Hong Kong blocks BBC site after video of police beating is aired
BEIJING — The BBC’s website was blocked in China on Wednesday, hours after a video of Hong Kong police beating and kicking a pro-democracy protester began circulating online. The move appears to be the first time the British broadcaster’s English-language website has been completely blocked... read more »
Aussies fighting Ebola ‘wouldn’t survive flight home’
Australia can’t deploy health workers to the Ebola outbreak in west Africa because other countries are refusing to guarantee suitable evacuation and treatment if any become sick. The federal opposition has demanded the government lift its game and send medical workers before the world loses... read more »
Egypt bombing Libyan militias
Cairo – Egyptian military aircraft are bombing positions held by Islamist militias in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi as part of a large-scale operation to rid the city of militants who have held sway there for months, two Egyptian government officials said on Wednesday. The officials,... read more »
David Cameron risks Coalition split over Tory minister’s disabled min...
David Cameron is risking a Coalition split after expressing his “full confidence” in a Tory minister who said some disabled people “not worth” the full minimum wage. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, is expected to criticise the comments which were made by Lord Freud, the minister in... read more »
Al-Qaida’s India wing: New outfit may be drawn from IM, SIMI
NEW DELHI: This is neither the first time that al-Qaida is threatening an India-centric jihad nor is it news that Indian jihadists are coming together with those in Pakistan and Bangladesh... read more »
The Islamic State is forcing the West out of its Iraq war wound
The first anniversary of the chemical weapons attack carried out by the Assad regime on a suburb of Damascus was just two weeks ago. Following that attack that killed at least 1,400 people,... read more »
U.S. missionary with Ebola en route to Nebraska for treatment
A third U.S. health missionary infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia left the West African country’s capital on Thursday in a plane headed for the Nebraska Medical Center in... read more »
Hackers shatter into Obamacare website, no consumer information capture
WASHINGTON — Hackers successfully breached HealthCare.gov, but no consumer information was taken from the health insurance website that serves more than 5 million Americans, the Obama... read more »
BJP expected to be tend to form govt in Delhi soon
Uncertainty over government formation in Delhi might come to an end soon as Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung could invite Bharatiya Janata Party, the single largest party in Delhi Assembly, to form... read more »
