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Israel Warns Iran Against Palestinian Aid
Post Date: 2006-02-22 17:59:33 by Brian S
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Iran Says It Will Finance a Palestinian Authority Run by Hamas, Bringing a Warning From Israel The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran - Iran offered Wednesday to help finance a Palestinian Authority run by the Hamas militant group, state radio said in a report that brought a quick warning from Israel that it would do all it could legally to stop the Palestinians from receiving the money. The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, announced the offer after a meeting with Khaled Mashaal, the political leader of the Hamas, in Tehran, radio said. Larijani said the decision was taken after the United States said it would not provide aid to an authority governed by ...
Palestinian brewery to launch 'Hamas' non-alcoholic beer
Post Date: 2006-02-22 02:05:48 by TLBSHOW
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Like any good entrepreneur, Palestinian beermaker Nadim Khoury knew that adaptation would be key to his brewery's survival under a government led by the Islamists of Hamas. So anticipating the hardliners' rise to power in January's general election, Khoury decided to develop a new product -- a non-alcoholic microbrew brandished with a label that coordinates perfectly with Hamas's trademark color. "I figured why not have a green label so it will match?" said Khoury, who runs the Taybeh Brewing Company, the only brewery in the Palestinian territories. "All customers will notice the green for the Hamas flag." The alcohol-free version of Taybeh beer, with a label ...
South Korean Youth side with Communist North Korea and China over the united states - BUSH IS A COMPLETE FAILURE LIKE REAGAN WAS
Post Date: 2006-02-22 01:10:38 by TLBSHOW
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Nearly half of South Korean youths who will be old enough to vote in the country's next elections say Seoul should side with North Korea if the United States attacks the communist nation, according to a poll released Wednesday. At the same time, 40.7 percent of the 1,000 young people surveyed said Seoul should remain neutral in the event of hostilities between Washington and Pyongyang, according to the poll by The Korea Times and Hankook Ilbo dailies. Only 11.6 percent said the South should back its longtime U.S. ally. The poll, conducted Feb. 16-19, surveyed youths between 17 and 23 years old who will be old enough to vote in next year's presidential election. The margin of error was ...
Rice, on Tour, Finds Egypt Unreceptive to Hamas Aid Cutoff
Post Date: 2006-02-21 21:18:28 by Brian S
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CAIRO, Feb. 21 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday began a four-day visit to the Middle East, where she hoped to persuade Arab leaders to cut off financial aid to Hamas. But she ran into trouble on her very first stop. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt's foreign minister, told her that Egypt believed funds to the Palestinian government should continue for an indefinite period, to give Hamas "time to develop their own ideas." Egypt gives little if any money to the Palestinians. Still, Washington considers Cairo's view to be influential, one reason Ms. Rice stopped here first. "The Egyptians," a senior administration official said, "carry significant weight ...
Global spread of English threatens US, UK: study
Post Date: 2006-02-21 20:52:11 by Ferret Mike
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LONDON (Reuters) - The dominance of English as the world's top language -- until recently an advantage to both Britain and the United States -- is now beginning to undermine the competitiveness of both nations, according to a major research report. The report commissioned by the British Council says monolingual English graduates "face a bleak economic future" as multilingual competitors flood into the workforce from all corners of the globe. A massive increase in the number of people learning English is under way and likely to peak at around 2 billion in the next decade, according to the report entitled "English Next." More than half of all primary school children in ...
Arab Americans see bigotry behind ports uproar
Post Date: 2006-02-21 20:48:05 by Ferret Mike
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WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Arab-Americans contended on Tuesday that bias and bigotry, not security concerns, lay behind the uproar over a deal that would place commercial operations at six U.S. ports in the hands of an Arab company. The furor centers around the $6.8 billion acquisition by Dubai Ports World, owned by one of the United Arab Emirates, of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. P&O had been running operations at shipping terminals in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami, and Philadelphia. Citing what they say are fears of lax security, politicians from both parties called on President George W. Bush to cancel the deal and several began ...
Bush Aides' Biz Ties To Arab Firm
Post Date: 2006-02-21 18:25:41 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House. One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose agency heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port. Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet. The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and was tapped by Bush last ...
BUSH ISSUES VETO THREAT; VOWS TO KEEP PORT DEAL
Post Date: 2006-02-21 15:48:10 by A K A Stone
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Bush called the pool back at about 2.30 to issue a very strong defense of port deal... MORE... On port deal he said he would veto any legislation to hold up deal and warned the United States was sending 'mixed signals' by going after a company from the Middle East when nothing was said when a British company was in charge. Lawmakers, he said, must 'step up and explain why a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard.' Bush, sporting the Air Force One fight jacket and a tie, was very forceful when he delivered the statement... I don't view it as a political fight," Bush said. MORE...
Supreme Court to weigh late-term abortions
Post Date: 2006-02-21 13:54:53 by Ferret Mike
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in a state of flux over privacy rights.
The Bush administration has pressed the high court to reinstate the federal law, passed in 2003 but never put in effect because it was struck down by judges in California, Nebraska and New York.
The outcome will likely rest with the two men that President Bush has recently installed on the court. Justices had been split 5-4 in 2000 in striking down a state law, barring what critics call partial birth abortion because it lacked an exception to protect the ...
US Asks Georgia to Use Bases and Airfields for Attacks on Iran — Paper
Post Date: 2006-02-21 00:49:30 by A K A Stone
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American officials are probing whether Georgia, situated just northwest of Iran, will allow Washington to use its military bases and airfields in the event of a military conflict with Teheran, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday citing an unnamed Georgian official. The Americans have been putting out feelers, the source, a high-ranking Georgian government foreign affairs official said, in advance of a possible military strike to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability. American reports in recent months, speculating about the possibility of a campaign against Iran because of the failure of diplomatic efforts to thwart a potential nuclear weapons program, have suggested that ...
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