Friday, June 11, 2010 Turkey’s Finance Ministry has given Google a tax demand of $18.6 million, and Transport and Communications Minister Binali Y?ld?r?m called on Google to register as a taxpayer in the country to “help accelerate” the lifting of a ban on YouTube and Google services. As The Register reported, access to search engine Google had been limited due […]
Pakistan: Suspected US drone strikes kill seven rebels
Sunday, October 10, 2010 Security officials in Pakistan have stated that “[a]t least seven militants” have been killed by suspected US drone strikes. According to reports, US aircraft fired four missiles in North Waziristan, which killed seven or eight rebels and destroyed two cars parked outside a building. An intelligence official informed AFP that at least seven militants were killed […]
Interview with US political activist and philosopher Noam Chomsky
Saturday, April 4, 2009 Noam Chomsky is a professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Linguistics and Philosophy. At the age of 40 he was credited with revolutionizing the field of modern linguistics. He was one of the first opponents of the Vietnam War, and is a self described Libertarian Socialist. At age 80 he continues to write books; […]
Three dead in murder-suicide shooting at Southern California fast food restaurant
Sunday, June 20, 2010 A 6-year-old boy and his father were shot and killed Saturday afternoon while eating inside a busy Del Taco fast food restaurant in San Bernadino, California, before the shooter turned a gun on himself. According to the San Bernadino Police Department, 56-year-old Jimmy Schlager arrived at the Del Taco at 1:15pm PST (2015 UTC) on a […]
Two nuclear submarines collide in the Atlantic Ocean
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 The Nuclear ballistic missile submarines Triomphant, from France, and HMS Vanguard, of the British Royal Navy, collided deep under the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of the night between February 3 and 4, despite both vessels being equipped with sonar. The collision caused damage to both vessels but it did not release any […]
UK’s Conservatives promise an end to deficit by 2020, Human Rights Act repeal
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 Senior politicians in Britain’s Conservative Party pledged today to scrap the Human Rights Act, freeze fuel duty until 2015, and clear the UK’s deficit by 2020. In a speech to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said: “Provided we can find the savings to pay for it, I want to […]
Japanese survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings dies, aged 93
Friday, January 8, 2010 Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only Japanese civilian to be officially recognized as having survived both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in August of 1945 at the conclusion of World War Two, has died this Monday at the age of ninety-three, due to stomach cancer—one of the numerous illnesses that he suffered […]
Important Aspects To Consider When Choosing Roof Tarps
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Photojournalist photographing Justin Bieber’s car run over by another vehicle
Thursday, January 3, 2013 A photographer has died after being run over by a car in Los Angeles, California, United States. The man, who was attempting to photograph the vehicle of Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, has not been formally identified by police but was named as Chris Guerra by local media. At approximately 17:45 PST Tuesday the driver of […]
South Korea: Fire in hospital housing elderly people kills at least 37
Friday, January 26, 2018 Fire broke out on Friday morning and destroyed the bottom two floors of a six-story hospital in Miryang, South Korea, killing at least 37 people, most of them elderly. More than a hundred injuries were reported, with eighteen people in critical condition. This is the highest death toll from fire in South Korea in almost a […]