Police tell teens to remove Facebook photos

POLICE have urged all teenagers to remove their profile pictures from Facebook and the names of the schools they attend. 


The heartbroken family of slain teenager Nona Belomesoff, 18, who was allegedly murdered by a stranger she met on Facebook, joined the plea.
"You just never know who is on the other side of the internet, you could be talking to anyone," Nona's brother Gary Belomesoff, 20, said yesterday.
He said the family was "severely traumatised" by the loss of his animal-loving sister, who agreed to meet her alleged killer - who had offered to help her into a career rescuing animals - at Leumeah railway station.
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Facebook Faces Privacy Concerns, Despite Tightened Security

 Facebook boasts 400 million users and billions of display ad impressions, but the latest privacy concerns have some users threatening to delete their accounts with the social networking service. Additionally, a survey indicates that negative perceptions of Facebook are on the rise among older users. To counteract this, Facebook has issued new security tools, along with assurances that it does everything possible to protect individual privacy. Read More>>        

Prisoners to Island Nations...Not only Maldives

MIAMI -- First some freed Guantanamo captives went to Bermuda in the Atlantic. Later, others went to Palau in the Pacific.
Now it appears that the Obama administration is poised to send captives cleared for release from the remote prison camps in southeast Cuba to another island nation - the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean.
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed used his Friday weekly radio address to defend his nation's decision to take in two as-yet unidentified detainees. He also discouraged opposition parties in the mostly Sunni Muslim nation from politicizing any future transfer.

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Construction of a Mosque and Muslim community center near Ground Zero

The prospective developer of a $100 million, 13-story mosque 600 feet from Ground Zero presents himself as a Muslim moderate (1). Yet Kuwait-born Faisal Abdul Rauf also boasts of his issue from an "Egyptian family steeped in religious scholarship" (2). Indeed, Feisal Rauf's Muslim Brotherhood provenance, radical by definition, is as authentic as it gets.

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A Huge Success in The Human Rights Council

 

MALE, May 15, 2010 (HNS) – In a historic move, Maldives has secured a seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council Thursday with the highest number of votes.

Speaking to Haveeru from Dubai, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Ahmed Shaheed said on Saturday that the Maldives received 185 votes out of
188 in the election held at UN Headquarters in New York.

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