Home » Archives » Latest Headlines (Page 1333)
Britain’s top Catholic attacks same sex marriage plans
LONDON — Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric on Sunday attacked the government’s plan to permit civil gay marriage, calling it “madness” and a “grotesque subversion”. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, added his voice to religious opposition to the proposals, ahead of the launch this…
‘Better a dictator than gay’: Belarus leader
MINSK — The mercurial Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko lashed out Sunday at recent sanctions imposed by Europe over his rights record by saying he would rather be branded a dictator than be gay. Lukashenko said in impromptu remarks at a mass ski event that the foreign ministers of Poland and…
Taiwan official quits over ‘bird flu cover-up’
A top Taiwan agriculture official has stepped down amid allegations he covered up bird flu outbreaks, a day after authorities said they had culled thousands of chickens. Hsu Tien-lai, the chief of the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine had tendered his resignation, Council of Agriculture spokesman…
Joint action on HIV and TB saved 900,000 lives: WHO
LONDON (Reuters) – An estimated 910,000 lives were saved worldwide over six years thanks to better collaboration between health services to protect people with the AIDS virus from tuberculosis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. The WHO said there had been a sharp rise in the numbers of…
Romney and Santorum in dead heat in Ohio
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has surged into a dead heat with Rick Santorum in the Ohio primary, setting up a cliffhanger race on Tuesday, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday. The former Massachusetts governor and former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania are tied with 32…
China’s defense spending on the rise
China announced a double-digit hike in military spending in 2012, in a move likely to fuel concerns about Beijing’s rapid military build-up and increase regional tensions. The defence budget will rise 11.2 percent to 670.27 billion yuan ($106.41 billion), said Li Zhaoxing, a spokesman for China’s national parliament, citing a…
Toddler survives twister that killed her family
A two-year-old girl survived a terrifying tornado that killed her parents and siblings at the weekend, US media reported, noting that she was in critical condition in hospital. The unidentified toddler was found lying among the bodies of her family in a field near a flattened home in New Pekin,…
Tajikistan blocks Facebook and several news sites
The Tajikistan government ordered Internet providers on Saturday to block Facebook, along with several independent media sites, a spokeswoman for the country’s web-provider association told AFP. “Internet providers received a spoken order from government agents to block the sites,” said Parvina Ibodova, president of the association. “We are minions. We get our licences from the authorities and that’s why, as…
BP reaches $7.8 billion settlement over US oil spill
Oil giant BP has reached a $7.8 billion (5.9 billion euro) deal to settle thousands of claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but some of the victims said Saturday that the money won’t bring the disaster to a close. The settlement announced late Friday does not affect what is anticipated…
China calls on both sides to end Syria violence
China on Sunday called on the Syrian government and other “parties concerned” to cease all acts of violence and seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis, Xinhua reported, citing the Chinese foreign ministry. The state news agency said the ministry had released a statement, attributed to an unnamed official, calling for dialogue between the regime and those expressing “political…
Brand new on Raw Story
- John Oliver: Just f*cking ignore Sarah Palin’s turd supermarket of self-contradictory nonsense
- Republican cites masturbating fetuses to support new abortion restrictions
- U.S. patent case climaxes with win for Canadian vibrator maker
- Obama on prosecuting Edward Snowden: I will leave it up to the Department of Justice
- Rand Paul: Marijuana users lose IQ points and lack motivation
- New Hampshire court strikes down law to divert public funds to religious schools
- Bill Clinton to Israelis: There is ‘no alternative’ to a Palestinian state
- China now home to the world’s fastest supercomputer
- Watch: Funny or Die mocks Michele Bachmann’s retirement
- Pesticide contamination kills up to 42 percent of water life: study
Commentary
The Center For Inquiry Likes Atheism’s Cranky White Guy Image, So Screw You Ladies
By Amanda Marcotte
From hope to fear: the broken promise of Barack Obama
By Paul Harris, The Observer
Work/life issues really depend on what kind of job you have
By Amanda Marcotte
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
