On Feb. 18, 2010, an army colonel backed by mutinous troops overthrew the government of President Mamadou Tandja. What happened? Will the military junta keep its promises to fight corruption? Will the decade old democracy resist this Coup d’état? Niger is a former French colony so what is France’s position on the seizure of President Mamadou Tandja? Watch video here  Read More »

Milan Muslim Riots! Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic district of Milan, smashing shop windows and overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on Sunday. It was the second episode of violence involving immigrants this year, after clashes in southern Italy in January brought about the worst racial violence in the... 

Radical Islamists and Muslim gang members will gather for a massive protest outside ‘Stortinget’, the Norwegian parliament at 15.00, 12th Feb. after Norwegian newspapers yet again printed drawings of Muhammad the Prophet. There were major riots in Norway a year ago on behalf of the Muslim community after Israel invaded the Gaza strip. Source 1, Source 2 and Source 3  Read More »

The city of Dresden after Allied air raids in 1945. Right-wing nationalist groups have referred to the Dresden raids as the “German Hiroshima”. Berlin // Dresden is bracing itself for what could be Germany’s biggest neo-Nazi rally since the Second World War tomorrow when the city marks the 65th anniversary of the Allied air raid that devastated it and killed up to 25,000 people. Authorities... 

* NATO body, Council of Europe press Tymoshenko to concede International monitors on Monday urged Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat to her rival Viktor Yanukovich in Sunday’s presidential run-off vote and shake hands with him for the sake of stability. The election in the ex-Soviet state gave opposition leader Yanukovich a slender win over Prime Minister Tymoshenko, but the... 

Dogs in a case are waiting to be slaughtered at Moran Market in Seongnam, east of Seoul. Moran Market is the largest dog meat market in South Korea. (click to enlarge) Abuse of Dogs Still Rampant in S. Korea, China. A shocking case of animal abuse in Seoul’s largest dog meat market, revealed recently, has left many people in South Korea and China horrified and angry. The abuse of hundreds of... 

Some people never forget a face. For the rest of us, recognizing faces is not so easy. And those with prosopagnosia can’t even recognize their close friends. Now scientists say the ability to recognize faces is inherited and separate from general intelligence or IQ. IQ is strongly heritable. And one longstanding general thought about IQ holds that if you’re smart in one area, you’ll... 

President Obama, if the Health Care Reform Plan is so great, why does it EXEMPT* YOU, Michelle Obama, Congress, Senators and their families? *Page 114 Line 22  Read More »

Angry Indians protesting The number of Indian students wanting to study in Australia has slumped by almost 50%, according to figures from the Australian government. The decline follows a year when attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney made headlines in India. They also caused diplomatic relations to sour between Canberra and Delhi. The Indian government issued a travel advisory to students... 

Seven Muslim protesters accused of screaming insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade refused to stand for a judge yesterday. The men are alleged to have shouted ‘murderers’, ‘rapists’, ‘terrorists’ and ‘baby killers’ while waving placards at the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment marching through Luton. At the town’s magistrates’... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said that the U.S. and Israel were behind the anti-government protests on Ashura. Describing the deadly events on Ashura as a “”nauseating play,”” President Ahmadinejad said “”Americans and Zionists are the sole audience of a play they have commissioned and sold out.”” “”The... 

Firemen were attacked by rioters when they tried to put out the flames The Interior Ministry says police detained nearly 400 people in France overnight — many of them linked to car-burnings that often accompany New Year’s revelry. The ministry says 398 people were taken into police custody — nearly twice the figure of a year ago — but the final count on the number of torched... 

FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache (Right) and Carinthian BZOe chairman Uwe Scheuch (Left) Strache and Scheuch announced a merger of their parties. Austrian Federal Party (FPO) leader Heinz-Christian Strache and Carinthian BZO chairman Uwe Scheuch shake hands at a press conference to announce the joining together of the Carinthian BZO and Austrian FPO, in Vienna, Austria on December 16, 2009. The... 

The Swiss people recently ratified a referendum that forbids the construction of Muslim mosques with minarets attached, and now Swiss People’s Party proposed the organizing of a new referendum that will deport from Switzerland all immigrants who committed a crime. This new referendum could enter in a conflict with the 1951 Geneva Convention about immigrants status. The convention says that no... 

Religious scandal at Chisinau/Kishinev after a group of almost 100 devoted Orthodox Christians lead by their priest teared up a Jewish Menorah on the day of Hanukkah. The Menorah was placed right next to the Stephen III of Moldavia statue (better known as Stephen the Great) Friday on December 11 by “representatives” of the Jewish community from the Moldovan Republic for Hanukkah celebration. The...