INDIA: Everything Gets Worse With Coca-ColaIn the end it was the ''generosity'' of Coca-Cola in distributing cadmium-laden waste sludge as ''free fertilizer'' to the tribal aborigines who live near the beverage giant's bottling plant in this remote Kerala village that proved to be its undoing.
On Friday, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) ordered the plant shut down to the jubilation of tribal leaders and green activists who had focused more on the 'water mining' activities of the plant rather than its produc... (more)
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Anti-Chavez march turns violentSix people have been injured in clashes between opponents and supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
The fighting broke out as opponents marched in the capital Caracas to demand electoral reform ahead of December's parliamentary elections.
Bottles, rocks, fireworks and tear gas were thrown in the worst violence between the two sides for months.
Venezuela has been relatively calm since President Chavez won a referendum on his rule in August 2... (more)
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Britain's elite get pills to survive bird fluMEMBERS of Britain’s elite have been selected as priority cases to receive scarce pills and vaccinations at the taxpayers’ expense if the country is hit by a deadly bird flu outbreak.
Workers at the BBC and prominent politicians — such as cabinet ministers — would be offered protection from the virus.
Ken Livingstone, the London mayor, has already spent £1m to make sure his personal office and employees have their own emergency supplies... (more)
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Valet who alleged royal aide raped him dies, 44A ROYAL servant who claimed he was raped by one of the Prince of Wales's close aides died yesterday.
George Smith alleged he was raped by another royal servant in 1989, but the claim was never proven and was strenuously denied.
His father, Peter Smith, confirmed that the 44-year-old, a Falklands War veteran who had been unwell for some time, died on Wednesday.
Mr Smith, who lived in Newport, south Wales, was a former corporal in the Welsh Guards and ... (more)
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Fury over loss of 9/11 heroes' health programA program supposed to monitor the health of thousands of federal workers who answered the call of 9/11 has been lost for more than two years, the Daily News has learned. "We seem to have inherited our own Loch Ness monster in terms of being able to find this monitoring," said Jon Adler, vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers' Association.
Programs were developed to check on the health of every other group that rushed to Ground Zero during and after the Sept. 11 att... (more)
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Chavez challenges the oil kingsOn July 14 in the western city of Maracaibo, Venezuelan government tax auditors and a prosecutor went to the offices of Chevron, the second-largest US oil company.
They seized boxes of records to build a case that San Ramon, California-based Chevron and 21 other energy companies owe Venezuela €2.4 billion in back taxes.
The raid is part of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's push to squeeze more money out of foreign companies that want to pump oil from the world... (more)
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AK-47 law rules as cartels fight over US drug routeA Mexican border town is brought to its knees as 117th murder recorded
Boystown isn't what it used to be. The police sub-station at the entrance to this red light district in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo lies deserted. Behind the high walls protecting it from the outside world, Boystown resembles a wild west set for a Hollywood film. Tatty, single-storey buildings line the broad gravel streets.
On the pavements, young men wearing baseball caps lounge in ... (more)
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Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was fakedA FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali ... (more)
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New York Post: Team that IDed 9/11 hijacker fired by militaryCyber-sleuths working for a Pentagon intelligence unit that reportedly identified some of the 9/11 hijackers before the attack were fired by military officials, after they mistakenly pinpointed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other prominent Americans as potential security risks, The New York Post reports in registration-restricted Saturday editions, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts follow.
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The private contractors working for the counter-terrorism unit Ab... (more)
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Government 'wastes' African aidThe government has been accused of wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of African aid.
The BBC's Five Live Report said it found more than £700,000 spent on hotel bills and meals in Malawi for US staff.
The National Audit Office said it may mount an investigation into the use of consultants by the Department of International Development (DFID).
The DFID has yet to issue a response to the accusations, which will be aired in a programme on Sund... (more)
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London Bombing ringleader, Haroon Rashid Aswat – double agent for MI6?In a lengthy statement that will send shockwaves around the world, John Loftus, a terrorism expert and a former prosecutor for the US Justice Department, has publically revealed that the so called mastermind of the 7/7 London Bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is a British ‘Intelligence Asset’.
A TNC US-based source has sent us extraordinary fully verifiable information, along with a filmed interview during which Loftus makes his accusations.
We are double-c... (more)
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Leaked witness statement says police fired 11 times at BrazilianA witness to the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes has described how armed officers fired 11 regular shots, one every three seconds, at the Brazilian electrician.
In a statement leaked to The Guardian from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) inquiry, Sue Thomason, a freelance journalist, describes how she ran for her life fearing that terrorists had opened fire on commuters.
Ms Thomason from South London, said: "The shots were evenly spaced ... (more)
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Patriotic 9/11 pins are made in ChinaLapel pins sold in Arizona as a patriotic reminder of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on this country are actually being made overseas.
In China, specifically.
The pins, which sell for $5 each to help raise money for an Arizona memorial to the 9/11 attacks, were ordered from a Tucson firm that specializes in lapel reminders.
Billy Shields, a member of the commission formed to build the memorial, said Sid Leluan, owner of Lapel Pins and More, gave the co... (more)
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US Mint seizes $80 million in rare coins from 75 year old womanThe US Mint has seized 10 Double Eagle gold coins - some of the rarest and most valuable in the world - from a woman checking their authenticity.
The Mint says the coins, which never entered circulation, are public property and is holding them at a fort.
Joan Langbord, who says she inherited the coins from her father, a jeweller, has vowed to fight to get them back.
The gold Double Eagle is so rare that in 2002 a single coin reached a price of $7.59m ... (more)
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Lions to be set free to deal with banditsThe government of a state in India has come up with a wild idea to control the menace of bandits who are becoming active again in the country's heartland.
The government of Uttar Pradesh plans to unleash dozens of lions in the forested ravines to flush out the bandits from their hide-outs.
The 14,400 square-mile Chambal Valley region -- with its maze of undulating ravines and dense forests, spread across the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh -- has ... (more)
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Japan mafia gang 'names new head'Japan's largest organised crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, is reported to have appointed a new head.
Sixty-three-year-old Kenichi Shinoda was named as the new leader during a ceremony in the western town of Kobe, the Kyodo news agency said.
The change is believed to be the first shift in the group for 16 years. Police could not confirm the report.
The Yamaguchi-gumi is thought to have some 40,000 members, almost half of Japan's total number of gan... (more)
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Hi-tech tracker could close net on tube terroristsTwo Cambridge University engineers are “bracing themselves” for a deluge of worldwide interest in a revolutionary new artificial intelligence technology that could soon help police track down purse snatchers, prevent suicides at underground train stations and save valuable time when trying to retrace the movements of wanted or missing persons.
And, it has been revealed to Business Weekly, the innovation could also prove to be a vital tool for detectives investigating t... (more)
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VeriChip Expands Hospital Infrastructure: Trinitas Hospital Adopts the VeriMed(TM) System; Third New Jersey Hospital Chooses VeriChip for Emergency RoomVeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX) announced today that Trinitas Hospital, a leading healthcare facility based in Elizabeth, New Jersey has agreed to implement the VeriMed(TM) microchip system and will initiate a clinical evaluation program of the System in its two Emergency Departments for rapid patient identification purposes. Upon implementation, each facility will be able to scan patients to obtain their VeriChip ID Number and utilize the associated database... (more)
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19 Suspected Members of MS-13 Gang Are IndictedNineteen men have been indicted on federal racketeering charges in the most aggressive legal assault in the Washington region on a Latino street gang believed by police to be responsible for a growing list of violent crimes.
It is the first racketeering case brought in Maryland against Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, and the latest sign of increased federal involvement in the effort to combat gangs.
The sweeping indictment -- and the resources devoted to obta... (more)
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