A conference will be held this month in Geneva to examine respect for international humanitarian law in the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) assigned territories, Switzerland announced Thursday, according to the AFP news agency. Israel and the United States are not expected to attend the December 17 conference devoted to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which defines humanitarian […]
Pollution, tainted food and education are causing many of the country’s wealthy to flee, survey finds. Earlier this year, the best company at surveying the rich in China announced that more than 60% of the people it surveyed had already immigrated to another country, or were considering doing so. The question for the Hurun Report, which […]
Officials in Australia said that they had observed debris in the Indian Ocean that could be part of the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that disappeared 12 days ago with 239 people on board. The debris was sighted using satellite imagery in an area of the Indian Ocean, about 1,500 miles off the coast of […]
Australian Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott (SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom) The Australian Liberal Party—“liberal” in the good way, like Adam Smith—and its coalition partner, the National Party, won in a landslide election over the weekend. Australian voters have made Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott the next prime minister of Australia with a projected majority of 89 out […]
Album / Raga / Prisma/Newscom At this time last year, the Australian government began collecting the world’s most expensive carbon tax. A year later, it seems unanimous among Australia’s two biggest parties that the tax has got to go. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday recommended replacing the tax with cap and trade. The change would […]
Meagan Dillon | Herald Sun | April 01, 2013 9:45PM An Afghan refugee who argued cultural differences led him to rape a drunken girl has won a bid to appeal against a 14-year jail term. Esmatullah Sharifi, 31, was given a total 11-year non-parole term for two rapes committed within days of each other in […]
February 13, 2013 14:19 by Simon Plosker It’s not surprising that the story of “Prisoner X” has captured the attention of the world’s media. Here are a couple of thoughts on what we’ve seen so far. 1. You can’t put a lid on it: One thing is crystal clear, however. The Israeli government’s attempts to […]
Israel’s mysterious Prisoner X, believed to be an Australian citizen named Ben Zygier who allegedly committed suicide in an Israeli prison in 2010, was under investigation by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), an Australian newspaper revealed on Wednesday. According to the report, ASIO had suspected Zygier of using his Australian passport to spy for […]
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” […]
Spreading from the middle east, now to the West as violent clashes erupted this week after Muslim rioters marched from Sydney’s Town Hall to Martin Place and confronted police outside the US consulate as Muslims tried to break into the consulate. Muslim rioters threw glass bottles and other objects at police, forcing officers to use […]
