US helicopter crash kills three
Three crew members were killed when a US military Black Hawk helicopter crashed in a wooded area in southwestern Germany, a US army spokesman said today.
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RIGHTS-INDIA: Commonwealth Games: No Medals for Labourers
NEW DELHI, Feb 6 (IPS) – If medals are being given out for backbreaking labour on miserable wages and impossible working conditions, thousands of migrant workers, slaving to complete stadia and other facilities for the October Commonwealth Games in the Indian capital, will be the champions.
Pain relief may stop ‘good death’
Medical staff who over-administer pain relief to dying patients could be denying them the chance of a good death , the Catholic Church in England and Wales said today.
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EUROPE: Poland’s Pension Cuts – Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
WARSAW, Feb 8 (IPS) – Poland s pension cuts on tens of thousands of former communist functionaries and secret police officers are adding fillip to campaigns in other East European states for similar legislation.
Palin assails Obama at ‘tea party’
Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has spoken at the first US Tea Party convention, telling a gathering of activists that America is ripe for another revolution.
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Somali pirates hijack cargo ship
Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have hijacked a Libyan-owned cargo ship thought to be carrying 17 seafarers from Romania and Libya, a European Union anti-piracy force and a maritime group said today.
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YEMEN: Development Recognised as Crucial for Stability
WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (IPS) – Amid growing concerns here over the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a consensus is emerging among U.S. experts that Washington and other donors to Yemen must place at least as much or greater emphasis on promoting sustainable development in the Arab world’s poorest country as on counterterrorism.
RIGHTS: Legal Experts Slam “Targeted Killings” of US Citizens
NEW YORK, Feb 5 (IPS) – Civil liberties advocates and legal authorities struck back Friday at what they describe as the “deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens far away from any active hostilities, as long as the executive branch determines unilaterally that they meet a secret definition of who the enemy is.”
Swiss businessmen freed as Libya visa violations are quashed
A Libyan court dropped a case against a Swiss businessman for alleged illegal activities, clearing the way for him to leave after being trapped in the country for 19 months.
CLIMATE-GERMANY: Planting the Forest of the Future
BERLIN, Feb 7 (Tierram rica) – Exotic tree seedlings grow next to native species in the southeastern German village of Laufen, at a site where researchers are experimenting with ways to restore forests lost to the effects of global warming.
