Net Rinse

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska’s governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate. “This is a shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a […]

New York, Sept.20 (ANI): Republican presidential candidate John McCain has launched another broadside against Democratic rival Barack Obama.
Using his starkest language to date in the run-up to the November 4 presidential poll, McCain on Friday repeatedly asked the American voter to make a choice between “Country First” or “Obama First”
Though Obama responded by saying that […]

Washington, Sep 20 (ANI): American National security adviser official Stephen Hadley has said that Pakistan is not yet equipped to combat its militant threat after Pakistani leaders presented a united front against US strikes in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan tto hunt down militants.
National security adviser to President George W Bush, Stephen Hadley, declined to […]

London, Sept.20 (ANI): The person claiming to be the hacker who accessed Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account has gone on record to say that it was easy and simple to achieve.
He or she has posted online what appears to be first-person account of the simple steps needed to impersonate the Republican vice-presidential candidate and obtain […]

Venezuela loosened restrictions on Colombian border trade imposed earlier on Tuesday and resumed allowing food imports amid a diplomatic crisis, Venezuelan state television reported on Tuesday.

Dubai, Sep 19 (IANS) A top Yemeni religious body has strongly condemned Wednesday’s terrorist attack on the US embassy that claimed 16 lives, including that of an Indian nurse.
The Association of Yemeni Religious Scholars, while condemning the attack, called on the Yemeni people to unify their efforts to face such terror acts, the official Saba […]

A Russian opposition activist jailed for two months for taking part in anti-Kremlin protests has gone on a hunger strike, his liberal Yabloko party said on Wednesday.
Maxim Reznik, head of the Yabloko branch in St Petersburg, was detained on Sunday shortly after polls closed in a presidential election which Dmitry Medvedev, backed by outgoing President […]

  Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa speaks during a news conference in Brasilia March 4, 2008. Correa…Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa visited Latin American powerhouse Brazil on Wednesday on his regional tour to push Colombia to apologize for a military operation in Ecuador as an Andean crisis escalated.Venezuela and Ecuador have moved troops to […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he did not want disputes with the West to push Russia behind a new Iron Curtain, and blamed NATO for provoking last month’s conflict in Georgia.
“We are in effect being pushed down a path that is founded not on fully-fledged, civilised partnership with other countries, but […]

Vienna, Sept 19 (ANI): A leading US think tank has warned that Pakistan could soon acquire capability of producing atom bombs, as it was close to completing a second plutonium-producing reactor, and all set to build a third.
These reactors could increase its ability to make atomic bombs, which, in turn could increase tensions between India […]