Bloodshed won’t tighten US gun laws: experts

The statistics are staggering, the stories heartbreaking, yet there is little chance that any amount of bloodshed will lead to stiffer gun controls in the United States in the foreseeable future. “It’s not something that any politician thinks is winnable,” said Kristin Goss, a politics professor at Duke University and author of “Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America.”

Full Story

France votes as Sarkozy era hangs by thread

Opinion polls point to Sarkozy coming second to his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande:

More than 44 million French voters were called to the polls Sunday for the first round of a presidential election that may see the end of Nicolas Sarkozy's turbulent term in office. Predictions of a high abstention rate and strong protest vote left the outcome uncertain, but all opinion polls point to the right-wing incumbent coming second to his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande.

Full Story

Documents uncovered from archives in Libya reveal :

UK supplied Gaddafi with intelligence

Documents uncovered from archives in Libya have revealed British intelligence agents supplied Muammar Gaddafi’s secret agents with information about Gaddafi’s opponents who had fled to Britain. Documents obtained by the The Mail on Sunday showed that agents from Britain’s intelligence agency MI5 had been in a covert joint operation with Gaddafi’s spies working in Britain. The documents were unearthed from Libyan spymasters’ archives after the fall of Gaddafi.

Full Story