A day after Israel invades northern Gaza, Egypt says it will open its border with Gaza.
Egypt will allow aid convoys to enter Gaza. Prior to the Egyptian Revolution, Egyptian President Mubarak closed the border, in cooperation with Israel.
Mubarak’s government also worked with Israel to keep Hamas and Fatah separated. The new transitional government of […] Continue Reading…
Recently British Home Secretary Theresa May said they “…trust the police.” But several reports say otherwise.
A report by the Howard League of Penal Reform shows that 278,000 children under the age of 18 were arrested in 2009. Of that 5,176 ended up in juvenile prison. The report condemned the British bobbies for “…excessive and […] Continue Reading…
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, said the United State needs to get its troops out of Iraq by the agreed date of December 2011.
Zebari denied that the Iraqi government was working with the U.S. to keep troops past the 2011 deadline. Recently Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maiki said that the only way U.S. […] Continue Reading…
Maybe your not old enough to remember when parents in the United States used to tell their kids, “Eat all your food, there’re starving people in China/Africa!” A new study by the United Nations proves that kind of reasoning correct.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization released findings of a study on wasting food. The […] Continue Reading…
Israeli ground troops have invaded the northern half of Gaza, Wednesday, May 11. Reports say troops, tanks and armored bulldozers are advancing towards Gaza City.
Israeli officials say they are destroying “possible tunnels”. Palestinians think the Israelis are trying to provoke action by Gazans, that would then be used to justify a larger military operation.
Recently […] Continue Reading…
One of the things pushed through by President Sarkozy, at the beginning of his term, was tax breaks for the French Elites. Four years later those breaks have proven to be an economic failure. Now Sarkozy’s own UMP political party wants to stop it: “This government has a tax policy which benefits only a […] Continue Reading…
Facebook officials are asking the Federal Election Commission to exempt them from U.S. election law. The law Facebook doesn’t like; disclosing who paid for political advertising on their website.
Facebook’s arguments are really weak. In a written explanation, Facebook says by disclosing who paid for the ad, it would make the ad bigger, and they […] Continue Reading…
Computer security firm Symantec, discovered a hole in Facebook’s security system, allowing third parties to access at least 100,000 accounts.
“We estimate that over the years, hundreds of thousands of applications may have inadvertently leaked millions of access tokens to third parties.”-Nishant Doshi, Symantec
Symantec says they contacted Facebook officials about the problem, and Facebook […] Continue Reading…
The agreement has a lot of strong sounding words and phrases, like “comprehensive” and “concrete plans”.
Here’s what the Obama administration said; China and the U.S. need “a cooperative partnership that is comprehensive in scope, cooperative in nature, and yields positive achievements that benefit our people.”
Basically China, and the U.S., spent a lot of […] Continue Reading…
Sony announced they plan to get the PlayStation network up and running by the end of May.
Of course, Sony officials say everything depends on their investigation into who hacked their systems in April. Officials will not talk about the details of their investigation.