“Our country is on the brink of war, and we feel forgotten,” said Genevieve Kanyange, a senior defector from the ruling party who spent weeks in hiding before fleeing into exile ... But a group repeatedly named in stories of detention and harassment is the feared youth wing of the ruling party, the Imbonerakure ... disbanded militia as the ruling party....
In a bad news for astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life in deep space, NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler has gone into an emergency mode 75 million miles from the Earth. ....
SpaceX has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), delevering the world's first inflatable tent for astronauts. The US aerospace company's unmanned Dragon cargo ship, carrying lettuce seeds, lab mice and an inflatable pop-up room, arrived on Sunday at the space station where six spacecraft are now docked ... "It looks like we've caught a Dragon," said Peake ... Source. AFP. ....
At Iraq’s Mosul Dam, only one of the two bottom outlet gates is functioning, angrily spitting out water in a foamy white churn as birds fly above the spray, CNN reportsThe dam is considered by some experts to be among the most dangerous of its kind in the world. Completed in the mid-1980s, it was considered a necessity at the time ... – U.S. government. The lives of at least 1.5 million people could be at risk, according to U.S....
An Indonesian pop star died Sunday after a king cobra, which was part of her act, bit her onstage, The Inquisitr reports. IrmaBule was famous for using venomous snakes and other reptiles, but one of her snakes fatally bit her, mid-performance ... The king cobra’s bite wasn’t supposed to sting, as the pop star was sure the snake was defanged ... She was usually partial to a boa or a python ... She was usually partial to a boa or a python....
A survey by top 10 accountancy firm MooreStephens said 162 food production companies fell into insolvency last year, more than treble the 48 insolvencies in the sector in 2010 and 11% more than just a year ago. Share Go To ...Duncan Swift, partner and head of food advisory at Moore Stephens, said ... "The extreme buying and retail pricing strategies of big retailers mean smaller food producers are struggling to stay afloat ... ....
This is why politics actually needs fewer rules on money, rather than more ... In response, Wynne said she would bring in new rules to ban union and corporate donations, a move also proposed by PC opposition leader Patrick Brown ... Donations to federal parties are capped at $1,525 per year ... This was affirmed in the US in 2010, when the Supreme Court essentially ruled in the Citizens United case that money is speech ... andrew@andrewlawton.ca....
The approved Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation, Zulayatu Cooper, a registered nurse in the United State of America since 2004-2010, said they would ensure that the Ministry is capacitated with machines to carry out minor operations in the country instead of referring them to Ghana... as the expectations of the commoners are extremely high....
Blacklisting passengers who defy the rules for travelling by air and so place their own interests before everything else, including safety, has long been overdue ... to the rules they should follow or to decent behavior ... Abiding by rules can never be overestimated when it comes to flight safety. No one has the right to disregard the rules for any reason....
WIth PPP, there’s always been too much focus on the private profit of the building company … rather than an extremely high-quality job ... “The fundamental flaw in much PPP procurement is that there's always been too much focus on the private profit of the building company and a bias in favour of their making money, rather than an extremely high-quality job....
A heartbroken sister has spoken out about the dangers of medical tourism in the wake of revelations about a Melbourne man who died after extreme plastic surgery in Malaysia... ....
(AP) — The son of a former California state Assembly speaker has been freed from prison after his manslaughter sentence was significantly reduced in 2011 by then-Gov. Nunez entered prison in June 2010 to serve a 16-year sentence in the stabbing death of college student Luis Santos in San Diego... ....
'Obey your master!' Ivorian tribe acts out harrowing slavery scenes harking back to colonial rule as Popo carnival comes to town The Popo Carnival in Bonoua is the Ivorian's version of Mardi Gras and runs for a week in the east of AbidjanRe-enacting scenes from when the country was under French Colonialrule, these fascinating photographs show Ivorians showing off their culture in the annual Popo Carnival ... ....