TEHRAN, Iran — The trial in Iran opened Tuesday for 12 suspects accused of torturing to death three anti-government protesters tortured in prison during the turmoil following the June elections, the official news agency reported.
Iran’s judiciary last year charged 12 officials [...] Continue Reading…
Ankara, Turkey
Once again, as has happened every spring for years running, the debate over whether the ethnic clashes against the Armenians in the break up of the Ottoman Empire amounted to genocide has made it into the US political arena for [...] Continue Reading…
Gabourey Sidibe didn’t get to take Justin Timberlake to the Oscars, but she did enjoy a red carpet encounter with another of her Hollywood crushes, Gerard Butler.
Gabby told Access Hollywood that she met Gerard for the first time Saturday [...] Continue Reading…
Tabloid accused of buying silence after persuading celebrity PR agent to drop case over interception of voicemail messagesThe News of the World was tonight accused of buying silence in the phone-hacking scandal after it agreed to pay more than £1m to persuade the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to [...] Continue Reading…
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MINEOLA, N.Y. – Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.
The actress has filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming a television ad for the Wall Street firm that aired during the Super Bowl and Olympics was modeled after her.
Talking babies in [...] Continue Reading…
Israel has approved the building of 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem, in a move that threatens to overshadow US Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit.The move will infuriate Palestinians, whose leaders have only recently agreed to resume contacts with Israel – at Mr Biden’s urging. The international community considers East [...] Continue Reading…
Ademola Bello: Democracy in Crisis: How China and IMF Crowned Eduardo Dos Santos as the King of Angola
According to the 2009 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions index table, Angola is ranked number 162, one of the most brazenly corrupt countries in the world, tied with Venezuela and countries that media often neglect in global news cycles like Kyrgystan, [...] Continue Reading…
Members of the assembly have voted in support of a motion to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster to Northern Ireland.As expected the Ulster Unionist Party did not support the move, however, the motion received the necessary cross-community consent to be passed. Eighty eight of the assembly’s 108 [...] Continue Reading…
Emmy-winning CBS News producer Robert ‘Joe’ Halderman pleaded guilty to shaking down David Letterman as payback for the host’s affair with his girlfriend.
Today, Halderman admitted giving Dave a “screenplay treatment” that was “a thinly veiled threat to ruin Mr. Letterman if he did not pay me a lot of [...] Continue Reading…
Howard Stern unleashed a vicious attack on Gabourey Sidibe on his Sirius satellite show on Monday.
“There’s the most enormous, fat black chick I’ve ever seen. She is enormous. Everyone’s pretending she’s a part of show business and she’s never going [...] Continue Reading…
