40% of Egyptian voters still undecided
A recent poll has shown that 40 percent of the 53-million eligible Egyptian voters are still undecided on who to vote for in the first post-Mubarak presidential election due later this month, Press TV reports.
US secures presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014
The United States and Afghanistan have signed an agreement to extend the US presence in the war-torn country to another decade beyond 2014.
Intelligence rupture over Iran eroding Israel apparat
Producing from his pocket a sheet of paper which contained a biblical quote from the Prophet Zachariah, former Shin Bet chief said, “I will tell you things that might be harsh. I cannot trust Netanyahu and Barak at the wheel in confronting Iran. They are infected with messianic feelings over Iran,” thereby dealing a heavy blow to the Israeli regime. Continue reading
US protesters nearly bring Los Angeles airport to shutdown
Hundreds of protesters have nearly brought the Los Angeles International Airport to a shutdown as part of a global May Day protest rally.
Six killed in Kabul car bomb explosion
At least six people have been killed after a car bomb hit the Afghan capital, Kabul, just hours after US President Barack Obama left the war-torn country.
PKK dominates European drug trafficking, report says
A recent report prepared by the Turkish police has provided a glimpse into drug trafficking in Turkey and Europe, suggesting the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) dominate the drug trade in Europe and traffic drugs from Afghanistan to Europe through Iran and Turkey. Continue reading
‘I will vote blank’: French far-right
Leader Le Pen throws Sunday’s presidential election race wide open as she tells supporters to make up their own minds
- Far-right supporters gather to celebrate 600th birthday of Joan of Arc
- President Nicolas Sarkozy expecting ‘tens of thousands’ at own rally
- Sarkozy: ‘We have too many immigrants, our system doesn’t work’
Family trade: Far-right politician Jean Marie Le Pen, right kisses his daughter Marine Le Pen
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen today said she would abstain from voting in Sunday’s presidential election – and urged her supporters to make up their own minds.
Le Pen threw the election race wide open by refusing to endorse either Socialist Francois Hollande, who is current favourite for the run-off, and incumbent conservative Nicolas Sarkozy.
It means that her 6million supporters, who gave her 17.9 per cent of the vote in the first round on April 22, are up for grabs – throwing Hollande’s lead over Sarkozy into serious question.
She told a far-right rally: ‘On Sunday, I will vote blank. I have made my choice. Each of you will make yours.’
Le Pen’s silence could see many of her supporters turning to the current President, who has in recent weeks courted them with tough talk on immigration and borders. Continue reading
Mother’s agony as 5-year-old daughter is kidnapped in Egypt for a SECOND TIME by her father
- Young A’ishah Sabra was first snatched in 2009
- Her mother Leila won custody and stayed in Egypt
- Now A’ishah’s father Saber has kidnapped her AGAIN
- Leila has returned to the UK to seek Government help
A British mother is desperate to get her daughter back after she was snatched in Egypt by her father for a second time. Leila Sabra fought an eight-month battle for custody of five-year-old daughter A’ishah after she was taken in 2009.
The 35-year-old, from Whitefield, Greater Manchester, moved to Cairo and was reunited with the youngster after her father Saber Mesbah Sabra was arrested.
Happy: Leila Sabra with A’ishah after the two were reunited in 2010, But Mrs Sabra says he failed to return A’ishah after an access visit three months ago. Continue reading IKEA ‘used East German political prisoners arrested by Stasi to make its furniture in the 1970s and 80s’
Furniture giant IKEA used political prisoners arrested by the dreaded Stasi secret police of former East Germany to make its products in the 1970s and 80s, it has been alleged.
The claims will be aired tomorrow on Swedish TV station Sveriges Television’s (SVT). Initially the company denied the reports but then said it had requested documents from the Stasi archive.
Claims: IKEA used the labour of East German political prisoners to make its furniture, it has been alleged
It has now said it is ‘interviewing people at Ikea who were around back then,’ according to Ikea’s social and environmental manager Jeanette Skjelmose.
She said: ‘So far there are no indications that we would have asked that prisoners be used in manufacturing or known about it. ‘What we’re looking into now is whether it could have happened anyway, without our knowledge.’ The show claims there is evidence to support the allegation that political prisoners were used. Continue reading
Way to spot breast cancer years in advance
A genetic test could help predict breast cancer many years before the disease is diagnosed, experts hope. Ultimately the findings, in the journal Cancer Research, could lead to a simple blood test to screen women, they say. Continue reading
