The South African Police Services (SAPS) has confirmed international reports that die-hard English football hooligans have been apprehended prior to the 2010 World Cup in the host nation – The Republic of South Africa. “South African police have stopped renowned English football hooligans from sneaking into the country prior to the World Cup,” Nathi Mthethwa, [...]
The Israeli Defense Force has eliminated at least 10 alleged peace keepers in a surprise attack on an embargoed sea convoy called the Gaza Aid Flotilla. The convoy went on to attempt entering into ‘blockaded’ waters despite earlier diplomatic and military Israeli warnings, believing that aid shipments had included military equipment for the alleged terrorist [...]
The German national squad has been told that it cannot stay in its planned hotel complex in Pretoria as the owner had illegally built the complex, and does not hold certain licenses required to operate the establishment. The German government has demanded a formal explanation by the host nation, while FIFA is Pilatus, washing its [...]
The US Government has fired Elizabeth Birnbaum, Director of Mining Management Services, with immediate effect, according to reports. The announcement was made by US Interior Secretary in Congress. Her dismissal was directly related to the worst ever oil spill off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico. It was alleged that [...]
Hungary seems to still have one of the highest rates in the world when it comes to suicide, alcoholism, gambling, smoking and drug abuse per capita, experts said. Just recently a man set himself on fire and jumped of Budapest’s Szabadsag bridge (ironically the meaning of szabadsag implies liberty). Jumping of bridges has been quite [...]
They’ve sunk the Sharks, crucified the Crusaders and are now going to slaughter the Blue Bull’s, according to supporters of this year’s most successful Super 14 rugby team, the Stormers. The Stormers have reached the final where they are to compete with the reigning champions, the Blue Bulls. In their eliminating matches in this year’s [...]
While it could be said that Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Viktor Orban’s declaration that a revolution has taken place in Hungary may come under suspicion of being a hyperbole, the same is true for several statements from the opposition – one of whom claimed that the new Government’s officals have in fact “lost their mind” after becoming [...]
It’s just over a fortnight before the most beautiful game kicks off in the Republic of South Africa, on June 11, 2010. Organizers say that the whole world’s media is now behind South Africa, despite the fact that the majority had been skeptical, saying that the Rainbow Nation wouldn’t be ready in time. Reports said [...]
US tennis star Venus Williams is the talk of the town in gay Paris, according to fashion observers. The ebony celebrity was awed as she ran up and down during her celebrated clay-court match against with her bright red thong smiling back at the spectators. Various television and radio stations worldwide – even as far [...]
British citizens evading tax payments to the national revenue office, shouldn’t feel bad about it, economist in London say, as Duchess of York Sarah “Fergie” Furgerson’s ex-hubby, the Duke of York, Prince Andrew is happily squandering tax-payers’ money without their knowing about it. Economist in London said Monday (May 24, 2010) they don’t know how [...]
The state of Israel on Monday denied allegations that it had donated nuclear arms to the Republic of South Africa. Israeli President Shimon Peres had categorically denied press reports that he had offered nuclear warheads to South Africa in 1975, at the time he had been the state’s minister of defense. Press reports had cited [...]
In a move that Hungarian media described as an effort of retaliation against the introduction of Hungarian dual citizenship for ethnic Hungarians, the Slovak Parliament on Monday announced it will convene to discuss the new situation created by the Fidesz Government’s efforts described as harmless by most international political analysts. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico [...]
The Duchess of York believes that charity does not start at home, according to international media reports. Sarah Ferguson (commonly referred to as Fergie) has allegedly shamefully apologizes for selling access to ex-husband Prince Andrew for GBP 500,000. Foolishly her offer was caught on video allegedly by an undercover journalist, who posed as a entrepreneur [...]
Following a week of investigations, South African investigators have uncovered child trafficking circles in the impoverished central business district (CBD) of greater Johannesburg. One 19-year-old Zimbabwean lady was prepared to sell her unborn baby to child traders in the CBD for as little as ZAR 30,000 (about three months’ salary of an average skilled artisan). [...]
Hungary’s parliament is about to shed seats, according to political analysts who commented on last week’s FIDESZ party majority parliament’s approval to amend the constitution where the number of parliamentarians would be cropped by 50%. ‘If this proposal is implemented before the end of the incoming administration then it in itself may be unconstitutional as [...]
Australia has officially announced the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat after a probe allegedly revealed that perpetrators used fake Australian passports when engaged in the assassination of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the United Arab Emirates in Feb 2010. The probe revealed that allegedly 4 Australian passports were doctored. Officials in Dubai claim that they [...]
With less than 19 days left for the first match of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, South African President Jacob Zuma has warned all foreigners against illicit child abuse and trafficking for begging and other purposes during the World Cup. He said that it was a time when women and children were “taken advantage [...]
In an all-encompassing sweep enforcing accountability for economic dishonesty in the last 8 years, Fidesz has launched its Economic Fact-finding Commission (EFFC), which already claims it has found a series of skeletons in the closet amounting to HUF 170 billion in the 2010 Hungarian budget. The Hungarian Finance Ministry on Friday denied the allegations in [...]
In a breakthrough decision the Hungarian Patent Office (HPO) has recently ruled that the patent claims of Hungarian inventor Laszlo Oroszi (covering a football shoe concept known as the sporting shoe with ball-directing striped-line zone) is valid and remains in force. This is much to the disappointment of the German sports manufacturing giant Adidas, who [...]
The Hungarian PM, during his lasts days in office, has been forced to declare emergency in several parts of BAZ county, which was stricken by devastating storm from Saturday on, causing severe flooding in several parts of Hungary – leaving more than 2100 inhabitants displaced. Bajnai on Monday told a press conference in Miskolc that [...]
South Africa and New Zealand’s rugby unions have made a landmark apology to all non-white (earlier also dubbed non-European) players who felt they had been discriminated against by both Government’s during the infamous Apartheid era. South Africa’s rugby Union (SARU) said it now regrets that many players had been excluded from representing their national and [...]
The Zimbabwean state is determined to prosecute white Zimbabwean national Senator Roy Bennett who is treasurer of the only home-grown political party the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the potential candidate to become the country’s next Deputy Minister of Agriculture, a post that has heavily been neglected in the past 30 years. The latest [...]
South African President Jacob Zuma has interfered with the supposedly “independent” National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) after halting Chief Prosecutor Menzi Simelane’s plans to restructure the organization. Zuma has ordered the Director to “wait for instructions from his cabinet,” which the president claims has yet to finalize a decision concerning the future of the NPA. The [...]
US investigators claim they have arrested three people linked to a suspect in the failed Times Square bomb attempt during raids this week in various suburbs of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Authorities said that no new threats are expected. US Attorney General Eric Holder, said that the three arrested suspects may have supplied Faisal [...]
Legally blonde ex-attorney Cezanne Visser’s lawyers on Friday (May 14, 2010) confirmed that they are allegedly “extremely disappointed that the Supreme Court of Appeal declines not hear her case.” The convicted child sex offender’s application for leave to appeal request was turned down at the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein on Thursday turned down. Because of [...]
[poll id="2"] All Hungarians will be able to receive dual citizenship, only the question is: “Will it be 1st Class or 2nd Class citizenship?” On the first day of the new Hungarian Parliament on May 13, 2010, the center-right Christian democrat coalition (FIDESZ-KDNP) has submitted the law proposal for Hungarian dual citizenship. KDNP MP and [...]
As the incoming Hungarian government and its opposition squabble over seats in parliamentary commissions, its outgoing counterpart is enjoying the fruits of its term in office, one of which manifested in a phone call from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday – who complemented Gordon Bajnai on what she termed as “achievements” of [...]
Reporting from Johannesburg/Tripoli It was the spring holidays and The Netherlands-based van Assouw’s were discussing what they would do and allegedly it was decided that the family should take a short trip to the Republic South Africa and go for a game drive at one of the prominent safari parks there. It was a highlight [...]
At the recent Ecofin Council meeting Finland’s European Economics and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said, Hungary and seven other European Union member states had “not yet me all conditions for them to be able to adopt of the to so long awaited common currency, the Euro, based on the latest tests of the EC’s [...]
It’s OK to call the BBC a bastard and an agent, according to South Africa’s governing party the African National Congress (ANC). The party on Wednesday (May 12, 2010) ended an extended hearing of its youth league leader’s disciplinary hearing. Other than a few slaps on the wrist the ANC ‘cautioned’ its youth leader, Julius [...]
The aviation authority of the Republic of South Africa has sent its own team of investigators to Tripoli, Libya following the tragic crash of flight-771 of Libya’s Afriqiyah Airlines. An Airbus technical team of aviation safety advisors and engineering flight specialists are among those to begin their investigations. The plane departed from Johannesburg’s Oliver Reginald [...]
It was a sunny bright morning when Libyan airliner Flight 771 was preparing to touchdown at 6.am local time Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at Tripoli International Airport after departing at 1.am local time from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport. But somnolent passengers never lived to made it to the runway. Nobody knows what happened as [...]
US President Barack Obama has commissioned Hungarian American Peter Orszag to squeeze every penny possible, out of British oil and gas giant BP for fouling the Gulf of Mexico with its recent oil spill that may take years to return to normal, according to experts in Washington. But who is this minority Hungarian and why [...]
Prime Minister potential Viktor Orban, who has recently been asked to form a government by Hungarian President of the Republic Laszlo Solyom, has freshly appointed a his potential cabinet of ministers, with whom he plans to carry out much needed reforms after loosing to the Socialist party in the previous two elections. Coach Orban’s eight-member [...]
Public companies’ top management have taken extreme measures in the last 20 years of Hungarian democracy, to refute the claim that these positions are appointed on a political basis by the ruling government party. Turning the tables, Hungarian Development Bank (MFB) CEO Janos Eros on Friday said he will resign once the new government launches [...]
Pre-1990 Apartheid era South Africa had many things going, what it never had were white squatter cams. But now hardly a month before the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off several white south Africans (predominantly from the ethnic Afrikaaner group, who have absolutely no excuse for being under educated or jobless) are having to deal [...]
It is the end of the world as we knew it in the tiny US town of Riverdale, where white supremacy and old-school morals ruled in the Archie Comics series, founded during the conservative era in 1939, when even stealing a kiss was suicidal with parents around. In modern times, while the forever young Archie [...]
Britain’s parliament has a 650-seater lower house, aka the House of Commons and any ruling political party require at least 326 seats to win a majority, otherwise two or more parties are required to form a coalition to win. As predicted the May 6, 2010 British parliamentary elections saw a conservative victory, but hardly enough [...]
In a speech that may have been his last public appearance as Hungarian Prime Minister, Gordon Bajnai on Friday addressed an unemployment and Roma issues conference organized by think tank and polling institute Tarki. The PM was hard pressed to offer spectacular solutions produced by the last eight years of Socialist government, for problems that [...]
In a political move South African Police Services (SAPS) Minister Nathi Mthethwa on Thursday claimed that a number of arrest have been made in connection with a right-wing plot to launch an attack against a majority black populated township near the capital city Pretoria. However the minister could not yet provide substantial details or evidence [...]
International football fans, gearing up to the launch of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, will not only see the ball on the pitch, but also possibly rolling heads, as the host nation tries to referee its side-line racial issues on the political field. This surreal picture is greatly depicted via one of the works [...]
Appointed Interior Minister Sandor Pinter on Monday called former Budapest Police Chief Peter Gergenyi’s actions during 2006 mass unrests (in which several peaceful bystanders were brutally assaulted by police who shot into crowds with rubber bullets – causing gaping wounds and even loss of eyesight) “lawful,” which party leaders failed to condemn during a caucus-forming meeting [...]
Czech international Radovan Krejcir is allegedly being treated as a state witness in the murder case of South African strip king Lolly Jackson. He is reported to have offered full cooperation to investigators. Jackson was allegedly shot 15 times on Monday (May 3, 2010) in Johannesburg. A Cyprian man by the name George Smith is [...]
The Czech people on Wednesday commemorated the 65th anniversary of their uprising against Nazi dictatorship. The event was allegedly registered as the “First Prague Spring Uprising” in Hungarian school textbooks. Originally thousands of Prague citizens took to the streets on May 5, 1945 to liberate their beloved capital from the Nazi occupiers. Although the battle [...]
The FIFA World Cup trophy is due to arrive with red carpet treatment in South Africa on Tuesday (May 4, 2010). While the trophy is expected to pass through every African nation, less than 1% of the FIFA Football World Cup 2010 host nation’s population will be allowed to see the icon ahead of the [...]
[poll id="2"] Hungary’s new Prime Minister Viktor Orban has always voiced that he will be the premier for an estimated 15 million Hungarians worldwide. This has raised eyebrows in neighboring countries and the European Union (of which Hungary has been a member of since May 1, 2004) as they fear the conservative PM may renew [...]
Investors are bailing out of mining interests in booming Australian mining companies following the recent announcement that the government down under has unveiled a new tax on mining from July 2010. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said, “This long-term plan … builds a stronger economy by using super profits earned from the resources owned by all [...]
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela has been caught in a controversial crossfire of political money laundering after details of an unlawful funding scheme was revealed. Just recently the South African media leaked “secret documents” drawn up by the ruling parliamentary party African National Congress (ANC), showing that the [...]
The tiny nation of Greece has finally reached a historic deal with the euro-zone and International Monetary Fund after having unconditionally begged for a massive bailout. However this is expected to bring stringent austerity measures that could economically plunge the nation back some 20 years. Despite the new money the Hellenic nation still has its [...]
Thanks to Hungarian striker Zoltan Gera (31), the London-based football team Fulham has reached the Europa League final on May 12, 2010. The team beat rivals Hamburg 2-1 and are to play against Spanish team Atletico Madrid in the final. Gera called the winning goal of the match, “the most important goal of my career. [...]
