Posts relating to “sadr protests” (9)

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1. Five for Fighting 12/21/09

   
   Wired: Danger Room — Authority 123
   # U.S. reaching out to al-Sadr’s crew # Cleric’s funeral sparks new protests in Iran # ‘Good’ Taliban
   4 days ago

2. Broken Taboos in Post-Election Iran

   
   tabsir.net — Authority 125
   -Soltan, the 26-year old philosophy student shot dead during the protests after the fraudulent presidential election in Iran in […] history. The best-known instance was when the first president of the Islamic Republic, Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr, after his
   1 week ago

3. Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

   
   Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority 137
   British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
   2 days ago

4. Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

   
   Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority 137
   Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
   3 days ago

5. Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

   
   Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority 137
   A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
   6 days ago

6. Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

   
   Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority 137
   A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
   1 week ago

7. Driver who killed teens loses appeal

   
   Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority 137
   A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
   3 weeks ago

8. Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

   
   Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority 137
   The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
   3 weeks ago

9. Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

   
   Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority 137
   Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
   3 weeks ago