Even though he objected many of the practices and missions they executed, President Obama has shown confidence in many of the Bush-era military and intelligence leaders, and looked for ways to keep them in his administration. The latest is FBI Director Robert Mueller, who the president would like to stay on another two years. Thursday [...]
Lady Ashton said that the EU intended to open the office “so that we can move forward on the support we’ve discussed to the people … to support civil society, to support the Interim Transitional National Council”. She said EU support would include help for security sector reform and institution-building. “We want to help with [...]
Microsoft added a key piece to its flagging mobile operating system business Tuesday when the company announced it is buying voice and video communications provider Skype Global for $8.5 billion. Despite heavily hyping its Windows Phone 7 operating system late last year, Microsoft has struggled to gain traction against Apple’s iPhone as well as against [...]
In May 2011, all eyes from Illinois to the gulf have been on the mighty Mississippi River and the flood waters rushing southward, pushing back the river’s tributaries into the towns along its banks, sending residents scattering toward higher ground and approaching levels it has not reached in over 70 years. In Cairo, Ill., the [...]
President Obama’s nominee to be Attorney General Eric Holder’s top deputy at the Justice Department crashed into a Republican roadblock in the U.S. Senate on Monday, garnering just 50 votes, 10 short of the number needed to break a GOP-led filibuster. Dick Lugar of Indiana was the lone Republican to support the nomination. Senate Majority [...]
By Jean-Herve Deiller (AFP) Cubans will be allowed to travel abroad as tourists for the first time in more than 50 years, Raul Castro’s regime, in a move that could rock long-strained US-Cuban ties. “Study a policy that allows Cubans living in the country to travel abroad as tourists,” read one of the bullet-points on [...]
HAVANA (Reuters) – The Cuban government on Monday denied opposition charges that a dissident who died on Sunday had been beaten by police, saying a preliminary autopsy showed he died of natural causes. Juan Wilfredo Soto was buried on Sunday in the central city of Santa Clara after what dissidents described as a beating by [...]
Washington (CNN) – Three of the biggest names in the administration of former President George W. Bush congratulated President Obama on Sunday for the capture of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, while coming to the careful defense of their former boss. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said bin Laden’s capture was the [...]
The seizure of Osama bin Laden’s hard drives left many wondering what the US might discover – “the mother lode of intelligence”, or impossible-to-crack encrypted data? It turns out that while the encryption used may be mathematically impenetrable, the human factor can provide a way in to the data, even after bin Laden’s death. One [...]
By John Curran, The Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. — Already at its highest level ever, Lake Champlain surpassed flood stage by 3 feet (0.9 metres) Friday, leaving hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged in a slowly unfolding catastrophe on island communities and the New York and Vermont sides of the 120-mile (193-kilometre) lake. Teams from [...]
African malaria mosquitoes, Anopheles gambiae, use their olfactory organs, two antennae, two mouthparts (maxillary palps) and the proboscis, to search for their hosts to obtain a bloodmeal. From a distance of several tens of meters mosquitoes detect CO2 which forms part of exhaled air by humans. However, a malaria mosquito does not follow the CO2 [...]
I really enjoyed creating this podcast because it allowed me to splurge into my library of Hard Bop, my favorite Jazz era. Although it began in about 1955, it really evolved in the early 60′s and faded out right in the beginning of the 70′s. It didn’t go away completely but was coupled with a [...]
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda was plotting an attack on U.S. trains on the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to some of the first information gleaned from Usama bin Laden’s compound, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News. But the planning was more aspirational than concrete, counterterrorism officials say, adding that they have [...]
So after all, Obama proves me right, by releasing the only hope left to prove that he is an African-American. Now that we are all relaxed and have some downtime to gather our minds back to reality, we can concentrate on the the term African-American and all the misinterpretation and all the hype created before [...]
THE Wall Street Journal reports that some high-flying commodities have gone into retreat in recent weeks: Cotton has pulled back 17% from the all-time record set in early March, and sugar is down 34% from its multidecade high in February. Lead and zinc have tumbled in recent weeks after shooting up in the second half [...]
(CNN) — The Mississippi river spilled out across huge swaths of farmland in the American South and Midwest on Wednesday, creating massive flooding from Minnesota to Louisiana. Heavy rains spawned flooding that meteorologists say is not expected to fully relent until early June. Areas along the Ohio River Basin also experienced heavy flooding as residents [...]
U.S. officials are concerned that the tail of a military helicopter left at Usama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan could be technologically exploited if it falls into Chinese or enemy hands, a Defense official told Fox News. A series of photos that a Pakistani security official sold to Reuters reportedly shows three of the men [...]
Please welcome my special guest, award-winning Cuban playwright and novelist Teresa Dovalpage. She’s here today to talk about her novel, Habanera. Teresa has a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and is the author of five novels, three in Spanish and two in English, and a collection of short stories in Spanish. Her plays has been [...]
Declaring “justice has been done,” President Obama announced late Sunday that Usama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan, marking the end of the worldwide manhunt that began nearly a decade ago on Sept. 11, 2001. The president made the stunning announcement within hours of informing congressional leaders. He said bin Laden was [...]
At least three sea mines capable of damaging or sinking a civilian ship were discovered two miles off shore in the approach to Misurata, and disabled by Nato vessels, but there were fears that others remained as yet unfound and posed a serious threat, in what officials said was a clear breach of international law. [...]