Entries for March 2010
Presstv | An Iranian health official has warned about a new wave of swine flu across the country in the spring with predicted A-H1N1 virus mutation.
Director of the Health Ministry's Flu Program and Border Health Care Mahmoud Soroush told IRINN on Monday that a new wave of H1N1 strain is about t...
Time | Could a national identity card help resolve the heated immigration-reform divide?
Two Senators, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, certainly seem to think so. They recently presented an immigration-bill blueprint to President Barack Obama that inclu...
Time | If America needs a new threat around which to organize its defenses, try this one: Bad guys explode nuclear weapons miles above U.S. soil, sending out an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that fries the electronic guts of everything in America. The nation's financial and transportation systems coll...
Reuters) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.
Catherine Ison, a specialist on gonorrhea from Britain's Health Protection Agency said a World Health Organ...
foxnews | Germans citizens are rapidly losing faith in global warming following the Climate-gate scandals, according to a new report in Der Spiegel.
The report indicates that just 42 percent of Germans are worried about global warming, down substantially from the 62 percent that expressed concern w...
Washingtontimes | A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new ...
Newyorktimes | LONDON — More than 200 years ago a German banker, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, sent his five sons to different European cities to guarantee the survival of what became one of the most prominent banking dynasties
AOLnews | (March 29) -- Nine alleged members of a Michigan-based Christian militia group were indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit in an alleged 17-month plot to attack and kill local, state and federal law enforcement officials.
On the heels of weekend raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana,...
CBS | Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow's subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 30, the city's mayor and other officials said.
go.com | When black SUVs trail school buses around here, no one dismisses it as routine traffic. And when three tough-looking Mexican men pace around the high school gym during a basketball game, no one assumes they're just fans.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Computer-security researchers say new "smart" meters that are designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently also have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid in previously impossible ways.
rebelnews.org | The US Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan has been hit by rockets during an official visit by President Barack Obama to the war-torn country.
Afghan officials told Press TV on Monday that three rockets targeted the airfield.
DETROIT, March 29 (UPI) -- Charges against several people arrested in a string of weekend raids in three Midwest states would be unsealed Monday in Detroit, federal officials said.
A least seven people were arrested in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Mike Lackomar, a co...
deadlinelive.info | After the brutal murder of Arizona rancher Rob Krentz by an illegal immigrant this weekend, former Congressman Tom Tancredo made a public statement to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that she should “reject politics and do the right thing – send the National Guard to...
ynetnews.com | Sixty-four former IDF soldiers are suing the Defense Ministry for NIS 18 million ($4.8 million) over what they claim is damage caused to them during Anthrax vaccine experiments in the early 1990s.
michaelmoore.com | The Pentagon wants $33 billion in additional funding to pay for the war in Afghanistan this year and train the Afghan military, but members of Congress want to make sure they’re not writing a blank check.
headlinenewsbureau.com | For much of the last century Harlem was the heart of the black community, but now some locals fear that whites and Hispanics are invading their turf
There was a time when the sight of Sandra Schulze's blond hair in the middle of Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park would have been a...
huffingtonpost | VIENNA — Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency have set up the world's first nuclear fuel bank.
It will help countries bridge shortages caused by snags in deliveries of low enriched uranium for reactors.
It is meant to encourage countries looking to develop peaceful nu...
haaretz.com | As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon and Israel's defense establishment were in the process of sealing a large arms deal.
According to the deal, Israel will purchase three new Hercules C-...
haaretz.com | The United States would "seriously consider abstaining" should the United Nations Security Council pass a resolution condemning Israel's housing construction in East Jerusalem, the BBC reported on Sunday.
That message was passed during a meeting between a senior U.S. official and Q...