal the plans and claims that nothing has been decided upon as yet. But Nubians fear the dams will inundate most of their...
Norwegian students and activists protesting a NATO dinner last night faced tear gas and arrest after breaking through barriers police put up around the City Hall, where the dinner was taking place. The tear gassing...
"The Brotherhood and America Part Six
21/03/2007
By Manal Lutfi
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"I was the link between Osama bin Laden and his deputy Sheikh Abd . . . who authorities say worked with bin Attash on planning the Cole attack." Bin Attash is a Yemeni who was raised in Saudi Arabia, and is a "scion of a prominent terrorist family" that includes his father...