When I saw an email from Twitter Legal in my inbox, I figured it was spam. Data phishers use those kind of emails to steal user passwords, but this was a genuine warning from the social media giant. The New York District Attorney’s office had filed a subpoena requesting my account information and all of my tweets from last September to the end of the year.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign regularly rips Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney for his economic policies. On Tuesday, it added former Senator Rick Santorum to its list of top targets.
India has long maintained that it has deep cultural and historical links to Iran, having shared a common border until the British left, and Persian influences merged into its social fabric. But that argument no longer holds water, what with Washington and the European Union tightening sanctions against Tehran, and other nations joining in. As a result, India-Iran relations are quickly becoming a conundrum for New Delhi.
Hindu nationalists retained power in Mumbai on Friday, defeating the Congress party despite growing criticism of shoddy and increasingly overburdened infrastructure. The hardline Shiv Sena party, headed by 86-year-old Bal Thackeray, has led a governing coalition for 16 years in a city as famous for its sprawling slums, clogged roads and rusting railways as for its business suits and skyscraper skyline. "Thanks to all who supported us.
Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has surged into a virtual tie in opinion polls with Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, setting up a tough fight in the party's primary in Michigan on Feb 28.
The Maldives' new president on Sunday expanded his cabinet amid a political stalemate with ex-president Mohamed Nasheed, who since leaving office last week in what he calls a coup has vowed to stage street protests unless new elections are held. The new cabinet members are almost all veterans of the government of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled the Maldives for 30 years until Nasheed beat him at a historic election in 2008.
Israel accused arch-enemies Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being behind twin bomb attacks that targeted embassy staff in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people. Tehran denied involvement in the strike, which has amplified tensions between two countries at loggerheads over Iran's contested nuclear programme. Hezbollah, the powerful Shi'ite Muslim movement in neighbouring Lebanon, declined comment.
