Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan questioned whether all countries on the Security Council have lived up to their responsibility to protect civilians in Darfur from atrocities. Annan said there was “quite a bit of hypocrisy on all sides” in trying to resolve the five-year conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, especially in encouraging the African Union [...]
March 21, 2008
Russian TV boss shot dead
Back to Russia, after spy stories today we have a murder story. The involvement of the mafia is not yet clear. The head of a state TV station in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan has been shot dead, police say.
Gadzhi Abashilov, 58, died when his car was sprayed with bullets from attackers in a [...]
March 21, 2008
It was not only Obama’s records breached, it was for all of them!
Man, the thing is getting worst every minute. In the beginning it was only Obama, now is just …everybody! The passport files of the three leading US presidential candidates have been improperly accessed, the state department has said.
A state department employee looked at the files of both Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic front-runner Barack [...]
March 21, 2008
Nancy Pelosi about China
It was about time for somebody with senior position to open the mouth and say something on what’s going on in China. Nancy Pelosi has called on the international community to denounce China’s rule in Tibet. Ms. Pelosi is holding talks in northern India with the Dalai Lama, who Chinese authorities accused of inciting the [...]
March 21, 2008
Obama’s passport files
If Obama will be elected he will definitely have a lot of work to do if he doesn’t want to live what F.J.K. lived with FBI and other internal foes. Apparently the latest incident comes from the US Department of State that had to fire two contractors and disciplined a third for accessing the [...]
March 21, 2008
China locks down restive regions
Chinese authorities are continuing to tighten security following days of protests by Tibetans in the main city, Lhasa, and in surrounding provinces. In one town in Gansu, rows of armed soldiers and heard broadcasts telling people to surrender, on Thursday, China admitted for the first time that troops had shot and injured protesters during the [...]
March 21, 2008
The Ovi magazine, latest articles
The Tamera Peace Research Centre II by Alexandra Pereira
Tamera is no religious sect, Tamera is no science-fiction, Tamera is a Peace Village of the Future, and it is really happening … in the South of Portugal.
“Something Dies” by Jan Sand
“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw [...]
