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Dems Back Down, Approve War Money WASHINGTON — Bowing to President Bush, the Democratic-controlled House reluctantly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war on Thursday, minus the troop withdrawal timeline that drew his earlier veto. The 280-142 vote sent the bill to the Senate for final passage, expected later in the evening. "... Read more |
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Poll Shows Opposition to Iraq War at All Time High Americans now view the war in Iraq more negatively than at any time since the war began, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Six in 10 Americans say the United States should have stayed out of Iraq and more than three in four say things are going badly there - including nearly... Read more |
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Most Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raids were Civilians, Amnesty Says JERUSALEM -More than 320 civilians were among a threefold increase in the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces last year, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group's 2007 report says that over half of the more than 650 Palestinians killed in 2006 were civilians... Read more |
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McDonald's Begins McJob Petition Fast-food giant McDonald's has launched a petition to get the dictionary definition of a McJob changed. The Oxford English Dictionary currently describes a McJob as "an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects". McDonald's says this definition is now "out of date and insulting", and claims a... Read more |
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Anti-War Activists Attack Democrats over Iraq Bill WASHINGTON -- For anti-war activists, turning against House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer was only the beginning. The liberal group MoveOn.org ran radio ads this week chastising the Southern Maryland Democrat for voting against a measure that would have forced a withdrawal from Iraq within 180... Read more |
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Kucinich Claims War Masks the Real Objective: Iraqi Oil WASHINGTON - It's all about Iraq's oil - rich, abundant, and coveted by multinational companies waiting to line their deep pockets. Or so said Rep. Dennis Kucinich Wednesday in an unusual hourlong address on the House floor. He laid out his contention that the White House and Democratic-led... Read more |
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Rich Sideline Poor Countries' Concerns in WTO Talks GENEVA - As fresh attempts are made to clinch an agreement in the stalled Doha trade negotiations, industrialised countries have launched a concerted drive to set aside core concerns of the developing countries, say trade ministers and diplomats. At India's trade policy review at the World Trade... Read more |
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Anti-Cluster Bomb Conference Meets in Lima LIMA, Peru - An international conference seeking a global ban on cluster bombs opened in Lima Wednesday, with delegates pointing out that the victims are often children who pick up unexploded munitions years after the fighting has ended. "We should be worried that most of those killed or maimed are... Read more |
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Hearing Sought Over Linguists' Discharge Lawmakers who say the military has kicked out 58 Arabic language experts because they were gay want the Pentagon to explain how it can afford to let the valuable specialists go. Seizing on the latest discharge, involving three specialists, House members wrote the House Armed Services Committee... Read more |
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Health Care Crisis Squeezes Working Families Volunteer firefighter Cindy Holland has no medical insurance, and her husband's health benefits as a full-time paramedic do not extend to family members, so she and their three children go without. The hard-working Northern California family makes too much money to qualify for public health... Read more |
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Cheaper Solar Power Heads Mainstream Solar power should become a mainstream energy choice in three or four years as companies raise output of a key ingredient used in solar panels and as China emerges as a producer of them, according to a report by an environmental research group. "We are now seeing two major trends that will... Read more |
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Amnesty Report Decries 'Politics of Fear' WASHINGTON - The "politics of fear" are polarising the world and leading to an erosion of human rights, according to Amnesty International's annual report released Wednesday. The report also offers a stinging rebuke to the human rights policy of the United States both at home and abroad. "Fear... Read more |
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Edwards Takes Political Gamble with Holiday Offensive CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Laura Belin plans to take her children to a Memorial Day parade Monday. There, at the urging of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, she expects to join others protesting the war in Iraq. "Everyone knows that we're going to have to start getting our troops out," said... Read more |
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Climate Change: 'We've Never Seen What We're Seeing Now' UNITED NATIONS - One night about four years ago, Lakhan Bibi's grandfather told her that things in their land were going to change. "How come?" she asked. "Look up to the sky," he said. "You see the moon? It is no longer where it used to be." To many, it may sound superstitious. But Bibi, a former... Read more |
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Opium: Iraq's Deadly New Export BAGHDAD - Farmers in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan.Rice farmers along the Euphrates, to the west of the city of Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, have... Read more |
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Dems Bow to Bush on Funds for War WASHINGTON - In the standoff between President Bush and Democrats in Congress led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over funding the Iraq war, it was the Democrats who finally blinked Tuesday, at least for now. In ceding ground, Pelosi of San Francisco and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada... Read more |
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Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive... Read more |
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Democrats Drop Insistence on Iraq Withdrawal Timeline WASHINGTON - Scrambling to send President Bush an emergency war spending bill he will sign, Democratic leaders have decided to drop their insistence on a timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq. The move - which comes just days after senior Democrats insisted that White House officials... Read more |
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Increase in Carbon Emissions Seen Tripling Since '90s Emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, the main culprit in global warming, have increased three times faster in recent years than they did in the 1990s, international climate researchers reported today. And human-induced warming may have been responsible for an unprecedented... Read more |
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Paris Calls Off Festival of US Culture after Threats PARIS - A festival due to be held in Paris this weekend to celebrate American music and culture has been called off after death threats from an anti-US group claiming links to al-Qaida. Organisers of the Three Days in America festival said the decision to postpone the event - also aimed at... Read more |
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On Darfur's Borders, Children to Lay Down Guns DENVER, Colo. - Thousands of children in the African nations of Chad and the Central African Republic could be turning from the battlefield to the blackboard as a result of international negotiations over the past two weeks. The international children's rights group UNICEF announced Thursday that... Read more |
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World Biodiversity Day: Climate Change Also Drives Evolution BERLIN - New scientific evidence confirms that human action, such as carbon emissions causing global warming, and industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity - and, in some cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and adapt at unexpected speed to new living conditions. An... Read more |
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Nader Redux: Should Dems Fear Mike Gravel? The political establishment has been doing its best to brush aside Mike Gravel, the 76-year-old former senator from Alaska-and fairly successfully so, until Gravel's appearance at last month's sleepy Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina. After challenging fellow Dems to end the war by... Read more |
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Peace Fence An improvised face lift for a chain-link barrier has led to a shifting display of nonpartisan peace banners Read more |
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Bush Could Double Force by Christmas WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. The little-noticed second surge, designed to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq, is being executed by sending more combat... Read more |
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Early Arrival of Butterflies Demonstrates Impact of Climate Change LONDON - Britain's astounding April, the warmest on record, has produced an astounding effect in the natural world, with at least 11 species of butterfly making their earliest recorded appearances this spring in what will be seen as the most remarkable demonstration yet of the effects of climate... Read more |
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Maine Campaign to Impeach Bush Presses Case In the genteel quarters of the Woodfords Club in Portland, where scenes of a quaint fishing village adorn the wallpaper, a grass-roots effort to impeach President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney was picking up steam. "The real work begins today, and it has to hit absolute high gear in... Read more |
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Hans Blix Wins Sydney Peace Prize SYDNEY, Australia - Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, chairman of the UN Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, has been awarded the 2007 Sydney Peace Prize. The Sydney Peace Foundation, which announced the award on Monday morning, said Dr Blix was the unanimous choice of the prize jury. The citation... Read more |
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Venezuela Giving Danny Glover $18M to Direct Film on Epic Slave Revolt CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m) to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti, with President Hugo Chávez hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and... Read more |
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World Bank Should Go With Wolfowitz: Activists PENANG, Malaysia - Paul Wolfowitz's fall from grace is symptomatic of the double standards and hypocrisy of the World Bank and strains the marriage between neo-liberal policies and militarism that he embodied, say activists and analysts. Wolfowitz, an architect of the war on Iraq, finally bowed to... Read more |
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Efforts to Stop `Voter Fraud' May Have Curbed Legitimate Voting WASHINGTON - During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its dangers under a pseudonym in a law journal article. Writing as "Publius," von Spakovsky contended that every voter should be required to... Read more |
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Gore Blasts Bush in 'The Assault on Reason' When former Vice President Al Gore hosted "Saturday Night Live" in December 2002 he appeared in a skit that compared his vice presidential selection process from two years before to the dating reality TV show "The Bachelor." In one scene Gore appeared in a hot tub with a faux Joe Lieberman, both of... Read more |
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Gonzales Rapped Simply as one of Bush's Yes Men' WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says his long friendship with President Bush makes it easier to say "no" to him on sticky legal issues. Gonzales' critics say the attorney is far more likely to say "yes," and they say that leaves the Justice Department vulnerable to a politically... Read more |
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A Scale for the Price of Life In Iraq, a human life is worth $2,500; in Manhattan, $1.8 million Read more |
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Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist The thieves operated from small offices in Toronto and hangar-size rooms in India. Every night, working from lists of names and phone numbers, they called World War II veterans, retired schoolteachers and thousands of other elderly Americans and posed as government and insurance workers updating... Read more |
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Priests Claim Torture; Arizona Army Post Says No TUCSON, Ariz. - A pair of priests arrested in November for trespassing on Fort Huachuca are determined to make a court case out of what they contend is torture being taught at the Southern Arizona Army post. "We're going to put torture on trial," the Rev. Louis Vitale and the Rev. Steve Kelly told... Read more |
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Latino Soldiers Who Refused Iraq Speak Out SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. Army medic who refused to load his gun in Iraq and then escaped through a base window in Germany rather than be deployed a second time returned home to Los Angeles this week after serving six months in a U.S. military prison. Augustin Aguayo, 31, was born in Mexico and grew... Read more |
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Brown's Vision for a Nuclear Britain Chancellor faces backlash over energy Read more |
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US Cooling Off to G-8 Summit BERLIN - The United States appears to be cooling off to some key concerns at the G8 heads of state summit next month. The United States is evidently not interested in an international consensus on environmental policy against global warming. Nor does it appear keen on new regulations to control... Read more |
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Poll: American Satisfaction at New Low WASHINGTON - It's gloomy out there. Men and women, whites and minorities - all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the country seldom shared by so many people. Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an AP-Ipsos poll this month... Read more |
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No, Blair! America's Parting Gift to Britain's PM NO! to CO2 Emissions Targets. NO! to a Successor to Kyoto. NO! to a Carbon Trading Market. As Blair Leaves Washington, US Hardens Stance on Climate Change Read more |
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Bush Administration Ruling Throws Cold Water on Environmental Whistleblowers WASHINGTON - The sentence was buried deep within a recent Labor Department ruling, but the message was clear: Whistleblowers, beware. More specifically: Whistleblowers relying on the protections against official retaliation contained in several major environmental laws, proceed with caution. The... Read more |
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US Government Trying to Seize New Michael Moore Film, Says Producer CANNES, France - Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today. Sicko, a documentary tackling the state of American healthcare, focuses on the... Read more |
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US Raids Made 2,000 Afghans Homeless: Red Cross KABUL - Bombing by US forces in western Afghanistan last month wrecked 173 houses and left 2,000 people homeless, the Red Cross said, announcing findings of its assessment of the damage. Preliminary UN and Afghan investigations have found that around 50 civilians were killed in the April 27 and 29... Read more |
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Iraq War Ignites Dueling Protests Pro, Anti-War Factions Voice Opposing Views Read more |
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Indigenous Leaders Bring Eco-Sense to UN UNITED NATIONS - If one is serious about addressing the climate change crisis, it might be wise to listen to those who have close and intimate knowledge of the lands and waters. "Mother Earth is crying," says Carrie Dann, an elder of the Western Shoshone indigenous people of the United States. "She... Read more |
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Washington's AIDS Hypocrites, Wolfowitz and Tobias, Ousted The heads of two of the world's biggest AIDS programs, largely run by the United States, have resigned within a month of each other amid accusations of sexual hypocrisy. Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank, resigned yesterday after fighting for his job for six weeks. He was quoted Thursday... Read more |
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Jimmy Carter Slams Bush Administration Former president cites international relations, environment, faith-based initiatives Read more |
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Sarkozy Unveils his New 'Rainbow' Government PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced a centre-right government which includes seven women and France's first senior minister of Arab origin. M. Sarkozy's promised government of "openness" also included two leading ministers from the left and centre. During his long presidential campaign... Read more |
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Bush Resists Democrats on Military Pay White House says 3.5% hike is too costly Read more |
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Obama Disputes Claim of Sharing Clinton's Stance on War Senator Barack Obama yesterday directly challenged former President Bill Clinton's assertions that Mr. Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton hold the same essential positions on the Iraq war. Throughout the spring, Mr. Clinton has privately told his wife's donors and supporters that it was... Read more |
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Earth's Natural Defenses against Climate Change 'Beginning to Fail' The earth's ability to soak up the gases causing global warming is beginning to fail because of rising temperatures, in a long-feared sign of "positive feedback," new research reveals today. Climate change itself is weakening one of the principal "sinks" absorbing carbon dioxide - the Southern... Read more |
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Wolfowitz's Fall Brings More Bad News for Bush The announcement by Paul Wolfowitz Thursday that he was stepping down soon as World Bank chief marked yet another blow for US President George W. Bush as his Republican administration nears its end. Wolfowitz, one of the key neoconservative engineers of the strategy that led the United States to... Read more |
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Halliburton Looks to Greener Pastures WASHINGTON - As Halliburton held its annual meeting Wednesday in Houston, Texas, the Washington-based Corpwatch released its own "Alternative Annual Report" which details the alleged wrongdoings of the company and its former subsidiary, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), and questions the motivation... Read more |
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Minimum Wage Increase Likely to Remain Tied to War Bill NEW YORK - A Congressional plan to give the United States' lowest-paid workers their first raise in nearly 10 years was put on hold earlier this month when U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed the Iraq War spending bill. A minimum wage clause appended to the war bill would have guaranteed all U.S... Read more |
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Study: Global Net Censorship 'Growing' The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative suggests. The study of thousands of websites across 120 Internet Service Providers found 25 of 41 countries surveyed showed evidence of content filtering... Read more |
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Kidnap and Torture: New Claims of UK Army War Crimes in Iraq The British Army is facing new allegations that it was involved in "forced disappearances", hostage-taking and torture of Iraqi civilians after the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein. One of the claims is made by the former chairman of the Red Crescent in Basra, who alleges he was beaten... Read more |
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Detroit City Council votes to impeach Bush Read more |
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Greenpeace Builds Replica of Noah's Ark ISTANBUL, Turkey - Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat , where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood , in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday. Turkish and German volunteer carpenters are making the... Read more |
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Iraq: Send in the Clown Jo Wilding's unembedded reports from Fallujah brought home the horror of the American assault on the city. But when she wasn't blogging, she was wearing stilts and trying to cheer up Iraq's traumatized children. She tells Emine Saner why she risked her life for total strangers. It is hard to... Read more |
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Teen Pregnancy Rates Lowest Yet, Study Finds Better informed, but not any less sexually active. Read more |
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Capitol Watchdogs Fret Over Rise in 'Honest Graft' Land Deals WASHINGTON - A series of questionable land deals involving U.S. lawmakers have raised alarms among government watchdogs, who fear such dubious arrangements are on the rise. "Everyone's been trying to catch up to this phenomenon," said Keith Ashdown of Washington, D.C.-based Taxpayers for Common... Read more |
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Gas May Have Harmed Troops, Scientists Say WASHINGTON - Scientists working with the Defense Department have found evidence that a low-level exposure to sarin nerve gas - the kind experienced by more than 100,000 American troops in the Persian Gulf war of 1991 - could have caused lasting brain deficits in former service members. Though the... Read more |
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Veterans Take Antiwar Call on Road BOSTON - The Boston chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War, formed this month in an Allston restaurant by a handful of former soldiers and Marines, is planning to take its call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq to all major military bases along the East Coast. The chapter is the 17th in a... Read more |
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Father of Christian Zionism Leaves the Building OAKLAND, Calif. - The right-wing U.S. Christian evangelist Jerry Falwell, who died Tuesday at the age of 73, is perhaps best known for his fundamentalist social positions and tirades against lesbians, gays and feminists, not to mention "pagans", "abortionists" and assorted other miscreants.But... Read more |
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US Chided for Hindering International Efforts on Climate Change UNITED NATIONS - Disappointed with the U.S. role in international discussions on energy, environmental groups are making fresh calls for Washington to give up its isolationist approach and become part of ongoing global efforts to tackle climate change. "It is time for the U.S. to acknowledge its... Read more |
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War-Torn Iraq 'Facing Collapse,' Says UK Think Tank Iraq faces the distinct possibility of collapse and fragmentation, UK foreign policy think tank Chatham House says. Its report says the Iraqi government is now largely powerless and irrelevant in many parts of the country. It warns there is not one war but many local civil wars, and urges a major... Read more |
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Cluster Bombs Cause Decades of Harm, Says Study Millions of people will be endangered by up to 132m cluster bomblets that have not yet exploded, causing lasting economic and social harm to communities in more than 20 countries for decades to come, a leading charity warned yesterday. Handicap International studied data from nine countries most... Read more |
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Senate Defeats Iraq Withdrawal Measure WASHINGTON -- The Senate today handily defeated a measure to effectively end most U.S. combat operations in Iraq by next April, but the 29 senators who voted for the amendment represented the highest number yet that have united behind a proposal to force President Bush to bring home American troops... Read more |
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Baby 'Bubba' Issued Illinois Firearm Owner's Identification Card CHICAGO -- Someday, Howard David Ludwig's Firearm Owner's Identification Card will be stored in a box with his first pair of shoes and perhaps a lock of his baby hair. That's because the card was issued when Howard, nicknamed Bubba, was just 10 months old. It lists his height (2 feet, 3 inches) and... Read more |
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CBS Fires Former Iraq Commander for Speaking Out Against Bush Policies in Iraq NEW YORK - It took CBS two weeks to fire Don Imus for calling a college women's basketball team "nappy headed hos," but it only took them two days to fire Major General John Batiste for speaking out against the president and his policies on the war in Iraq. Groups critical of the war and President... Read more |
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Bolton: We Must Attack Iran Before it Gets the Bomb WASHINGTON - Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons, America's former ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday. John Bolton, who still has close links to the Bush administration, told The Daily Telegraph that the European Union had to "get more serious" about Iran and... Read more |
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Feminist, Socialist, Devout Muslim: Woman Who Has Thrown Denmark into Turmoil ODENSE, DENMARK - In the land that launched the cartoons war between Islam and the west, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid finds herself on the frontline, gearing up for a new battle. The 25-year-old social worker, student and town councillor describes herself as a feminist, a democrat, and a socialist. She has... Read more |
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Wolfowitz Scandal Spotlights US Reign at Bank WASHINGTON - Recent White House backing for the beleaguered World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, despite the findings of an internal report that said he had violated the Bank's ethics rules, is bringing the role of the United States in running the Bank in "undemocratic" ways under scrutiny, with... Read more |
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Children Face Exposure to Pesticides STRATHMORE, Calif. - On Grandparents Day, Domitila Lemus accompanied her 8-year-old granddaughter to school. As the girls lined up behind Sunnyside Union Elementary, a foul mist drifted onto the playground from the adjacent orange groves, witnesses say. Lemus started coughing, and two children... Read more |
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Bono Warns G8 Backsliders Only Britain and Japan are living up to the promises of the Gleneagles agreement Read more |
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Panel Told of a Sickbed Face-Off A former Justice Dept. official testifies how Gonzales sought to 'take advantage' of an ailing Ashcroft in 2004. Read more |
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Analysis Finds Large Antarctic Area Has Melted While much of the world has warmed in a pattern that scientists have linked with near certainty to human activities, the frigid interior of Antarctica has resisted the trend. Now, a new satellite analysis shows that at least once in the last several years, masses of unusually warm air pushed to... Read more |
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Right-Wing Televangelist Jerry Falwell Dies The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a pioneer among televangelists who later became a leading voice in the national debate over Christian values, has died at the age of 73. Falwell was found unconscious Tuesday in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. A fundamentalist preacher, Falwell burst onto... Read more |
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Boston Residents Face to Face with Bio-War BOSTON, United States - The U.S. government and Boston University are facing protests and lawsuits for building a laboratory to research potential biological weapons in a neighborhood whose residents are mostly African-American and Latinos. Approved by the federal government in February 2006, the... Read more |
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CENTCOM Commander's Veto Sank Bush's Threatening Gulf Buildup WASHINGTON - Admiral William Fallon, then President George W. Bush's nominee to head the Central Command (CENTCOM), expressed strong opposition in February to an administration plan to increase the number of carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf from two to three and vowed privately there would... Read more |
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US Health System Ranks Last Compared to Other Countries: Studies WASHINGTON - The US health care system ranks last among other major rich countries for quality, access and efficiency, according to two studies released Tuesday by a health care think tank. The studies by the Commonwealth Fund found that the United States, which has the most expensive health system... Read more |
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US Senate to Vote on Cutting off Iraq War Money WASHINGTON - The US Senate is expected to vote as early as this week on whether to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, as well as on a softer measure calling for US troops to leave by October. Senate Democratic majority leader Harry Reid said today that the two measures would be offered as... Read more |
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Discrimination Against Girls 'Still Deeply Entrenched' Millions of girls across the world are being condemned to a life of inequality and poverty, according to a new report. Read more |
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Son of Professor Opposed to War is Killed in Iraq BOSTON - Boston University professor Andrew J. Bacevich has been a persistent, vocal critic of the Iraq war, calling the conflict a catastrophic failure. This week, the retired Army lieutenant colonel received the grim news that his son had been killed on patrol there. First Lieutenant Andrew J... Read more |
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Lobbying Reform Losing Steam in House WASHINGTON - House Democrats are suddenly balking at the tough lobbying reforms they touted to voters last fall as a reason for putting them in charge of Congress. Now that they are running things, many Democrats want to keep the big campaign donations and lavish parties that lobbyists put together... Read more |
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Senators Who Weakened Drug Bill Got Millions from Industry WASHINGTON - Senators who raised millions of dollars in campaign donations from pharmaceutical interests secured industry-friendly changes to a landmark drug-safety bill, according to public records and interviews. The bill, which passed 93-1, grants the Food and Drug Administration broad new... Read more |
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Shoe on the Other Foot as Africa Chides Wolfowitz NAIROBI - The scandal hanging over World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has damaged his ability to preach against corruption in Africa, but Africans say the bank's anti-graft message must remain whether he stays or goes. The bank is due to give its final decision on Tuesday on Wolfowitz's future,... Read more |
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'Honk for Peace' Case Tests Limits on Free Speech BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - When one of Deborah Mayer's elementary school students asked her on the eve of the Iraq war whether she would ever take part in a peace march, the veteran teacher recalls answering, "I honk for peace." Soon afterward, Mayer lost her job and her home in Indiana. She was out of... Read more |
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One Billion to be Displaced by 2050, Global Warming a Factor, Group Warns LONDON - At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now... Read more |
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Deforestation: The Hidden Cause of Global Warming In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change. So why are global leaders turning a blind eye to this crisis? The accelerating... Read more |
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US Trying to Weaken G-8 Climate Change Declaration WASHINGTON -- Negotiators from the United States are trying to weaken the language of a climate change declaration set to be unveiled at next month's G-8 summit of the world's leading industrial powers, according to documents. A draft proposal dated April 2007 that is being debated in Bonn by... Read more |
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Common Chemicals are Linked to Breast Cancer Of the 216 compounds, many in the air, food or everyday items. Read more |
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Army Career Behind Him, General Speaks Out on Iraq ROCHESTER, NY - John Batiste has traveled a long way in the last four years, from commanding the First Infantry Division in Iraq to quitting the Army after three decades in uniform and, now, from his new life overseeing a steel factory here, to openly challenging President Bush on his management of... Read more |
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Organic Milk Seen Flooding Market After years of being in short supply, organic milk is expected to flood the U.S. market as a regulation change and higher margins push more dairy farmers to produce it. The dairy industry is expecting organic milk supply to surge by at least 40 percent this year from a previous annual growth rate... Read more |
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Ex-CIA Official Pushed Millions in Secret Deals to Pal, Prosecutors Say A former top CIA official steered an aviation contracting opportunity worth $132 million to a longtime friend, despite his friend's lack of experience in the field, according to federal prosecutors. Onetime CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo directed CIA employees to hire his childhood pal,... Read more |
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Bloodshed Rises in Iraq as US Demands 'Victory' As Tony Blair, one of the architects of the Iraq war, prepares to leave office, it is clearer than ever that his ally's strategy of systematically crushing the Sunni insurgency is not working. In this special report from Baghdad, Patrick Cockburn shows why. It will be a long war. The rumble of... Read more |
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Iraqis Resist U.S. Pressure to Enact Oil Law BAGHDAD - It has not even reached parliament, but the oil law that U.S. officials call vital to ending Iraq's civil war is in serious trouble among Iraqi lawmakers, many of whom see it as a sloppy document rushed forward to satisfy Washington's clock. Opposition ranges from vehement to measured,... Read more |
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Can Capitalism Be Green? TORONTO - Capitalism has proven to be environmentally and socially unsustainable, so future prosperity will have to come from a new economic model, say some experts. What this new model would look like is the subject of intense debate. One current theory states that continuous growth can be... Read more |
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Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, US Study Says Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq's declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a draft American government report. Using an average of $50 a barrel, the report said the... Read more |