Saturday, November 10, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
Statue honours Indian secret agent killed at concentration camp | World news | The Guardian
A statue of Noor Inayat Khan is unveiled in central London. Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters
A statue has now been unveiled by Princess Anne near the bench in Gordon Square, commissioned by a small group determined that the extraordinary story of Noor Inayat Khan, a gentle artistic intellectual who became a secret agent in occupied France and died aged 30 in Dachau concentration camp, should not be forgotten.
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Thousands sign Nobel petition for Pakistan’s Malala
The 15-year-old is recovering in hospital in Britain after Taliban gunmen in her native northwest Pakistan shot her last month Malala Yousafzai. (Reuters)
The 15-year-old is recovering in hospital in Britain after Taliban gunmen in her native northwest Pakistan shot her last month after she protested against the restriction of girls’ education.
The attack has drawn international condemnation and Yousufzai has become a powerful symbol of resistance to the Taliban suppression of women’s rights.
On Friday, a campaign led by a Pakistani-British woman urged Prime Minister David Cameron and other senior government officials to nominate Yousufzai for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
KUDOS: Libya the main aid funder of the Syrian opposition | Libyan Tweep Forum
Libya the main funder of the Syrian opposition
The Syrian National Council says it has received over $20 million in aid from Libya since it was founded in October 2011. It makes Libya its most important donor by far. These figures were released against the background of increasing pressure on the SNC to marginalise extremist elements within its ranks.
In a detailed financial report published on Thursday, 1 November, the SNC states that total foreign donations have reached $40.4 million, half of which was given by Libya and the other half by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. In more precise figures, $20.4 million originated from Libya, followed by $15 million from Qatar and $5 million from the UAE. The money was said to have been deposited in two bank accounts in Qatar and Turkey.
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BRIGHT FUTURE: Costa del Libya? Influential travel survey moots war-torn state as new holiday hotspot « Shabab Libya
The violence that has engulfed the country in the last two years means that, at the time of writing, Libya is unlikely to feature too highly on many people’s travel wish-lists.
But the troubled north African country has enormous potential as a tourist destination, and is likely to rise as a holiday hotspot in the near to medium future – according to a survey of key figures in the travel industry.
Ancient and epic: Libya is home to historic sites, including the Roman city of Leptis Magna This week has seen the desert state – which was ravaged by civil war as recently as October last year – take a small step back into potential visitors’ eyelines by setting up a promotional stand at World Travel Market (WTM), an influential travel convention held every November at London’s ExCel Centre.
And a survey of industry professionals has suggested that Libya can look forward to a promising future.
In the poll, which saw 1300 tourism officials interviewed, over half of those surveyed – 56 per cent – believed that Libya has all the ingredients to become a major destination.
Only 10 per cent rejected the idea of Libya as a holiday option.
‘Libya could become one of tourism’s most exciting destinations in the future,’ says WTM director Simon Press.
‘Many destinations, such as Vietnam and Croatia, have repositioned from conflict zones to tourism hotspots, and there is no reason why, over time, Libya cannot do the same.’
Costa del Libya? Influential travel survey moots war-torn state as new holiday hotspot « Shabab Libya
Monday, November 5, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Military Times Poll: Romney bests Obama, 2-1 - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times
Economy, not military issues, tops concerns
By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Oct 7, 2012 10:34:55 EDT
Respondents rated the economy and the candidates’ character as their most important considerations and all but ignored the war in Afghanistan as an issue of concern.
The Military Times Poll is a secure email survey of active-duty, National Guard and reserve members who are subscribers to the Military Times newspapers (see How We Did It, below).
FOR THE FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE: Military Times Poll: Romney bests Obama, 2-1 - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times
How Qaddafi Fooled Libya and the World - Max Fisher - The Atlantic
Though he sold himself as either a costumed buffoon, a wild-eyed terrorist, or a wary reformer, Qaddafi's rule from his unlikely rise to his inevitable fall was one of the most cunning and improbable feats of modern dictatorships
Qaddafi speaks to the summit meeting of the nonaligned nations in Sri Lanka,
August 1976 / AP
In the first few months of 1969, Libya was so filled with rumors that the country's senior military leadership would oust the king in a bloodless coup that, when the coup actually happened on September 1, nobody bothered to check who had led it. A handful of military vehicles had rolled up to government offices and communication centers, quietly shutting down the monarchy in what was widely seen as a necessary and overdue transition. King Idris's government had become so incapable and despised that neither his own personal guard nor the massive U.S. military force then stationed outside Tripoli intervened. Army units around the country, believing that the coup was an implicit order from the military chiefs, quickly secured local government offices. Not a single death was reported; all of Libya, it seemed, had welcomed the military revolution.
FOR THE FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE: How Qaddafi Fooled Libya and the World - Max Fisher - The Atlantic
Qaddafi speaks to the summit meeting of the nonaligned nations in Sri Lanka,
August 1976 / AP
FOR THE FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE: How Qaddafi Fooled Libya and the World - Max Fisher - The Atlantic
Saturday, November 3, 2012
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