United Nations personnel in Kosovo’s flashpoint town of Mitrovica have been evacuated following two days of ethnic violence, a United Nations spokesman said early on Friday.
“We have been evacuated,” the spokesman told Reuters by telephone from the ethnically divided town which suffered major violence, especially on Wednesday when about six Serbs and Albanians were killed there.
“We are in the French base,” he said, referring to NATO-led peacekeeping troops based in Mitrovica.
He gave no details on the reason for the evacuation.
Clearly the kind of people you want watching your back in a fight. Can someone tell me why the UN has any moral authority at all?
Jordan’s King Abdullah secretly visited Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s ranch to voice concern over Israel’s West Bank barrier and plans to disengage from the Palestinians, a senior political source said on Friday.
[…] “The visit was meant to allay King Abdullah’s fears that construction of the fence will prompt a flight of Palestinians over the border into Jordan,” the source said about the controversial barrier now under World Court scrutiny.
[…] Israeli sources said Sharon promised the king to block any such mass movement.
OK, instead of planning on ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, Israel has now committed to physically prevent it?
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian was shot while campaigning Friday, a day before a presidential election, but was not in critical condition, his spokesman told Reuters.
He had been rushed to hospital in the southern city of Tainan, officials said. Vice President Annette Lu was also wounded, but her condition was not yet known.
“It was a gunshot but he is not in critical condition,” James Huang, presidential spokesman, told Reuters.
Shouldn’t this be somewhat bigger news? An attempted assassination of the President of an important, allied nation? It hardly seems farfetched that there was involvement by the Chinese Communists, with the other rench-aided attempted intimidation
Classes were canceled at all five Claremont colleges to protest a hate crime against a Claremont-McKenna psychology professor. Kerri Dunn’s car was vandalized and painted with anti-black and anti-Jewish slogans. She told students it was a “well-planned act of terrorism.” Now police say Kerri Dunn faked the whole thing.
I’m sure the Evil Ones thought about doing that, so what’s the problem?