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Militants in the Niger delta mounted fresh attacks on oil installations yesterday, extending a wave of sabotage which has crippled exports from Africa's leading oil producer. The guerrillas seized a Nigerian army post and dynamited a floating bar
Ecuador reached an agreement with oil protesters late on Wednesday to halt violent demonstrations in Napo province that have shut down a major pipeline. "Now we will go ahead and negotiate their demands."
Over at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds procurement officers quietly placed orders for a system of bacteria-growing fermentors with a total capacity of 3,500 liters of bacteria and the possibility of another 5 fermentors in the future. That is
In ordinary cases of foreign direct investment the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US first conducts a 30-day “review” of the transaction, then decides if a 45-day “investigation” is necessary to address national security concerns.
[Get the message?] The Bush administration said that journalists can be prosecuted under current espionage laws for receiving and publishing classified information but that such a step "would raise legitimate and serious issues and would not be
More Americans than nearly ever before now say the war in Iraq is a "mistake" for the United States, according to a new Gallup poll. That figure now stands at 55%, up 4% point since late January. Only once before was the figure higher, at 5
Inveterate Huff Po contributor, R.J. Eskow picks up on our coverage of the latest mind-blowing Dieboldery by California Sec. of State McPherson and what it may bode for the Golden State as the GOP sets their sights on political manifest destiny. C
Consumer prices galloped ahead in January at the fastest pace in four months, especially pinching the wallets of motorists and other energy users. The government's most closely watched inflation barometer, the Consumer Price Index, advanced by 0.
The case against Weisman and Rosen has engendered a great deal of interest because of its implications for free speech, is precedent-setting because they are private citizens, and are thus not subject to secrecy obligations as are government employee
THE revenge attacks started within minutes of the devastating dawn blast that wrecked the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one of the holiest Shia shrines in Iraq. By the end of the day more than 90 mosques lay damaged or destroyed, Iraq’s political and rel
The Bush administration secretly required a company in the United Arab Emirates to cooperate with future US investigations before approving its takeover of operations at 6 American ports. It chose not to impose other, routine restrictions.
"People just can't put their lives on hold for four weeks while trying to find out if they have a fracture," said Gerber, an orthopedic surgical doctor who has offices in Lowell, Westford and Nashua. "It's just not fair."
Nothing else comes close to the effectiveness of a new generation of solar panels now going into production in South Africa. A team of scientists led by University of Johannesburg scientist Professor Vivian Alberts achieved the breakthrough after 10
Victor has represented thousands of accused drug offenders. He says they thrive off the drug war. "It's a real business for them. They understand the economics and they understand the fact that when a drug bust happens they can sell their pr
A written report from Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago says Cheney was "clearly inebriated" at the time of the shooting.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Just as the United States and its allies swept toward Afghanistan's main cities last autumn, the ruling Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network sent waves of couriers with bars of gold and bundles
Francis Fukuyama, who wrote the best-selling book The End of History and was a member of the neoconservative project, now says that, both as a political symbol and a body of thought, it has "evolved into something I can no longer support".
Barry Hess, vice-chair of the Arizona Libertarian Party, has announced that he will formally declare his candidacy for Governor at the Arizona State Capitol on Friday, February 24th at 10:00 AM, but it will not be under the Republican label as had be
ITV television news, citing its own sources, said the thieves had got away with more than 40 million pounds when they robbed a depot run by private security firm Securitas in Tonbridge, southeastern England.
The US Supreme Court put off a decision on a US government bid to dismiss a challenge by Osama bin Laden's former driver against military tribunals for Guantánamo Bay terror suspects. Government lawyers argued a new law removed its jurisdiction
98 prisoners have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, of which at least 34 were suspected or confirmed homicides. Another 11 cases are deemed suspicious and between 8 and 12 prisoners were tortured to death.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a small congregation in New Mexico may use hallucinogenic tea as part of a 4-hour ritual intended to connect with God. Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee has sent nearly 100 pages of documents regarding ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s use of nonprofit groups to the Senate Finance Committee, opening a second avenue into Congressional probes surrounding the admitted felon
The actors who star in movie The Road to Guantánamo were questioned by police under anti-terrorism legislation. One of the actors said police asked him if he intended to make any more "political" films. Another had his cell phone tak
The planet's population is projected to reach 6.5 billion at 7:16 p.m. EST Saturday, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and its World Population Clock.
Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name. This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it
2 years before the Abu Ghraib scandal, the general counsel of the US Navy tried to halt the "disastrous and unlawful policy of authorizing cruelty toward terror suspects." [links provided to the story]
A federal court judge has concluded that an image search service run by Google Inc. infringes on the copyrights of adult entertainment company Perfect 10 Inc. by displaying small versions of its images in search results.
The federal judge overseeing the patent infringement case against the maker of the BlackBerry portable e-mail device rejected a request by the Justice Department to hold proceedings on how to exempt government users from a shutdown of service.
IBM researchers say they have found a way to shrink microprocessors and other silicon chips by more than two thirds without requiring fundamentally more expensive process technologies.
