International Business News - GBR http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif One journalist's bid to report mass murder in South Korea in 1950 was blocked by his British publisher. Another correspondent was denounced as a possibly treasonous fabricator when he did report it. In South Korea, down the generations, fear silenced those who knew. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/49002-korea-mass-executions.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/fear-secrecy-kept-1950-korea-mass-killings-hidden.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/fear-secrecy-kept-1950-korea-mass-killings-hidden.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 13:26:10 EDT Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48971-korea-mass-executions.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/ap-impact-thousands-killed-by-uss-korean-ally.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/ap-impact-thousands-killed-by-uss-korean-ally.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 13:17:36 EDT Almost nonstop, the uncensored opinions of Chinese citizens are popping up online, sent by text and instant message across a country shaken by its worst earthquake in three decades. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48964-china-the-quake-online.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/china-allows-bloggers-others-to-spread-quake-news.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/china-allows-bloggers-others-to-spread-quake-news.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 13:00:34 EDT A suicide bomber blew himself up next to a police convoy in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing four civilians and wounding eight other people, an official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/suicide-blasts-kill-6-injure-8-in-s-afghanistan.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 12:25:10 EDT A police chief says a suicide bomber has killed four civilians and wounded eight other people in southern Afghanistan. Helmand provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal says the target of Sunday's attack was a district police chief in the town of Musa Qala. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/suicide-blast-kills-4-wounds-8-in-s-afghanistan.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 12:06:07 EDT A senior U.N. envoy went to Myanmar Sunday to urge its military junta to accept more international aid for cyclone survivors, as a British minister suggested the isolationist regime may be relenting. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48900-myanmar-cyclone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/as-cyclone-refugees-wait-myanmar-refuses-aid.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/as-cyclone-refugees-wait-myanmar-refuses-aid.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 11:22:05 EDT When the Pentagon closed the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1966, it became an obsolete facility awash in history but torpedoed by time. Yet within the past 15 years, the 40-plus buildings behind the nondescript facade have become a modern beehive of activity that includes almost everything but, well, bees. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48611-torpedoed-by-time.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/historic-brooklyn-navy-yard-gets-modern-makeover.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/historic-brooklyn-navy-yard-gets-modern-makeover.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 00:32:42 EDT When the Pentagon closed the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1966, it became an obsolete facility awash in history but torpedoed by time. Yet within the past 15 years, the 40-plus buildings behind the nondescript facade have become a modern beehive of activity that includes almost everything but, well, bees. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48539-torpedoed-by-time.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/historic-brooklyn-navy-yard-gets-modern-makeover.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/historic-brooklyn-navy-yard-gets-modern-makeover.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 22:46:01 EDT An American student suspected in the slaying of her British roommate in Italy must remain behind bars, an Italian judge ruled Saturday. The judge rejected a lawyer's request to put Amanda Knox, 20, of Seattle, under house arrest. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/italian-judge-keeps-american-suspect-in-jail.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 16:40:16 EDT The eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II married his Canadian fiancee Saturday in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle. Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly wed at the castle's 15th-century St. George's Chapel in front of 300 guests including the queen, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, and Phillips' mother, Princess Anne. Prince Harry, the third in line to the throne, and his girlfriend Chelsy Davy were also there. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48357-britain-royal-marriage.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/queens-eldest-grandson-weds-at-windsor-castle.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/queens-eldest-grandson-weds-at-windsor-castle.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 15:07:17 EDT It is a life-or-death question: If millions of people are at risk, is it acceptable to sit on the sidelines and watch an undemocratic and unprepared regime mismanage a crisis? http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48297-myanmar.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/world-faces-limits-to-getting-aid-into-myanmar.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/world-faces-limits-to-getting-aid-into-myanmar.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 14:15:55 EDT Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight _ and die _ with legendary valor for another man's country far away. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/imperial-holdover-gurkhas-flock-to-british-army.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 12:10:40 EDT Before the Civil War and Antietam, the bloodiest battle fought on American soil was here, on a narrow but strategically vital strip of land between Lake Champlain and Lake George. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48233-fort-ticonderoga.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/upstate-ny-fort-to-commemorate-anniversary-of-1758-battle.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/upstate-ny-fort-to-commemorate-anniversary-of-1758-battle.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 12:44:36 EDT Picking a winner of the presidential contest is front and center at what's being billed as the largest astrologers' convention in years. More than 1,500 astrologers from 45 countries have descended on Denver, site of the Democratic National Convention in August, for the "United Astrology Conference: Rockin' the Universe." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48563-astrologers-candidates.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/us-prez-race-front-and-center-at-astrology-convention.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/us-prez-race-front-and-center-at-astrology-convention.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 23:29:07 EDT A former Church of England leader has appealed for militants to release five British civilians kidnapped in Iraq a year ago. Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey released a video Saturday addressing the kidnappers as "honorable men" and "men of faith." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/ex-archbishop-urges-release-of-british-hostages.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 07:23:32 EDT Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48193-appeasement-idaho-senator.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/senator-dead-since-1940-figures-in-2008-presidential-furor.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/senator-dead-since-1940-figures-in-2008-presidential-furor.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 06:45:10 EDT Myanmar's junta kept a French navy ship laden with aid waiting outside its maritime border on Saturday, and showed off neatly laid out state relief camps to diplomats. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48441-myanmar-cyclone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/death-toll-from-myanmar-cyclone-nearly-doubles.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/death-toll-from-myanmar-cyclone-nearly-doubles.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 19:05:21 EDT As of Friday, May 16, 2008, at least 4,079 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4-079.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 19:30:44 EDT A judicial probe into the assassination of a Roman Catholic lawyer in Northern Ireland reported Friday that it has lost sensitive computer data about the investigation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/belfast-assassination-probe-loses-sensitive-data.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 17:28:00 EDT As the price of crude oil again hit all-time highs, U.S.-traded shares of several European oil and gas companies followed suit. The price of oil hit to a peak of $127.82 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and light, sweet crude for June delivery settled up $2.17 at a record close of $126.29. That was nearly double its closing price of $62.55 one year ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/adrs-in-focus-european-oil-stocks-set-records.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 15:44:10 EDT