West moves to close Kosovo supervisory body
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo amended its constitution on Friday to allow for the closure of a Western-led supervisory body created when the territory split from Serbia in 2008, though EU police and...
View ArticleAlcoa Italy workers clash with police over jobs
ROME (Reuters) – Hundreds of workers from aluminum-maker Alcoa’s Sardinian smelter clashed with police on Monday to protest against the factory’s closure as the Italian government sought to avert the...
View ArticleCity College Of San Francisco Budget Meeting Spurs Protests, Threats Of...
A Board of Trustees meeting at City College of San Francisco turned heated when dozens of protesting students stormed the room, calling for the board’s resignation and opposing a move to assign a...
View ArticleSenior ally of former Ivory Coast president re-arrested in Ghana
(Reuters) – Interpol agents in Ghana have rearrested a senior ally of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo amid a deepening dispute that has led to the closure of the border between the two...
View ArticleRussia bans controversial anti-Islam video
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court paved the way for a potential closure of the video-sharing website YouTube by banning an anti-Islam video on Monday that sparked violent protests across the Muslim...
View ArticleGlobal oil refining industry shifts to Middle East
As high oil prices and improved efficiency force refineries in the US and Europe towards closure, the industry is shifting toward the Middle East and Asia in a move fuelled by a thirst for energy...
View Article(One) Exit Poll Shows Hugo Chávez Losing [Update: Poll is Wrong.Chávez Wins]
As polls close in a heavy-turnout election in Venezuela, a Spanish pollster is calling the race for challenger Henrique Capriles. ; Here’s a report from Spain’s ABC. ; Various bad translations are...
View ArticleLuxury leader Chanel buys Scots knitwear company
A centuries old Scottish knitwear firm has been saved from extinction by the French luxury brand Chanel. Barrie Knitwear was on the brink of closure following its parent company going bust in the...
View ArticleNew York road tunnels to close amid hurricane threat
NEW YORK — New York state authorities on Monday ordered the closure of two of three key Manhattan road tunnels because of the risk of floods from Hurricane Sandy. Governor Andrew Cuomo said the...
View ArticleHow Misguided USDA Regulations Harm Consumers and Restrict Food Freedom
Earlier this week I was disheartened to learn about the imminent closure of Il Mondo Vecchio, an acclaimed Denver, Colorado-area salumeria that has been producing a wide variety of artisanal cured...
View ArticleUnholy late fees: Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre to close over unpaid water bill?
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View ArticleThe patient I couldn’t heal
I take pride in closing surgical incisions. After a cold blade opens the skin and the internal work is done, the only thing the patient sees, or knows, is their incision. Maintaining symmetry, I use...
View ArticleDid Stupid Liquor Laws Really Put Knoxville, Tennesee’s Valarium Out of...
Last week, I blogged a story about a Knoxville, Tennessee music venue called The Valarium. Its owners claimed they were shutting down in part because of state liquor laws. From the owners’ letter on...
View ArticleRome mayor saves cat colony
Stray cats prowling the ruins of ancient Rome can rest easy on their marble pedestals — a feline colony tucked away near the spot where Julius Caesar was murdered is no longer threatened with closure....
View ArticleNZBMatrix Wasn’t Just a Pirate’s Lair Says One Of Site’s Top Releasers
Following the shutdown of Newzbin2 a couple of weeks earlier, last week witnessed what many believe to be another significant nail in the Usenet indexing coffin. NZBMatrix, one of the web’s most...
View ArticleDNA testing identifies lost Vietnam-war dead
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View ArticleWallenbergs give new life to Södertälje research
A year after Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca announced the closure of its research facilities in Södertälje, south of Stockholm, officials are cheering plans to create a new research...
View ArticleHarris-Perry: Schools targeted for closure have ‘predominantly minority kids’
On Melissa Harris-Perry on Sunday, she and a panel of journalists and advocates discussed the closure of underperforming schools in the country. Harris-Perry said that there were discussions of...
View ArticleState Department abandons effort to close down Guantanamo Bay
The State Department has shut down the office of its special envoy for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, a US official said Monday, in a sign of the fading hopes of shuttering the jail. Daniel Fried, the...
View ArticleBelgium clashes: Riot cops water-cannon striking ArcelorMittal workers
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View ArticleAt least 20 prisoners still missing from CIA ‘black sites’
By Cora Currier, ProPublica In one of President Barack Obama first acts in the White House, he ordered the closure of the CIA’s so-called “black-site” prisons, where terror suspects had been held and,...
View ArticleSocial distancing:A feasible Way To Avoid Contagion
Durning pandemics or epidemics, which are localised disease outbreaks, our not so esteemed leaders will most likely start by issuing advisories to avoid large gatherings of people, baseball games,...
View ArticlePirate Bay ‘Buyer’ Receives Probation, Court Dismisses Most “Swindling” Charges
During June 2009 a somewhat surprising story began to emerge. The Pirate Bay would be sold for $7.8 million, turned into a legal site, and the whole deal would be completed within a couple of months....
View ArticleFormspring, The Pioneering 'Ask Me Anything' Anonymous Q&A …
Formspring, a startup that helped pioneer the “ask me anything” format of anonymous Q&A online, is shutting down. The San Francisco company announced the news in a blog post this afternoon. The...
View ArticleUS Budget cuts claim air traffic control towers
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View ArticleWiki pot smoking page blacklisted in Russia
Russian communications watchdog, Roscomnadzor confirmed to RT that the page has been added to the so-called ‘internet blacklist’, a unified register of websites with banned content, which was launched...
View ArticleProtesters demand Obama close Guantanamo Bay prison
Rights activists across the United States held a series of protests on Thursday demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay as a hunger-strike at the jail entered a third month. In a day of action aimed...
View ArticleForest fire smoke shuts down airport in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The main airport for Honduras’ capital has been closed for several hours because smoke from forest fires reduced visibility.Civil aviation agency spokesman Ezequiel Oliva...
View ArticleSan Francisco Hangout Becomes Casualty of Tech Boom
Residents see the closure of a popular San Francisco restaurant as the latest confirmation that the tech boom has made their city unlivable, and is pricing long-time businesses and residents out of...
View ArticleThousands of disabled Britons ‘condemned to life without basic dignity’ as...
An average payout of £300 per week enables disabled people to hire assistants to help them with their routine needs, and to stay active and social. Many fear that once the fund is scrapped, they will...
View ArticleSenate passes bill easing FAA furloughs
WASHINGTON (AP) — With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers.A...
View ArticleWhite House: Obama examining ways to shut down Guantanamo
President Barack Obama is considering appointing a new senior State Department official to work out how to transfer detainees to permit the closure of the war-on-terror prison at Guantanamo Bay. The...
View ArticleDigg’s RSS reader expected in June but it might come at a price
Let’s start with the good news: Digg is expected to release a beta version of their RSS reader sometime in June – well ahead of the planned closure of Google Reader on July 1. The bad news,...
View ArticleHundreds flee as massive wildfire rages near Los Angeles
A massive wildfire raged in the rugged countryside outside Los Angeles on Thursday, forcing the closure of California’s scenic coastal highway as hundreds of residents were evacuated. Wind-driven...
View Article‘Lean hospital a sign of Swedish welfare reform’
A Stockholm hospital saved from closure by private health care providers has been hailed by the Economist as one of modern’s Sweden public-private success stories. Continued - ‘Lean hospital a sign...
View ArticleFrench "three-strikes" anti-piracy law may be repealed
Hadopi, France's “three-strikes” anti-piracy law, could be in for sweeping changes or even discarded as officials once again ponder the controversial measure. According to the New York Times, France's...
View ArticleGreek coalition to resume crisis talks over state broadcaster
|| Related Signal received, Greek court orders ERT reopening 18/06/2013 14:15 CET Crunch time for Greek government over ERT TV 17/06/2013 13:04 CET Greek court to hear appeal by ERT union against…...
View ArticleGreece party leaders try again to break impasse over ERT
|| Related Crunch time for Greek government over ERT TV 17/06/2013 13:04 CET Greek court to hear appeal by ERT union against… 17/06/2013 19:25 CET Greek court orders state broadcaster to reopen...
View ArticleInside Story – How real is the threat posed by al-Qaeda?
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