As opinion polls suggest wife of Argentina’s current president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, could be victorious in the first round. Her main rivals are a former beauty queen, Elisa Carrio, and Mr Kirchner’s ex-Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna.
Voters will also elect eight provincial governors, a third of the Senate and about half of the Chamber of [...]
Is Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner next president of Argentina?
Attempt upon Benazir Bhutto.
A suicide bombing in KARACHI, Pakistan yesterday, in a crowd welcoming former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed up to 126 people Thursday night, shattering her celebratory procession through Pakistan’s biggest city after eight years in exile. Two explosions — a grenade followed by a suicide blast — struck near a truck carrying Bhutto, but police and officials [...]
BMW’s Nazi Past.
Sept. 30 was shown German investigative television documentary film exposed the Nazi-era misdeeds of BMW’s controlling shareholder family, the Quandts. The reclusive Quandt family responded to the documentary five days later, on Oct. 5, pledging to back a research project into the family’s Nazi past and its role under the Third Reich, opening family [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy divorce.
As it is reported by French news paper l’Est Républicain press secretary of Elysee Palace David Martinon will have to inform during the day about soon official divorce Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cécilia Sarkozy.
Actually the couple was not seen since 14 July. The journalist’s appeal for explanation was no replayed. Believe only [...]
Al Gore
News from OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
“I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,” Gore said. “We face [...]
Election in Pakistan.
As it became known Gen. Pervez Musharraf won an overwhemingly majority in a presidential election boycotted by nearly the entire opposition Saturday, and attention shifted to Supreme Court deliberations on whether he can claim victory.
In total, Musharraf won 671 votes, while the retired judge who was his main rival received just eight. Six ballots were [...]
Demonstration in Copenhagen.
There are unprecedented demonstrations are taking part in Danish capital right now. Police arrested at least 436 people today in Copenhagen after demonstrators evicted from a youth centre six months ago tried to occupy a different building, officials said. “We have never arrested so many people in a single incident before,” a police spokesman told [...]
Horrible Tragedy at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport.
Something wrong is going on the “best of all possible worlds”. There are militarization and cruelty camouflaged on the defence of peace and safety.
Carol Ann Gotbaum . 45-year-old mother of three died in police custody at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport.
As reported CNN she was arrested at the airport Friday for alleged disorderly conduct. Police [...]
The Distinguished Gentleman 2.
Have you ever watched the movie titled The Distinguished Gentleman? I recall this film because it’s synopsis appears into the story that happened with the Louisiana democrat William J. Jefferson’s. FBI agents confronted him at his New Orleans home in August 2005 with a video that showed him accepting $100,000 from a government informant, according [...]
