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Updated:
Friday, December 26, 2008 15:06
GMT Pakistan
cancels troops’ leave over India tension Pakistan’s army has cancelled leave and
ordered troops to report to duty because of tension with old rival India
over last month’s militant attacks in Mumbai, a military official
and soldiers said on Friday.
Analyst:
One Third Of Banks Could Collapse In 2009 Financial analyst Ralph Silva of TowerGroup
told CNBC this morning that he expects no less than one third of banks
to fail in 2009 and that anything up to a thousand could collapse if
they don't merge.
White
House: Expect more pardons
In today’s White House press briefing, a reporter noted to spokesman
Tony Fratto that the “administration has indicated that the president
is unlikely, at the last minute, to issue a batch of pardons.”
Russia
to raise nuke missile output fourfold
Russia has thrown down a new gauntlet to Barack Obama with an announcement
that it will sharply increase production of strategic nuclear missiles.
Will
the U.S. Break Up?
The larger and more complex a system, the more likely it is to break
down. Something like a simple pendulum with few moving parts could
last many years. But very large, complicated things like the Large
Hadron Collider break down much more quickly.
‘Christ
would fight global tyranny’
In his Christmas message to Britain, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
will hail Jesus as the standard-bearer of justice and call for change.
Peres
hopes Obama doesn’t talk to Iran right away US president-elect Barack Obama should put aside plans to
hold high-level talks with Iran until the Islamic republic’s
elections, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in remarks published
Friday.
When
Trust Runs Out Every society and every institution
rests heavily on trust. There is active trust, the result of “trust,
but verify.” I call this stage one trust. Then there is stage
two trust, which I call default trust: “Trust, and assume
that someone else has verified.”
Former
president of GOP IT guru’s firm dismisses allegations of foul
play Curtis Randy Cole, a close friend and former colleague of
the GOP political consultant who died when his plane crashed in
a suburb here last Friday, dismissed suspicions of foul play in
an interview with RAW STORY Sunday evening.
Police
’secretly taped Damian Green arrest’ The controversy over the arrest
of Tory frontbencher Damian Green took a new twist today after it
emerged the arresting officers were wearing sound recording equipment
at the time.
Clinton
may obstruct Obama ‘change’ The designated US secretary of state is
expected to appoint Middle East envoys from a group of shady and
pro-Israeli diplomats.
