http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nika/ en-us Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:00:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073702/posts ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday summoned the United States Ambassador Anne W Patterson in the Foreign Office here to lodge a protest over Angoor Adda incident. geo.tv (Pakistan) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073702/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:00:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073562/posts via translation- Pakistan: 15 people killed in a raid of international forces in Afghanistan PESHAWAR (Pakistan) - At least 15 people, including civilians, were killed Wednesday in the north-west Pakistan in an attack involving helicopters international forces based in Afghanistan, told AFP the heads of security services Pakistani. "Four helicopter gunships have crossed the border and launched the attack," assured AFP one of these sources, who requested anonymity. "Helicopters from Afghanistan were involved," confirmed to AFP Mowaz Khan, a senior official of the administration of the tribal district of South Waziristan where the raid took place in the border village... AFP via translation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073562/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 06:44:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990828/posts Russian Oscars censored24/03/2008 13:13  - (SA)    Moscow - A series of jokes about President Vladimir Putin and president-elect Dmitry Medvedev were censored from the screening of Russia's equivalent of the Oscars film awards ceremony, newspapers reported on Monday. The jokes - mild by Western standards of satire - at Friday's "Nika" awards, were cut by private television station CTC in its broadcasting Saturday of the event, according to Moskovsky Komsomolets. "All the juicy stuff from the broadcast was edited out," the daily said. One of the comments axed, the newspaper said, was an allusion to uncertainty over whether Medvedev or his... News 24 (South Africa) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990828/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:54:51 GMT