The proposed new spending, to be announced by Mr Obama in a nationally televised speech to Congress, would be offset by budget cuts, CNN said, signaling that the Democratic president hopes to mollify the concerns of Republican fiscal hawks resistant to his jobs ideas.
Bloomberg News said the plan would inject more than 300 billion dollars into
By Menekse Tokyay for Southeast European Times in Istanbul -- 06/09/11
Of nearly 74 million people in Turkey, less than 1% belong to religious minorities. [Reuters]
According to the decree, published in the Official Gazette on August 27th, minority foundations can reclaim property -- including cemeteries, fountains, schools, hospitals and orphanages -- that they have declared since 1936. Real estate that has been re-sold to third parties will also be paid for after the current value is determined by the Ministry of Finance.
"Like everyone else, we also know about the injustices that different religious groups have been subjected to because of their differences," said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
POLICE in Birmingham are hoping to reunite expensive gold jewellery with its rightful owner following a recent incident in the Jewellery Quarter.
On 23 June, police officers were patrolling in the Jewellery Quarter when they came across two men acting suspiciously outside a jewellery store.
Upon seeing the officer’s approach, both men began running from the scene down Warstone Lane. They were arrested moments later following a brief foot chase.
During the foot chase, the two men were seen to throw a plastic bag onto the roof of a nearby property.
Upon retrieving the bag a short while later, a large quantity of gold jewellery was discovered.
The jewellery, consisting of 19 individual items, includes gold chains, rings and numerous
Syria saw a wave of violence and arrests Sunday as the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited Damascus to address issues including caring for the wounded and access to detainees during the government's crackdown on a 5-month-old uprising.
Activists reported military operations and sweeping arrests in flash-point areas including Idlib near the Turkish border and the eastern city of Deir el-Zour. There were reports of deaths, but numbers were unclear.
The state-run news agency reported that nine people were killed in central Syria in an ambush by armed groups in central Syria. The report, which could not be confirmed, said the victims were six soldiers and three civilians.
Syria has banned foreign journalists and
Giddyup, fashion fans: The western look is galloping into stores near you, as are tartans and plaids, layers of pailletes and the seventies by way of the forties. While some of this season’s trends might be intimidating, have no fear. If there’s a theme for autumn 2011, it’s the premise – and promise – that anything goes.
Forever plaid
Tartans, plaids and checks are perennial cool-weather favourites and this season is no exception. Marc by Marc Jacobs, for instance, is proffering chic tartan trousers, while Jean Paul Gaultier has a pencil plaid in his line. There is also a swell of plaid-on-plaid, made possible by different fabric weights. “This isn’t your typical Ralph Lauren plaid,” says Khajak Keledjian, co-founder of the popular U.S.
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CREATIVE ECCENTRICS
Thank you for the excellent article “The Unleashed Mind,” by Shelley Carson. It’s very refreshing to read that people with eccentric, novel and even schizophrenic ways of thinking are often very high functioning, talented, intelligent individuals who can use their strange perceptual experiences to access beauty, originality and creativity.
Greg Westlake
Norfolk, England
When I telephoned my partner, a highly creative person, and read her the paragraph in Carson’s article in which the question is posed, “Do you often feel like a square peg in a round hole?” her prompt response was “My peg isn’t even on the same plane as the hole.” Another startling affirmation of the complexity of artists’ daily
In its monthly food prices report FAO points out that food prices inflation in the region is two points higher than overall inflation which last month rose 6.8%.
“Faced with this situation the governments must strengthen their social protection net work and increase the support for the production of food from family gardens thus helping to moderate the impacts originated in the food prices’ increase”, said Fernando
