What is it with the crazies with the guns at the town halls complaining about the health care reform death panels? There are no health care reform death panels. Is this what constitutes legitimate dissent now? Just making stuff up? Okay. Fine. I want to protest the black capsules the government plans to shove down our throats at age 30 to tamp Social Security costs down and honor Michael York in Logan’s Run. Come on everybody: “Black Capsules Bad.”
The largest foreign election monitoring group in Afghanistan has said the polls were generally fair, but the body came under criticism for making such a statement ahead of official results.
Conservative religious leaders in Iran have raised objections to the decision by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, to include three women in his new cabinet.
The man convicted of the 1988 bombing of an aircraft over the Scottish town of Lockerbie has said he would present new evidence to prove his innocence before he dies, UK's The Times newspaper has reported.
Iraqi MPs have called for an emergency session of parliament next week to address the security concerns following recent attacks, the parliament's deputy speaker has said.
The former US army officer found guilty of mass killings in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam war has finally made a public apology after more than 40 years.
The Yemeni President has renewed his government's ceasefire conditions to end the fighting with Shia rebels in the northern province of Saada, which according to a UN agency has displaced more than 35,000 people.
The head of the United States' central bank has said that there are positive signs that the world economy will soon start to grow, after the worst global downturn in decades.
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The Yemeni President has renewed his government's ceasefire conditions to end the fighting with Shia rebels in the northern province of Saada, which according to a UN agency has displaced more than 35,000 people.
