BBC– Human Rights Watch says activists in the Philippines are still being killed with impunity, despite the president’s campaign pledge to end such violence. In a new report, the campaign group says it has evidence that the military was involved in seven killings and three enforced disappearances. Each of these occurred since President Benigno Aquino took office last year, the … Read More
PRESS TV– A Russian official says that Libya’s ruler Muammar Gaddafi plans to blow up the capital Tripoli with missiles if revolutionaries seize the city. In his latest televised speech on Thursday, Gaddafi said that he will not surrender to NATO forces. “The Libyan Premier [Baghdadi al-Mahmudi] told me: if the rebels seize the city, we will cover it with … Read More
VBS TV– For part one of Vice’s recent journey into Pakistan, Vice founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Bin Laden’s infamous compound, chats with Osama’s neighbors, and visits a local university to see what people really think about having lived next to America’s most vilified fugitive for the past five years. Unsurprisingly, their concern lies less with the proximity of Bin … Read More
THE NATION– When he was elected prime minister in 2009 at the head of Greece’s Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PaSoK), George Papandreou was going to wipe out corruption, open up politics, rejuvenate the country’s sclerotic economy. “There is money,” he said then, although he must have known there wasn’t any in the public coffers. Less than two years later, he has … Read More
SKY NEWS– Two deaths have been confirmed following an air strike in the east of the capital, Tripoli, in the early hours of Sunday. Libyan authorities say nine civilians were killed, including a family of five. The military alliance said the errant strike may have been due to “a weapons system failure”. “Nato regrets the loss of innocent civilian lives … Read More
