Rabbi Milton Balkany Milton Balkany tried to extort $4 million from a Connecticut hedge fund by threatening to expose purported insider trading by the fund, federal authorities say. Reporting from New York — New York’s insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community collided with the area’s secretive and ultra-wealthy hedge fund industry, leading to the arrest of a politically well-connected... 

Simon Mol (born on November 6, 1973 in Buea, Cameroon) is pen name of Simon Moleke Njie, an HIV-Infected Cameroon-born journalist, writer and political activist, known mainly in Poland. Mol. Is best known for knowingly spreading his HIV virus to as many as 40 Unsuspecting Polish women who were apparently manipulated by Mol’s abiguous and exotic Background, which has proven to be complete fabrication.... 

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... 

Last week-end, almost a thousand taxi drivers in the Norwegian capital Oslo and neighboring municipality Bærum went on what could be called a religious strike. Both on Friday evening and Monday morning, Muslim taxi drivers refused to drive in protest against Wednesday’s front page of the Norwegian tabloid paper Dagbladet. That day, the tabloid ran an article about some of the “dangerous”... 

President of Sephardic Jews in Dominican Republic The police in El Salvador have begun an investigation into whether a man suspected of leading a trafficking ring involving Central American and Caribbean women and girls is also a legal adviser to the Americans charged with trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without permission. When the judge presiding over the Haitian case learned on Thursday... 

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government to work out a bill easing immigration restrictions in the country and consider the cancelation of immigration quotas for high-qualified foreign specialists, the Kremlin said on Thursday. The bill is intended to “optimize” the immigration regime for foreigners invited to work in Russia by “organizations implementing investment,... 

Israeli Soldier Gazan farmers whose land lies in Israeli defined buffer zone accompanied by international observers have been held down in their field by live gunfire. The Israeli army shot live ammunition for a quarter of an hour after finding the unarmed group fertilizing wheat crops. The international observers loudly informed the soldiers they were unarmed civilians, but the bullets only landed... 

Nearly half of western Europeans believe jews exploit their ‘past persecution’ in order to extort money, a new Israeli report says. The report, which the Jewish Agency conducted jointly with Israel’s Information and Diaspora Ministry, found that 42 percent of those polled by the University of Bielefeld in Germany agreed that “jews exploit the past to extort money,” Haaretz... 

The Liberal Democrat-controlled borough of Brent in London has reached a new low (even for that party) with an announcement that it seeks full British citizenship for the estimated 20,000 illegal immigrant invaders living within its boundaries. According to the 2001 census, Brent has a population of 263,464, which means that another 20,000 illegals will add 8 percent to the total population. A motion... 

Florida voters don’t want immigration laws waived to make it easier for Haitians to stay in the United States or immigrate into the country, a new poll shows. Fifty-one percent of 1,618 registered Florida voters surveyed by Quinnipiac (Conn.) University said they wanted immigration laws enforced compared to 43 percent opposed to them being waived in the wake of the deadly Haitian earthquake... 

Police in France have arrested Sosthene Munyemana, a Rwandan doctor wanted for genocide and war crimes. 45-year-old Dr Munyemana has been employed in a hospital in Bordeaux for the last eight years but he has been arrested on an extradition warrant from Rwanda. France and Rwanda have only recently restored diplomatic links between the two countries. According to AFP, France had earlier on in 2008... 

In previous episodes of The Vice Guide to Travel, we road-tripped through North Korea, shopped for dirty bombs in Bulgaria, and hunted mutant wild boars in Chernobyl. Little did we know that all of our harrowing journeys would leave us only semi-prepared for a recent trip to war-ravaged, godforsaken Liberia. Since 1989, a series of brutal civil wars — primarily fought by drug-addicted, prepubescent... 

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... 

Vice President Joe Biden came to Miami on Saturday to assure Haitian-American leaders that the administration was committed to Haiti’s recovery, for as long as it takes. Biden sought to spread the message from President Barack Obama far and wide, from the Little Haiti Cultural Center to the Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church to Homestead Air Reserve Base, which has loaded and launched... 

Israeli security forces arrested residents of a West Bank settlement in connection with last month’s torching of a Palestinian mosque. Ten settlers were arrested at two yeshivas in the northern West Bank community of Yitzhar in a late Sunday night raid. Five are accused of burning down a mosque in the nearby village of Yasuf, allegedly in retaliation for an Israeli government-imposed freeze...