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Taiwan mobilizes its drones for the first time
TAIPEI — Taiwan has mobilised its drones, which were introduced to the army earlier this year, for the first time to survey natural disasters, local media reported Sunday. The unmanned aircraft were sent to areas inundated by flash flooding and mudslides sparked by a monsoon last week, the Taipei-based China…
Ahmadinejad: I’m gone after 2013
A German magazine is reporting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ready to leave politics for good. According to The Times of Israel, Ahmadinejad told Allgemeine Zeitung Saturday that once his current term expires next year, the former mayor of Tehran and civil engineer plans to return to academia. “Eight…
Nobel winner collects her prize, two decades later
Saturday was the culmination of a 22-year journey “back into the wider human community” for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese politician and activist who finally collected her Nobel Peace Prize, as the New York Times reports. Suu Kyi accepted her award in front of a packed audience in Oslo,…
India to boost economic ties with Cuba
India wants to strengthen economic ties with Cuba, the top Indian diplomat said Saturday on a trip to the Communist-run Caribbean island. “The purpose of my visit to Cuba is to promote economic relations between both countries,” S.M. Krishna said on state television after a meeting with the speaker of…
Bush AG: Obama immigration order a ‘political calculation’
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he agrees with President Obama’s sentiments on immigrant children, just not his approach, according to Talking Points Memo. Gonzales, who served during George W. Bush’s presidency, criticized Obama’s executive order this week preventing the deportation of immigrants who meet certain conditions at the Faith…
Google, Brazilian tribe launch culture map project
Google on Saturday unveiled a cultural map of Brazil’ Surui indigenous people, a digital tool that will help the Amazonian tribe share their vast knowledge of the forest and fight illegal logging. The map, the result of a five-year partnership between Surui chief Almir and the US technology giant, was…
Records show multiple suits against both Shantel Davis and her killer
Neither Shantel Davis nor the detective who shot her dead were strangers to legal troubles, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to court records, Phillip Atkins, the New York City police detective who shot Davis Thursday, has been accused of civil-rights violations six times during his career. For her part,…
Michigan man shoots himself through the penis while adjusting gun
A Michigan man is recovering after shooting himself through the crotch while adjusting his .40-caliber Glock, reports The Detroit Free Press. According to police in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham, it could have been worse. “You think about it — your femoral artery runs down there,” Deputy Chief Mark Clemence…
First Apple computer fetches $374,000
A rare surviving first model of the Apple computer — a stripped down, clunky device that bears no resemblance to today’s sleek gadgets — sold for $374,000 at auction in New York on Friday. The price was more than double the pre-sale estimate, reflecting a two-way bidding war eventually won…
Activists occupy Amazon dam construction site
Around 300 indigenous and green activists occupied Friday the construction site of a huge hydro-electric dam across the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, protest organizers said. The demonstration at the Belo Monte dam sought to draw attention to the project at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development taking…
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