Day: November 25, 2011

North Korea News Today

North Korea Rattles Its Saber at South Korea Over Wargames.

South Korea’s staging of wargames exercises on Yeonpyeong Island one year after the North’s artillery bombardment of the island has provoked the belligerent hermit state to issue a threat of a “sea of fire” upon the South if it does not cease its provocative exercises immediately. The attack on Yeonpyeong Island over one year ago […]

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Bonanno Boss Killed in Montreal.

Salvatore Montagna, rumored acting boss of the New York Bonanno family, was found dead on Ile aux Tresors on the Assomption River near Charlemagne, a suburb outside of the city of Montreal. He died from a gunshot wound. There are witness reports of a man jumping into the river and it is believed this man […]

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The United Kingdom: A Fading Actor in European Affairs?

Open Democracy’s Kirsty Hughes argues that the financial crisis with the euro has drawn into sharp focus the need for the United Kingdom to determine its future relationship with regard to the continent else it faces marginalization and impotency in future continental affairs. Kirsty Hughes bemoans U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s lack of real involvement […]

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Euro Bonds Are Rejected by Germany as a Solution to the Euro Zone Financial Crisis.

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her nation’s rejection of a common euro bond market as a solution to the financial crisis gripping the euro zone following a failed bond auction on the part of Germany to raise money for the joint effort to save the common market currency. The German focus has remained on […]

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Russian REN TV Anchor Tatyana Limanova Fired After Giving Rude Gesture On Camera at Mention of U.S. President Obama’s Name.

REN TV, owned by an associate of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is embroiled in an embarrassing controversy after its prominent news anchor Tatyana Limanova gave the camera her middle finger at the mention of U.S President Barack Obama’s name in a broadcast to some 120 million people. REN TV has fired Limanova from her post […]

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