Facing deteriorating conditions and the hopelessness of their legal abyss, detainees are starving themselves in protest
WT news feed
Beijing had considered using drone aircraft to kill Naw Kham and his accomplices on the run in Burma. But the plan was put off as we wanted to capture the drug lord alive. To execute him.
bertb news feed
Only days after the United States announced that it will be scaling down its role in a joint-missile exercise with Israel scheduled for later this year, the US has sent CIA Director David Petraeus overseas to handle damage control.
WT news feed
With attacks by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) multiplying and spreading to a larger number of Turkish provinces, Ankara is under increasing pressure by nationalistic parties to take tougher measures against Kurdish activism, including a full-blown land incursion by the Turkish armed forces into northern Iraq.
WT news feed
Desperate to preserve business in the face of the British government’s order to bar most of their products from pharmaceutical shelves, homeopathic drug manufacturers have offered to rebrand their goods as candy.
WT news feed
A new study, co-signed by more than 20 international scientists, says the irreversible damage we are doing to the Earth’s ecosystems could lead to a brutal biological collapse – and the end of the world as we know it.
WT news feed
It remains to be seen how Games organisers will react, but there have been a number of shopkeepers who have fallen foul of the strict rules covering Olympic trademarks.
WT news feed
It’s official – Germany has become just like China (or, rather, has always been like it): the more it is pushed to do something (let ECB print), the more it will do the opposite
WT news feed
