In what could be called a severe blow to the fight against drug cartels in Mexico the nation’s second most powerful official, Francisco Blake Mora who was the secretary of the interior died among seven other people in a helicopter crash in Tamamalpa, Mexico.
Federal prosecutors in New York have charged a Moroccan man with conspiring to provide weapons and other help to al-Qaeda. He was held with two other men in Germany, as being an conspirator of an alleged bomb attack being instructed upon it by the Al Qaeda. The man named Abedeladim el-Kebir, and aged 30, was detained in April by the German authorities. He faces charges in the United States of helping to supply Islamist militants with explosives, and also of possessing a destructive device.
Ajmal Kasab is a terrorist. He is a non-state actor. He should go to the gallows, Malik told Indian journalists in Maldives where India and Pakistan have sent delegations headed by their Prime Ministers to the SAARC Summit.
Google Inc will continue to offer support to firms using its Android system that are involved in legal disputes, its executive chairman Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday, as the Internet giant looks to cement alliances in the face of toughening competition.
Following the controversial re-election of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, there have massively violent clashes between his supporters and opponents throughout the country, which have even resulted in four people being shot dead in the northern part of the country, as reported by the police.
Security forces in Mexico are using torture and forced disappearances and other human right violations in order to fight back against the drug cartel in Mexico. There is evidence Mexican police and armed forces were involved in 170 cases of torture, 24 extrajudicial killings and 39 forced disappearances since the government launched a war on drug gangs in late 2006, the rights group said a Human Right Watch report. Since Felipe Calderon took over the office of the president in December 2006 he has been sending the Mexican armed forces to take on the drug cartels rather than allowing the police forces to handle it.
The 17th annual SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Summit is scheduled to begin today in the Maldives. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs minister S.M. Krishna are heading towards Maldives today to attend the summit.
The flamboyant Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to resign after the market in Europe crumpled spooked by the Greek crisis turned on Italy, focusing on factors that had existed for year stagnant growth and a debt mountain equal to 120% of GDP. After failing to secure the majority in a vote in the lower house, Berlusconi said he would quit as soon as parliament passed budget reforms urged by European partners to help Italy stave off a debt crisis that is threatening the euro zone.