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First Romney campaign ad promises tax cuts for the rich on ‘Day One’
WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney unveiled Friday his first TV ad focused on the general election campaign, saying he’d repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, cut taxes and approve a key oil pipeline. The 30-second, upbeat advertisement is the Romney campaign’s first since he became the presumptive Republican nominee…
LGBT rights protesters rally in Georgian capital against Orthodox Christians
Dozens of gay rights supporters rallied for a second day in the Georgian capital Friday after being attacked by Orthodox Christians during their initial march in the deeply religious Caucasus state. Around 60 young activists assembled on the steps of the parliament building in the overtly Christian ex-Soviet nation holding…
Republican-led House votes to allow military action against Iran
The Republican-led House of Representatives approved Friday the use of US force against Iran if the Tehran regime threatens the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons. According to a section of the National Defense Authorization Act, “it shall be the policy of the United States to take all…
Japanese whalers set out to kill 260 whales for ‘scientific research’
A pair of Japanese whaling vessels left Friday for the northwestern Pacific aiming to catch 260 whales for “scientific research”, a fisheries ministry official said. The Yushin Maru and Yushin Maru No. 2 departed from Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi, western Japan, to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru, which has…
Ex-Murdoch aide Rebekah Brooks film in development
The rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks is to get the film treatment, reports said from Cannes Friday, just days after the former Rupert Murdoch aide was charged in Britain’s phone-hacking scandal. The story of the former chief executive of Murdoch’s British newspaper wing News International is in development as…
Obama announces partnership with private sector to feed the world’s poor
US President Barack Obama on Friday reached out to the private sector in hopes of lifting 50 million people in the developing world from poverty, as wealthy nations grapple with a budget crunch. Ahead of talks of the Group of Eight major industrial nations, Obama pledged that the United States…
House rejects bill that would have limited indefinite detention on U.S. soil
US lawmakers struck down a contentious provision Friday that would have curtailed the government’s power to indefinitely hold suspected terrorists captured on American soil. The measure, backed by an odd coalition of liberal Democrats and some Tea Party-backed Republican conservatives, had sought to ensure that suspected terrorists detained in the…
French IKEA managers fired for spying on staff and customers
Swedish furniture giant IKEA said Friday it was sacking four current and former managers at its French subsidiary over allegations they used illegal police files to spy on staff and customers. French prosecutors in April launched a criminal probe following allegations that IKEA paid for illegal access to secret police…
NYPD faces criticism over stop-and-frisk
The New York Police Department faces unprecedented fire over stop-and-frisk, a tactic officials herald for curbing the city’s once notorious murder rate, but which critics see as a racially charged assault on human rights. Champions on both sides of the debate chimed in Friday a day after the police commissioner,…
Twitter opts in to ‘Do Not Track’ privacy initiative
Twitter says it will honour requests from users who do not want their online behaviour tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with web companies such Google and Facebook whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data. Twitter announced that it will officially support “Do Not Track,” a…
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