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50th anniversary of the European Commission: Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
(photo: EC / European Community 2008)
French Prez involved in 1990s political funding scandal?
Zeenews
Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being accused of being "at the heart" of a political scandal involving claims that 11 French submarine engineers were murdered in Karachi to punish France for failing to pay secret arms contract "commissions" to senior Pakistani officials. | Although the Ma...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker
(photo: WN / marzena)
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker
The Guardian
| Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Angl...
INTERVIEW - Algeria corruption case 'part of political struggle'
The Star
| ALGIERS (Reuters) - A corruption investigation into Algeria's state energy firm is a warning signal from some in the state apparatus who believe part of the ruling elite has captured too much power, a former prime minister said. | The chief executi...
Chrysler Bankruptcy, case of judicial fraud? Dealership Attorneys to appeal Motion denial
The Examiner
| Friday Feb 5th, Judge Gonzalez of the Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York, in the Chrysler Bankruptcy case denied a Motion brought on behalf of over 70 of the former Chrysler Dealers to overturn the Rejection Order which stripped ...
Police: Man tried to rob, shoot off-duty officer
The Examiner
Comments MIAMI (Map, News) - Police in Miami are searching for a man who tried to rob and shoot at an off-duty officer. | The Miami-Dade Police Department says the officer was exiting a vehicle on Sunday when he was approached by the suspect. When he...
Feds: Detroit consultant was 'political pimp'
The Examiner
Comments DETROIT (Map, News) - A consultant charged with conspiring to shake down businesses for bribes was a "political pimp" who put Detroit up for sale in exchange for favors from his ally, then-councilwoman Monica Conyers, a prosecutor told juror...
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin delivers a speech to sympathizers during a meeting in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009.
AP / Christophe Ena
Court acquits former French PM in slander trial
The News & Observer
| PARIS -- A French court acquitted former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Thursday on charges related to his alleged role in a smear campaign against President Nicolas Sar...
U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Reese, with Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, speaks to a young Iraqi boy during a joint patrol with Iraqi police through a village in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 26, 2009.
USAF / Capt. Mindy A. Yu
Police: Sniper kills 1 at Baghdad checkpoint
The Examiner
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - An Iraqi police official says a sniper taking cover in a building in central Baghdad has opened fire on a checkpoint. | The official says one policem...
The President lays out his priorities for getting people to work and bolstering the middle class in his State of the Union Address.
White House / Pete Souza
Full text of Barack Obama's state of the union address
The Guardian
| The US president's first state of the union speech | The words used most frequently by Barack Obama in his state of the union address. Photograph: Wordle.net | Madam Speaker, Vic...
Hitchens Has No Clothes: A response to 'Vidal Loco'
The Independent
| In his February Vanity Fair hitpiece, Christopher Hitchens argues that the post-9/11 world has driven Gore Vidal 'Loco' - the signs, he says, were always there, but 9/11 and events thereafter 'accentuated a crackpot strain that gradually asserted i...
Shiite militants kidnap American in Iraq
The Examiner
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - A missing Iraqi-American contractor was kidnapped by Shiite militiamen who lured him into central Baghdad by promising to help him find distant relatives, an Iraqi defense official said Saturday. | A Shiite extremist gr...
French Prez involved in 1990s political funding scandal?
Zeenews
Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being accused of being "at the heart" of a political scandal involving claims that 11 French submarine engineers were murdered in Karachi to punish France for failing to pay secret arms contract "commissions...
Bribery
NATO's new Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addresses the media at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday Aug. 3, 2009
(photo: AP / Yves Logghe)
NATO chief says no plan to 'bribe' Taleban to defect
Arab News
| Agencies | ISTANBUL: NATO does not intend to bribe Taleban fighters to defect to the Afghan government side as a way to end the war, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday, dismissing concerns over the latest plan to end the country's growing insurgency. | Fogh Rasmussen's comments came amid a renewed push to make peace with m...



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