Family hits out at US in fury at fate of Awlaki's slain son
By Alastair Beach
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
The family of a American teenager killed in Yemen during a US attack – a week after his terrorist father also died in a US strike – has lashed out at reports that the young man was a militant.
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16, who was born in Denver, was the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, one of America's most-wanted men, whom an unmanned drone obliterated with a rocket in Yemen last month.
Some US newspapers described the American-born teenager as a militant in the mould of his notorious father, a preacher who was implicated in a series of alleged terrorist plots – including an attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit – over the past five years.
Greece general strike begins over spending cuts
A general strike is under way in Greece, grounding flights, halting most public services and shutting offices and shops.
The 48-hour strike comes as parliament prepares to vote on the latest round of austerity measures, including more tax hikes, pay cuts and job losses.
Greece is struggling to reduce a huge government deficit amid fears it may default and set off a eurozone crisis.
The EU and IMF have demanded tough cuts in return for two bailouts.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Athens says the pace of protests in Greece has been increasing for several weeks.
Climate Change Negotiations
The Death of the Kyoto Process
By Christian Schwägerl and Gerald Traufetter
There seems little possibility that next month's climate summit in Durban will produce an emissions reduction agreement -- meaning the world will soon lack any binding CO2 targets. Europe may soon find itself alone in the fight against global warming.
A climate catastrophe descended on the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin early last week. Politicians and diplomats from around the world were attending a conference to discuss how global warming will affect the world. They examined scenarios depicting how millions of people living in coastal areas could escape flooding, what will happen to the fishing and mineral rights of island nations when they no longer exist and how China and Russia will benefit from an ice-free Arctic
US considered hacking Libya
The United States weighed launching a cyber-attack to disrupt Libyan air defences before the start of an air campaign against Moamer Gaddafi’s forces, officials said Tuesday.
The assault would have hacked into the Gaddafi regime’s computer networks to cut links between early-warning radar and surface-to-air missiles threatening NATO aircraft, two defence officials said, confirming an account first published by The New York Times.
“A broad range of operations were considered,” a senior defence official told AFP.
But a cyber offensive was eventually ruled out and at no point was the administration “close to pulling the trigger,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Steve Lopez: Disneyland workers answer to 'electronic whip'
Anaheim laundry workers monitored by giant big screens aim to keep productivity high as they worry about paying more for healthcare.
October 19, 2011
In the basements of the Disneyland and Paradise Pier hotels in Anaheim, big flat-screen monitors hang from the walls in rooms where uniformed crews do laundry. The monitors are like scoreboards, with employees' work speeds compared to one another. Workers are listed by name, so their colleagues can see who is quickest at loading pillow cases, sheets and other items into a laundry machine.
It should come as no surprise that at the happiest place on Earth, not all the employees are smiling.
It should come as no surprise that at the happiest place on Earth, not all the employees are smiling.
Ardnamurchan Viking boat burial discovery 'a first'
The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the west Highlands, archaeologists have said.
The site, at Ardnamurchan, is thought to be more than 1,000 years old.
Artefacts buried alongside the Viking in his boat suggest he was a high-ranking warrior.
Archaeologist Dr Hannah Cobb said the "artefacts and preservation make this one of the most important Norse graves ever excavated in Britain".
Dr Cobb, from the University of Manchester, a co-director of the project, said: "This is a very exciting find."
No comments:
Post a Comment