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83 Iraqi legislators seek U.S. pullout: A memorandum signed by 83 MPs in the 275-seat National Assembly was submitted to the House speaker Sunday in which they blasted the Iraqi government's request to the U.N. Security Council to extend the presence of the foreign forces in the country.
US 'losing in Iraq' - Republican Senator Hagel : Republican Senator Chuck Hagel slammed the George W. Bush administration's Iraq policy as "disconnected from reality" in some of the harshest comments to date about the war from a member of the president's own party.
Attack on Irbil police kills many - A suicide attacker in Iraq has killed at least 13 policemen in the northern city of Irbil.
Car bomb kills at least 10 Iraqi police recruits - among a crowd of Iraqi traffic police recruits in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil on Monday, killing at least 10 and wounding more than 100, local officials said.
A spokesman for Arbil’s city council said the death toll could rise as many of the wounded were in serious condition. Saman Halabjayi, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Arbil said 106 were wounded, 10 of them seriously.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office legal advice
- The following is a transcript rather than the original document
in order to protect the source. This is the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office legal advice appended as Annex A to the Cabinet Office
briefing paper on Iraq of July 21, 2002. This advice was originally
written in March 2002.
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Bush
wounded by anger over war- - INCREASING
American concern about the conduct of the war in Iraq has forced
President George W Bush to sideline some of his domestic priorities
in favour of a new public relations drive to bolster confidence
in the coalition effort.
Allies begin
to resist CIA over 'renditions'-
U.S. allies have begun to resist to U.S. pressure
to deport terror suspects.
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The 23d Qualm by Daniel Fey
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Commentaries 
 A train chopped off the boy's shank beneath the
knee and smashed one-third of his leg
It took the boy too much time to collect the toys from the
railway tracks: the train was approaching too fast. When the
boy came to his senses, he saw a puddle of blood, his horrified
friends in tears and a mutilated stump of his leg. The boy's
weeping mother took her crippled son to a hospital. The grandfather
found the cut shank in the grass near the tracks and brought
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Oil Soars To Near
$60 A Barrel- as worries about a possible winter fuel crunch on sustained demand stoked buying by hedge funds and forced OPEC to consider lifting supply quotas again.
Air Canada cancels $6 bln Boeing order-ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. unit Air Canada said late on Saturday that it canceled a $6 billion order for 32 jets from Boeing Co. , after the airline's pilots rejected an agreement on costs related to the jet purchase.
Oprah tops list of powerful celebs -
The who's who, ranked by earnings and popularity
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Taliban capture Afghan district
Notorious, High Ranking Saudi Interrogations Officer Gunned Down In Mecca - by Al-Qaida Mujahideen as he left his house in Mecca for work early Saturday morning.
Some 940 people are diagnosed with skin cancer in Israelevery ...
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
Some 940 people are diagnosed with skin cancer every
year in Israel, which has one of the highest
rates of that type of cancer in the world. ...
Israel builds 700 new homes in W. Bank
Aljazeera.com
- London,UK
Israel revealed on Sunday that it plans building
700 new homes in the occupied West Bank, while furious
Palestinians accused the government of trying to
change
The U.S. war with Iran has already begun- The reality is that the US war with Iran has already begun. As we speak, American over flights of Iranian soil are taking place, using pilotless drones and other, more sophisticated, capabilities.
The Ultimate Deception?: Harring claims he has an internal pdf. file from the D.O.D. which establishes that nearly 9000 Americans have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom, but that the official number has been held to 1713 by designating as Iraq deaths only those who perish on Iraqi soil.
We
are all complicit in these vile acts of torture
But what can we do about
it?
by Robert Fisk
What can we do? What can we do when an American president dispatches "suspects" to third countries where they will be stripped, wired up, electrocuted, ripped open and tortured until they wish they had never been born?
Bush remarks may have inspired Iran voters- Iran's spy chief used just two words to respond to White House ridicule of last week's presidential election: "Thank you." His sarcasm was barely hidden. The backfire on Washington was more evident.
Lebanon opposition claim poll win -
Saad Hariri has campaigned for an end to Syrian influence
Lebanon's main opposition anti-Syrian alliance has claimed victory in the final round of the country's four-round parliamentary elections...Saad Hariri was expected to fare well in Sunni Muslim areas with Mr Aoun likely to take the Christian vote, correspondents say.
US Trained And Aided Killer Uzbek Forces-Moscow - Uzbek law enforcement and security ministries implicated by witnesses in the deadly crackdown in the city of Andijon last month have for years received training and equipment from counterterrorism programs run by the United States, according to American officials and Congressional records.
US air strikes kill 20 Afghan militants- A Taliban spokesman, meanwhile, claimed his fighters had assassinated a kidnapped Afghan police chief and five of his men for collaborating with the U.S.-led coalition.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal,
these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they
call it peace. – Calgacus
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New US move to slow climate accord- Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain's attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer.
U.S. allies resist secret deportations -
U.S. allies have begun to resist Washington's secretive role in spiriting away terror suspects: Italy is investigating the disappearance of one accused militant as a kidnapping, Sweden wrote rules to assert its authority over outside agents and Canada is holding hearings after one of its citizens was sent to Syria. (AP, 12:51 p.m.)
 Russian-Mexican
political relations are merely cloudless, Mexican President Vicente Fox
believes
"The man, who means business," as Mr. Fox describes himself,
plans to have a meeting with Russian President Putin to sign an international
contract about legal assistance, to express his support of Russia's membership
in the WTO and sign the memorandum of reciprocal understanding between Russian
gas giant Gazprom and the Mexican oil and gas corporation PemexMore...
LA Times: Venezuela out to give Latin Americans a better picture ...
VHeadline.com - Worth,IL,USA
... why Latin America badly needs an alternative to CNN ...
effort to reflect the Latin world's disparate cultures ... asked
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Who Wants Net-oriety? -The line between Internet-fame and real-world celebrity is blurring, and not everyone in the blogosphere is happy about it.
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Aruba Police Question Detained Teen's Dad -
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Aruban police on Sunday questioned the father of a Dutch teenager held in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, hoping the island justice official may know something to help solve the mystery of what happened to her, an official said. Paul van der Sloot, a...
Aruba Judge Extends Detention of 3 Men
Probe
Sought in Terri Schiavo 911 Call- TALLAHASSEE,
Fla. - Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday that a prosecutor has agreed
to investigate why Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago, citing
an alleged gap in time from when her husband found her and called
911.
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