Court cannot ban woman with fake driving license
A woman who admitted she never passed a driving test but bought a fake Filipino driving license has been told by a court she can continue driving on German roads. Read More…
Cyber-defence centre opens amid IT warning
Germany will open a special cyber-defence facility on Thursday amid warnings the country’s infrastructure is at serious risk from internet attacks by hackers and terrorists. The National Cyber Defence Centre in Bonn will be dedicated to thwarting such threats, according to German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich. Read More…
‘Thailand Must Be United Again’
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra now lives in exile in Dubai. Sentenced in Thailand to two years in prison for abuse of office, Thaksin hopes his younger sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, will become the country’s new prime minister in July so he can return home. He talks to SPIEGEL about past mistakes and his […]
Row over Greek – Aid Merkel’s Hard Line Annoys European Partners
Berlin’s insistence on involving private creditors in a new Greek bailout has made Germany unpopular with some of its European partners, including the ECB. Hopes are high that Friday’s summit between Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will lead to a breakthrough. But if she backs down, Merkel […]
Rare stamps fetch big money
A rare Sicilian “error of colour” issued in 1859 has become the world’s second most expensive stamp after selling for €1.8 million (SFr2.18) at auction in Basel. The stamp, which was printed erroneously in blue instead of orange, was the centre piece of the four-day auction by Galerie Dreyfus which […]
US building secret CIA base in Gulf to counter Al-Qaeda
By KIMBERLY DOZIER | AP WASHINGTON: Preparing for a worst-case scenario in Yemen, the United States is building a secret CIA air base in the Gulf to target Al-Qaeda terrorists there, in case anti-American factions win the current power struggle and shut US forces out, The Associated Press has learned. […]
Andre Abela, 14: Awarded for loyalty to dying friend: Malta
For Andre Abela, 14, unwavering dedication to a dying friend is nothing short of normal. “If I know someone is unwell I’d go to see him, let alone if he was my friend. What I did felt like an everyday thing and was completely natural to me,” Andre said, after […]
Ferry service for Egyptian pilgrims set to resume
By GALAL FAKKAR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: An official of the Egyptian Haj Mission said Wednesday pilgrim ferry service between Egypt and Saudi Arabia would be resumed this year. “The ferry service was canceled last year because of poor safety arrangements in the vessels,” said Egyptian Haj Mission Deputy Chief […]
Compassion wins seconds before execution
By ARAB NEWS MADINAH: A murderer was saved seconds before he was due to be beheaded after his victim’s father decided to pardon him. According to a report by local Arabic daily Al-Madinah on Wednesday, Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim Al-Anzi was brought Tuesday to the execution square in Madinah in […]
Rising food prices changing what we eat, Oxfam says
People across the world are changing their eating habits because of the rising cost of food, according to a survey of 17 countries carried out by Oxfam and released yesterday. More than half of those questioned, or 53 per cent, have modified their diet in the last two years, with […]
Editorial: Brutal blockade
Gaza reels under five years of Israeli siege as the world community stands and stares It has been five years since Israel imposed its oppressive and inhuman blockade on the Gaza Strip. Without doubt it has been easily one of the toughest and most trying periods in the eventful history […]
Malta: ‘No risk of E.coli from tourist arrivals’
Health Minister Joseph Cassar assured Parliament that there was no risk of E. coli being imported by tourists. Answering a question by Labour MP Noel Farrugia, he said a number of European countries had reported cases of diarrhoea with blood, caused by the E.coli 1014 microbe. In some cases there […]
Mediterranean route favoured by migrants
Migrants and the criminal organisations that exploit them have turned their attention to the Central Mediterranean route after the deployment of EU personnel to the Greek-Turkish border has rendered that path into Europe more secure, according to a senior official of the EU’s boarder agency. Gil Arias Fernandes, the deputy […]
Syrians flee northern town; tanks deploy in east
AMMAN (Reuters) – Thousands of Syrians fled the historic town of Maarat Al Numaan on Wednesday to escape troops and tanks pushing into the north in a widening military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar Assad. In the tribal east, where Syria’s 380,000 barrels per day of oil is […]
The New World Order of Islam (2): Different Proposals
It was recognized [at the end of the 18th century, ed] that the remedy lay not in the hands of individuals but in the hands of the State. As I have said an individual residing in Lahore or Delhi can hardly be expected to know that a poor woman’s child […]
Crimes against women
IT may be the 21st cen-tury but in Pakistan, that is merely a technicality. The archaic and often criminal notions of justice and honour, particularly the treatment meted out to women, speak of a society that remains mired in a medieval mindset. This is evident in the grotesque incident which […]
And if NATO was a target?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey Pravda.Ru What if NATO was a target? What if NATO’s leaders and their families were targets? What if thousands of heavily armed terrorists started running amok in NATO countries, slaughtering civilians, committing acts of arson, destroying Government and private property, stealing public assets and trading them with hostile […]
Anti-austerity general strike hits Greece, as French banks threatened with downgrade
By RFI Demonstrators are camped out in front of the Greek parliament and workers are on general strike as MPs debate a new austerity package. Credit ratings agency Moody’s is threatening to downgrade three French banks because of their exposure to Greek debt. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/economy/20110615-anti-austerity-general-strike-hits-greece-french-banks-threatened-downgrade
British students turning to US Ivy League universities
Harvard University – ranked the best in the world – has seen the number of applications from Britain rise by more than a third in just 12 months, figures show. Other elite Ivy League institutions, including Yale, Columbia and Cornell, have also reported an increase in demand. It is believed […]
Sarkozy’s ex-wife sparks frenzy with 2012 biography
France24. France’s celebrity gossip journalists have been rubbing their hands together in anticipation this week after Nicolas Sarkozy’s former wife opened up about life with the president, quickly followed by the news that she was planning to publish an autobiographical novel next year. Weekly magazine Voici marvelled that 2012 was […]