3 soldiers killed in Guihulngan ambush

" THREE soldiers of the 11th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army were brutally killed in an ambush in Sitio Busay, Barangay Hilaitan, Guihulngan Saturday morning. Lieutenant Colonel Franco Gacal, commanding officer of the 11th IB based in La Carlota, Negros Occidental,...

THQ Wireless Star Wars: The Clone Wars mobile game announced

The players have to travel through climbable walls, bunkers, tunnels, caverns and battle four types of droids that are controlled by the Separatist Army. The players can interact with Obi-Wan Kenobi and General Grievous from the Star Wars movies as well as some new characters...

Peruvian 'Shining Path' returns in ambush attack against military convoy

As Peruvian President Alan Garcia greets his cabinet resignation after revelations showed his Ministers involved in a corruption case, another meaningful event has taken place. Shinning Path, the guerrilla...

Turf war rocks Sikh temple

"At least two groups of Filipino-Indians are battling for control over the richest, oldest and largest congregation of Punjabis here, the Khalsa Diwan Sikh Temple in Paco, Manila. A ranking member has been killed in the turf war for supremacy in the predominantly...

France shocked by images of war

"Staring out from a glossy eight-page spread in the latest edition of the magazine Paris Match, several Taleban fighters show off their trophies of war. The loss of the 10 soldiers in Afghanistan shocked France Guns, walkie-talkies...

Three die in fresh Afghan attack

"Three Nato soldiers have been killed in new violence in Afghanistan, days after a deadly Taleban attack on French troops in the country. The soldiers died in Ghazni province, in the centre of Afghanistan. Polish news agency PAP said they were members of Warsaw's contingent...

Algeria bomb blast kills 43: official

A massive bomb blast east of Algiers has reportedly killed 43 people. The attack has been claimed by Al Qaeda's North African wing. The attack targeted a paramilitary gendarmerie training school at Issers, 55 km...

'Four die' in S Lanka bus attack

Suspected Tamil rebels have killed 4 bus passengers and wounded many others bus passengers. "At least four people have been killed and 25 others wounded when gunmen ambushed a crowded passenger bus in Sri Lanka,...

UN fury at Darfur militia ambush

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has condemned an ambush which left seven members of the joint UN-African Union peace mission to Sudan's Darfur region dead." The Janjaweed has long been hostile to UN troops in Sudan, fearing...

Fox News vs. The People

This is getting interesting now.   Check out the news from FreePress, the folks that saved Net Neutralilty in the US. "Rupert Murdoch and his on-air bully Bill O'Reilly launched a laughable attack...

Rule bans 'ambush marketing'

" Companies here will be prevented from engaging in "ambush marketing" ahead of and during the Beijing Olympics, in a bid to protect the rights of official sponsors, a spokesman for the Games' organizing committee said yesterday.Chen Feng, deputy director of the marketing...

How do you say "My Lai" in Farsi?

I don't know what the truth of this situation was. Truth is, virtually none of us in North America do.Was it simply a terrorist action or was it a terrorist ambush? We can't tell now and often can't tell after the fact.. "MIAMI (AFP) — US Marines "acted appropriately"...

7 Life lessons from Die Hard

"1. Never be intimidated, no matter how impossible the oddsThere is always away out, you just have to be determined to get out of your present situation, and you will if you don’t panic every time some German with a gun and a few henchmen show up in your life."

Daughter of the West

" * LRB * 13 December 2007 * Tariq Ali more detail icon * printer icon print layout * mail icon tell a friend Daughter of the West Tariq Ali Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...

Australia soldier among 25 killed in Afghanistan

"The soldier was killed in an ambush while on patrol Thursday in the southern province of Uruzgan, the Australian Defence Force said in a statement. It was Australia`s third combat fatality since it sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq in the US-led "war on terror" in the wake...

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