Appeals Court: Gitmo Detainee Not Enemy Combatant
WASHINGTON A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon’s classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant.
In the first Guantanamo Bay case to be reviewed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur, […]
5 killed in raid by Somalia’s Islamic militants
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Witnesses say insurgents have briefly overrun a police station after three hours of fighting killed at least five people, just one day after the Somali prime minister began new peace efforts.
Children loiter near a market in Mogadishu recently, thrown into the streets by Somalia’s guerrilla war.
Chinese inflation at 12-year high
BEIJING, China (AP) China’s surging inflation and rapid economic growth have eased slightly amid government efforts to end food shortages and cool an investment boom, according to data reported Wednesday.
China’s government has promised to ease shortages in food and other basic goods.
Consumer prices rose 8.
No end in sight for Argentine farmers’ strike
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) Farmers and their supporters protested Wednesday in hundreds of rural locations in Argentina on the two-week mark of the farmers’ strike against an increase in export taxes for their products.
Women in Cordoba, Argentina, bang pots in support of the farmers’ strike on Wednesday.
Firm Democrat Questions Fed’s Conclusion to Name BlackRock in Give birth Deal
WASHINGTON — A key House Democrat is questioning the Federal Reserve’s unilateral decision to let BlackRock Inc. (BLK) manage USD 30 000 000 000 in assets as part of the government-orchestrated rescue of Bear Stearns Cos (BSC).
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, questioned “the award of this potentially […]
Declarer Who Greased one Merce Cunningham Doomed to 12 Years.
SAN DIEGO A defense contractor was sentenced to 12 months in federal prison Tuesday for bribing former U.S. Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham with cash, trips, the services of prostitutes and other gifts in exchange for nearly USD 90 000 000 in Pentagon work.
Brent Wilkes, 53, showed no emotion as U.S. District Judge Larry Burns delivered […]
Merchandising in Northern Rock shares debarred
LONDON, England (CNN) The British government announced Sunday it is moving to nationalize — on a temporary basis — the struggling mortgage lender Northern Rock.
Customers line up to withdraw cash from a Northern Rock branch during the height of the crisis.
The move to nationalize the bank, a politically embarrassing U-turn for Prime Minister Gordon […]
