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Celebrities Attend Anti-War Rally The Nation magazine sponsors cruise visit by editor, politicians Read more |
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Lieberman Escalates Attack on Iraq Critics Ever since Connecticut Democrats refused to back him for a fourth term in Congress, Joe Lieberman has been burnishing his independent credentials in the narrowly divided Senate while becoming increasingly critical of the Democratic Party on the war in Iraq. Lieberman, the Democrats' 2000 vice... Read more |
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Planners Move to Close the Window on American McMansions LOS ANGELES - For many they are a blight on the American landscape. For others, they are an expression of freedom and success. Now legislators in cities across the US, alarmed at the spread of "McMansions", are trying to contain the size of American homes. Inspired by concerns that communities are... Read more |
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Children Hardest Hit by Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq The number of Iraqi children who are born underweight or suffer from malnutrition has increased sharply since the US-led invasion, according to a report by Oxfam and a network of about 80 aid agencies. The report describes a nationwide catastrophe, with around 8 million Iraqis - almost a third of... Read more |
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Brazil, Alarmed, Reconsiders Policy on Climate Change MANAUS, Brazil - Alarmed at recent indications of climate change here in the Amazon and in other regions of Brazil, the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has begun showing signs of new flexibility in the tangled, politically volatile international negotiations to limit human-caused... Read more |
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Invasion, What Invasion? Sorry Tale of CIA Bungles THE CIA thought it had a scoop in 1994. Its friends in the Guatemalan Army were bugging the bedroom of Marilyn McAfee, the US envoy to the country, whom they regarded as suspect because she was fighting human rights abuses by the regime. Eavesdroppers heard her whispering sweet nothings to someone... Read more |
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Brown Tries to Shift Bush Talks to Trade and Darfur Gordon Brown arrived in Washington last night for his first meeting as prime minister with George Bush, determined to shift the focus from Iraq towards less divisive issues such as trade and Darfur. Mr Brown, who is scheduled to hold formal talks today with Mr Bush and his team at Camp David, the... Read more |
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Big US Presence in Iraq Until Mid-2009: Commander BAGHDAD - U.S. generals expect to need a large contingent of troops in Iraq until the middle of 2009, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Monday. Such a timeline would hand President George W. Bush's successor the task of bringing U.S. forces home from Iraq, more than six years after Bush... Read more |
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American Mega-Embassy in Iraq Stirs Echoes of Somalia BAGHDAD-Huge, expensive and dogged by controversy, the new American embassy compound nearing completion here epitomizes to many Iraqis the worst of the U.S. tenure in Iraq. "It's all for them, all of Iraq's resources, water, electricity, security," said Raid Kadhim Kareem, who has watched the... Read more |
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Energy Bill Will Test Pelosi's Command WASHINGTON - Democrats, in taking back the House from Republicans, promised to tilt the nation's energy policy away from oil drilling and toward efficiency and cleaner sources of energy. This week their pledge will be put to the test. As the House starts debate on its energy bill, Speaker Nancy... Read more |
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Violence Masking Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq: Oxfam AMMAN - Oxfam warned in a report Monday that unabated violence in Iraq is masking a humanitarian crisis that has worsened since the US-led invasion in 2003, putting at risk almost eight million Iraqis. "While horrific violence dominates the lives of millions of ordinary people inside Iraq, another... Read more |
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Poverty, Development Goals Hard Subjects to Tackle MONTEVIDEO, Jul 27 - Water used to be carried home, usually by women, in large jugs, as is still the case in many poor countries. But now that many people around the world have piped water, they go to the supermarket to buy bottled water. Today, water is increasingly privately owned. However, "when... Read more |
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Iraq: One in Seven Joins Human Tide Spilling into Neighbouring Countries SULAYMANIYAH - Two thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since the Second World War. Four million people, one in seven Iraqis, have run away, because if they do not they will be killed... Read more |
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Clinton Woos the Outsourcers that Workers Fear BUFFALO, N.Y. - To many labor unions and high-tech workers, the Indian giant Tata Consultancy Services is a serious threat - a company that has helped move U.S. jobs to India while sending thousands of foreign workers on temporary visas to the United States. So when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N... Read more |
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Anti-Abortion Leaders Size Up G.O.P. Candidates WASHINGTON, July 29 - After 30 years of political organizing within the Republican Party, the anti-abortion movement has won a series of victories in legislatures and courts and stands tantalizingly close to winning even more. But these are anxious days for the movement. Six months before the Iowa... Read more |
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Arms Sale Plan Will Haunt US, Critics Say THE Bush Administration's plan to sell advanced weapons worth $US20 billion ($24 billion) to Saudi Arabia and five other Persian Gulf countries is running into congressional opposition and criticism from human rights and arms control groups. Members of Congress vowed on Saturday to oppose any sale... Read more |
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Global Warming Doubles Number of Hurricanes, Study Finds WASHINGTON - Global warming's effect on wind patterns and sea temperatures have nearly doubled the number of hurricanes a year in the Atlantic Ocean over the past century, says a new study by US scientists. Excerpts from the study by Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and... Read more |
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Congress Eyes Pay Raise for Itself WASHINGTON - After raising the minimum wage by 70 cents an hour this week, many members of Congress are ready to give themselves a pay increase of roughly $4,400 per year. That would take their annual salaries to nearly $170,000. Campaigning last year, Democratic leaders said it would be wrong for... Read more |
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As Butterflies Die, So Goes a Way of Life Logging in Mexico puts wildlife, livelihoods at risk Read more |
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Israel Hails US military Aid Rise Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has confirmed that the United States is planning a significant increase in military and defence aid to Israel. Read more |
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Giving New Life to Protests of Yore WASHINGTON, July 26 - It's not an unfamiliar tableau these days: people gathered on a grassy expanse of the National Mall here, listening to someone deliver an impassioned antiwar speech with phrases like "aggressive, activist foreign policy," "the war we are creating," "vigorous governmental... Read more |
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Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over U.S. Spying WASHINGTON, July 28 - A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency 's secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current and former officials briefed on the program... Read more |
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US Fears That Brown Wants Iraq Pull-Out A SENIOR Downing Street aide has sounded out Washington on the possibility of an early British military withdrawal from Iraq. Simon McDonald, the prime minister's chief foreign policy adviser, left the impression that he was "doing the groundwork" for Gordon Brown, according to one of those he... Read more |
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Revealed: MI5's Role In Torture Flight Hell · British source tells of betrayal to CIA· 'I was stripped and hauled to US base' Read more |
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U.S. Set to Offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq... Read more |
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Liberal Groups Ask Advertisers to Boycott Fox NEW YORK -- Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network. MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future, and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the... Read more |
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A Blurry Line Between Propaganda and News WASHINGTON -- A shocking thing happens midway through Norman Solomon's documentary film " War Made Easy ". While analyzing the George W. Bush administration's lead-up to the Iraq invasion, Solomon plays a news clip of Eason Jordan, a CNN News chief executive who, in an interview with CNN, boasts of... Read more |
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Washington Pressed to Lead as Water Tables Fall NEW YORK -- Calls for increased help from Washington are on the rise as global efforts to tackle the world's burgeoning water and sanitation crisis have largely failed to produce any meaningful results so far. "Support, sponsor, solve," read a full-page newspaper advertisement released by an... Read more |
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State Vote Machines Lose Test to Hackers State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems' electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday. The researchers... Read more |
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Hillary Clinton: Right-Wing Darling? WASHINGTON -- Since when is Hillary Clinton the pin-up gal of conservative pundits? After Clinton delivered a foreign-policy cold-cock to Barack Obama's head during a Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday: Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard, a neo-conservative weekly, wrote that she delivered... Read more |
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Was Pat Tillman Murdered? AP Gets New Documents SAN FRANCISCO -- Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The... Read more |
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Conflict on Screen: Hollywood Goes to War HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Not so long ago, Hollywood was famously shy of telling stories ripped straight from the headlines. The movies, after all, are a form of escapism, first and foremost. Who wants to go to the multiplex to get more of the same depressing images being broadcast on the evening news?... Read more |
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Officer Calls Guantanamo Reviews a Sham WASHINGTON - Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, a military intelligence officer, spent six months at the Department of Defense working in the office that reviews the government's cases against detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His experience - as recounted in a sworn affidavit - is credited with... Read more |
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5 Years Later, Cameraman Still Held at Guantanamo KHARTOUM, Sudan - He's all but unknown in the United States, the country of his jailers, but in his homeland of Sudan, Sami al Hajj is a national hero. The president has spoken out about him, demonstrations have been held in his name, and a bakery in Khartoum has printed his picture on its... Read more |
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Russia's Gorbachev Says US is Sowing World Disorder Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the United States, and current President George W. Bush in particular, on Friday for sowing disorder across the world by seeking to build an empire. Gorbachev, who presided over the break-up of the Soviet Union, said Washington had sought to... Read more |
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Teens March Across US to Protest War MONTEZUMA, Iowa - Two teens from opposite coasts are marching across the country for peace, hoping to gain followers and attention with each step. Ashley Casale, 19, of Clinton Corners, N.Y., and Michael Israel, 18, of Jackson, Calif., had hoped others who oppose the war in Iraq would join them on... Read more |
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Dozens of Afghan Civilians Die in Air Raids: Residents KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Dozens of civilians, including women and children, have been killed in two foreign air strikes in southern Afghanistan, residents and a local member of parliament said on Friday. One of the raids by NATO hit houses in the Girishk district of Helmand province on Thursday... Read more |
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US Peace Groups Hail Vote on Iraq Bases SAN FRANCISCO - Peace advocates in the United States are welcoming a Congressional vote Wednesday that may be a political stepping stone to ending U.S. participation in the war in Iraq. "It's a first step for Republicans who have thus far been raising questions about the war, but not voting against... Read more |
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Obama Says Clinton Has foreign Policy Like Bush's WASHINGTON - - Democrat Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton on Thursday of backing a foreign policy toward hostile nations no different than U.S. President George W. Bush's in an escalation of their war of words this week. Obama, an Illinois senator, fired back at New York Sen. Clinton for calling... Read more |
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Waiting for Good Dough The click of heels against the marble floors echoes through the halls as staffers hurry to happy hour, yoga or home. It's 6:30 p.m., and the entire Dirksen Senate Office Building is rushing. Everyone except Hans Scheltema, who leans against the wall in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee room... Read more |
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Iraq Envoy Slams US Over Arms Supplies WASHINGTON - Iraq's ambassador to the United States Wednesday launched a withering attack on what he said was US slowness to provide basic weaponry to his country's ill-equipped armed forces. Samir Sumaidaie said the foot-dragging was inexplicable given President George W. Bush's oft-stated desire... Read more |
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Iraq Warns of War Refugee 'Humanitarian Crisis' Iraq warned of a humanitarian crisis on Thursday as it appealed to the international community to help hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have taken refuge from war in neighbouring countries. "The Iraqi government calls on the international community, in particular neighbouring countries, to... Read more |
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Bush's Attorney General Faces Threat of Perjury Probe WASHINGTON - A senior US senator is threatening to request a perjury inquiry into President George W. Bush's attorney general amid accusations his sworn testimony before Congress contradicted an account from a top intelligence official. The threat comes amid an escalating battle between Congress... Read more |
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Bush Line Distorts Iran's Real Interest in Iraq WASHINGTON - As U.S. and Iranian diplomats met in Baghdad Tuesday for a second round of talks on Iraq, the domestic U.S. political climate appears decidedly more supportive of an aggressive U.S. posture toward Iran than just a few months ago, reflecting the apparent triumph the George W. Bush... Read more |
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Huge Farm Bill Offers More of Same for Agribusiness WASHINGTON - A prominent San Francisco patron of the arts, Constance Bowles -- heiress of an early California cattle baron, widow of a former director of UC Berkeley's Bancroft library and a resident of Pacific Heights -- was the largest recipient of federal cotton subsidies in the state of... Read more |
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Eight Americans Graduate in Boost for Cuban Health Care Eight American students have graduated from a Cuban medical school after six years of free tuition, giving a fresh boost to the reputation of the communist government's health care system. The first class of US graduates from the Latin American School of Medicine, a Fidel Castro brainchild on... Read more |
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House Panel Cites Bush Aides for Contempt of Congress WASHINGTON -- The House Judiciary Committee voted contempt of Congress citations Wednesday against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and President Bush's former legal counselor, Harriet Miers. The 22-17 party-line vote -- which would sanction the pair for failure to comply with subpoenas on... Read more |
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Tiny Town Demands Justice in Dioxin Poisoning BOSTON -- A U.S. health agency has made research subjects of people in tiny Mossville, Louisiana by repeatedly monitoring dangerously high levels of dioxin in their blood while doing nothing to get the community out of harm's way, residents say. Further, the agency failed to release important test... Read more |
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US 'Ignored' UK Rendition Protest British concerns did not appear to "materially" affect US actions in its "war on terror", the UK's intelligence and security committee has said. The committee, which reports to the prime minister, was probing possible UK involvement in rendition flights. It said America's "lack of regard" for UK... Read more |
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Clinton, Obama Camps Battle Over talking to Castro, Chavez WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has seized on Sen. Barack Obama's debate assertion that he'd meet with Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as evidence that her top rival isn't ready for the diplomatic stage. In one of the sharpest exchanges of the Democratic... Read more |
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To Fund Children's Health Plan, House Would Pay Insurers Less Bush threatens veto. Read more |
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Hot Offices in NYC Find a Green Solution Massive blocks of ice cool floors, cut energy use Read more |
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Bringing Moos and Oinks Into the Food Debate WATKINS GLEN, NY -- The first farm animal Gene Baur ever snatched from a stockyard was a lamb he named Hilda. That was 1986. She's now buried under a little tombstone near the center of Farm Sanctuary, 180 acres of vegan nirvana here in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Back then, Mr... Read more |
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China's Environmental Crisis: Hard Cash Beats Clean Air BEIJING -- From a public relations standpoint, it didn't look good. In the space of less than a month, China quashed two potentially embarrassing environmental reports that would have said what most people already know: the country is facing a costly and increasingly deadly environmental crisis... Read more |
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India's First Woman President Vows Fight for Women, Unborn Girls NEW DELHI - India's first woman president was sworn into office Wednesday and promised to fight for the rights of women and an end to the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses. Pratibha Patil, 72, also said the country's hundreds of millions of poor should reap the benefit of India's... Read more |
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Experts Question US Strategy in Pakistan WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's strategy for pursuing al-Qaida in Pakistan's tribal region could stoke support for the Islamic militants who are protecting the terrorist network's leaders and battling Pakistan's U.S.-backed military regime, some U.S. diplomatic and defense officials and... Read more |
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US 'Brand Identity' Tarnished Study says 'show of force' model marketed by military should have been `we will help you' Read more |
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Iraqis Blame US Depleted Uranium for Surge in Cancer CAIRO -- Iraq's environment minister blamed Monday the use of depleted uranium weapons by U.S. forces during the 2003 Operation Shock and Awe for the current surge in cancer cases across the country. As a result of "at least 350 sites in Iraq being contaminated during bombing" with depleted uranium... Read more |
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Pressure Builds to Ban Plastic Bags in Stores ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Paper or plastic? It is a question that has long dogged grocery shoppers. But the debate may soon be settled for this maritime city, where a bill aimed at protecting marine life would ban plastic bags from all retail stores. San Francisco enacted a ban in April, but it applies just... Read more |
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Hazard Warning on Home Cleaners Study says many use chemicals linked to fertility problems Read more |
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Takoma Park City Council Strongly Backs Bid to Impeach Bush, Cheney Over the years, Takoma Park has declared itself a nuclear-free zone, established an immigrant sanctuary law and written a 5,000-word manual for its trash and award-winning recycling programs. Last night, its City Council voted to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney... Read more |
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Iraq War Has Made Australia Less Safe: Poll Most Australians believe their government's involvement in the Iraq war has made the country less safe, an opinion poll showed Tuesday. Just six percent of those polled said they felt more safe, according to the Newspoll survey for GetUp, a political pressure group that claims nearly 190,000... Read more |
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After Carnage, U.S. and Iraqi Authorities Compete for Control BAGHDAD - It was just another car bomb, this time an old, blue Volkswagen Passat that blew up in a busy shopping district of Baghdad, one of four that killed and maimed Iraqi civilians Monday. But the array of first responders who descended on the smoke-filled scene exemplified how militants aren't... Read more |
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Candidates Hop Aboard the Iran Sanctions Bus WASHINGTON - Last Thursday afternoon, in a tightly packed press room of the U.S. Capitol building, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi stood at the podium and smiled heartily as she pointed to two columns of U.S. postal boxes stacked behind her. "Since Iran funds death," she told the crowd, her lobby group --... Read more |
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Rights Groups Dismiss Bush's Rules for Secret Prisons SAN FRANCISCO - Human rights organizations are reacting coldly to President George W. Bush's executive order forbidding the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from torturing, humiliating, or abusing detainees in its once-secret interrogation program. "It's incredibly vague to the point of being... Read more |
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Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan Arrested at Congress WASHINGTON - Calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan and 45 fellow Iraq war protesters were arrested on Monday after they refused to leave a U.S. lawmaker's office and adjoining hallway, authorities said. Before police escorted her... Read more |
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Injured Iraq War Veterans Sue Bush's VA Head for Poor Care, Cheating WASHINGTON -- Frustrated by delays in health care, a coalition of injured Iraq war veterans is accusing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment. The class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, filed Monday... Read more |
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Global Warming has Already Changed World's Rainfall Patterns: Study PARIS -- A study has yielded the first confirmation that global warming is already affecting world's rainfall patterns, bringing more precipitation to northern Europe, Canada and northern Russia but less to swathes of sub-Saharan Africa, southern India and Southeast Asia. The changes "may have... Read more |
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Unlikely Adversary Arises to Criticize Detainee Hearings NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Stephen E. Abraham's assignment to the Pentagon unit that runs the hearings at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, seemed a perfect fit. A lawyer in civilian life, he had been decorated for counterespionage and counterterrorism work during 22 years as a reserve Army intelligence officer... Read more |
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US Won't Rule Out Force in Pakistan Push Against Al Qaeda May Backfire, Some Say Read more |
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Senator Calls For Censure Against Bush Feingold says the measures aim at 'misconduct' of the war and 'attack' on laws, but top Senate leaders predict the effort will fail. Read more |
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Turkey: Islamic Party Wins in Landslide ISTANBUL - Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), with its roots in Islam but professing to be secular and conservative, won a landslide victory in general elections Sunday. What it does in coming days will determine how long it stays in office. As some 42 million voters cast their... Read more |
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Low-Key Recall of AIDS Drug Hits World's Poor ROME - A total recall of an important AIDS drug widely used in developing countries has disrupted treatment for tens of thousands of the world's poorest patients, with no clear word from the manufacturer on when shipments will resume. The recall of the drug, Viracept, by Roche Pharmaceuticals of... Read more |
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New Poll: Globalization Backlash in Rich Nations A popular backlash against globalization and the leaders of the world's largest companies is sweeping all rich countries, an FT/Harris poll shows. Large majorities of people in the US and in Europe want higher taxation for the rich and even pay caps for corporate executives to counter what they... Read more |
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US Force-Feeds Guantanamo Hunger Strikers GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Twice a day at the U.S. military prison, Abdul Rahman Shalabi and Zaid Salim Zuhair Ahmed are strapped down in padded restraint chairs, and flexible yellow tubes are inserted through their noses and throats. Milky nutritional supplements, mixed with water and olive... Read more |
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Drug Safety Critic Hurls His Darts From the Inside CLEVELAND - Back in the '60s, when University of Michigan students were holding protests over civil rights and the Vietnam War, an undergraduate named Steven E. Nissen was at the center of the political dissent. Four decades later, that former campus activist is now Dr. Nissen, who is shaking up... Read more |
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Australian Chief Lashes US on Iraq AUSTRALIA'S Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Peter Leahy, has taken a swipe at the US military's strategy at the outset of the Iraq war, expressing disbelief that it has taken so long for commanders to realize the merits of engaging with the local population and winning their trust. Visiting a... Read more |
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US Choppers Kill ... Who? Enemy or Innocents? BAGHDAD, Iraq - This much is agreed upon: at least six Iraqis died overnight Saturday when American attack helicopters pounded a cluster of homes in a dusty, nondescript neighborhood on the northern outskirts of Baghdad. But the story of why those homes were targeted and who was killed depends on... Read more |
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With Iraq on Fire, Rest of World on Hold WASHINGTON - Two months ago, President Bush enthusiastically accepted an invitation to visit Singapore in September. But he abruptly changed plans, and his summit with Southeast Asian leaders is off. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is skipping an Asian meeting, too, and tossed out plans to... Read more |
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US Bending Rules on Colombia Terror? WASHINGTON - For more than a decade, leftist guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia have kidnapped or killed civilians, trade union leaders, police and soldiers by the hundreds and profited by shipping cocaine and heroin to the United States. In that time, several American... Read more |
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Welcome to Richistan, USA The American Dream of riches for all is turning into a nightmare of inequality. But a backlash is brewing. Read more |
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DeFazio Asks, But He's Denied Access Classified info - The congressman wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack Read more |
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Human Peace Sign Portland Peace Festival Eastern Promenade Portland, Maine July 14, 2007 Read more |
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Pelosi Takes Heat for OK of Farm Bill Legislation heavy on subsidies draws Bay Area activists' fire Read more |
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Environmental Protester Slain in Siberia MOSCOW -- Attackers dressed in dark clothes and wielding metal pipes raided a camp of environmental protesters in Siberia early Saturday, leaving one dead and several injured, a spokeswoman for the local administration said. Eight demonstrators were hospitalized after the attack, one of whom later... Read more |
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Court Grants Evidence to Guantanamo Lawyers A federal appeals court on Friday ruled lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners should have access to nearly all government evidence so they can challenge detainees' designation as "unlawful enemy combatants." The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington was a... Read more |
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Bush Bars CIA from Using Torture, but Details Remain Cloudy WASHINGTON - President Bush signed an executive order Friday barring the CIA from using torture, acts of violence and degrading treatment in the interrogation and detention of terrorism suspects, but human rights experts questioned its scope. The order "interprets the meaning and application" to... Read more |
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Blood and Guts: Pakistan's 'Gutsiest' Woman Lunchtime yesterday, and a gaggle of lawyers in black suits crammed into a small room in the sweaty bowels of Pakistan's Supreme Court. Balancing cigarettes and cups of tea, they savored the moment. An epic struggle was nearing its climax. The court was about to deliver its verdict on a battle that... Read more |
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Bribery Network to Bloat War Costs Is Alleged Federal investigators have uncovered what they describe as a sweeping network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving at least eight employees and subcontractors of KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary, in a scheme to inflate charges for flying freight into Iraq in support of the war, according... Read more |
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Will U.S. Finally End Cluster Bomb Exports? WASHINGTON - At the end of June, a few members of the U.S. Congress made a discreet move to limit this country's exports of cluster bombs, a weapon that has been used around the world since the Second World War to devastating humanitarian consequences. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont,... Read more |
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Army Wife and Mother in Oregon Battles War BEAVERTON, Oregon - An army travels on its stomach. So Chop! Marlene Schaffer attacks vegetables as she grills T-bone steaks for her husband's farewell party. Chop! She shreds lettuce for chicken Caesar salads for a midweek meal. With her husband Howard Schaffer's deployment this morning, the... Read more |
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Blind Loyalty Latest US War Casualty PEMBERTON, New Jersey, is a military town, but it emerges from the highway like a vision of an older, simpler, idealised America conceived by Norman Rockwell. This is not a holiday, yet Pemberton's historic main street is dressed in national flags, the Stars and Stripes lifting from every lightpole... Read more |
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Musharraf Rocked by Judge Ruling Amid Fresh Bloodshed ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, battling a wave of Islamist violence, suffered another blow Friday when the supreme court gave a victory to his political nemesis, the country's top judge. Musharraf ousted independent-minded chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in March, but... Read more |
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Disarmament in Colombia: The Meltdown Begins UNITED NATIONS - It was gesture to pave the way. A meltdown took place last week, but it wasn't the collapse of a government or institution -- rather the destruction of nearly 14,000 small arms and light weapons in Colombia on International Gun Destruction Day. Organised by the U.N. Office on Drugs... Read more |
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Famous Women Give Voice to Slain Student's Legacy Michelle Gardner-Quinn wanted to make protecting the environment her life's work. As a young college student, she traveled to Costa Rica, Brazil, and South Africa to study nature in its purest forms. She was an avid supporter of Al Gore and his warnings about global warming. And last October, as a... Read more |
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Blast Shows Age of US Infrastructure NEW YORK - With a blast that made skyscrapers tremble, an 83-year-old steam pipe sent a powerful message that the miles of tubes, wires and iron beneath New York and other U.S. cities are getting older and could become dangerously unstable. The steam conduit that exploded beneath a Manhattan street... Read more |
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General in Iraq Awaits November Assessment For months September has been cast as a pivotal time for determining the course of the war in Iraq, yet a top general now says a solid judgment on the U.S. troop buildup there may not come until November. Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno told he would need beyond September to tell if improvements in Iraq... Read more |
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Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings WASHINGTON - Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials... Read more |
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A German City's Long Focus on the Sun FREIBURG, Germany -- Rolf Disch has harnessed the sun in his city of Freiburg, starting with his own house. It looks like an upside-down Apollo spacecraft and serves as a testing ground for ideas dreamed up by the 63-year-old solar architect. The home slowly turns with the sun to charge a billboard... Read more |
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Huge Underground Lake Could End Darfur Conflict: US Scientist SUDAN - The recent discovery of a huge underground lake in Sudan could spell an end to four years of conflict in the drought-stricken region of Darfur, a US geologist said Wednesday. More than 200,000 people have been killed and some two million displaced in the conflict, sparked in part by... Read more |