Uighurs clash with China police; seeks independance from mainland
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Muslim Uighers, one of China’s ethnic minorities, were quelled by Chinese police after nearly a thousand Uigher demonstrators flooded the streets in a defiant protest against the Chinese government in the Xinjiang region of China.
The Uighers settlement in Xinjiang of 8 million citizens prefer to be recognized as Eastern Turkestan but, China openly denounced the Uighers’ plea for independence and has labeled them as terrorists after the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 and repeatedly attempts decimating Uigher cultural. Uighers are light skinned and haired from a mixture of 50% Caucasian and 50% East Asian ancestry. Read the rest of this entry »
Iranian clerics contradict Ali Khamenei’s official ruling
In a further development elucidating the internal division within the Iranian government of the Iranian clerics rebuked Ali Khamenei’s authority on Saturday, claiming the Guardian Council’s official ruling for Iran’s presidential election to be unjustified and false.
“How can one accept the legitimacy of the election just because the Guardian Council says so? Can one say that the government born out of the infringements is a legitimate one,” the Assembly of Qom Scholars and Researchers said. Read the rest of this entry »
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First case of drug-resistant Swine Flu found in Denmark
According to Danish officials the first person carrying a drug-resistant strain of Swine Flu was discovered. The H1N1 strain was resistant to the antiviral drug, Tamiflu.
US troops pull out of Baghdad, Iraq
The U.S. military forces in Baghdad continued pulling out of the city to meet the deadline of the U.S., Baghdad agreement signed last year that gives full control of Baghdad to the Iraqi military.
131,000 U.S. troops will be stationed outside of Baghdad in accordance with Iraqi officials while a minimal number of U.S. forces will remain in the cities to continue the training of Iraqi soldiers and police forces, numbering approximately 750,000. Read the rest of this entry »
10% ballots recounted; Iran President Ahmadinejad to be officially reinstated
The Guardian Council, the highest legislative body in Iran, were permitted to recount 10% of the July 12 ballots for the presidential election and officially declared that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was fairly elected.
Honduran President unseated by military coup
The Honduran President, Jose Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a military coup that met little resistance. The Honduran Congress instated Roberto Micheletti, head of Congress, on Sunday but abroad, Micheletti was not recognized as the new president.
The Honduran Congress saw Zelaya as a threat to Honduras as he instigated internal divisions and conflict. The majority saw a coup as befitting for his removal. Not surprisingly, the act was met with little opposition, the transition was swift and saw few (if at all) instances of opposition by the general public. Read the rest of this entry »
10% recount of presidential ballots in Iran on Monday
On Monday, June 29, the Iranian Regime recounted a ‘randomly selected’ 10% of the total votes cast during the June 12 elections, according to the government backed Press TV.
On Sunday, protests continued as thousands flooded into Ghoba mosque and protested in a planned silent demonstration incited by Mir-Hossein Moussavi.
Moussavi was granted a permit to hold the demonstrations that doubled as, honoring Mohammad Beheshti, an instigator of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and honoring the protesters who died during demonstrations.
In the government’s continued efforts to crack down on the opposition, nine employees of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran were taken into custody and five were released. Read the rest of this entry »
H1N1 flu: Swine flu pandemic; one million affected in US
Lyn Finelli, a flu surveillance official of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated, in the vaccine advisory panel in Atlanta on Thursday, one million U.S. citizens may be affected by the H1N1 flu.
The estimated figures were based on an aggregation of suveys, by health officials, mathematically calcuated by computer based modeling.
The Center for Disease Control officially reported 28,000 H1N1 cases to date in the U.S. and 127 resulting deaths. The majority of H1N1 cases will go unreported as the common flu. Read the rest of this entry »
North Korea to increase number of nuclear arsenal
Yesterday, on the 59th anniversary of the the outbreak of the Korean war, North Korea warned the U.S. that its efforts to expand the volume of nuclear weapons was in the plans to counter a future attack by the U.S.
North Korean officials threatened a, “fire shower of nuclear retaliation.” They, “will never give up its nuclear deterrent… and will futher strenghten it,” North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun added.
The threats by North Korea come after their government was scheduled to attack Hawaii (4,500 miles from North Korea) with a 4,000 mile range missile on July 4. Stepping up efforts to rebuff the treats on the U.S., North Korea closed the Sea of Japan purported short range and an intercontinential missile test from June 25 to July 10, reported Japan’s Maritime Safety Agency (MSA). Read the rest of this entry »
