9/9/2010 2:52:55 PM | 0 Comments United States President Barack Obama has described the plan by a Florida minister to burn Qu’rans as un-American.
Obama was speaking on Good Morning America this morning when he called on the Rev Terry Jones to listen to people and call off what he termed a "stunt”. He said :” If he's listening, I hope he understands that what he's proposing to do is completely contrary to o ...»
9/9/2010 2:07:44 PM | 0 Comments
An overcrowded bus carrying an estimated 70 passengers fell into a river in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh and resulted in at least 21 people dead.
41 people were rescued whilst some are still missing.
The accident occurred late on Wednesday when the bus skidded into the Bagdi river while attempting to cross a flooded bridge in Dewas district.
The IANS news ...»
9/9/2010 10:44:18 AM | 0 Comments The mayor of a Mexican state was been gunned down in his own office yesterday.
Alexander Lopez Garcia was the mayor of El Naranjo in the state of San Lius Potosi. Witness accounts say four armed men stepped out of a white truck, two posted as guards outside and the other two went up to Garcia’s office where they shot him. the attack happened in broad daylight at around lunch ...»
9/9/2010 5:51:23 PM | 0 Comments Terry Jones, the Florida preacher who planned on leading his congregation in a Koran burning ceremony on the anniversary of September 11 2001, has announced that the ceremony is only suspended and not cancelled.
On Thursday afternoon, the pastor had said he would cancel the event if a controversial mosque project near Ground Zero in New York is relocated and if he could have ...»
9/9/2010 5:13:18 PM | 0 Comments Swazi Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini has announced that his government will consider using torture to punish pro-democracy dissidents.
Dlamini, who reports directly to Swazi Monarch Mswati III, said the practice of "sipakatane” a form of foot whipping, could also be used against any foreigners who seek interfere in Swaziland’s affairs. Dlamini said :” Each person should min ...»
9/9/2010 4:01:49 PM | 0 Comments The controversial Florida pastor who has planned a Qu’ran burning event has said he is open to cancelling it.
Speaking to a Canadian radio station today Terry Jones said pulling a plug on the event is a :”definite consideration”. Jones’s Dove World Outreach Center has roughly 50 members yet his plans for the stunt has given them a level of publicity they could only have ever ...»
9/9/2010 3:43:53 PM | 1 Comments Britain’s News of the World (NotW) tabloid is set to come under even more scrutiny from the authorities after Britain’s deputy prime minister Nick Clegg urged Scotland Yard to step-up their investigation into claims the newspaper was involved in widespread phone tapping.
This as a report in another newspaper quoted a former NotW journo saying that former editor, and now Pr ...»
