Polish investigators have finally admitted that General Andrzej Blasik, the commander of the Polish air force, was in the cockpit of the military plane when it crashed near Smolensk on April 10, killing 96 Polish military and political leaders.In other news, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has unveiled his plan to pull his country out of its fiscal crisis: he wants to tax the rich. Meanwhile, Islamic experts in Indonesia have issued a fatwa forbidding the employment of transsexuals in women’s hair salons.
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1 comment:
nice post.
a politician actually planning to tax the rich? this I have to wait and watch!
and the fatwa.. honestly I think the world has had enough of the bloody things. I mean come on..
thanks for this post, always good to have varied news from all over.
cheers..
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