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Doctor who led us to bin Laden was CIA agent, says US

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - Jan. 29 (News) - The United States has confirmed publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor long suspected of collecting vital evidence before the assassination of Osama bin Laden was indeed working for them. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told 60 Minutes on CBS

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Assange takes chat-show job with state-funded Russian TV

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Shaun Walker - Jan. 26 (News Report) - A TV channel funded by Kremlin will air a chat show hosted by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an unlikely collaboration announced yesterday. Russia Today, which broadcasts from Moscow in English, said that the programme will be written and hoste

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Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Steve Connor - Dec. 13 (News Report) - Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

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The race to save the euro

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:20:02 -0800

The Independent - Dec. 05 - Amending EU treaties usually takes years. To "save" the euro – and to prevent the world from tipping into deep recession – European leaders have given themselves five days. Or perhaps four months.

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EU adds more sanctions against Iran

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:54:00 -0800

The Independent - Dec. 01 - Europe stepped up economic and diplomatic sanctions against Iran today, in a move Foreign Secretary William Hague said was not prompted by the attack on the UK embassy in Tehran. At talks with fellow EU foreign ministers Mr Hague welcomed what he describ

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EU sanctions tighten screw on Iran over nuclear weapons

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:26:19 -0800

The Independent - Dec. 01 - The European Union announced yesterday that new tough new sanctions will be imposed on Iran over the country's alleged attempt to acquire a nuclear arsenal, but the meeting in Brussels failed to agree on the imposition of an oil embargo aimed at hitting Tehran's main source of revenue.

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'Don't kill my son. He is not guilty of bombing the metro'

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:26:16 -0800

The Independent - Dec. 01 - There is only one person who can stop the execution of Lyubov Kovalyova's 25-year-old son, Vladislav. Unfortunately for her, it is Alexander Lukashenko, the ruthless dictator who has ruled Belarus since 1994. He is not known for his compassion.

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Europe's last executioner condemns two more to a bullet in the back of the head

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:21:58 -0800

The Independent - Nov. 30 - With his wiry frame clad in a blue shellsuit, a disengaged expression and cropped, mousy hair, Dmitry Konovalov looks more like a playground terrorist than a real one. But a court in Belarus yesterday decided that, together with his friend Vladislav Kovalyov, he was responsible for a series of very real crimes, the worst of which was the planning and execution of a bomb attack on the Minsk metro system in April this year, which killed 15 people and injured over 200. Amid gasps of shock and cries of disgust in the viewing gallery, the pair were sentenced to death.

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French courts jail six Somali pirates for kidnapping couple

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:21:54 -0800

The Independent - Nov. 30 - A Paris court yesterday convicted five of six Somali men on trial for kidnapping the two-person crew of a yacht after hijacking it off the African country's coast three years ago.

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Vienna has best living standard in the world, survey finds

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:07:00 -0800

The Independent - Nov. 30 - Vienna has the best living standard in the world - and Baghdad the worst, according to an annual survey. Mercer consulting group also gave German and Swiss cities top rankings, putting four of them among the first five, and says European cities represent

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UK banks fund deadly cluster-bomb industry

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Jerome Taylor - Aug. 16 (News Report) - The Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, Barclays and HSBC have all provided funding to the makers of cluster bombs, even as international opinion turns against a weapons system that is inherently indiscriminate and routinely maims or kills civilians. One year ago this month, Britain became an active participant in the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a global treaty that bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster bombs. To date, 108 countries have signed the treaty, which also forbids parties from assisting in the production of cluster weapons.

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Galvanising intensity or the look of lunacy? Right-wing livid over Michele Bachmann portrait - Americas, World

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:54:28 -0700

The Independent - Aug. 10 - Hand-wringing has broken out across the American politiscape over the cover of the latest edition of Newsweek, which features a portrait of the Tea Party-adored presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann that might lead some voters to conclude that the congresswoman would be better off in a padded cell than the Oval Office.

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Robert Fisk: Why I had to leave The Times

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Robert Fisk - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - These past two weeks, I have been thinking of what it was like to work for Murdoch, what was wrong about it, about the use of power by proxy. For Murdoch could never be blamed. Murdoch was more caliph than ever, no more responsible for an editorial or a "news" story than a president of Syria is for a massacre – the latter would be carried out on the orders of governors who could always be tried or sacked or sent off as adviser to a prime minister – and the leader would invariably anoint his son as his successor. Think of Hafez and Bashar Assad or Hosni and Gamal Mubarak or Rupert and James. In the Middle East, Arab journalists knew what their masters wanted, and helped to create a journalistic desert without the water of freedom, an utterly skewed version of reality. So, too, within the Murdoch empire.

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Moscow applies to extend Arctic border

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - Jul. 07 (News) - Russia says it will formally submit an application to the United Nations next year to redraw the map of the Arctic, giving itself a bigger share of the resource-rich territory.

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Death wish: Routine use of vital antibiotics on farms threatens human health

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Jeremy Laurance - Jun. 16 (Investigative Report) - The use of modern antibiotics on British farms has risen dramatically in the past decade, fuelling the development of resistant organisms and weakening the power of human medicine to cure disease.

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Dire climate warning locked in ancient rocks

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - Jun. 12 (News Report) - Carbon is pouring into Earth's atmosphere ten times faster today than during a dramatic event 56 million years ago that raised Earth's temperature by at least five degrees Celsius (nine degrees Fahrenheit), according to a study released Sunday. That's no

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Surprise discovery allows scientists to block Alzheimer's

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Jeremy Laurance - Jun. 09 (News) - Researchers said they were "thrilled" at the unexpected discovery that two antibodies – extensively studied in relation to CJD – may also have an affect on Alzheimer's disease. Almost 500,000 people a year in the UK and 20 million worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's.

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Obama watched live video as troops closed in on 'Geronimo' - Americas, World

Mon, 02 May 2011 20:41:10 -0700

The Independent - May. 02 - The tension on his face and those of his most trusted staff is clearly visible. As Barack Obama receives an update on the raid on Osama bin Laden's complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan, it is very far from clear whether the news is good – or what the national security team had expected to hear. "It was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time in the lives of the people who were assembled," said the White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan. "The minutes passed like days."

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Afghan pilot kills nine US trainers in 'personal' row

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Julius Cavendish - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Eight American soldiers and a civilian contractor were shot and killed by an Afghan pilot in Kabul yesterday after an argument erupted during a meeting at the city's military airport.

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US troops killed in Kabul airport attack

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 27 (News Report) - Eight American troops and a US contractor died after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting at Kabul airport — the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners, officials said.

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Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Paul Bignell - Apr. 19 (Special Report) - Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

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Johann Hari: This royal frenzy should embarrass us all

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Johann Hari - Apr. 14 (News) - Republicans are not the Grinch, trying to ruin the 'big day' for William and Kate. We are proposing a positive vision Okay, let's cut a deal here. If Britain can afford to spend tens of millions of pounds on the royal wedding, we have to spend an equal a

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Australia's cigarette war over shocking pack rules

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:00:02 -0700

The Independent - Apr. 07 - Australia has unveiled the world's toughest tobacco advertising legislation, which – if it survives a legal challenge by the industry – will force all cigarettes to be sold in plain, olive-green packs covered in health warnings.

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No water, food or power – and still the rebels resist regime's attacks

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:51:45 -0700

The Independent - Mar. 21 - A city besieged and battered, those of its people who remain living without food, water or power for days and facing daily attacks: that was Ajdabiya yesterday as Muammar Gaddafi's forces fought to retain their hold on this strategic gateway to the east of Libya.

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US judge halts damages claim over pollution in Amazon

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Larry Neumeister - Mar. 09 (News Report) - An American judge has extended his temporary ban on the collection of $18bn (£11.1bn) in damages from Chevron, saying the US oil giant would be irreparably harmed if it had to pay compensation – ordered by a court in Ecuador – for pollution in parts of the Amazon rainforest.

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