BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official and European parliament member Pal Schmitt said on Monday he would urge the IOC to make a statement on human rights in China before next year’s Beijing Games. for more click here
Yet another grim day for the markets yesterday.
The FTSE 100 slid 81 points to 6,180, while US markets have now officially undergone a correction, according to Wall Street jargon. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are now more than 10% below their October records.
It’s the first time in four years that the US markets have fallen that far.
And history suggests they have much further to go…
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“Soon, God willing, a new message from the lion Sheik Osama bin Laden, may God protect him, to the Europeans,” says a banner posted Monday on a radical Islamist Web site by the production unit, As-Sahab.
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I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran. I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futile gesture. But an attack on Iran - which appears increasingly likely before the coming presidential election - will unleash a regional conflict of catastrophic proportions. This war, and especially Iranian retaliatory strikes on American targets, will be used to silence domestic dissent and abolish what is left of our civil liberties. It will solidify the slow-motion coup d’état that has been under way since the 9/11 attacks. It could mean the death of the Republic. for more click here
THE only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. So said American novelist Edith Wharton many decades ago - but her sentiments ring true in Edinburgh today more than ever. The axe has fallen on services right across the Capital thanks to a financial black hole at the council, which at one point threatened to reach £25 million. for more click here
KUWAIT: Islam and Islamic teachings are being abused by some as pretext and justification for abuse of and violence against women, an official said yesterday as the world marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Head of the Programs and Training Department at Kuwait Regional Center for Child and Motherhood Suad Al-Sweidan said the center marks Nov 25 of each year with activities and campaigns prepared by specialists to increase awareness and public interaction on this issue. for more click here
A British primary school teacher is in a Sudanese jail facing 40 lashes if she’s convicted of insulting Islam’s prophet Muhammed by letting children name a teddy bear after him. for more click here
KAMPALA: Commonwealth leaders have agreed to a historic reform by formally dropping the requirement for members to be former British colonies. for more click here
OXFORD, England (AP) — Demonstrators disrupted a forum at the venerable Oxford Union debating society Monday night but failed to stop an appearance by a far-right politician and a historian who denies the Holocaust.
Historian David Irving and British National Party leader Nick Griffin had been invited to the Oxford Union to debate free speech. But while the pair made it in to the building — bundled into the hall hours before the debate was to begin — nearly half of all ticket holding students were kept out by hundreds of protesters chanting slogans and yelling “shame on you.” for more click here
US corruption investigators have gone behind the back of Downing Street to fly a British witness to Washington to testify about Saudi arms deals with the UK arms firm BAE Systems, the Guardian can disclose. In a hitherto secret move, Swiss federal prosecutors have also agreed to hand over to Washington financial records linked to the Saudi royal family. for more click here