Three people were killed April 18 in an attack on a Turkish publishing house which prints Bibles and Christian literature, according to media reports. CNN Turk television said the victims’ throats were cut and that police had detained six people… Read moreTurkey: deadly attack on Christian publishing house
The massacre of at least 32 students at Virginia Tech university April 16—apparently by a South Korea-born English major, Cho Seung-Hui—is the worst such incident in US history. Many commentators point out, of course, that it came a few days… Read moreThe Virginia Tech massacre and Hitler’s shadow
An investigation that has already exposed links between government officials and illegal paramilitary groups in six of Colombia’s coastal departments has now reached the home department of President Álvaro Uribe, focusing on his administration’s politically powerful allies. Colombia’s Supreme Court,… Read moreColombia: para probe hits Uribe’s home turf
From AP, April 16: Racist German Army Tape Stirs Outrage BERLIN – A German army instructor ordered a soldier to envision himself in New York City facing hostile blacks while firing his machine gun, a video that aired Saturday on… Read moreGermans at it again
From the Daily News, April 16: 2 die as cars plunge from highways Two people were killed early yesterday morning in unrelated accidents that sent their cars plummeting from city highways, cops said. Gretchen Patterson, 48, of Powell St., Brooklyn,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
On April 15, tens of thousands rallied in Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, to protest demands by a radical religious school which has begun a Taliban-style anti-vice campaign in the capital, Islamabad. “The people of Islamabad are insecure and under threat… Read morePakistanis march for secularism
Remember all the hype when Padilla was first arrested? Now that he is finally going to trial—on considerably less ambitious charges than those originaly floated—it is a discrete little story on the inside pages. Funny how that works, huh? We… Read morePadilla case opens —minus “dirty bomb” charge
Now that Iran has a nuclear program, other Middle East countries want nuclear power—potentially resulting in a nuclear arms race in the region, the New York Times reported April 15. “Two years ago, the leaders of Saudi Arabia told international… Read moreNYT: Mideast nuclear arms race seen
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Casablanca close to the city’s American Cultural Centre April 14—apparently causing no casualties other than themselves. (AlJazeera, April 14) After the blasts, the US consulate in Casablanca was ordered closed until further notice…. Read moreMorocco: police raid slum after suicide blasts
Hungary’s Finance Minister János Kóka has presented a bill in Parliament to make the country an attractive route for transnational gas transport. The intended beneficiaries of the tax exemptions on gas transported across Hungary are the interests behind the planned… Read moreHungary woos rival pipeline routes
Moqtada al-Sadr has pulled his faction out of the Iraqi government in protest of the continuing US presence in the country. Said Nassar al-Rubaie, head of the bloc: “Al-Sadr’s ministers will withdraw immediately and give the six cabinet seats to… Read moreIraq: Sadrists pull out of government
Unregistered Afghan refugees face an uncertain future after the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) announced it will discontinue the repatriation program April 15, the same day that the Pakistani government had set as the deadline for all unregistered refugees… Read moreAfghan refugees in Pakistan: out of time?
