While speaking at a party congress in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, Ahmed Dogan, leader of the ethnic Turkish political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, narrowly escaped an assassin’s gun in a dramatic event captured on video today. The armed man was then wrestled to the ground by security guards as well as Dogan himself. Bulgarian Interior Minister […]
Read MoreFormer Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko is to be charged with murder because of her alleged involvement in the 1996 slaying of a member of the Ukrainian parliament and then one of the Ukraine’s wealthiest people, Yevhen Scherban. If convicted, Tymoshenko faces life in prison. Many critics of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich’s government charge it […]
Read MoreFrance’s campaign to topple the Malian insurgents who have seized control of a large portion of the country has entered the ground phase of the military campaign with French troops clashing with Islamist rebels today according to Malian and French authorities. About 40 French special forces troops dropped into central Mali to provide spot guidance […]
Read MoreThe United States and Japan will be conducting a thorough review of their joint security arrangements after the election of Shinzo Abe returned the US-friendly Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党) to power in Tokyo. Amid worsening tensions with China over the Senkaku Islands(尖閣諸島)/Diaoyu Islands (釣魚台列嶼), and the spectre of a nuclear North Korea capable of […]
Read MoreTenishia is a successful DJ and music producer duo from the island of Malta. Winners of the Best Newcomer Award 2005, Best Live Performance 2005 and – for 3 years in a running – Best Dance Tune Award at the Malta Music Awards, Tenishia‘s music is incredibly popular among both European music critics and clubgoers.
Read MoreRussian mafia boss Aslan Usoyan, a 75-year-old gangster nicknamed Grandpa Khasan, was shot in the head by a sniper atop the sixth floor of an adjacent building according to a Russian Investigative Committee report. Usoyan later died at a hospital, leaving his organization leaderless, leading law-enforcement officials to fear for the outbreak of a violent […]
Read MoreBurgers sold in Tesco department stores in the United Kingdom tested positive for pork and equine DNA when a Food Service Authority of Ireland examination of the products revealed some contained as much as 29% horse meat. Everything from cottage pie to beef curries, were affected with the products being sold in Tesco stores in […]
Read MoreIn order to fulfill a long-held national dream of reaching the moon, the head of Roskosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency), Vladimir Popovkin, announced yesterday, January 15. The luna-glob, or ‘moon-globe,’ will be the first thing to be blasted into space from Russia’s new space facility in the Amur region which was built to lessen the […]
Read MoreIt’s a traveler’s worst nightmare: the GPS error. It’s happened to many of us. What should be a seemingly short trip becomes complicated due to computer navigational errors that send you on a complex and winding route markedly more difficult than just staying on the highway for another two hours. Unfortunately, and for reasons not entirely explained, […]
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