“California is in the middle of the worst outbreak of whooping cough in 60 years. According to the state health department, there are now 6,257 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of the disease. Ten people have died. ‘Unfortunately and tragically we have had 10 deaths, all in infants under 2 years of age,’ said Dr. [...]
“Britain’s top spy, in the first public speech by a serving UK espionage chief, said Thursday terrorists might hit the West again ‘at huge human cost’ but nuclear proliferation by states was a more far-reaching danger. Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief John Sawers, in an address to the Society of Editors media group hosted at [...]
“A Pakistani-American man has been arrested on charges he planned to bomb subway stations near Washington. He also is charged with sharing information with people he believed were affiliated with al-Qaida.” (US Man Arrested In Bomb Plot to Attack Washington Subway | News | English)
“A man purporting to be Osama Bin Laden warned France to get its troops out of Afghanistan and not to oppress Muslims at home in a tape broadcast by the Al-Jazeera network Wednesday. ‘If you want to tyrannize and think that it is your right to ban the free women from wearing the burqa, isn’t [...]
“The entire police force of a small northern Mexican town quit after gunmen attacked their recently inaugurated headquarters, according to local reports on Wednesday. Los Ramones Mayor Santos Salinas said nobody was injured in Monday night’s attack, during which gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets at the building’s facade, according to Noroeste newspaper’s website. Six [...]