Monday, 7 July 2014
Airports facing chaos after US declares it wont allow uncharged cellphones or laptops onto flights bound for America with iPhones and Galaxy's at top of the hit list
The US has declared that it will not allow cellphones - especially iPhones and Samsung's Galaxy - onto US bound planes from some airports in Europe, the Middle East and Africa if the devices are not charged. The new measure, which is bound to cause chaotic scenes at airports around the globe, is part of the US Transportation Security Administration's...
Read moreThursday, 3 July 2014
Travel firms suspend flights to Mombasa after FCO warning
Hundreds of UK tourists are being evacuated from parts of the Kenyan coast, after the Foreign Office warned of a "high threat" from terrorists. Tour operators Thomson and First Choice cancelled all flights to Mombasa until October and said some 400 holidaymakers would be flown back as a precaution. The main threat has been linked to the...
Read moreItaly navy warns 'terrorists' could be crossing in migrant boats
The head of Italy's navy warned on Thursday that terrorists could be using migrant boats to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, amid increased concern among intelligence services of possible attacks by extremists. "There's a risk not only of massive illegal immigration, but also of terrorist infiltrations," the commander in chief of the Italian...
Read moreElectrical and battery-powered items are being removed from hand luggage at UK airports amid warnings of a possible terror attack
Electrical and battery-powered items are being removed from hand luggage at UK airports amid warnings of a possible terror attack
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Electrical and battery-powered items are being removed from hand luggage at UK airports amid warnings of a possible terror attack, according to reports. Security is being stepped...
Read moreWATCH YOUR LAPTOP Extra checks on electrical items at UK airports amid warning of terror attack tonight
Extra checks on electrical items at UK airports' amid warning of terror attack 'tonigh...
Read moreIsrael moves forces near to Gaza as boy's funeral delayed
Israel has begun reinforcing its military forces on its border with the Gaza Strip amid heightened tensions with the Palestinians. The murders of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank was followed by the murder of a Palestinian youth in Jerusalem. Israel says the move is part of its response to mortar and rocket fire from Palestinian...
Read moreWednesday, 18 July 2012
Afghan army letting ally soldiers take heat
COMBAT death statistics suggest the Afghan army is allowing Australian and other international forces and local police to do all the fighting in Oruzgan province, with officials confirming no Afghan soldier was killed in battle in the province this year. During the same period, a highly trained Australian special forces veteran has been...
Read moreBlast Kills Core Syrian Security Officials
Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA still image taken from Syrian television shows government security forces during clashes with what the government called terrorists on Wednesday...
Read moreA Taliban bomb attack on tankers carrying fuel to Nato forces sparked an inferno which consumed up to 24 lorries
A Taliban bomb attack on tankers carrying fuel to Nato forces sparked an inferno which consumed up to 24 lorries, local officials said.Black smoke risers from burning NATO supply...
Read moreMonday, 2 July 2012
ICC threatens Mali Islamists with war crimes
The International Criminal Court has threatened Islamist fighters in Mali with legal action if they do not halt their destruction of ancient Islamic monuments. "My message to those involved in these criminal acts is clear: stop the destruction of the religious buildings now," Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the AFP news agency...
Read moreAfghan policeman kills three British soldiers
Three British soldiers have been killed by a policeman in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. Two served with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and one with the Royal Corps of Signals. Next of kin have been told. The MoD said the soldiers were shot and fatally wounded on Sunday as they left a checkpoint in Helmand...
Read moreIslamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu
Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu
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Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say.Armed men broke down the door of the 15th-Century Sidi Yahia mosque, a resident told the BBC.The Ansar Dine group, which is said to have links to al-Qaeda, seized control of the city earlier this year.It has already destroyed...
Read moreSunday, 24 June 2012
Afghan Muslim who claims he killed people while fighting for the Taliban has used the Human Rights Act to remain in Britain – despite Government efforts to deport him.
Afghan Muslim who claims he killed people while fighting for the Taliban has used the Human Rights Act to remain in Britain – despite Government efforts to deport him.
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Zareen Ahmadzai, who spent three years fighting in Afghanistan, has admitted using a Kalashnikov rifle and firing rockets, as well as supplying weapons and food to the...
Read moreBlair blocked Cabinet from hearing legal advice on Iraq
Labour Party MPs demanded an emergency recall of the Chilcot inquiry last night after new revelations that Tony Blair blocked the Government's most senior lawyer from explaining to Cabinet the legality of the war in Iraq. According to the newly published full version of Alastair Campbell's diaries, the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith wanted...
Read moreTurkey calls Nato meeting on warplane downed by Syria
Turkey has called a meeting of Nato member states to discuss its response to the shooting down of one of its warplanes by Syrian forces on Friday. Ankara has invoked Article 4 of Nato's charter, under which consultations can be requested when an ally feels their security is threatened, officials say. Earlier, Turkey's foreign minister...
Read moreWednesday, 20 June 2012
Assange seeks political asylum
On Tuesday night WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange applied for political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after failing in his bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegations. The 40-year-old Australian is currently inside the building in Knightsbridge, having gone there on Tuesday afternoon to request asylum under...
Read moreSaturday, 16 June 2012
US Army Col. found guilty of fraud; fined
The former commander of the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade was sentenced to a $300,000 fine and issued a formal reprimand Thursday after being found guilty at a court martial of multiple counts of fraud, conduct unbecoming of an officer, bigamy and other charges related to an alleged long-term extra-marital affair he had with a woman...
Read moreTuesday, 12 June 2012
shooting a cop dead is now legal in the state of Indiana.
Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republican, has authorized changes to a 2006 legislation that legalizes the use of deadly force on a public servant — including an officer of the law — in cases of “unlawful intrusion.” Proponents of both the Second and Fourth Amendments — those that allow for the ownership of firearms and the security against unlawful...
Read moreMonday, 21 May 2012
New global armed conflict may start any moment
The crisis in the relations between China and the Philippines has been balancing on the edge of a military conflict for more than a month. China managed to find a way out of the problem. However, the crisis still remains unsolved. Moreover, the Philippines tries to have the USA involved in the conflict (there is The Mutual Defense Treaty Between...
Read moreMladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, UN court told
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. Mladic’s trial opened at the Yugoslav war crimes court in The Hague, also watched in a live broadcast in Sarajevo by widows and other relatives of victims of the 1995...
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