Lebanese Christian Cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel was shot dead by apparent
assassins in Beirut- Senior Lebanese government
officials said. The killing is set to deepen the
political crisis in which the Lebanese government is currently locked in a
power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hezbollah. The United
States described Tuesday's killing as an "act of terrorism," a senior U.S.
official said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. In the
ongoing political crisis, all five Shiite Muslim ministers and one Christian
in Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's 24-member Cabinet resigned over the
creation of an international tribunal to probe the assassination of Hariri.
Former
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination in 2005 led to a wave
of anti-Syrian protests, dubbed the "Cedar Revolution," and the withdrawal
of Syria's military from Lebanon. Syria had dominated Lebanon since 1976,
when Syrian troops entered in the early days of Lebanon's civil war.
Survey says U.S is the most unfriendly country to visitors-According
to a survey given out by the Discover American Partnership,
international travelers see the U.S. as the world's worst
country in getting a visa and getting past immigration
officials.
Visa delays and immigration are keeping foreign
visitors away from the U.S. and costing the U.S. billions of
dollars in lost revenue, according to the advocacy group.
In the survey 2,011 people were polled from 16 different countries.
More than half of the people surveyed said that immigration
officials were rude and another two-thirds said that they feared
they would be detained because of simple mistakes in their
paperwork.
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November is National
Adoption Awareness Month. The National Council
for Adoption's mission is to work for the welfare of children in
the attempt to find them loving, permanent homes.
Israel is in the process
of creating a robot with the use of nanotechnology. The robot
that will be named the “bionic hornet,” will be used to detect
unreachable enemies in unreachable places.
The flying robot will have the capabilities to chase, photograph
and even kill the enemy they are chasing.
The “bionic hornet,” is just one of several other
weapons that are being created to help fight off enemies. The
other weapon that is in the process of being created are “super
gloves,” which will have the strength and power of a bionic man,
as well as sensors that will detect suicide bombers.
Researchers are starting to use nanotechnology in all
of these projects for Israel’s’ security department, with the
use of this technology researchers will be able to find
solutions to the many problems that the army has yet to address.
Israel has been contemplating these new weapons ever
since the war in Lebanon. Instead of spending $100 million
dollars on a plane, researchers and Israeli officials decided
that it would be more beneficial to use the money on smaller and
more futuristic weapons.
The 34-day war in Lebanon ended in mid-August. The war
killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 157
Israelis soldiers. The prototypes for these futuristic weapons
are expected to be out within three years.