Concerns over Olympic drug test

"A BBC investigation has found that there are serious question marks over a key drug test just two weeks before the start of the Beijing Olympics. The BBC has seen indications that labs are classing positive tests...

U.S. helicopter shot down in Afghanistan

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWhat I would like to know is, where the hell are the Taliban getting their weapons from? It should be pretty easy, considering our troops capture Taliban, with available...

Assault on Gay Man 'Not Hate Crime,' VPD Say

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMedia reported that the man was "Openly Gay" as he was assaulted by 3 Indo-Canadian men.  Indo meaning a race from India or East Asia, certainly if anything knows...

Man jumps to death from Disneyland hotel

A man just commited suicide by jumping from the 14th floor of his Disneyland hotel room."A man apparently jumped to his death on Friday from the 14th floor of the Disneyland Hotel at the world-famous amusement park...

Merck tells AIDS vaccine volunteers who got jab

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of people who volunteered to test an experimental AIDS vaccine that may have actually raised the risk of infection will be told if they got the actual shot, researchers said on Tuesday. Merck & Co. Inc. and academic researchers said they...

Britney Spears' One-Night-A-Week Custody Rights Suspended

"Following an emergency hearing called by Kevin Federline’s attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, yesterday in the ongoing custody battle between Kevin Federline and Britney Spears, there are indications that Britney has lost the one-night-a-week custody of her two children. The...

Israel urged US to attack Iran - not Iraq

"Israel urged US to attack Iran - not Iraq By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - Israeli officials warned the George W Bush administration that an invasion of Iraq would be destabilizing to the region and urged the United States instead to target Iran as the primary enemy, according...

Rumors In Miami?

UPDATE: South Florida Law Enforcement is on alert. An EOC (Emergency Operations Center) has been set-up and manned somewhere in Homestead. U.S. Local News stations are abuzz, mostly on reports very much like the...

Sens. Warner and Levin Travel to Iraq, Praise Surge Results

"WASHINGTON — After a brief trip to Iraq, Sen. Carl Levin said Monday that the Iraqi Parliament should vote no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki because of its sectarian nature and...

BBC Claims That Ireland Is A Gateway For Child Smuggling And Bulgarian Police...

"The Republic of Ireland is being used as a gateway to smuggle children from Bulgaria to Britain, according to claims made in an expose on child trafficking. A member of an organised criminal gang in Bulgaria told...

Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria

"The Bush administration has used discussions between Israeli Transportation Minister and former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to insist that there should be no talks between Israel and...

Hostile Intent Technology

The Department of Homeland Security is developing new biophysical sensors and detectors designed to detect "hostile intent" on the part of people crossing borders."The novel program, named “Hostile Intent,” is geared towards detecting and gauging physiological and...

Kuwaiti media: U.S. to attack Iran by end of April

"Editor's note The following report quotes the Arab Times. While this report must be acknowledged, there is no firm corroborating evidence regarding the timing of a US sponsored attack on Iran. See our earlier report. The report does not provide indications as to sources of...

Team America/Europe: World Police

"Europe and the US have begun to lay the foundations for a data sharing link between their police and immigration forces. It's a long way off, but indications after talks in Berlin today between European and US negotiators are that both sides are in agreement that's where...

Bread and Circuses May Bring Mugabe Down

The most recent storm of political repression has passed through Zimbabwe, leaving in its wake a literally beaten but politically stronger opposition and seemingly impotent diplomatic outrage over the brutal...

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