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Dubai cancels New Year's festivities for Gaza 2009-01-03 10:03:00 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Dubai
's ruler has ordered the cancellation of all New Year
's celebrations in the freewheeling Gulf city state because of the violence in Gaza.Emirates news agency WAM said Tuesday that Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum called off "all forms of celebrations" but did not elaborate.The order calls for Dubai instead to mark the new year "with a somber tone as a token of
Why G.W. Bush should be frogmarched before the Hague 2009-01-02 13:06:00 Based on information supplied in autobiographical and press sources, the book matches events in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, Iraq , and various secret places of detention with provisions in the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements on war crimes. His compilation is the first to cite a comprehensive list of specific war crimes in four categories-illegality of the decision to go to war,
Fixing Uncle Sam’s Image Problem 2009-01-02 09:07:00 Recognizing that America can't go it alone is the best way to boost the country's standing.Since 2000, the United States' standing has deteriorated in all parts of the world, and anti-Americanism has grown intense. The 2008 Pew Global Attitudes survey reveals that in the past eight years, favorable views of the United States fell from 78 percent to 30 percent in Germany, 50 percent to 22 percent i Read more:Image
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U.S. man pleads guilty to acting as agent for Israel 2009-01-02 09:03:00 An 85-year-old former U.S. Army employee pleaded guilty on Tuesday to acting as an unregistered agent of Israel
and admitted he gave classified documents to the Jewish state in the 1980s.Court documents show the defendant, Ben-Ami Kadish, reported to the same handler as Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel in the 1980s and triggered a scandal that rocked U.S.-Israeli relations.Kadish
No Happy New Year in Palestine 2009-01-01 13:31:00 East Jerusalem-- New Year's DayI wake up with a news hangover. Israeli jets are pounding Gaza for the sixth continuous day, and the IDF continues to build up its forces along the border in preparation for a possible ground invasion. Olmert promises that more is on the way, yet Hamas remains defiant and has not lost its ability to launch rocket attacks on Israeli towns and cities. Angry Arabs demon Read more:Happy
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Iraq gov't gets control of Green Zone, US troops 2009-01-01 13:29:00 BAGHDAD – The U.S. formally transferred control of the Green
Zone to Iraq
i authorities Thursday in a pair of ceremonies that also handed back Saddam Hussein's former palace. Iraq's prime minister said he will propose making Jan. 1 a holiday marking the restoration of sovereignty. Under the new security agreement between Washington and Baghdad to replace a U.N. mandate for foreign troops in Iraq,
Cruise Ship Employee Falls Overboard 2009-01-01 13:28:00 CNN reports that eyewitnesses saw a cruise line employee fall overboard today at 12:40 a.m. on the Carnival Cruise
Lines vessel Sensation just off the coast of Vero beach, Florida. While details were not revealed, according to CNN the eyewitnesses claim that it was clear an accident.The Coast Guard was contacted immediately and has searched over 900 square miles according to the Sun-Sentinel .Mo Read more:Employee
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Gaza Conflict May Affect Obama Peacekeeping Vow 2009-01-01 13:22:00 The conflict in Gaza presents a challenge for the incoming Obama
administration, which already was facing a packed Middle East agenda. Leslie Gelb tells Steve Inskeep that the question now is whether the situation in Gaza will make it harder for President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promises of active peacemaking between the Israelis and Palestinians. Gelb is a former state and defense Read more:Affect
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Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. 2009-01-01 13:17:00 For a decade, Russian
academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. — very seriously. Now he’s found an eager audience: Russian state media.In recent weeks, he’s been interviewed as much as twice a day abou
Gaza Conflict May Result in U.S. Attack on Iran 2009-01-01 13:14:00 John Bolton told Fox News yesterday that the conflict in Gaza could lead to a U.S. attack on Iran as the former U.S. ambassador to the UN exploited the crisis to propagandize for a new war.“So while our focus obviously is on Gaza right now, this could turn out to be a much larger conflict,” said Bolton, adding that “we’re looking at potentially a multi-front war here.”“I don’t think Read more:Conflict
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Taliban Ambush Kills 20 Afghan Police 2009-01-01 13:12:00 KANDAHAR, Afghan
istan -- Taliban
militants ambushed a group of Afghan police while they were eating lunch in a remote and dangerous part of southern Afghanistan, killing 20 officers and one of the policeman's mother, an Afghan official said Thursday.A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said two Taliban were killed and four wounded during the ambush. Mr. Ahmadi claimed 32 police were killed, bu Read more:Ambush
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Tougher speed cameras 'due soon' 2009-01-01 12:40:00 A new generation of speed cameras that makes it harder for motorists to avoid being caught may soon get government approval, the manufacturers have said.Geoff Collins of Speed Check Services said approval was now in the "end game" stage and some 35 local authorities had expressed an interest in the system.It uses a network of cameras to work out average speed over a wide area.Pressure group the As Read more:Tougher
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