[The New Zealand Herald]– Police raids in Otago and Canterbury have uncovered a sophisticated international drug syndicate. Queenstown police have recruited the help of Australian and Canadian police after the syndicate was exposed during eight raids yesterday. full story–> License
[Vietnam News]– President Nguyen Minh Triet affirmed the continued friendship, support and solidarity by the Party, State and people of Viet Nam for their Cuban counterparts during a courtesy call on former Cuban President Fidel Castro on Monday. Triet said he believed that the Cuban people, under the leadership of the Cuban Communist Party, comrade [...]
[Deutsche Welle]– Berlin’s outspoken former city finance chief Thilo Sarrazin has provoked the citizens of his old home town once again by blaming the city’s underclass and its leftist mentality for what he sees as its lack of success. “The city is burdened by its ‘68 tradition and the West-Berliner sloppiness factor,” Sarrazin said in [...]
[The Australian]– Rescue teams are this morning combing desperately through rubble for survivors from yesterday’s earthquake in Indonesia amid fears that the death toll could top 1000. The powerful earthquake, which struck near the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, has killed between 100 and 200 people, a disaster agency official said early on [...]
[Krakow Post]– Poland’s Social Insurance Office (Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, or ZUS) is in trouble. In August of this year, it hit its “magical figure”, meaning that three working persons are now covering each retiree in Poland – and that’s only if “grey area” employment is counted. When only those working “officially” are considered, the ratio [...]
[RIA Novosti]– A project to pump Russian gas to South Korea through a North Korean pipeline has been suspended due to the deterioration in inter-Korean relations, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday. Choo Kang-soo, head of South Korea’s state-run energy company Kogas, said Seoul would not build the pipeline through North Korea [...]
[Sky News]– A 106-year-old woman is due to find out whether she will be evicted from her council-run care home. Louisa Watts, believed to be the sixth oldest person in Britain, is fighting to stay in the Wolverhampton residential home where she has lived for the last four years. In an attempt to cut costs, [...]
[BBC News]– At least 157 people were killed when Guinean troops opened fire on opposition protesters on Monday, a human rights group says. Earlier police said 87 people had died, but local activists say hospital sources confirmed a much higher toll. Human rights groups say they have had reports of soldiers bayoneting people and women [...]
