Washington Post A Tibetan youth considered by rights groups to be the world’s youngest political prisoner turns 17 on Tuesday, 11 years after disappearing from public view when he was named the Himalayan region’s second-ranking religious figure.The whereabouts of Gendun Choekyi Nyima — who human rights watchdogs say has been living under house arrest since [...]
Washington Post asks who are the overlooked autocrats we should be paying attention to but aren’t? A pretty nastly list, a few of whom I have mentioned previously. (via Instapundit)
Washington Post Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that he would not fire the new Hamas-led government at this time despite the Islamist group’s refusal to renounce violence and embrace peacemaking with Israel.Abbas, leader of the more moderate faction Fatah, last week vetoed Hamas’s nomination of a Gaza Strip militant to a senior security [...]
Aljazeera.Net Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has vetoed plans by the Hamas-led government to set up a new security force headed by a militant high on Israel’s wanted list.Abbas issued a presidential decree on Friday vetoing decisions made on Thursday by Said Siyam, the Hamas-appointed interior minister. In a letter to Ismail Haniya, prime minister [...]
Bloomberg.com Nepal’s King Gyanendra may be willing to return the Himalayan nation to democracy, according to an Indian diplomat involved in talks aimed at ending a crisis over the monarch’s autocratic rule.The king will address the Nepalese people in a broadcast today at 7 p.m. local time, the Associated Press cited state radio as saying [...]
Mohammed at IRAQ THE MODEL has had a close reletive killed. He talks about what happened, and his final words in the post are a true inspiration: What a difference between those who work to preserve life and those who work to end it…it’s terrorism and crime and there are no other words to describe [...]
International Herald Tribune In a sudden reversal, embattled Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said today that he was willing to relinquish his job, a move that was hailed by the country’s other leaders as a breakthrough in the political stalemate has fueled the country’s bitter sectarian violence.After his announcement, a planned session of Parliament was [...]
Edward N. Luttwak has a good article in Commentary on Iran. I don’t disagree with most of his points, but a few of his conclusions bother me. Here is his summation, but I advocate reading the whole thing. Because of the continuing flow of detailed and timely information out of Iran, it is possible both [...]
Meryl Yourish looks at the mechanics of a terrorist bomb. The technical information is interesting, but it is her final words that I find signifigant. Remember this, when you look at the pictures of the results of the bombing, and notice the thousands of dents in the metal surrounding the bombing area — the mark [...]
The Seattle Times Paleontologists digging in the arid Patagonian wilderness of Argentina on Monday reported finding the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur as big as Tyrannosaurus rex and perhaps clever enough to bring down its prey by hunting in packs.Researchers said that by working together, the dinosaurs may have been able to kill animals much [...]
