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Iranian president criticizes student’s flogging
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke out Tuesday against the weekend flogging of a student convicted of insulting him, saying other, more powerful people criticised him with impunity, the presidency website said. “Since influential people can freely defame us, I disapprove of flogging a young man for insulting the president,” Ahmadinejad said…
Afghanistan opium production set to rise 61%: UN
Opium production in Afghanistan is set to rise by nearly two-thirds this year, with farmers’ revenues from the crop set to soar compared to last year’s disease-hit harvest, the UN said Tuesday. Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world’s illegal opiates from its mammoth crop that continues despite…
Mexico on high alert for Hurricane Jova
Mexican authorities have placed four southern coastal states on high alert ahead of Tuesday’s expected arrival of Jova, a major hurricane barreling in from the Pacific. The Miami-based US National Hurricane Center said in a 0300 GMT bulletin that Jova was packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometers (120 miles)…
Fungus could wipe out Philippine bananas
A disease that has ravaged banana plantations across Southeast Asia could wipe out the Philippine industry in three years unless the government finds a cure, a growers’ group warned Monday. The disease, called Fusarium wilt, is caused by a fast-spreading fungus that kills the plant, said Stephen Antig, executive director…
Abbas willing ‘at any moment’ to restart Israel talks
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Monday in Colombia said he was willing “at any moment” to restart peace negotiations with Israel aimed at a settlement that allows them to exist side by side as states. “We are in favor of peaceful negotiations leading to the creation of a Palestinian state,…
Hedge funds raked in $6.1 billion in August
(Reuters) – Hedge funds took in $6.1 billion in August as the industry outperformed slumping markets, according to data released on Monday. August marked the seventh month this year when inflows into the $2 trillion hedge fund industry exceeded redemptions, according to figures compiled by BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. Hedge…
Torture rife in Afghan detention facilities: U.N.
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan’s intelligence agency and police force have been “systematically” torturing detainees including children at a number of jails, in breach of local and international laws, a United Nations report said Monday. Scores of people told the U.N. that the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and the Afghan National Police had physically or mentally abused them,…
Porn gang kidnaps Saddam Hussein body double
An enterprising gang of porn producers kidnapped a Saddam Hussein lookalike last week, with the hopes of forcing him to perform in a sex tape that they planned to sell as “found footage.” Mohamed Bishr told Ahram Online that three men in black suits forced him into a van while…
Spokesperson: German-French plan won’t be miracle cure
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany and France have begun working on a joint package to stem the euro zone debt crisis, but it will not be a “miracle cure” for the bloc’s ills, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said on Monday. Merkel hosted French President Nicolas Sarkozy for talks on Sunday evening, and at a joint presser,…
El Salvador can help Palestinian peace process: Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas met with Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes on a Latin American tour to rally support in his quest for recognition of statehood at the United Nations. “We understand that President Abbas wants to share with us how they are seeing the process at the United Nations,” said Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez. Abbas, who…
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