Europe & UN —
You have to give the Germans a lot of credit. One of the worst crimes of the Twentieth Century was committed with the compliance of their people. And now, they are determined to continue to remember what happened. Good for them.
Germany Confronts Holocaust Legacy Anew
Most countries celebrate the best in their pasts. Germany unrelentingly promotes […]
France bans smoking in cafes
France bans smoking in cafes, hotels and clubs on Jan. 1, stamping out the habit popularized by Jean-Paul Sartre puffing Gauloises in hazy brasseries.
In Germany, 11 of the country’s 16 states plan similar restrictions for 2008. Six of those, including Berlin and Bavaria, start Jan. 1. France banned smoking in offices […]
Putin Suggests he and Bush do it together
After months of angrily rejecting a White House plan for missile defense in Europe, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia surprised President Bush to day with an offer to build a joint system in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan.
The proposed system, designed to guard against a […]
From Nazi Past, a Proliferating Pest
In 1934, top Nazi party official Hermann Goering received a seemingly mundane request from the Reich Forestry Service. A fur farm near here was seeking permission to release a batch of exotic bushy-tailed critters into the wild to “enrich the local fauna” and give bored hunters something new to shoot […]
Polls: Sarkozy elected French president
Energized French voters chose Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president on Sunday, giving the U.S.-friendly conservative a comfortable margin for victory and a mandate for change, result projections from four polling agencies showed. His Socialist opponent conceded minutes after polls closed. The agencies said the conservative won 53 percent of […]
Ruins near Athens may be an ancient market
Archaeologists have discovered extensive remains of what is believed to be an ancient marketplace with shops and a religious center at the southern edge of Athens, the Culture Ministry said Friday. The finds, in the coastal neighborhood of Voula, date from the 4th or 5th century B.C.
“It is […]
You may find it ill-advised to get into pissing contests with:
Mohammed Elbaradei and the IAEA, as to whether or not Ira* has nuclear weapons,
John McCain, as to how to treat prisoners, and
Highly respected former Cabinet members who humiliated themselves in front of the entire world on your say-so, as to … well … anything.
You know […]
Front line Iraq ‘too dangerous’ for Prince Harry
Prince Harry faces the humiliation of being held back from frontline service in Iraq because his presence there could prove ‘too dangerous’ for both himself and his men.
Although discussions are underway to send soldiers from his Household Cavalry regiment to the war-torn region next May, senior officials have […]
Iran’s Holocaust cartoon exhibit opened today. The purpose of the exhibit is to “test the west’s tolerance” by caricaturing the Holocaust in the same way the newspaper Jyllands-Posten did when it printed cartoons of Mohammed.
It turns out, they could have saved themselves the trouble and expense.
There have always been anti- Semitic jokes. But you know […]
Nobel prize winner confesses to once being a member of the SS.
Now the great advocate of facing unpalatable truths has lived up to his own standards, but a little late. The revelation came in an interview with Germany’s respected conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), and while it is certain to boost interest in his forthcoming […]
What we’re up against.
Terrorism experts suggested that the concentration on hand luggage indicated the plot involved explosives detonated manually rather than through a remote controlled detonator or timer.
“You could carry an inert liquid that if you mix with another one could become explosive,” said David Hill, a former counter-terrorism expert at the National Crime Squad […]
Chertoff: “Very, very sophisticated attack.”
US raises air security alert to red for first time.
“Mass murder on an unimaginable scale.”
Graf Zeppelin found in Baltic Sea
POLISH divers have discovered the rusting wreckage of Nazi Germany’s only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, solving one of the most enduring maritime riddles of the Second World War.
For more than half a century the location of the huge vessel was kept secret by the Soviet authorities. Even the opening […]
United Nations ‘Army’ Proposed
Crisis management experts are calling for the creation of a “United Nations army” – an international rapid reaction force that could be deployed within 48 hours to intervene in emergency situations around the globe.Composed of up to 15,000 military, police and civilian staff, including medics, the proposed force would be recruited from […]
Patriotic taxi drivers celebrate after council u-turn
Taxi drivers who had been banned from flying flags from their cabs during the World Cup were celebrating today after a council overturned its decision. Cabbies in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, had been told that they were not allowed to fly the St George Cross from their vehicles because of […]
