Mexico’s president ordered a partial economic shutdown to slow the spread of the swine flu virus as officials urged increased precautions against an imminent pandemic.
Archive for April, 2009
Mexican President Orders Businesses to Close as Flu Panic Rises
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Regional Banks Could Need Billions More
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Some bank experts say regional institutions will soon feel the pain already experienced by their larger brethren.
Expert: IMF Manipulating Gold in Power Grab
Thursday, April 30th, 2009A leading economist believes the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is “manipulating” the financial troubles of emerging and low-income nations to grab more capital for itself, and to keep the nearly defunct global lending bureaucracy alive for years to come.
White House issues advisory after Obama Mexico trip
Thursday, April 30th, 2009The White House has issued a health advisory outlining “protective measures” for anyone who traveled on President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico after a member of the U.S. delegation came down with flu-like symptoms – and tests on his family showed they’re probably infected with the swine flu.
House agrees to muzzle pastors with ‘hate crimes’ plan
Thursday, April 30th, 2009‘This is first time protected status given to whatever sexual orientation one has’
Haaretz Editorial from the day Israel was born
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Today is the world’s birthday for Israel. Today is the end of one period, and today is the onset of a new period. Today is the end of the British Mandate in Palestine, the Mandate for which the Jewish people held out tremendous hopes – almost messianic hopes – a quarter of a century ago, but which over the years came to symbolize a great moral failure. Today marks the expiration of the White Paper, that shameful document, which tried vainly to cloak in legal garb the vast betrayal of the historic rights of the Jewish people, but which in its nine years of existence succeeded in closing the gates of the country to tens and hundreds of thousands of Jews who could have been saved from the Nazi furnaces.
Yemen’s Jews uneasy as Muslim hostility grows
Thursday, April 30th, 2009KHARIF, Yemen — In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its survival.
PA court: Death to man who sold land to Jews
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
PA President Mahmoud Abbas. [file]
Photo: AP
In the first case of its kind, a Palestinian Authority “military court” on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian man to death by hanging after finding him guilty of selling land to Jews.
Biden: Stay Off Subways During Swine Flu Panic
Thursday, April 30th, 2009World Health body raises alert to level 5, one notch short of full pandemic
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PM: Today marks fulfillment of our dream
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
A woman covered with an Israeli flag is seen as fireworks go off during the 61st Independence Day celebrations at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
Photo: AP
Independence Day celebrations commenced on Tuesday night with the annual torch lighting ceremony at Mount Herzl.