Scandal convergence: The Obama administration's perfect storm
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Benjamin Burton Jr.
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 02:06:15 -0700 | political-news
The big movement in journalism a few years back centered around convergence. The industry sought fourth-estaters who not only chronicled but also photographed, edited, shot video and used Google Maps with reckless abandon. Convergence can be a good thing, an...
Russia defends support for Assad regime
Posted by: kiranriz
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 22:54:50 -0700 | political-news
Russia has apparently supplied Syria with sophisticated anti-ship missiles. The modern "Jachont" missiles could be directed against the international community by the Assad regime. Russia still defends itself against criticism. According to a report in the "New York Times"...
Ruby the Heart stealer tells court how dancer at “bunga bunga” party dressed as a nun and stripped ...
Posted by: magdochka
Milan :: Italy | updated 2013-05-18 01:56:55 -0700 | political-news
MILAN: Karima el-Mahroug alleged to have had sex for money with Silvio Berlusconi when she was just 17 and he was the prime minister testified in court for the first time on Friday at a trial of three people accused...
North Korea launches short-range missiles
Source: Al Jazeera English
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | updated 2013-05-18 02:28:12 -0700 | political-news
42 North Korea has launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, according to South Korea's Ministry of Defence quoted by Yonhap news agency. The ministry said it detected two missiles fired on Saturday morning, followed by...
Tory 'loons' remarks on front pages
Source: BBC
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-18 00:14:49 -0700 | political-news
Tory 'loons' remarks dominate Remarks said to have been made by one of David Cameron's closest allies, at a private dinner, find their way on to the front page of several papers...The paper quotes campaigners as saying the comments show...
Casino bill would give city unparalleled control
Source: Chicago Tribune
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 22:21:37 -0700 | political-news
The legislation also would grant the mayor authority to seize land for a casino and keep not only the gambling profits but also two local taxes and a cut of an upfront fee paid for the right to run the...
Harvard students demand inquiry into immigration thesis
Source: The Boston Globe
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 00:57:58 -0700 | political-news
Harvard University this week urged the university to investigate how the thesis came to be approved and to ban future research on racial superiority. / Globe Staff / May 17, 2013 Students from the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard...
Addict shoots for bigger things now
Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 22:21:33 -0700 | political-news
For more than two decades, Timothy Gulley walked through life under the suffocating cloud of drug addiction. The 52-year-old electrician was in and out of jail and struggled to hold onto a job as he chased his next high. Many...
ET: Why India's crowded roads need quadricycles
Source: Times of India
New Delhi :: India | updated 2013-05-18 01:32:22 -0700 | political-news
Quadricycles, this comment will argue, is what India needs given its urban and larger economic characteristics. Vehicle technology needs to be rethought in India, where incomes are low. India needs vehicles that are less costly and less consuming of road...
More tourists to Sabah despite Sulu gunmen intrusion
Source: The Star
Kota Kinabalu :: Malaysia | updated 2013-05-18 00:33:20 -0700 | political-news
Initial worries about the impact of the Sulu gunmen intrusion last February appears to be unfounded as the number of visitor arrivals in Sabah had in fact increased in the first three months of the year. State Tourism, Culture and...
Thomson meets Nawaz, discuss bilateral relations
Source: DAWN
Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-18 00:20:03 -0700 | political-news
The British High Commissioner, Adam Thomson met with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Nawaz Sharif on Saturday, DawnNews Reported. In the meeting, mutual interest and bilateral relations were discussed. Thomson said that the British government is an advocate of democracy...
Census finds Christianity in Britain losing ground
Source: United Press International
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-18 00:14:49 -0700 | political-news
Almost 10 percent of young people in the United Kingdom now identify themselves as Muslim and fewer than half as Christian, 2011 Census figures show. The new analysis of the 2011 data released Friday shows Christianity has been losing ground...
Political savvy vs. education skills in L.A. school board runoff
Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 00:02:48 -0700 | political-news
And when it comes to campaign resources, politics trumps all. Sanchez, 31, has used his background in campaigns and ties to political figures to attract huge financial support from labor groups and a political-action committee headed by Los Angeles Mayor...
No comment on Minister post until I'm a Senator, says Wahid
Source: The Star
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | updated 2013-05-17 23:16:26 -0700 | political-news
Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar has declined to speak about his appointment as a Minister in the Prime Minister's Department until he is sworn in as a Senator next month. Abdul Wahid ( left) and Legoland Malaysia general manager Siegfried...
Long-standing divide on road between drivers, cyclists threatens to widen
Source: Chicago Tribune
Lincoln Park :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 22:21:44 -0700 | political-news
As Cunningham merged back into his lane, apparently close to the biker, the cyclist did something he did not expect. He rode up, struck Cunningham's car with his hand and spit on it, the Wicker Park resident recalled. "What am...
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