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Gaddafi-era Libyan oil chief drowned: Vienna police   By Michael Shields | Reuters   VIENNA (Reuters) – Libya’s former prime minister and oil minister Shokri Ghanem, a prominent defector from Muammar Gaddafi’s government, drowned in the River Danube, Vienna police said on Monday and a Libyan security source suggested he could have been murdered.   […]

South Africa releasing over 14,000 prisoners to mark Mandela election victory RTE News The South African government is releasing more than 14,000 prisoners to mark the anniversary of Nelson Mandela winning the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. It represents about 9% of the country’s prison population. Another 20,000 offenders, on probation or parole, will […]

China offers South Sudan $8 billion in development funds Reuters JUBA – China has offered South Sudan $8 billion in development funds for road, hydropower, infrastructure and agriculture projects, South Sudan’s information minister told Reuters on Saturday. The loan came after South Sudan President Salva Kiir visited Beijing to secure support from China, which has […]

The Beijing Auto Show 2012     Jack Perkowski, Contributor Forbes   First quarter passenger car sales in China may have been flat, but that does not seem to have dampened the enthusiasm for the Beijing Auto Show, which opened earlier this week. Every year, China’s major auto show alternates between Beijing and Shanghai, and […]

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisers think Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union still exist today   Is Romney ready to lead?     The Republican presidential presumptive nominee Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisers speak in Cold War language about counties that do not exist anymore.   John Lehman (Secretary of the Navy for Ronald Reagan) and Pierre-Richard Prosper […]

Michael Jordan’s Charlotte Bobcats made NBA history with a 7-59 record slips their winning percent below the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers, who went 9-73 By Rick Bonnell The Charlotte Observer CHARLOTTE- Twenty-three consecutive losses later, the Charlotte Bobcats made NBA history. They haven’t won since March 17 and they won’t win again for at least seven months. […]

Duke University study finds racial disparity in convictions by all-white juries Duke University has released a new study that finds that all-White juries convicted Black defendants significantly more often than when the defendant was White. This article examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a data set of felony trials in Florida between […]

243 cameras to be strategically placed around New Providence Island (Nassau), Bahamas to monitor, prevent and detect crimes Travis Cartwright-Carroll The Nassau Guardian Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest said yesterday that the implementation of closed circuit television (CCTV) camera throughout The Bahamas will not, in isolation, reduce the crime rate, adding that other factors […]

United Kingdom falls into double-dip recession   By Mike Obel International Business Times The United Kingdom, Europe’s third-largest economy, fell into recession in the first quarter as its gross domestic product fell 0.2 percent, a contraction that followed the fourth-quarter’s 0.3 percent decline. The decline, which is the country’s second since the Great Recession, stemmed […]

Japan fears nuclear plant sits atop active geological fault Reuters Japan Atomic Power Co.’s Tsuruga nuclear power plant is seen in Tsuruga, Fukui prefecture, July 2, 2011. JAPAN-NUCLEAR/ARCADE  Credit: Reuters/Issei Kato TOKYO- A nuclear plant in northwestern Japan may be sitting right on top of an active geological fault, the country’s nuclear watchdog has said, […]