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Uruknet.de
November 16, 2008

Gideon Ezra, a member of the Knesset for Kadima and a former minister of internal security, called on the Israeli government to tighten the noose on the Gaza Strip's people and make their lives intolerable.

"We must use the means available to make the lives of Gaza residents difficult as long as the lives of the inhabitants of villages and cities surrounding the Strip are unbearable because of the repeated Palestinian rocket attacks," Ezra told the Hebrew radio.

By Tahir Hasan Khan
News International
November 17, 2008

KARACHI: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that being a nuclear power, Pakistan had to react in a responsible manner in response to American air strikes inside the country. He was talking to journalists at the Chief Minister’s House on Sunday night.

The prime minister was asked why his government did not react to the American air strikes. On this, he advised the reporter not to speak in “street language.” “It is not child’s play as Pakistan is a nuclear country,” the prime minister said.

Teenage girls are at risk from a "toxic cocktail" of binge drinking, social networking websites and early sexualisation, according to a leading headmistress.

By Graeme Paton
Telegraph
November 17, 2008

A general "coarsening" of society - fuelled by media reports of "Botox and bingeing" - has led to anxiety among parents that children are growing up too quickly, it was claimed.

London Times report conveniently links alleged terror cells to Obama’s number one target - Pakistan

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
November 15, 2008

The notion that terrorists will attack America shortly after Barack Obama takes office is again being vigorously pushed by the corporate media as well as shadowy intelligence sources, and has reached the same crescendo that preceded 9/11, a disturbing sign that the public is being prepared for a newly manufactured mass casualty event.

By Javed Aziz Khan
News International
November 14, 2008

PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a senior Iranian diplomat after killing his bodyguard from Hayatabad Phase-IV on Thursday, a day after a US official was shot dead along with his driver in the nearby University Town locality.

Reuters
November 13, 2008

Sen. Hillary Clinton, who lost to Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primary, is being considered to serve as secretary of state in the Obama administration, NBC News reported on Thursday.

The report cited two unnamed advisers to President-elect Obama. The report said Clinton’s office would only say that any decisions on the appointment would be up to the president-elect.

The former first lady, who was in a drawn-out battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, is in her second term as a senator from New York.

Rupert Neate and Robert Miller
Telegraph
November 13, 2008

Kenneth Clarke, the former Conservative Chancellor, has warned the economy is on the brink of "meltdown" and unemployment could reach three million.

Faris Ali
Reuters
November 12, 2008

PESHAWAR: Gunmen killed a U.S. aid official on Wednesday outside his home in Peshawar, police said, the frontier Pakistani city near Afghanistan which has borne the brunt of a growing Islamist insurgency.

Spiralling violence has raised fears of instability in nuclear-armed Pakistan, whose support is seen as vital to the defeat of al Qaeda globally and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The International Herald Tribune
November 12, 2008

BRUSSELS: European Union regulators are looking into whether mobile phone operators who block customers from making inexpensive wireless calls over the Internet are breaking competition rules.

The European Commission, the EU antitrust authority, has sent questionnaires to phone companies asking what "tools" they use to "control, manage, block, slow down or otherwise restrict or filter" Internet-based voice calls.

CNBC
November 12, 2008

The United States may be on course to lose its ‘AAA’ rating due to the large amount of debt it has accumulated, according to Martin Hennecke, senior manager of private clients at Tyche.

"The U.S. might really have to look at a default on the bankruptcy reorganization of the present financial system" and the bankruptcy of the government is not out of the realm of possibility, Hennecke said.