South Korean prime minister offers resignation
Posted in News, Politics, Science on July 29th, 2010 by admin – Comments Off
South Korea’s prime minister offered to resign Thursday after parliament shot down his efforts to scrap a plan that would relocate several government ministries outside of the capital.
Chung Un-chan, an academic appointed in September, has led the charge to abandon the project, thought up by the previous liberal administration.
President Lee Myung-bak has said the plan to move more than half of the 15 government ministries from Seoul and a nearby city would waste taxpayer money and create inefficiencies.
Iranian nuclear scientist turns up in D.C.
Posted in Islam, News, Video on July 13th, 2010 by admin – Comments OffAn Iranian nuclear scientist who Tehran claims was kidnapped by the United States has sought refuge at the Pakistani Embassy’s Iranian interests section in Washington and is seeking to return home to Iran, Pakistani authorities said Tuesday.
Shahram Amiri, a onetime researcher at Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization who disappeared during a trip to Saudi Arabia last year, appeared at the Iranian interests section office at 6:30 p.m. Monday, said Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit.
Iranian state television said Amiri has already been in touch with Iranian media in New York and quoted him as saying he had been held by armed men and under extreme psychological pressure for 14 months and called for his immediate return home.
