Greek Chat The Bracks Government has veered off into a silly ideological crusade
I HAVE had hopes of Steve Bracks. I looked to him to give us a more civil and in some ways decent government. So I cheered the return of the Auditor-General's powers, the extra sitting days for parliament and the promise to rein in gambling.But there's more to do. Standards to lift in schools and hospitals. Drugs to fight.But suddenly -- whoosh! -- off charges the Bracks Government to fight a dangerous, divisive and dated ideological war. What the hell...
Greek Chat STRIFE KILLS 30 IN KASHMIR
SRINAGAR, India -- Thirty people, including 17 separatist guerrillas, were killed in explosions and gun battles in an upsurge of violence across India's rebellion-torn Jammu and Kashmir state, officials said yesterday.Four policemen were killed and 23 injured when a bomb exploded inside a barracks at a police training school late on Friday in Baramulla district, 35 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's only Muslim majority state. Seven intruders...
Greek man arrested after chat room help for suicide teenager
Athens (dpa) - A Greek man was arrested on Thursday after allegedly assisting a teenager to commit suicide on an internet chat room site, local media reports said.The 17-year-old was found dead by family members sitting at his computer on September 10. Reports said he swallowed fertilizer after contacting the unnamed 25-year-old man on a popular Greek chat site.The teenager was reportedly advised by the man which fertilizers were lethal and where they could be purchased.Under...
Greek Chat Killer hijacker leaps to death
ATHENS -- A Greek man who killed two people and hijacked a busload of Japanese tourists before surrendering to a television celebrity committed suicide yesterday, police said. They said Christos Kendiras threw himself out of the seventh-floor window of the central Athens police headquarters building.The elderly Japanese tourists were released unharmed after nine hours when Kendiras gave himself up to a TV talk show host, before being handed to police.He seized the bus near the ancient...
Greek Chat TV host ends Greek holiday hijack
A BUSLOAD of elderly Japanese tourists were freed unharmed yesterday after their nine-hour hijacking ordeal ended with a Greek gunman surrendering to a television talk show host. The gunman seized a bus near the ancient site of Epidavros and took the 35 holidaymakers hostage after a family feud had ended in the death of his mother-in-law and his wife's alleged lover early yesterday morning. He had threatened to kill his prisoners - 32 Japanese tourists in their...