October, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Bomb kills 5 people at Sufi shrine in Pakistan

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PAK PATTAN, Pakistan—A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of a famous Sufi shrine in central Pakistan during morning prayers Monday, killing at least five people, officials said. The blast at the […] […]

How civilised can western society claim to be?

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By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE Western society model itself and how civilised we are, how we are so democratic in our behaviour that we detest nations that made their citizens into subservient being, torture them, and suppress them […] […]

Catalogue of terror, torture… and how the US tried to keep it all quiet

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LONDON – A detainee tortured with live electrical wires here, children shot by United States troops at a checkpoint there, insurgents using children to carry out suicide bombings somewhere else; on and on, through 391,832 […] […]

Skeleton dating clears Columbus of importing syphilis to Europe

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THE question of whether Christopher Columbus and his crew were responsible for bringing syphilis to Europe from the Americas appears to have been answered by the discovery of a collection of knobbly skeletons in a […] […]

WikiLeaks documents fuel calls for US, UK to investigate torture allegations

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BRITAIN and the United States are under growing pressure to investigate allegations that their forces had a role in the torture and killing of thousands of Iraqis. British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who opposed […] […]

Time running out to teach Afghan soldiers to be self-sufficient

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SPERWAN GAR, AFGHANISTAN—With each shuddering blast of the artillery guns, the Afghan National Army soldiers weaned themselves a little more from their Canadian military mentors. Long breaks to deal with wonky radios, and the pursuit […] […]

Russell Williams grim existence in Kingston Penitentiary

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From flying military jets and meeting dignitaries to living in a cell the size of a walk-in closet Russell Williams has entered a “grim” existence at Kingston Penitentiary. The former commander of CFB Trenton turned […] […]

British deputy PM: Investigate Iraq leak claims

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LONDON—Allegations of prisoner abuse and civilian killings in Iraq from a cache of leaked U.S. secret military documents are extremely serious and must be investigated, a top British official said Sunday. Deputy Prime Minister Nick […] […]

West Bank occupation unacceptable: Vatican

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THE Vatican has issued one of its strongest condemnations yet of Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank. It has rejected the use of biblical texts by Jewish settlers to justify “injustices”. Releasing a strongly worded […] […]

US ties must not cloud our duty to Afghanistan

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Is it possible for democracies to justify long wars and occupation of other countries? DON’T let it be said again that our politicians lack poetic sensibility. When Kevin Rudd fell in June as prime minister, […] […]