Daily Archives: July 10, 2009 »
BNP snubbed by EU
The British National Party’s first two Euro-MPs are finding it increasingly hard to win friends and influence people in Europe. BNP leader Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons both won seats in the euro-elections —
Read More »Girls sold into slavery for $2,000
Two 22-year-old girls from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan who have been “prepared” to become prostitutes are now released from slavery in the Russian city of Novosibirsk. According to the police the criminals were going to
Read More »Met to probe torture collusion claims
The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said. Officers are to investigate allegations by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed that MI5 officers were complicit in
Read More »Activists Sound the Alarm on Obama’s Budget
Over two dozen AIDS activists were arrested just outside the U.S. Capitol building yesterday while protesting President Barack Obama’s failure to honor his campaign promises of increased funding for AIDS programs. During the
Read More »USA license plate cameras
Welcome to Tiburon. Click. Your presence has been noted. The posh and picturesque town that juts into San Francisco Bay is poised to do something unprecedented: use cameras to record the license plate number
Read More »Bombings Across Iraq as Violence Continues to Soar
The death toll in a series of bombings today continued to rise, as Iraq faced the deadliest day since its celebration of “National Sovereignty Day” marked the formal pullback of US troops from the
Read More »Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute
Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from Congress since 2001, a revelation that prompted him to immediately cancel the
Read More »UN human rights chief says reports suggest possible war crimes in Somalia
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said Friday it is clear that grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law – possibly amounting to war crimes – are being committed
Read More »DNA of thousands of innocent people held by police
MORE than ten people have their DNA recorded and stored by Redbridge Police every day, the Guardian can reveal. A total of 3,654 samples of genetic material were taken in the borough last year
Read More »Government replies to EU legal challenge on Phorm
The government has replied to a legal challenge from the European Commission (EC) over the online advertising technology Phorm. Phorm provides a model that allows advertising to be targeted at users online. In April
Read More »Scrap The National Identity Register
Chris Grayling told a House of Commons debate on scrapping identity cards on 6 July 2009 that a Conservative government would not go ahead with the National Identity Register (NIR) database. In response to
Read More »IBM to build UK fingerprints database
The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has contracted IBM to build a database to support the Government’s switch to biometric passports.IBM will also provide a replacement for the UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) Immigration and
Read More »Proecutors review phone-hacking claims
Prosecutors are to look again at claims of alleged phone hacking by the News of the World, it was announced tonight. Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions, said he had ordered
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