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Thursday, 23 May 2013

Lead item

Woolwich attack: terror returns to Britain's streets "What they were witnessing was not a suburban road accident, but the most brutal murder imaginable, as two Al-Qaeda inspired Islamic terrorists hacked at their victim 'like a piece of meat' in an 'animal' frenzy on the suburban pavement."

Also: Anti-Muslim reprisals after Woolwich attack - The Guardian

Telegraph (UK)
 

Thursday, 23 May 2013

General item

Obama, in a shift, to limit targets of drone strikes "The administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four American citizens in drone strikes outside battlefields, arguing that its actions were justified by the danger to the United States."

New York Times
 

Dominique Venner's final solution "The seventy-eight-year-old French historian and extreme right-wing nationalist committed suicide yesterday, in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris. He shot himself in the mouth with a small automatic handgun and left a suicide note on the altar... The debris from a gunshot to the brain will have defiled a site that Venner, in principle, considered holy."

New Yorker
 

Thursday, 23 May 2013

General item

Unexcited? There may be a pill for that "Women are less cognizant of genital arousal, and probably for this reason, Viagra-like substances haven’t done enough to raise women’s ratings of desire in past experiments... Lybrido employs a Viagra-like chemical as its arsenal, in the hope that it will be effective in combination with a substance that more directly targets the brain."

New York Times
 

And finally