World News
- Saddam nuclear material sent to Canada
The Cuba News.Net
US and Iraqi officials have sent a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium to a Canadian port, in a top-secret operation.
- Israel accused of burying nuclear wastes in Golan Heights
The Cuba News.Net
Syria has called on the United Nations to exert pressure on Israel to 'stop its continued practices and aggressions against Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan who suffer from the Israeli daily flagrant violations', the Syrian Arab News Agency reported this week.
- US government rushes to secure terror prisoners
The Cuba News.Net
The Bush government in the US is believed to be drawing up plans to push Guantanamo prison inmates into normal jails.
- Mbeki speaks to Mugabe and breakaway MDC chief
The Cuba News.Net
Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, has held talks in Zimbabwe with President Robert Mugabe and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a breakaway faction of the Movement for Democratic Change.
- Obama "puzzled" by Iraq comment frenzy
Reuters
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week...
- Hungarian right-wingers invade Gay Pride parade
The Cuba News.Net
Hungarian riot police have waded into far-right extremists after they tried to break up the annual gay parade in the capital Budapest.
- Massive riot in Syrian jail
The Cuba News.Net
A jail for political prisoners has erupted in extreme violence following a crackdown by guards.
- Catholic priest flies into the ocean
The Cuba News.Net
A Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, Father Adelir de Carli, who flew over the Atlantic Ocean in a bizarre event, is believed to have drowned.
- Al-Qaeda re-grouping in Pakistan
The Cuba News.Net
A senior US security official has reportedly said that al-Qaeda is regrouping itself in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
- DNA frees another US inmate
The Cuba News.Net
Patrick Waller has become a free man in the US after being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for more than 15 years.
- Man decapitates wax
IOL
Berlin - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said. Just minutes after the museum...
- U.S. and Israeli militaries discuss attack on Liberty
The Cuba News.Net
Leading defense officials from the United States and Israel, meeting in Israel this week, raised the controversial attack on the U.S. ship USS Liberty, by Israel, in June 1967.
- Obama insists he intends ending Iraq War
The Cuba News.Net
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama told reporters Saturday he remains committed to ending the war in Iraq.
- Afghan parliamentarian assassinated in southern province
The Cuba News.Net
An Afghan parliamentarian and renowned chieftain from the southern Kandahar province was assassinated overnight by unknown gunmen, an official said Saturday.
- Kewell signs two-year contract with Galatasaray
KeralaNext
Former Liverpool star Harry Kewell on Saturday signed a two-year contract with Turkish champions Galatasaray, describing his move as a "new chapter" after five injury-stricken years at...
- IDF blockades W. Bank village after rallies against security fence
Haaretz
Israel Defense Forces troops blockaded the West Bank village of Na'alin on Saturday in what the army called an open-ended effort to curb protests against the construction nearby of the controversial...
- Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
New York Post
Earlier in the day as he flew from Montana to Missouri, Obama told reporters he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq, and reaffirmed his commitment to...
- Canadian archeologists find pre-Columbian tomb in northern Peru
C News
Canadian archeologists have found a pre-Columbian tomb containing well-preserved human remains, ceramics and jewelry near Peru's northern coast that could shed new light on the ancient...
- Inspectors study U.S., Mexican farms but seem no closer to source of salmonella
C News
Inspectors are collecting soil, water and produce samples, reviewing export logs and combing packing plants in three major tomato-growing states in Mexico. But the U.S. Food and...
- Patriotism – last refuge of scoundrels, and undoing of Democratic candidates
The Independent
On Independence Day weekends in presidential election years, the ritual is normally immutable. The candidates tour the heartland, dutifully down their hot dogs and hamburgers, and, on this most...
- Helms never changed on civil rights opposition
New York Post
Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
- Spy boss in mysterious coma
New Zealand Herald
Alex Allan, who briefs the Prime Minister and the Cabinet on security matters, was appointed to his post by Gordon Brown last autumn. Photo / AP Britain's most senior intelligence officer is said to...
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