ACROSS FIVE STATES HOLDING REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES FOR PRESIDENT TODAY — INCLUDING HERE IN NEW YORK — 209 DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION IN TAMPA WILL BE CHOSEN. AND MITT ROMNEY CAN MORE OR LESS SIT BACK AND COLLECT AS MANY OF THEM AS HE CAN HAVING ALL BUT SEWN THINGS UP AT THIS POINT. THE RESULTS [...]
AN ADVANCE TEAM OF SIX UNITED NATIONS OBSERVERS ARRIVED IN SYRIA’S CAPITOL DAMASCUS SUNDAY EVENING. THAT TEAM FROM THE U-N IS OSTENSIBLY IN THE COUNTRY TO MONITOR A CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT. BUT THE FIRING FROM ARTILLERY SHELLS AND MORTARS BY PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD’S FORCES HAS NOT CEASED. HOMS, A CITY STILL IDENTIFIED AS A CENTER OF [...]
A MAGNITUDE EIGHT-POINT-SIX EARTHQUAKE HAS STRUCK IN THE INDIAN OCEAN OFF INDONESIA’S WESTERN COAST. AND TSUNAMI WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR A WIDE AREA THAT SAW DEVASTATION FROM A SIMILAR EVENT IN DECEMBER 2004, INCLUDING THAILAND, SRI LANKA, INDIA AND INDONESIA. AFTERSHOCKS FOLLOWING THE INITIAL TREMOR HAVE REGISTERED AS HIGH AS EIGHT-POINT-TWO ON THE RICHTER [...]
