Russia's top military commander says his country has no obligation to defend other countries against what he calls "evil Americans."
Russia's state news agency says General Yury Baluyevsky was responding to a reporter's question about whether the world could depend on Russia to defend it from what the interviewer called "insidious American plans." The general said no — but he did say U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe are directed against and aimed at Russia — not Iran.
Quantas staff booed while trying to revive dying passenger
In a report by the Courier Mail, Qantas staff were booed by angry passengers when they closed their check-in counters to help a dying woman at Brisbane Airport on Monday morning.
The 80-year-old woman had suffered a heart attack and collapsed shortly after joining Qantas Club check-in queue. She was tended to by two doctors but paramedics could not revive her.
"There were only half the number of check-in points operating that morning because six staff had called in sick. The terminal was packed with about 1000 people and no one could move. The public didn't know what was going on," Julie Bignell, from the Australian Services Union told Brisbane’s Courier Mail.
UPDATE:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200711/INT20071114d.html
“Israeli Lawmakers Make It Tougher to Divide Jerusalem”
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
November 14, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - A law that will make it more difficult for the Israeli government to divide the city of Jerusalem passed a preliminary reading by a large majority in the Israeli Knesset on Wednesday.
The vote comes ahead of the U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian summit, where the issue of dividing Jerusalem may come up.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has indicated that he would be willing to divide Jerusalem between Jewish and Arab neighborhoods - a plan first put forward by then-President Bill Clinton in 2000. (See related story)
A close confidant of Olmert’s, Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon, went a step further, suggesting that the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Jerusalem, be turned over to the Palestinian Authority. (Several important Islamic shrines are now built on the Temple Mount, atop the ruins of ancient Jewish temples.)
Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu recently warned that dividing Jerusalem would be tantamount to turning the city over to Hamas as Islamic radicals moved onto the doorstep of the city’s Jewish neighborhoods.”
Thanks MamaD.