A tip-off from the Dutch security service AIVD led police to stop a 16-year-old would-be jihadist leaving the country to fight in Syria, the NRC reports on Friday.
WT news feed
Syria has seen a massive slump in Internet traffic, with the country effectively cut off from the Web, an Internet monitor reported. It is the latest in a series of cyber-blackouts to strike Syria since the conflict began two years ago
WT news feed
Reports in the Russian media cited Bilalov as saying mercury had been found in his blood, and the website gazeta.ru cited an unnamed source close to Bilalov as saying traces of the metal were present at a Moscow office where he used to work.
WT news feed
Of course the Dutch are completely overreacting, and are pulling reruns of this show. Few of the Dutch are aware that the grandfather of the new king was part of the SS and that a SS battalion was present at his wedding to the Dutch crown princess.
bertb news feed
The stuff that the cleanup crew used is called Corexit and is apparently a lot more dangerous than the US government and BP have claimed.
bertb news feed
Wikileaks releases a database of U.S. diplomatic records from 1973 to 1976. I wonder why now?
bertb news feed
China; population 1,353,821,000. Number of H7N9 bird flu cases; 9. Number of H7N9 fatalities; 3. Be afraid, be very afraid….
bertb news feed
Dow Jones cited two unnamed European officials as saying savers with 100,000 to 500,000 euros would face a 10 percent tax, while those with savings over 500,000 euros would be taxed at 15 percent.
WT news feed
Unsourced reports coming out of Italy suggest that the pope decided to call it quits not because of his old age but instead to avoid the fallout that could come from a secret 300-page dossier compiled by three cardinals he tapped to look into last year’s leak of confidential papers stolen from his desk.
WT news feed
Pope Benedict XVI is to resign on February 28, the Vatican has announced
WT news feed
