World Nov. 28th, 2009 (10)

#1 — BBC | Russia train crash investigation examines bomb theory

The authorities in Russia are treating the crash of an express train in which at least 25 people were killed as a possible act of terrorism.

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#2 — BBC | Australia carbon emissions law hit by opposition revolt

The Australian government’s plans to enact a law for an emissions trading scheme have been thrown into chaos.

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#3 — CNN | Honduran vote to face legitimacy test

(CNN) – Hondurans will answer two questions Sunday when the troubled Central American nation holds elections: Who will win the presidency, and will voters heed calls for a boycott?

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#4 — Fox | Pakistani President Turns Over Nuclear Authority

ISLAMABAD  —  Pakistan’s embattled president has relinquished command of the country’s nuclear arsenal amid political wrangling that has posed a major distraction to the U.S.-allied government as it fights Taliban and other militants near the Afghan border.

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#5 — Fox | Police to Talk to Tiger Woods About Car Crash

There are plenty of vivid details from the car crash that sent Tiger Woods to the hospital:

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#6 — Fox | German Minister Quits Over Afghan Strike Believed to Have Killed Civilians

BERLIN —  Germany’s labor minister resigned Friday after conceding that a military report on a deadly September airstrike in northern Afghanistan failed to reach him while he held the government’s defense portfolio.

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#7 — NY Times | Uninvited Pair Met Obama; Secret Service Offers Apology

WASHINGTON — President Obama and his wife, Michelle, had a face-to-face encounter with the couple who sneaked into a state dinner at the White House this week, White House officials acknowledged on Friday. The revelation underscored the seriousness of the security breach and prompted an abject apology from the Secret Service.

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#8 — Times | Invasion lacked legitimacy, Sir Jeremy Greenstock tells Chilcot inquiry

The invasion of Iraq was of “questionable legitimacy” because of the lack of international and public support, Britain’s Ambassador to the United Nations at the time told the official inquiry into the war yesterday.

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#9 — Telegraph | Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells

Al-Qaeda terrorists are exploiting loose visa and immigration rules to enter Britain, the security services fear.

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#10 — Telegraph | Failings found at second hospital, chairman sacked

A second foundation hospital has been found to be failing patients and its chairman has been sacked, it has been announced.

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One Response to World Nov. 28th, 2009 (10)

  1. beentheredonethat says:

    Al-Qaeda terrorists are exploiting loose visa and immigration rules to enter Britain, the security services fear.

    This entire article could be re-written and simply substitute Canada for wherever the the U.K. is mentioned.  The situation here is exactly the same and few seem concerned enough to do anything about it.  Just imagine the chaos if dozens of sleeper cells in a particular country launched simultaneous attacks on the government departments, transportation, police, hospitals and schools.   Absolute mayhem would be the result and for all intensive purposes that country’s economy would soon collapse and shortly thereafter it  would cease to function as a free democracy as we know it.   Should the unimaginable occur only then will the government finally muster up the courage to toss the PC rule book in the trash but it will be far too late.  

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