Riot police have detained around 10 people protesting outside the central bank in Moscow, who were asking for a better deal on their Forex mortgages after the recent decline of the Russian ruble. The Star reports: Around a hundred protesters gathered outside the bank to demand their loans be converted to rouble mortgages from dollar […]
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Ansarullah sources: Efforts made to bring talks to deadlock in Yemen
Alwaght- A source close to Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has told Alwaght news that the negotiation teams of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and the resigned Yemeni President Abd Rabuh Mansour Hadi have negotiated face to face in Switzerland without the presence of the UN envoy to Yemen. The atmosphere of this round of talks has been positive; […]
Sacked Gay Priest Accuses The Vatican Of Creating Hell For Catholics
A gay priest accused the Catholic Church of hypocrisy after he was fired by the Vatican on the day he announced he was in a relationship with another man Father Krzystof Charamsa says the clergy is ‘full of homosexuals’ and the ‘brutal’ Church is creating ‘hell’ on earth for millions of gay Catholics. The Daily […]
U.S. Scrambles to Avert Palestinian Vote at U.N.
Stephen Lee Myers and David D. KirkpatrickNew York Times September 14, 2011 WASHINGTON — The United States faced increasing pressure on Tuesday as the Palestinian quest for statehood gained support from Turkey and other countries, even as the Obama administration sought an 11th-hour compromise that would avoid a confrontation at the United Nations next week. With […]