On Tennessee Valley Authority, Republicans seek to defend New Deal from Obama
Posted by: northsunm32
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 19:23:55 -0700 | political-news
The Tennessee Valley Authority dates from 1933 and was a key project in President Franklin Roosevelt's plans to create huge infrastructure projects that would create jobs and produce benefits to those in the area. Hidden away in a new budget...
2 arrested, fighter jets scrambled after threat aboard plane from Pakistan to England
Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Manchester :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-25 00:26:50 -0700 | political-news
A Boeing 777 on route from Pakistan to the United Kingdom, and carrying more than 300 people, was diverted to an airport outside London on Friday after two men threatened to blow the plane up, CNN reported. Police arrested the...
What we can learn from Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Tough only gets you so far
Posted by: msarzo
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-25 00:41:11 -0700 | political-news
When a federal judge put the clamps Friday on Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio's use of racial profiling in an aggressive campaign to target illegal immigrants, he sent a message that anyone who seeks the limelight will also suffer...
Author under investigation for calling Portuguese President ‘a clown'
Posted by: Robert Myles
Lisbon :: Portugal | updated 2013-05-25 01:24:53 -0700 | political-news
The Portuguese Attorney General’s office has opened an investigation after celebrated Portuguese author, Miguel Sousa Tavares, referred to Portugal’s head of state, President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, as a clown in a recent interview. The author’s remarks could see him...
Syrian opposition struggles to unify all its factions before peace conference
Posted by: StephenManual
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-24 21:02:26 -0700 | political-news
The fractious Syrian opposition on Friday struggled to remove all its differences and get united on one platform before the possible international peace conference on Syria in Geneva. Russia and the United States have been striving hard to organize an...
Syria opposition ready to negotiate
Source: BBC
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-25 00:10:46 -0700 | political-news
The main Syrian opposition coalition has said it is willing to attend an international peace conference expected to take place in Geneva next month. But a spokesman for the National Coalition, Louay Safi, told the BBC that it would only...
Illinois lawmakers approve concealed carry measure
Source: Fox
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 22:33:32 -0700 | political-news
Ill. Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the nation to prohibit it, under legislation that swept through the House Friday with the backing of the powerful Democratic speaker from Chicago, a city torn...
PKR rep asks for top GLC roles
Source: The Star
Petaling Jaya :: Malaysia | updated 2013-05-24 23:54:29 -0700 | political-news
A Selangor PKR leader has demanded that top roles in state government-linked companies be reserved for party members. Sri Muda assemblyman and Selangor PKR information chief Suhaimi Shafiei said that PKR members should be in leadership positions in GLCs not...
Rela member in coma after being hit by escaping motorcyclist
Source: The Star
Ipoh :: Malaysia | updated 2013-05-24 23:54:24 -0700 | political-news
A Rela member personnel suffered serious head injuries and slipped into a coma after he was hit by a motorcyclist trying to escape a police roadblock here. Asst Comm Sum Chang Keong said the incident occurred on Saturday morning at...
Radical Islam issues in the press
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 23:39:03 -0700 | political-news
Press report on radical Islam concerns The newspapers report on the moves to tackle radical Islam following Drummer Lee Rigby's murder in south-east London on Wednesday. The Guardian says British universities are to launch a new drive to protect impressionable...
IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: May 25
Source: The New York Times
Cannes :: France | updated 2013-05-24 23:04:55 -0700 | political-news
Gordon Welters for The New York Times Thomas Schnalke, director of the Museum of Medical History in Berlin, helped write new guidelines on how to handle human remains like these bones displayed at his institution. For more than a century,...
Conviction of Borizov turns attention to gunman in Darien slayings
Source: Chicago Tribune
Darien :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 22:33:27 -0700 | political-news
Four weeks ago, Nodarse spent three days on the stand as the main prosecution witness in the murder trial of Johnny Borizov. Thursday, he appeared for a few minutes in front of Judge Daniel Guerin, who set a June 16...
Lower lake levels plague harbors but benefit beachgoers
Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 22:33:27 -0700 | political-news
But Avellone sees only a handful of boats in the water these days. Low lake levels combined with a pileup of sand forced a few of her neighbors to dock at other marinas. Others are waiting out the problems and...
Blackmail victim reaches end of tether
Source: The Star
Sandakan :: Malaysia | updated 2013-05-24 23:54:28 -0700 | political-news
A housewife who has had enough of a blackmailer's regular threats to make her nude pictures public has sought police help to end her nightmare. The 29-year-old woman, who could not afford to pay the latest demand of RM3,000, decided...
ET: A Kerala town where elephants symbolize wealth
Source: Times of India
Palakkad :: India | updated 2013-05-24 23:41:21 -0700 | political-news
More than profit, it is the sheer passion for these animals that has driven Haridas and Parameswaran to own so many elephants...A border district between Kerala and Tamil Nadu, it has a few engineering, polytechnic institutions, a popular dam or...
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