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Under a brilliant blue sky Saturday, thousands of people sang, chanted and marched through the streets of Seattle, one of 11 cities nationwide participating in a coordinated protest against the war in Iraq.

“Veterans need to take the lead on this,” said Chanan Suarez-Diaz, president of the Seattle chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War. “This has been a war for oil, for profits and for corporations. It’s time for the occupation to end and veterans should be at the head of the movement to end it.” for more click here

ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)– Nigeria’s central government will deploy more police to the nation’s troubled state of Kaduna “to fight crime”, after two Christians were reportedly killed there by suspected Muslim militants, BosNewsLife learned Wednesday, October 24. for more click here

A MASSIVE St Andrew’s Day celebration is to be held in Princes Street Gardens.

Giant marquees will be erected next to the Ross Bandstand for three days of events expected to attract thousands of revellers to the beauty spot. for more click here

In the white desert sands of New Mexico, close to where the first atom bomb was detonated, America’s biggest conventional weapon was tested last spring. A 30,000lb massive ordnance penetrator, known as the Big Blu or the Mother of All Bombs, was placed inside a tunnel to test its explosive power against hard, deeply buried bunkers and tunnels designed to conceal weapons of mass destruction. for more click here

President Vladimir Putin has proposed setting up a Russian-funded human rights institute in Brussels, sowing confusion in the European Union about the Kremlin’s intentions.

EU governments and rights groups accuse Mr Putin, due to step down next year, of undermining democracy, gagging freedom of speech and using sometimes brutal methods to suppress Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus region. for more click here

Jews arrived at the Yad Yair synagogue for morning prayers on Friday to the horrific site of Torah scrolls and holy books consumed in a blaze that destroyed the building.

It was the third time in the past 18 months that the synagogue, named in memory of terror victim Yair Mendelson, was burnt down by Arabs. Built more than ten years ago, the Jewish house of worship is located near the Binyamin region community of Dolev, northwest of the Palestinian Authority government seat of Ramallah, in Samaria. for more click here

IT WAS the computer specialists at Britain’s top-secret listening station, GCHQ, who uncovered the existence of Scotland’s first home-grown terror suspect.

Mohammed Atif Siddique’s cover was blown after his e-mails to a man in the north-west of England, who was already suspected as an al-Qaeda operative, were intercepted. for more click here

Wall Street is counting on a Federal Reserve interest rate cut on Halloween, and policymakers are likely to have a hard time figuring why they should disappoint the markets.

The bogeymen that were supposed to frighten the Fed into holding the line on rates don’t seem very scary to the central bank or to a lot of investors these days. for more click here

LONDON — With tough new U.S. sanctions against Iran now in place, the next step falls to European nations: Will they agree on biting measures of their own, the only way to make the unilateral U.S. action truly effective? for more click here

Care home owners are expected to defend their right to evict residents and maintain profits.

The industry body for private homes says plans to bring them under the Human Rights Act could be used to stop them closing homes, or to get rid of residents who are not paying their bills. for more click here