Around the world briefs
Australia -- A Sydney brothel, reckoning high oil prices are hurting business, is offering customers fuel price relief.
The legal brothel in the western suburbs is advertising in Sydney newspapers a discount of 20 Australian cents a litre (17 cents Cdn) for customers carrying gas station receipts.
Iran — Iranian President Tehran has passed the August 31, 2006 United Nations deadline ordering them to cease all enrichment of uranium.
President Bush commented on Iran's defiance in Utah at Veterans convention last week stating, “It is time for Iran to make a choice”.
International sanctions can be imposed on Iran and a plan on how to deal with the situation is still under works by the UN security council.
Australia — Steve Irwin, who was better known as “The Crocodile Hunter”, died during the filming of a new documentary when he was stung through the heart by a sting ray's barb.
Irwin was an avid animal lover and was hugely involved in the protection of all animals. He was 44.
Afghanistan — Five Canadians were killed and nine others were injured during a ground assault on an insurgent position as part of a major NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan.
Canada has more than 2,200 troops in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and is the leader of “Operation Medusa”.
A total of 32 Canadians have died in Afghanistan so far and the Taliban Insurgency only seems to be growing stronger.
Denmark - Police in central Denmark early Tuesday arrested nine men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack and acquiring material to build explosives, the intelligence service said.
The sweep was carried out at 2 a.m. in Vollsmose, a mostly immigrant suburb west of Odense, Denmark's third-largest city.
Mexico - After two months of court deliberations, Conservative Felipe Calderon was declared the elected president of Mexico, with only a slim 0.56 per cent advantage over his opponent and leftist candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Allegations of fraud against Calderon were widespread in Lopez Obrador's camp, as his supporters took to the streets after the election.
According to opinion polls, around 30 per cent of Mexicans believe Calderon's victory was fraudulent. The seven-member electoral court agreed that many "irregularities" had marred the election, but none so grave as to require annulling the election, which Lopez Obrador had requested.
The legal brothel in the western suburbs is advertising in Sydney newspapers a discount of 20 Australian cents a litre (17 cents Cdn) for customers carrying gas station receipts.
Iran — Iranian President Tehran has passed the August 31, 2006 United Nations deadline ordering them to cease all enrichment of uranium.
President Bush commented on Iran's defiance in Utah at Veterans convention last week stating, “It is time for Iran to make a choice”.
International sanctions can be imposed on Iran and a plan on how to deal with the situation is still under works by the UN security council.
Australia — Steve Irwin, who was better known as “The Crocodile Hunter”, died during the filming of a new documentary when he was stung through the heart by a sting ray's barb.
Irwin was an avid animal lover and was hugely involved in the protection of all animals. He was 44.
Afghanistan — Five Canadians were killed and nine others were injured during a ground assault on an insurgent position as part of a major NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan.
Canada has more than 2,200 troops in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and is the leader of “Operation Medusa”.
A total of 32 Canadians have died in Afghanistan so far and the Taliban Insurgency only seems to be growing stronger.
Denmark - Police in central Denmark early Tuesday arrested nine men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack and acquiring material to build explosives, the intelligence service said.
The sweep was carried out at 2 a.m. in Vollsmose, a mostly immigrant suburb west of Odense, Denmark's third-largest city.
Mexico - After two months of court deliberations, Conservative Felipe Calderon was declared the elected president of Mexico, with only a slim 0.56 per cent advantage over his opponent and leftist candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Allegations of fraud against Calderon were widespread in Lopez Obrador's camp, as his supporters took to the streets after the election.
According to opinion polls, around 30 per cent of Mexicans believe Calderon's victory was fraudulent. The seven-member electoral court agreed that many "irregularities" had marred the election, but none so grave as to require annulling the election, which Lopez Obrador had requested.
