US: Russian Patrols Violate Truce

The Kremlin is in violation of the "Truce Agreement" and although they have given up control of the main East/West highway they continue to occupy the seaport of Poti, having moved the majority of their tanks and men back to the disputed terrorities.  And have...

Russia accused of abusing truce

There is much dispute about this ceace fire agreement, I would love to see a copy of the said agreement its a shame its not been published anywhere. I see at present Russia is being accused of breaking the agreement by all and sundry would it not be strange if they are actual...

Rebel soldiers stop people leaving Manila hotel

This looks like it will be an on going story. This is what Reuters has so far. As it sais, mainly journalists. I am not sure how many foreigners are in the hotel."By Karen Lema and Raju Gopalakrishnan MANILA (Reuters) - Rebel Philippine soldiers holed up in a luxury Manila...

Palestinian Checkpoint Socks: For Those Long Waits

One gets a feeling that this story will be all over the Internet rather shortly, so here it is. The story isn't so much the invention itself as the circumstances that spawned it: when the extreme becomes the banal."A West Bank woman has developed special socks to help...

Police: Mom Gave Son a Gun to Take Revenge

Let's add this to the parent/child violence file, along with this. When those "The Anti-Drug" commercials talk about getting involved with your child's day-to-day life, this is not what they had in mid."A mother and her teenage son have been accused of second-degree murder,...

N. Korea: 120 Prisoners Escape From Gulag

I ran across this translated post by blogger TigerLikesRooster from the Daily NK. Since I don't read or speak Korean, I am grateful that this blogger shared such a compelling story from behind the barbwired worker's paradise of North Korea."120 prisoners escaped en masse from...

Mahdi Army lowers its profile, anticipating arrival of U.S. troops

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mahdi Army militia members have stopped wearing their black uniforms, hidden their weapons and abandoned their checkpoints in an apparent effort to lower their profile in Baghdad in advance of the arrival of U.S. reinforcements. "We have explicit directions...