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Indictments have been handed down for Juthamas Siriwan, the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand along with her daughter Jittisopa Siriwan charging that they took bribes from a Los Angeles based filmmaking couple to run the Bangkok International Film Festival. This indictment was unsealed in Los Angeles on Tuesday charging the pair with [...]
The world wide financial crisis may not only hurt the checks and balances but may also ruin the efforts of poor countries to get more of their children into schools. This is according to a U.N. education agency report that was released on Tuesday.
This report states that poor countries will need an extra $16 billion [...]
Three Guantanamo detainees whose deaths were recorded as suicides in 2006 by the Justice Department have been called into question by Harper’s magazine. Journalists from Harper’s magazine have come across information stating that the detainees had died from choking on rags that they had tried to swallow. The official explanation is that they hung themselves [...]
The Royal Family still commands attention in New Zealand, as shown by the huge crowds that gathered to greet Prince William who was there to open the country’s new Supreme Court building in Wellington, the capital city. William, 27 year old successor to the throne, was in New Zealand acting as representative of Queen Elizabeth [...]
Random acts of violence in Haiti have caused problems for rescue workers who are trying to offer aid to the earthquake victims. This statement was issued on Sunday by one of the top officials who is leading the United States government’s relief efforts.
Lieutenant General Ken Keen of the U.S. Southern Command said that it has [...]
The first ever safe injection site in North America withheld against an attempt to have its doors closed by the Canadian Government. The British Columbia’s top court overruled the attempt by stating the Insite facility falls under the provincial jurisdiction rather than the federal. They also stated that this is due to the fact that [...]
One of the largest worldwide rescue and aid efforts has been implemented to help the survivors that are still struggling during the aftermath of the recent magnitude 7 earthquake that hit this country on Tuesday. The United States joined other countries including China, France, Iceland, and Spain in sending much needed supplies and troops to [...]
Eric Porterfield, spokesmen for The American Red Cross, issued a statement stating that the organization has run out of medical supplies in Haiti. This announcement follows on the heels of the massive earthquake that hit the area on January 12th of this year. With speculations raising the number of dead to over 100,000 and no [...]
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, returned to his office Monday nearly a month following an attack on him. He spent the day pounding out a 3 pronged strategy that will give him back his immunity from prosecution.
Prime Minster Berlusconi lunched with his most faithful allies, his attorney, and the justice minister. During lunch he [...]
The Spanish government has taken measures to rescue a dried wetland from the devastation of a peat fire developing underground. This marsh is in danger of a fire threat because the water has been poorly managed in the past. It is now considered a fire risk.
The land in question is the wetlands belonging to Las [...]
