Archive - Sep 6, 2010

AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard's center-left Labor Party will form a minority government to rule Australia for a second three-year term, after two independent lawmakers joined her coalition Tuesday in the interest of stable government.

Source: Reuters * ElBaradei calls for election boycott

* Threatens civil disobedience if reform calls ignored

By Marwa Awad

CAIRO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Egyptian potential presidential candidate Mohamed ...

Source: Reuters YALA, Thailand, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Five people have been killed and four wounded in Thailand's restive Muslim south, police said on Tuesday, the latest upsurge in violence blamed on separatist ...

Tony Windsor says he supports Labor's Julia Gillard, while Bob Katter comes out for Tony Abbott, who hopes to lead a conservative coalition

One independent Australian MP came out for Labor today, and one for the Liberals, leaving a third independent to decide the make-up of the next Canberra government.

Tony Windsor said he supported Labor's Julia Gillard, while Bob Katter came out for Tony Abbott, who hopes to lead a conservative coalition. Each now can count on the support of 75 MPs. Fellow independent Rob Oakeshott is due to announce who will form the next government soon.

The 21 August federal elections failed to give any party a majority for the first time since 1940.

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Labor wins backing of two independent MPs, allowing Gillard to remain as prime minister

Labor's Julia Gillard will form a minority government in Australia after gaining the support of two independents today.

Labor won the backing of MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, while Bob Katter came out for Tony Abbott, the Liberal leader who hoped to lead a conservative coalition.

This gave Gillard the support of 76 MPs, which will allow her to form a minority government. Seventy-four MPs back the opposition.

The closely-contested 21 August federal elections failed to give any party a majority for the first time since 1940.

Gillard, who was born in Wales, became Australia's first female prime minister in June when Labor overthrew Kevin Rudd, who had lost the support of his party.

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Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Zambian police routinely engage in cruel,
inhuman, and degrading treatment, including torture, to extract confessions, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should ...

Source: Reuters By Tarmizy Harva

BERASTEPU, Indonesia, Sept 7 (Reuters) - An Indonesian volcano that lay dormant for 400 years shot ash 5 km (3 miles) into the air on Tuesday, its biggest eruption since it became ...

Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain

Something mellow to finish off the Labor Day Weekend with…!

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The non-victory-lap victory lap broadcast from the Oval Office last week showed beyond any lingering doubt that young Mr. Obama is every bit the prevaricator that young Mr. Bush was. But the mission semi-accomplished speech carried an even darker announcement: the unconditional surrender of our political leadership to the American Pentarchy, that malevolent confluence of [...]

GAZA CITY – The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it’s approaching a festive time. The prolonged electricity cuts, lasting from 12 to 16 hours daily, [...]