Wednesday, April 3, 2013

[World] North Korea threats: US to move missile defences to Guam

North Korea threats: US to move missile defences to Guam
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22021832
The US has announced it is moving an advanced missile defence system to the Pacific island of Guam as North Korea steps up its warlike rhetoric.

Top US commander in Afghanistan on Karzai tensions
http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=860139
(CBS News) KABUL -- Last month President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai accused the United States of secretly negotiating with the Taliban.

Experts are trying to defuse a 220-pound bomb found near Berlin's main train ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/03/second-world-war-bomb-berlin
Berlin (CNN) -- Dozens of homes in central Berlin are being evacuated Wednesday as authorities work to disable a World War II bomb discovered near the German capital's main station.

Floods Kill More Than 50 People, Wreak Havoc in Argentina
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324600704578400592340888724.html
BUENOS AIRESâ€"A rain storm that struck Argentina's capital and surrounding cities has claimed more than 50 lives and forced the country's largest oil refinery to stop production following a flood-related fire.

Digvijay stands by remark on two 'power centres'
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Digvijay-stands-by-remark-on-two-power-centres/articleshow/19373108.cms
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Wednesday stuck to his guns that the Congress model of 'two power centres' had failed, unfazed by the party rebuff that contradicted him by saying that the relationship between party chief Sonia ...

Spanish Princess Subpoenaed in Embezzlement Case
http://www.skynews.com.au/businessnews/article.aspx?id=860248
MADRID - A subpoena was issued Wednesday for a daughter of King Juan Carlos of Spain as part of a widening investigation into whether her husband embezzled millions of euros from a sports charity, further tarnishing the image of the monarchy at a ...

100% Pakistani youth disappointed about its future: Survey
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/9P54rPPftLvzLAbfxQ4WHJ/Strong-youth-support-for-sharia-in-Pakistan-survey.html
LONDON, SANA): “Pakistan is going in wrong direction, democracy is not a proper government system for Pakistan, youth of Pakistan is totally disappointed about the future.

The British class system? Needs a makeover, dinnit
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-british-class-system-needs-a-makeover-dinnit/article10757776/
Ask just about anyone to define the class system and the answer will likely include “upper, middle and lower” classes. But a group of British sociologists says that's far too simplistic for today's world and they have come up with seven distinct classes, ranging ...

Sex abuse royal commission to begin
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=859844
The historic Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will begin in the Victorian County Court in Melbourne today.

Court rules man to be paralysed
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/03/amnesty-international-outraged-as-saudi-man-is-sentenced-to-paralysis-over-stabbing/
Amnesty International condemns a reported Saudi Arabian court ruling that a young man should be paralysed as punishment for a crime he committed 10 years ago, which resulted in the victim being confined to a wheelchair.

Attacks on punks and goths are now hate crimes in Manchester
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/03/attacks-on-punks-and-goths-are.html
Manchester, England has expanded its hate-crime laws to include attacks on the basis of dress or an "alternative sub-culture identity.

4 Rangers perish in Karachi blast Taliban claims responsibility
http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/politics-a-policy/113626-prime-minister-condemns-karachi-bomb-blast.html
KARACHI: At least four Rangers personnel were killed and several others injured in a bomb blast which the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed they carried out on Wednesday in Karachi.



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