The Greek-owned oil tanker MT SMYRNI was seized on May 10, 2012, in the Arabian Sea while carrying 135,000 metric tons of crude. Somali pirates have hijacked a Greek-owned oil tanker with 17 crew members onboard off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, Press TV reports. MT SMYRNI, carrying a cargo of 135,000 metric tons of crude oil, was en route Turkey on Thursday when pirate gangs stormed the vessel,... 

Bolivian President Evo Morales Bolivian President Evo Morales has nationalized a Spanish power company and ordered its seizure. On Tuesday, Morales issued the order nationalizing Transportadora de Electricidad SA (TDE), which is a subsidiary of the Spanish group Red Electrica Corporacion, AFP reported. Bolivia will now take control of 99.94 percent of the company. The company, which was privatized... 

Captured US RQ-170 drone Iran has completed reverse-engineering of the captured US spy drone and has started building its own copy, Iranian media reports. The Revolutionary Guard is yet to decode parts of the software the Sentinel aircraft uses, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the force’s aerospace division, said on Sunday. “The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated... 

Last year NATO countries bombed Libya, demanding “democracy” in the country. But now it’s clear it was all about oil and it’s not like the Americans and Brits are going to be democratic about it, and share those spoils equally with France and Italy. So… oil giants Total from France and ENI from Italy are just going to have to wait in the sidelines while the hungry American and British big... 

A large corruption scandal involving President Nicolas Sarkozy has been gathering pace in France. According to Liberation newspaper, which refers to the investigative materials, Mr. Sarkozy, when serving as the Budget Minister, was involved in establishing a mechanism to pay so-called “kickbacks” when selling submarines to Pakistan during the 1990s, RBC TV reports. The French newspaper... 

Former French President Jacques Chirac A court in France has handed former French President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of embezzlement and misuse of public funds. Chirac was tried on Thursday over a party-financing scandal during his 1977-1995 tenure as Paris mayor, AFP reported. Chirac, who did not attend the trial due to doctors’ recommendations,... 

Did we the British public know that our current Prime Minister was instrumental in the loss of three illegal nuclear weapons? Is the UK frantically trying to find out where they were sold on the “Black Market”? We know something that you don’t…… but can’t talk about it Under the Nuclear Explosions Act otherwise we will all end up in gaol for life. Chris McGreal of the Guardian... 

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard The Australian senate has endorsed a controversial pollution tax as part of policy adjustments aimed at reducing the country’s carbon emissions. On Tuesday, the senate passed the Clean Energy Act, which requires Australia’s coal-fired power stations as well as other major emitters to “pay to pollute” from July 1 next year. The move was... 

A widespread power failure has left 10 million people across Chile without electricity, exposing the fragility of the energy grid in the world’s top copper producer. The blackout, which paralyzed large areas of the country, was sparked by a problem in the Chile’s national grid on Saturday. It occurred at 8:30 p.m. local time (23:30 GMT) and affected a 1,300-kilometer stretch of the narrow,... 

Two experienced Lancashire social workers say that in their estimation there are 20,000 bigamous or polygamous unions in the UK. Ghulam is a taxi driver who lives in Blackburn, a once-booming textile town in Lancashire. He has a terrace house near his local mosque (one of 53 in the area), a silver Nissan car and a very complex private life. For he has so many children that he struggles to remember... 

On a warm July night, 40 young people swarmed an Ottawa convenience store in one of Canada’s first “flash robs.” Close to midnight on a hot summer’s night in July, the Quickie convenience store in Ottawa’s west end was virtually empty. The next minute, 40 or so youth descended en masse. As they marched in they grabbed everything in sight. The next minute, like a well-oiled many-tentacled... 

Angry, drunken revelers ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-0 loss to Boston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing atop overturned vehicles. Angered hockey fans attack Vancouver angry, drunken revelers ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 loss... 

Where Heaven falls prey to thieves from Henrik Clausen on Vimeo. A short documentary about the extensive art theft that has taken place in North Cyprus since the 1974 Turkish invasion. The theft has taken place with tacit or active approval from the Turkish army. The plunder not only served as a source of income for criminals in North Cyprus and shady antiquity dealers, it was also an act to eradicate... 

The objective of the war in Libya is not just oil, whose reserves (estimated at 60 billion barrels) are the most important in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world. Not so little also, natural gas, whose reserves are estimated at about 1.5 trillion cubic metres. In the crosshairs of “volunteers” of operation “unified protector” are also the sovereign... 

A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Federal Security Service (FSB) says that former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery that all of the gold held in the United States Bullion Depository located at Fort Knox was ‘missing and/or unaccounted’ for. According to this FSB secret...