The promotional balloons were decorated with the governing party’s election slogan “Let’s believe in change”. President Sarkisian’s party has been tipped by opinion polls to triumph in Sunday’s election ahead of its ruling coalition rival, the Prosperous Armenia party led by a super-rich former arm wrestling champion. The vote is the biggest test of the ...
The victims were five men and four women, said the police in Nuevo Laredo, in Tamaulipas state just across the border from Laredo, Texas. Police could not confirm who was responsible for the gruesome murders but a message found with the bodies indicated it may have been an attack by the Zetas cartel against the ...
His aim was simple: kill Americans and not Muslims – except when absolutely “necessary”. In a 48-page letter to Attiyah Abdul Rahman, a key al-Qaeda leader, bin Laden laid out a plan with eerie parallels to the attacks on September 11. He told his subordinate to “pick a number of the brothers – not to ...
The two-year-old budgie escaped from his cage in Sagamihara city, Kanagawa prefecture in Japan on Sunday when his owner accidentally left his cage door open. Landing in the room of a nearby hotel, the bird was turned into the authorities before suddenly beginning to recite his precise address. Brought along to a press conference by ...
Sarkozy is really clutching at straws bringing Dominique Strauss-Kahn into the equation. That’s a real sign of desperation. He calls Hollande a “little liar”. As we reach the final straight, Hollande is looking increasingly confident, and I almost feel sorry for Sarkozy. He’s looking like a tired, frustrated little boy. His nervous tics are worse ...
“Libya is facing a very dangerous period where the enemies of stability are unknown but are in front of us. In this situation we submit Saif to the prosecutor but we also insist on his security.” Zintan’s leadership has established an elaborate mechanism to protect the 39-year old London School of Economics graduate from potential ...
Pointing to endorsement that the leader of France’s biggest union – the Communist-backed CGT – had given to his Socialist rival, Mr Sarkozy addressed the unions directly, telling them to “stay out of party politics”. Portraying himself as the champion of free enterprise, he called for a “new French model built not on state bureaucracy ...
Unions in the US also rejected Occupy’s call for a general strike today. However, following up the earlier tweet (see 20.30 post), there were about five arrests in New York when police chased a group of protestors wearing black bandanas over their faces. 20.40 Someone else who will be struck off Angela Merkel‘s Christmas card ...
“It is time we take some of the money that we spent on wars, use half of it to pay down our debt and then use the rest of it to do some nation-building right here at home,” Mr Obama told the Washington audience. “Used to be the easiest bill to pass in Washington used ...
The 62-year-old president’s sister is Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo, a Malawian development worker picked by Madonna to be CEO of her £9.4 million Raising Malawi Academy for Girls for 400 children. It followed her controversial adoption of first David, then Mercy, from Malawian families. But the singer fell out with the charity’s local staff including Mrs Mtila-Oponyo ...
