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Omagh widower calls Flanagan in civil action
The civil action against the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Secretary of State alleges failure to prevent and properly investigate the Omagh bombing of 1998, during Flanagan's tenure as RUC Chief Constable. Laurence Rush, whose wife, Libbi, was one of 29 victims of the bomb, said his civil action could now progress after Sean Hoey was found not guilty of the bombing. 'What is much more damaging regarding the Omagh investigation is the evidence that wasn't presented in the Hoey judgment, which really rubbished police actions,' Rush said. .
Egypt Today Archives
BETWEEN HOLIDAYS IN Dahab and Sharm El-Sheikh, Bedouin jewelry for sale in Khan El-Khalili, and a major bridge across the Nile named for the date of the last war fought there, the Sinai is sharply present in Cairo. At the same time, however, the peninsula remains something of a mystery to most residents of the Nile Valley. The last two decades have seen some of the most dramatic developments in the Sinais history the explosion of the tourist industry on the east coast, an influx of workers from the valley (El-Wadi, a term local Bedouin often use derisively), international development programs, and a mega-irrigation project, to name a few. .
Two mums — and a runaway dad
It's nothing new, of course, for women to try to get men to take responsibility for the children they beget and for men to try to get out of doing so. There was that courtesan in Balzac who tried to foist the paternity of her unborn child on to no fewer than three of her lovers. That was before DNA tests spoilt all the fun. Yet the moral problems raised by the fireman who is being pursued by a lesbian couple to support two children he begot by sperm donation seem in a different category from the ones we are used to. Andy Bathie finds himself chased by the Child Support Agency for £400 a month to support the children that resulted from his donation of sperm to Terri and Sharon Arnold, who were in a civil partnership and wanted to have children. Terri and he had been friends.
Foetal attraction
Imagine what they thought, imagine the turmoil they endured. They are the twins who, it emerged on Friday, were separated at birth and given up for adoption only to meet by chance years later - and marry. The man and woman, unaware that they were brother and sister, had grown up separately, perhaps far apart, in different families. Yet when fate brought them together again, they experienced an uncanny bond and a sexual attraction. As Lord Alton, who revealed the case, said: "They were never told they were twins. They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction." Did they sense some blood relationship? It certainly must have seemed odd: both had been born on the same day in the same year. Did they just take that as an incredible, happy coincidence? Did they not know they were adopted? Or did they suspect they were related, only for the power of their attraction to prove overwhelming? .
Sir Trevor McDonald's Second Coming
I happened to be the guy on the block at the time. No matter how brilliant you are, you've got to be lucky. "I'm not being stupidly modest, and whatever little credit I get from being associated with News at Ten is nice, but I think it's the return of the programme that is the great noise in the street." Viewers can make up their own minds about that. McDonald is known to distrust style over substance and his attitude to the "cutting-edge technology" and visual pizzazz of the relaunched programme is one of wary tolerance. "One of the things we do well is move with the technology. You must. But the desperately important thing is still what you tell people. I have hammered this point until I am blue in the face - or whatever my equivalent of going blue in the face is. I hope we don't take the populist trend too far - but I question some of the derogatory implications that are put on populism.
Gulf prankster at issue in Iran dispute
Sailors in the Persian Gulf have known him for years: a radio operator who taunts and insults passing ships. The rants are heard, logged then mostly forgotten. But now the phantom voice has taken center stage in the latest flurry of claims and counterclaims between Iran and the United States following a tense high seas confrontation - raising new questions about whether Washington could have gotten a key element of the story wrong. The radio transmission - a staccato burst suggesting U.S. Navy ships were targeted for explosion - was a central part of an audio-video presentation that U.S. officials claimed showed Iranian speedboats swarming three Navy warships on Jan. 6 in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that is the only entry and exit to the Gulf. Iran has called the U.S.
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