North Korea is to cut all relations with South Korea, Pyongyang’s official news agency reports. KCNA said the North was also expelling all South Korean workers from a jointly-run factory north of the border. The move comes after an international report blamed North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship. Pyongyang denies it torpedoed the [...]
Someone listened to his cricket coach as a kid: A British soldier has described how he picked up a Taliban hand grenade which landed at his feet and threw it back towards the enemy. Rifleman James McKie was on a tiny rooftop in Sangin. He and two of his platoon could hear the bullets fired [...]
O wad some Power the gift tae gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion. From Robert Burns, To a Louse The course Burns commends has, of late, become unfashionable. Instead of observing others unlike ourselves and reporting back, we have been enjoined to [...]
February 18, 2010 – 2:53 am
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said there is no proof the Mossad spy agency carried out the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai. But he did not fully deny that Israel carried out the killing, citing its “policy of ambiguity” on such matters. Dubai believes 11 “agents with European passports” killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. [...]
November 9, 2009 – 7:16 pm
Muslim militants in Kashmir have been having a hard old time of it lately. Having learnt the hard way that No really does mean NO (even when attempting marriage by capture)… Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser’s home in a remote village in Jammu region on Monday and started beating her parents in front of [...]
August 30, 2009 – 4:48 am
FBI director Robert Mueller has launched a scathing attack on Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill over the release of the Lockerbie bomber. In a letter, dated 21 August, Mr Mueller said the decision makes “a mockery of justice” and gives comfort to terrorists around the world… The Scottish Government said it had consulted widely in [...]
August 23, 2009 – 5:03 am
The convicted Lockerbie bomber has been flown home to Libya after being freed from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jailed in 2001 for the atrocity which claimed 270 lives in 1988. The decision to release Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was made by the Scottish Government. US president [...]
Jacqui Smith feared she was not up to being home secretary and wished she had been better trained for the role, she reveals in a magazine interview. She told Total Politics magazine she had “never run a major organisation” before accepting the job in 2007. “I hope I did a good job but if I [...]
From Little Green Footballs: As we noted last Sunday, when murder suspect Scott Roeder was arrested, the phone number of Operation Rescue was discovered on a Post-It note in his car. Now it turns out that this wasn’t just the phone number of the Operation Rescue office, but of a specific person: Cheryl Sullenger, the [...]
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A prominent US abortion doctor has been shot dead at a church in the city of Wichita, Kansas. Dr George Tiller, one of the few US doctors who performed late-term abortions, had been vilified by anti-abortionists in the US. The gunman fled in a car, but officials say a suspect is now in custody. US [...]
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