Discovering Iran’s secret nuclear plant has wiped off Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s smile
If nothing else the disclosure that Iran is building yet another underground nuclear facility has had the welcome effect of wiping the smile off Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s face.
Austrian High Court sacks investigator in British banker case
A British businessman has won a victory in the fight to clear his name of alleged fraud.
Unlocking Iran’s secret nuclear plans
It sounds like a scene from a James Bond movie. Western intelligence agents scouring Iran for a secret nuclear site, big enough to make a bomb but small enough to hide, identified some suspicious tunnels in a mountain complex outside the holy city of Qom.
RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Anti-Gay Reform Fails in Congress
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 25 (IPS) – Constitutional reforms that would ban same-sex couples from marrying and adopting children in El Salvador failed to obtain the required number of votes in Congress.
US threatens airstrikes in Pakistan
The United States is threatening to launch airstrikes on Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership in the Pakistani city of Quetta as frustration mounts about the ease with which they find sanctuary across the border from Afghanistan.
ARGENTINA: New Voice for Sexual Minorities
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 26 (IPS) – A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake to defend their rights.
China reaches out on 60th anniversary
IT is designed to be a military spectacle to awe the Chinese people on the 60th anniversary of the People s Republic and to show the world a well equipped, modern force that is a far cry from the peasant army that swept the Communist party to power.
G20: Rising Above the G8
PITTSBURGH, Sep 25 (IPS) – Something that was perhaps only half-expected has happened in Pittsburgh: the G20 has moved on from being an event to becoming an institution.
Bosom buddy Merkel arouses jaded voters
Few people can claim such vivid experience of the popularity of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, as the friend who is fighting to become a conservative MP in a fiefdom of Berlin s hard left.
SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Summit for South-South Cooperation
PORLAMAR, Venezuela, Sep 25 (IPS) – South American and African leaders are meeting over the weekend on the Caribbean island of Margarita in their second summit in three years, to forge stronger cooperation between the two regions and discuss their positions with regard to a number of pressing international concerns.
US threatens to escalate operations inside Pakistan
The US has told Pakistan that it may start launching drone attacks against the Taliban leadership in the city of Quetta in a major escalation of its operations in the country.
Nestl : the world’s biggest food company and one of the ‘most boycotted’
The world’s largest food company began life in 1867 when Henri Nestl developed the first milk food for infants and “saved the life of a neighbour’s child”.
