Daily Archives: May 13, 2008 »
Human rights ‘loopholes’ condemned
PA | A senior police officer has launched a scathing attack on the use of the Human Rights Act by murderers and rapists to protect themselves from UK law. Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg
Read More »Government admits ID cards have no business case
By Ian Grant | The government has, for the first time, admitted publicly that it cannot quantify in financial terms the expected benefits from its controversial £5.4bn National Identity Scheme (NIS).James Hall, chief executive
Read More »Ex-officials: Bush admin ignored Iraq corruption
AP | The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two
Read More »Massive earthquake in China kills at least 10,000
By John Chan | At least 10,000 people were killed when an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude on the Richter scale hit the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan at 2:28 p.m. on Monday. The death
Read More »Weapons Were Not Made In Iran After All
In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were
Read More »The Culture of Capitalism
By Jonathan Rutherford | We are living through an age of transition. The new co-exists with the old. We can identify political, economic and cultural elements of this change, but we do not yet
Read More »US drops 9/11 ‘hijacker’ charges
The Pentagon has dropped charges against a man alleged to have been the “20th hijacker” in the September 11 attacks, his US military defence lawyer has said. Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is being held at
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