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WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 10:50am mrmdc

CNN -- Iran will offer cash incentives to travel agencies to encourage Western tourists to visit the country, giving a premium for Americans, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 10:47am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- The annual vote in the UN general assembly on the US embargo against Cuba is back this month. Last year's result saw 182 member states oppose the blockade, with only four - the US, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau - voting in favour. The embargo, a.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 6:10pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Iran's firebrand president warned on Monday that his country would respond with an "appropriate and firm response" to any U.N. sanction over its nuclear program... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 10:30am mrmdc

Toronto Star -- Much has changed in the way the mainstream media deal with the war in Iraq. Most commentators now acknowledge the war is a disaster and will hurt the Republicans badly in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 12:02am neoform

Yahoo News -- A former political adviser to Saddam Hussein's son said today that Saddam was willing to yield to all American demands before the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- but that the Bush administration refused his offers... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Oct 30, 2006 @ 4:43pm mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Britain is to send the author of today's landmark review on global warming to try to win American hearts and minds to the urgent cause of cutting carbon emissions - as it emerged yesterday that the government has already signed up former US vice-presiden.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Oct 28, 2006 @ 3:40pm neoform

CNN -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday referred to the boundary between himself and the United States, telling U.S. President Bush that he answers first to the Iraqi government and people, according to an Iraqi official... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Oct 27, 2006 @ 2:07pm mrmdc

Telegraph -- America is the only country to have voted against a proposed United Nations treaty aimed at controlling international arms sales... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 25, 2006 @ 8:13am neoform

Boston Globe -- Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Monday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 24, 2006 @ 3:48pm mrmdc

Xinhua -- Iraq's own security forces should be able to take over security job within the next 12 to 18 months, General George Casey, the top commander of U.S. military in Iraq said Tuesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 24, 2006 @ 10:01am mrmdc

RSF -- New countries have moved ahead of some Western democracies in the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, issued today, while the most repressive countries are still the same ones... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Oct 21, 2006 @ 11:12am neoform

Washington Post -- The United States took another step yesterday toward building a new stockpile of up to 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons that would last well into the 21st century, announcing the start of a multiyear process to repair and replace facilities where they would.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jan 7, 2007 @ 9:46am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Millions of Britons who visit the United States are to have their fingerprints stored on the FBI database alongside those of criminals, in a move that has outraged civil rights groups... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 8:08am neoform

Alter Net -- It has been the strangest war. It had hardly begun in 2003 when President George W. Bush announced on May 1 that it was over: the American mission had been accomplished. Months passed before Washington and London realized that the conflict had not finishe.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 7:19pm neoform

Slate -- With a clutch of new books, a multitude of speeches, and a score of conferences already under way, no one can claim that the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution has gone unmarked. The Hungarians themselves commemorated their tragic revolt ag.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 1:59pm mrmdc

Los Angeles Times -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki today ordered U.S. and Iraqi forces to remove roadblocks enclosing a vast Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the capital that is part of his power base... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Mon Oct 30, 2006 @ 11:33pm neoform

MSNBC -- Alone and in clusters, collars up to block the rain, thousands of people lined the streets on a gray October day in 2005 to welcome their warriors home. For 13 miles, they rose to wave, a few to salute, as the buses rolled slowly past. More than one tough.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Oct 28, 2006 @ 2:49pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- In an expected move nonetheless seen as a political signal to Washington, Iran said it stepped up its uranium enrichment program Friday, even as a divided UN Security Council became bogged down over a European draft resolution to impose sanctions on Tehra.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Fri Oct 27, 2006 @ 12:29pm mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- In 2004 I was with a group of parliamentarians in Aleppo, Syria's second city. The Grand Mufti asked me to speak to his 1,500-strong congregation at Friday prayers. I did so without facing any apparent hostility. I cannot imagine this happening anywhere.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Oct 27, 2006 @ 11:40am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- An American sex offender who was sentenced by a U.S. judge to three years "exile" in Canada was arrested by Canadian border guards on Thursday and faces deportation, an official said... Read More