Warsaw, Poland (CNN) — Poles are set to vote Sunday for a new president, following the death of President Lech Kaczinski in a plane crash in April. The election pits Kaczinski’s twin brother Jaroslaw against Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski, who has been acting president since the crash.
Archive for Haziran, 2010
The big internet are you ready for crunch?
(CNN) — The internet as we know it is reaching its limits. Within 18 months it is estimated that the number of new devices able to connect to the world wide web will plummet as we run out of “IP addresses” — the unique codes that provide access to the internet for everything from PCs [...]
Somali capital Fighting in leaves at least 20 dead
(CNN) — At least 20 people have died and 55 others have been wounded in continuing fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, an ambulance director said Thursday. Somali forces have been battling insurgent fighters from al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda proxy in Mogadishu and the rest of the country. The militants are waging a war [...]
Gaza won’t stop Irish aid ship bound for ‘unless forced to’
(CNN) — An Irish-owned aid ship headed for Gaza won’t stop until it’s forced to, a former U.N. official aboard the ship told CNN Thursday. “We have not stopped and have no intention of stopping,” said former Assistant U.N. Secretary-General Denis Halliday from aboard the vessel. “We will only stop when Israelis force us to [...]
Korean conundrum China’s
Jaime FlorCruz has lived and worked in China since 1971. He studied Chinese history at Peking University (1977-81) and served as TIME Magazine’s Beijing correspondent and bureau chief (1982-2000). Beijing, China (CNN) — When Chinese premier Wen Jiabao visited South Korea last week, politicians, diplomats and reporters in Seoul parsed his public statements, looking for [...]
Gaza, days after flotilla raid new aid ship heads for
(CNN) — Two days after Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, another ship packed with activists and assorted supplies sailed defiantly toward the Palestinian territory. The Rachel Corrie, a ship named for an American activist killed in Gaza several years ago, was planning to arrive in Gaza late Friday or early Saturday. The [...]
UK shooting spree at least five dead in
London, England (CNN) — At least five people have been killed and dozens injured after a taxi driver went on a shooting spree through three small towns in the English country of Cumbria Wednesday. Police said at least 25 people were injured in the attack which started at 10:35 a.m. (5.35 a.m. ET) in Whitehaven, [...]

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