Month: June 2010

New York, June 22: Dr Connie Mariano – the White House doctor when former US President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky hit headlines – has spilled some beans about the high profile affair in a new book.

In the new book, titled ‘The White House Doctor’, Mariano details her reluctant involvement in determining that the 42nd President did have “sexual relations with that woman” after all.

Tehran, June 22: Chief of Iran’s anti-narcotics police blames US and Britain for the persisting drug problem in Afghanistan charging that their anti-narcotics policies involves deceptions and double standards.

Brig. Gen. Hamidreza Hosseinabadi said in a meeting with deputy director of Russia’s Anti-narcotics Agency Oleg Sukhanov that US and Britain have abandoned the fight against narcotics and are supposedly only after terrorism, despite the fact that terrorism in Afghanistan is fueled and financed by drug trafficking, IRNA reported Tuesday.

Beijing, June 22: Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao Tuesday called for an ‘all out effort’ to combat floods which left nearly 175 people dead and thousands displaced in the country.

The heavy rain that has triggered floods and landslides have left 175 people dead and 107 missing by Monday, according to the flood control department of east China’s Jiangxi province.

Hu and Wen stressed that ensuring people’s safety was top priority and called on rescuers to work hard to control the flood.

London, June 22: Lindsey German from a London-based anti-war group says the rising fatalities in Afghanistan have made it difficult for Britain to justify its military’s involvement in the devastated country.

Foreign troops will not leave Afghanistan any time soon, the member of Stop the War Coalition told Media on Monday.

Britain is second to the United States in terms of war fatalities in Afghanistan. The British deaths have already hit 300.

Washington, June 22: The United States is indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars in protection money to Afghan warlords, and potentially to the Taliban, to secure convoys carrying supplies to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, congressional investigators said in a report.

The Pentagon’s system of outsourcing to private companies the task of moving supplies in Afghanistan, and leaving it up to them to provide their own security, frees U.S. troops to focus on counterinsurgency.

Washington, June 22: The United States is indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars in protection money to Afghan warlords, and potentially to the Taliban, to secure convoys carrying supplies to US troops in Afghanistan, congressional investigators said in a report.

The Pentagon’s system of outsourcing to private companies the task of moving supplies in Afghanistan, and leaving it up to them to provide their own security, frees US troops to focus on counterinsurgency.

Seoul, June 22: S Korea has dismissed the report that detection of radioactive xenon higher than average was related to a North Korean nuclear test last month.

“It is our position (the xenon) was not related to North Korea’s nuclear test,” foreign ministry spokesman Kim Young Sun told a press briefing yesterday.

The Chosun Ilbo cited a South Korean government source as saying there had been detection of eight times more xenon than average at a northeastern monitoring station in mid-May.

New York, June 22: Pakistan-born American Faisal Shahzad, pleading guilty to all 10 charges in the failed Times Square bombing, has described himself as a ‘soldier’ in a war being waged by Muslims against Americans.

‘I want to plead guilty 100 times over,’ said Shahzad in a packed Manhattan federal court Monday after the 10-count indictment, including attempt to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempt to commit international terrorism, was read to him.