This Nazi hunter worked for Mossad, book alleges
Jerusalem: Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who gained worldwide fame for decades as a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, was in fact frequently on the payroll of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, a new biography asserts. The assertion, based on numerous documents and interviews with three people said to be Mr. Wiesenthal’s Mossad handlers, not only punctures [...]
Another oil spill disaster for US?
Louisiana: An oil platform exploded and caught fire off the Louisiana coast on Thursday triggering fears of a repeat of the BP Deep Horizon oil spill in the same region earlier this year. All 13 crew members aboard the platform were rescued. The Coast Guard initially reported that an oil sheen a mile long 1.6 [...]
Multiple blasts in Lahore; 35 killed, 250 injured
Lahore: The triple bombing of a religious procession in Pakistan adds to the strains on a government already struggling with devastating floods and shows that Islamist militants are back in business despite the natural disaster. The death toll in the blasts rose to 35 on Thursday, with about 250 injured, government official Sajjad Bhutta said. [...]
How Prince William, Harry phones were hacked by tabloid
London: In November 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved. Equally peculiar were stories that began appearing about Prince William in one of the country’s biggest tabloids, News of [...]
China’s monster traffic jam rears its head again
Beijing: China’s monster traffic jam has reared its head again, with trucks and cars backed up for up to 18 miles (30 kilometers) on Saturday on a highway north of Beijing, although that is a third the size of what it was. The traffic jam came four days after the break-up of an even bigger [...]
Pakistan handing over control of PoK to China?
New York: While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China. The entire Pakistan-occupied western portion of Kashmir stretching [...]
In Pakistan, Taliban hints it will attack relief workers
Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban called the presence of foreign relief workers in this flood-ravaged country “unacceptable” on Thursday and obliquely suggested that militants could carry out attacks against members of aid groups, according to news reports. A spokesman for the United Nations dismissed the threats, saying that security concerns had not affected its aid work [...]
New York: Rider asks if cabbie is Muslim, then stabs him
New York: It was the first fare of the cabdriver’s shift. A young man hailed him at the corner of Second Avenue and East 24th Street, wanting to go to 42nd and Second. It was 6 p.m. on Tuesday; the traffic was dense. Once the fare, Michael Enright, a 21-year-old film student who had been [...]
