Thursday, December 2, 2010

Channel 4 Video of Sri Lanka executions causes shockwaves

Channel 4 Video of Sri Lanka executions causes shockwaves

Channel 4 Video of Sri Lanka executions causes shockwaves

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A video from Sri Lanka aired by Channel 4 in UK is causing shockwaves. The footage shows men in uniform executing naked unarmed men and women. Channel 4 has said it cannot vouch for the authenticity of the video, believed to be shot during the final push by the Sri Lankan government against the LTTE.


Sri Lanka President calls off scheduled address to Oxford Union

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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday called off his scheduled address to the Oxford Union after organisers feared that pro-LTTE activists might disrupt the lecture. Sri Lankan Tamils and pro-LTTE activists, residing in the UK, had planned to hold demonstration against the visiting President alleging that the Sri Lankan troops had indulged in human rights violations in the war against LTTE.


Hillary Clinton calls world leaders to express regret on WikiLeaks

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has spoken with 12 world leaders, including the Presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the past one week to express her regret over the embarrassing release of secret diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks.


Google admits trespassing in US, pays $1 in damages

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Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Cathy Bissoon on Thursday signed off on a consent judgment, a mutually agreed-upon verdict, between the Mountain View, Calif. company and Aaron and Christine Boring, of Franklin Park.


First-ever murder in Disney town

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As if the Thanksgiving murder were not enough to ruin things in this subdivision that Disney designed. Now, tanks and SWAT teams? Here in a community built 14 years ago by the Walt Disney Company as the happiest subdivision on earth — and which, to be fair, has been largely free from urban strife — two major crimes in the span of less than a week have made even the fake snow that blankets the town square every evening hour on the hour seem a little less cheery.


WikiLeaks: The shifting portrait of Hamid Karzai

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Oman's foreign minister says that he is "losing confidence" in him. A British diplomat says Britain feels "deep frustration" with him, while an Australian official complains that he "ignores reality." A diplomat from the United Arab Emirates says Afghanistan would be better off without him. NATO's secretary general speculates that he has a split personality.


At least 40 die in Israel forest fire

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A fire raging in a rain-starved northern Israel forest on Thursday has left at least 40 people dead, caused the evacuation of thousands of people, burned some kibbutz houses to the ground and prompted the Israeli government to call for urgent international aid in fighting the inferno.


Portrait of the artist as a young chimp

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Jimmy, a chimpanzee with a unique talent, sets to work on his latest masterpiece at Niteroi zoo near Rio de Janeiro. Delicately blending the vivid colours and careful to cover all the canvas, Jimmy's face is a picture of concentration.


NASA finds new life form

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Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to could eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using biochemical powers we have not yet dared to dream about.


Russian President flexes muscles with chin-ups on TV

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev performed chin-ups on national television on Thursday, flexing his muscles as he battles perceptions that his successor Vladmir Putin is the real strongman of Moscow.


WikiLeaks: Russia a 'virtual mafia state'

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Russia's secret service and politicians have close links with organised crime, according to details from leaked confidential US diplomatic documents published in a Spanish newspaper Thursday. The daily El Pais is one of several newspapers given advance access to 250,000 US diplomatic cables by the online whistleblower WikiLeaks.


Freezing weather kills 26 in Central Europe

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Freezing weather has claimed 26 lives across Central Europe this week including 18 deaths in Poland where temperatures plunged to minus 33 degrees Celsius (minus 27.4 Fahrenheit), officials said today.


How Pak media is reporting on WikiLeaks

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Pakistan's political and military elite have been shaken by damaging disclosures about the country's foreign policy and internal politics in hundreds of secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, with the media screaming "WikiWreaks havoc" and "WikiLeaks bombs rock Islamabad".


What the Pope really wants but hasn't got

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Guess what the Vatican wants for Pope Benedict XVI? A solar-powered electric popemobile to promote his 'green' agenda.


Walls collapse at Pompeii

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Two more ancient Roman walls gave way in the 2000-year-old archaeological site of Pompeii on Wednesday following the collapse of one on Tuesday and the ruin of a frescoed house last month.


Swedish court confirms arrest warrant for Julian Assange

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Sweden's highest court refused on Thursday to grant permission for Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing organization, to appeal a court order seeking his arrest to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, news reports said.


A tornando comes to town

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A huge tornado, with winds gusting up to 130 miles per hour, hit a part of Georgia in America on Tuesday, damaging more than 50 homes.


Spanish woman registers the sun as her property

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A woman in Spain has claimed that she is the owner of the sun after she got it registered as her property. She now plans to charge people who benefit from the sun's energy, it was reported. Fortynine-year-old Angeles Duran, a resident of Vigo in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia, applied for ownership of the sun after she learnt that similar claims had been made by a US national on the Moon, Mars and Venus, the Daily Telegraph reported.


Pak Sikh alleges discrimination over his kirpan

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A Pakistani Sikh plans to file a petition against the security personnel of the Lahore High Court after he was stopped from entering the court complex with his 'kirpan' or ceremonial sword. Ajeet Singh, who wanted to enter the complex to meet his lawyer, exchanged angry words with guards after he was asked to remove his kirpan at the entrance gate yesterday. He refused and left without going inside.


Clinton should resign, says WikiLeaks founder

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday said US Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton should resign if it were proved that she ordered espionage to be carried out in the United Nations, in violation of international agreements. Assange told Time magazine that Clinton should resign "if it can be shown that she was responsible for ordering US diplomatic figures to engage in espionage activities at the United Nations in violation of the international covenants to which the US has signed up." The White House said his statements "are both ridiculous and absurd" and US diplomats do not engage in spying.


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