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Hang in there Murdoch, just a couple more checks to write. Phone hacking ain’t cheap you know?.

BBC News – Sienna Miller awarded £100,000 over phone hacking.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.

The tsunami has been absolutely disastrous both for the Japanese people and their economy. Though their economy would recover, the lives lost are gone forever and can’t be replaced. Our prayers are with them

The UN passed the Security Council Resolution 1973 yesterday, with the usual suspects(China & Russia) abstaining and Germany surprisingly being cowards.

The next step is open to question, what if Gaddafi stops all air attacks and instead use ground forces to continue his reign of terror?, will NATO and other nations sit by or launch a full scale attack on forces loyal to Gaddafi?.

Nothing is sure, but what is much clearer is the majority of the world have made their voice heard and sent a clear message to Gaddafi that they won’t stand idly by and watch him slaughter his own people.
Prime Minister David Cameron has shown great courage and leadership in insisting from the start that the UN take a munch firmer approach to the Libyan crisis, President Obama must also be commended for letting the UN take a prominent place in proposing actions on Gaddafi

The people spoke and held on, now Mubu has relinquished power to the military. The next steps that would be taken by the Egyptian army will determine if the aspirations of the populace are met and if not, be rest assured that the people would rise up. Again.

It started in Tunisia and spreading like wildfire. Egypt & Yemen both experiencing days of protests and its no coincidence that in all the three countries, their leaders or former leader in the case of Tunisia have all been in power for decades and the people have had enough of been ignored.

It would be interesting to see what the outcome would be in Egypt because the situation in Egypt is different from that of Tunisia, the regime of the current president Hosni Mubarak is an authoritarian and repressive one and it’s been like that since he took power in 1981. I don’t really see him compromising his position and the whole Muslim world is waiting to see what steps he might take.

The US was quick to seek solidarity with the people of Tunisia after the ousting of their president but they are taking a cautious line in the case of Egypt by urging all sides to exercise restraint, they can’t afford to have Egypt turned into an unstable country at a time when the middle-east is still grappling with the ongoing conflict in Iraq & Afghanistan, uncertainty in Lebanon, Iranian nuclear issue and the never ending Israeli-Palestinian saga.

Addressing the Joint session of the US House of Representatives in his State of the Union speech, Obama focuses on Education, Infrastructure spending, Deficit reduction and the economy