Emergency craft surround plane after it plunges into the Hudson River near midtown Manhattan. The jet (at right) was Flight 1549, an afternoon flight heading from New York’s LaGuardia airport to Charlotte, N.C. The passengers and crew are out of danger. (marketwatch)
During the Saturday anti-Israeli demonstration in Oslo, which initially was quite peaceful, its participants began to send text messages saying that the local McDonald’s decided to transfer all its proceeds to aid Israel. Organized protester were gradually replaced by the radicals, who began to destroy everything around.
Press Service of the Norwegian McDonald’s network immediately sent out a letter that the company did not intend to transfer money to Israel, does not deal with policy and simply sell hamburgers to people, but it was too late. Several shops on the main street of the city were also damaged by the chain reaction of unrest.
I don’t want to judge who is responsible for the current situation, I simply want to share some photos with you. Protests against Israel were held around the globe, in most major world capitals! These pictures can be found below!
Istanbul, Turkey
China marked the 30th anniversary of the start of its capitalist revolution with a speech Thursday from Communist Party leader Hu Jintao, who urged continued economic reform but said it would not lead to Western-style democracy. He praised the economic changes of the last three decades, including opening the door to free market reforms and foreign trade, which have brought a massive transformation to the country.
The event at the Great Hall of the People — the seat of the country’s legislature in the heart of the Chinese capital — was attended by more than 6,000 party leaders, legislators and military officials, who politely applauded throughout Hu’s remarks.
The whole year in a selection of professional photographs! The first part can be found here!
2008 was full of events, happy and terrifying, bright and sad! We give you a selection of photos that will remind you of some of them! The whole year in one selection of professional photos.
On the photo immediately below we can see children playing with the boots of their neighbor – a journalist Muthathar al Zaidi, who after yesterday’s “shoe fight” with the President of the United States, virtually became a national hero. Shoes became a weapon of Iraqi proletariat, hundreds of people went to the streets to demand the release of a journalist who was arrested after yesterday’s incident. More photos of the protest are inside the post.
On the night of Saturday, December 6th, two Special Guards of the Greek police clashed with a small group of young men. The exact details of what took place are still unclear, but it is known that one of the Guards fired three shots, and one of those bullets caused the death of 15-year-old Alexander Grigoropoulos – whether the injury was made by an accidental ricochet or deliberate shot remains to be determined. The two Guards are now in jail awaiting trial, the shooter charged with homicide. This incident sparked an immediate and widespread response in the form of angry demonstrations and riots in many Greek cities that have continued at varying levels to this day – though dimming in intensity recently. Alexander’s death appears to have been a catalyst, unleashing widespread Greek anger towards many issues – police mistreatment of protesters, unwelcome education reforms, economic stagnation, government corruption and more.
As cited by News International, the militants who have killed over 100 people in Mumbai have links to the Islamist terror network Al-Qaeda, a top Russian security official told the RIA Novosti state news agency on Thursday.
“The Russian secret services have information that certain groups that have carried out attacks in Mumbai have contacts with Al-Qaeda,” said the official, identified as a senior source at one of Russia’s spy agencies.
“This includes the Lashkar-i-Tayyiba terrorist group. Fighters from this group undergo special training in Al-Qaeda camps, located on the border between Pakistan and India,” the official was quoted as saying.
Earlier on Thursday a spokesman for Lashkar-i-Tayyiba, one of several groups fighting Indian rule in the border province of Kashmir, denied it was involved in the attacks.
The Russian official told RIA Novosti that Moscow had passed information about the threat from Lashkar-i-Tayyiba to New Delhi but it had been ignored.
“Unfortunately, the Indians, at least until now, considered this merely a bandit group. In their opinion it was engaged in a territorial dispute in the region adjacent to Pakistan,” he said.
I prefer writing news myself, but I found this NY Times article too good to change or correct. Therefore, here it is on my blog. If you don’t like it, go to the original web-site.
The thaw in the resentful relationship between the most powerful woman in the Democratic Party and her younger male rival began at the party’s convention this summer, when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave such a passionate speech supporting Senator Barack Obama that his top aides leapt out of their chairs backstage to give her a standing ovation as she swept past.
Mr. Obama, who was in the first steps of what would become a strategic courtship, called afterward to thank her. By then, close aides to Mrs. Clinton said, she had come to respect the campaign Mr. Obama had run against her. At the least, she knew he understood like no one else the brutal strains of their epic primary battle.
