You can’t tell the players without a program and it’s no wonder that people feel confused by the plethora of names the terrorist groups use
“What’s emerging is what we need,which is a comprehensive plan, going after the criminal gangs, going after the traffickers, going after the owners of the boats...and stabilising the countries from which these people are coming.”
I really liked the furious debate that broke out recently among astronomers about whether we should send out signals to the universe saying “we’re here.”
“Every time I call [my mother],” Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov said recently, “she gives me a talking-to: ‘When will you stop being rude about Putin? He’ll kill you.’”
Does democracy in Malaysia really depend on Anwar Ibrahim? If it does, Malaysia’s 30 million people are in trouble. Anwar is back in jail: at least five years’ imprisonment, and another five years’ ban from political activity after that.
Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, has lived up to his name again. Three minutes after he left an election rally in the northern city of Gombe last week Monday, a suicide bomber blew herself up in the nearby parking lot.
After Ahmed Merabet, a French policeman, was killed outside the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last week, his brother Malek said: “My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two false Muslims. Islam is a religion of peace and love.”
'Did you know there’s an oil war? And the war has an objective: to destroy Russia,' said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a live television speech last wee
