Police in Mumbai said on Sunday they have arrested two men they say were preparing to attack several targets in the Indian financial hub, including the offices of energy firm Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Police said they believed the men were receiving directions from Pakistan. Britons say government will get it right on economy - poll The Reuters/Ipsos MORI poll, released on the eve of what is expected to be the toughest budget in a generation, also showed Prime Minister David Cameron enjoyed an approval rating of 57 percent after just over a month in the job.
Cameron’s Conservatives and their smaller Liberal Democrat partners have formed Britain's first coalition government since World War Two. Gesticulating animatedly, the French MEP said most of the new team did not show any "determination" or "vision" and concluded that Europe is "not up to" dealing with the economic, financial and ecological problems it faces. While the new college - with 14 returning faces - failed to produce great enthusiasm among MEPs across the political spectrum, deputies by and large declined to single out individual commissioners for criticism. The main exception was the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
Antonov was injured, and he and his security guard are in intensive care," RIA Novosti quoted Viktoria Tsiplenkova, an investigator with the General Prosecutors' Investigative Committee as saying. A statement on the committee's website said an unidentified assailant shot at the banking group's chairman of board and his bodyguard, and that criminal proceedings had been launched. RIA quoted another investigator, Anatoly Bagmet, as saying the attack was likely linked with Antonov's professional activities. Shootings of high-profile businessmen are relatively rare in Moscow. Saturday also falls one day after the eighth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Groups participating in the march said Obama's speech made little difference to their opposition plans.”
There wasn't anything new in the speech except that it gave us new talking points," said Rebecca Wales of Smart Girl Politics, a conservative women's organization founded last year. For many conservatives, the stimulus package, Obama's energy reform bill and now healthcare reform evoke raw anger because they view them as fundamental violations of the way the United States should be governed.” He (Obama) is an out-and-out Communist," said Lynn Kartchner, who runs a gun shop in Douglas, Arizona. Supreme Court rejected Montejo's appeal. Writing for the court majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said there was little if any chance a defendant will be badgered into waiving the right to have counsel present during police-initiated questioning. In overruling the 1986 decision, Scalia said, "The considerable adverse effect of this rule upon society's ability to solve crimes and bring criminals to justice far outweighs its capacity to prevent a genuinely coerced agreement to speak without counsel present.” Liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, the author of the 1986 decision, disagreed. In dissent, Stevens said the dubious benefits of overruling the decision are far outweighed by damage to the rule of law and the integrity of the constitutional right to an attorney.
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