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Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (the Army, Air...
Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill
" Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill David Edwards Raw Story Tuesday, June 17, 2008 A half-dozen military helicopters flew low over parts of Denver Monday night as part of a security drill... Fewer UK beaches gain top marks
The UK's beaches, which already have a pretty bad rep, have been given bad ratings for pollution again this year."Bathing water at beaches across the UK is more polluted as a result of last year's stormy summer, the Marine Conservation Society has warned.Its annual Good Beach...Indian police halt Tibetan march
China is continuing to crack down on the Tibetan marchers attempting to march from India to Tibet in China."Police in India have detained more than 100 Tibetan refugees who were trying to march to the Chinese border in protest against China hosting the Olympics. The marchers... Hanging crackdown in Iran
"Surge in public executions is a push to silence political activists, say critics
Robert Tait in Tehran
Sunday August 19, 2007
The Observer
Nikoubazl/Reuters
Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid... Begging for attention
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorI suppose what begs attention is in a Red Hot economy, where jobs are plentiful, why some choose not to work period, and why the working poor cannot get affordable housing...Iran courts the US at Russia's expense
"ran's relations with the Arab world have taken a dramatic turn for the better, in light of Iran's overtures toward the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, as well as in President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's announcement that Iran is prepared to resume full diplomatic relations with...Two suicide bombers target US cultural centre in Morocco
"CASABLANCA, Morocco - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a US cultural centre in Casablanca on Saturday, just days after similar attacks in the Moroccan port city. The blasts came at the end of a week that suicide bombers also targeted neighbouring Algeria,...34,452 Iraq civilians said killed in '06
I don't even know how to categorize this story. Politics seems too trite. Environment seems to encompass the calamity but emergency seems the best fit:"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university as students left classes Tuesday in the...In a Merger Wave, a Dangerous Undertow for Stocks
THE total value of mergers and acquisitions this year is already one of the largest in history. That’s ominous, because past merger waves have coincided with overvalued stock markets.The biggest single year for mergers and acquisitions was 2000, with the totals for 1998 and...American General Kicked Out of Iraq
"In an interview with Time.com, Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the man in charge of combat operations in Iraq, reflects on the troubled mission, Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli's two tours of duty in Iraq have coincided with some of the worst violence the country has experienced since...
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