Month: August 2010

Mygripe BEIJING—Chinese police fatally shot a Tibetan protester during a demonstration last week, state media reported Monday, saying the man was hit by stray warning rounds. The incident is apparently the same one reported by […] […]

Mygripe JAKARTA—A volcano in western Indonesia spewed hot lava and sand high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years. Government volcanologist Surono, who uses only one name, said Mount Sinabung […] […]

Mygripe – LONDON – For many Pakistanis, weighed down by their country’s descent into biblical levels of violence and flooding, there was a sense of a final straw in the crude betting scandal that broke […] […]

Mygripe OTTAWA—The lawyer for a fourth suspect in a terrorism probe has accused police of piling on unrelated domestic abuse charges “out of the blue” in order to buy time for the RCMP to continue […] […]

Mygripe THE Chilean mine where 33 men are trapped should not have been allowed to reopen after fatal accidents forced its closure, say officials and miners. Alejandro Garcia-Huidobro, chairman of the parliamentary committee investigating the […] […]

Mygripe THE US has condemned remarks by an influential Israeli rabbi who said he hoped Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas would “vanish from our world”. “We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,” […] […]