October, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

British dismantle IRA dissidents’ bomb in beer keg

31st October 2010 sandrea 0

DUBLIN—Northern Ireland police seized a dissident IRA bomb packed into a beer keg Saturday and were inspecting a potential car bomb parked outside Belfast International Airport, the latest efforts to undermine peace in the British […] […]

Silvio Berlusconi rocked by underage scandal

31st October 2010 sandrea 0

AN account by an underage nightclub dancer of an alleged erotic after-dinner party at Silvio Berlusconi’s home has plunged the Italian prime minister into a damaging new scandal over his private life. Berlusconi, 74, is […] […]

Elite gun squads to guard 2012 Olympics

31st October 2010 sandrea 0

PARAMILITARY police squads armed with machine guns that can fire 750 rounds a minute will be set up across Britain to tackle the threat of a Mumbai-style terror attack in the run-up to the London […] […]

Iran sanctions ridiculous, President Ahmadinejad says

31st October 2010 sandrea 0

IMPOSING sanctions on Iran has been the “most ridiculous and failed” move adopted by the world powers, the country’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said overnight. “Imposing sanctions on Iran was the most ridiculous political decision […] […]

Bomb ‘could have brought down plane’

31st October 2010 sandrea 0

A SUSPECT package from Yemen found in Britain aboard a US-bound cargo plane could have exploded and brought a plane down, Home Secretary Theresa May said after talks with security officials. The discovery of the […] […]

Khadr prosecutor: ‘The world is watching’

31st October 2010 sandrea 0

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA —The seven military jurors debating a sentence for Omar Khadr are being asked to think about a lot more than just the fate of the Toronto-born detainee. “Make no mistake. The world […] […]

Yemeni authorities arrest woman in mail bomb plot

30th October 2010 sandrea 0

WASHINGTON—Yemeni authorities arrested a woman Saturday and searched for other suspects linked to —Yemeni authorities arrested a woman Saturday and searched for other suspects linked to Al Qaeda’s Persian Gulf faction’s Persian Gulf faction in […] […]