Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 | Post a comment
(Washington, DC, January 29, 2007) Preliminary US government findings that Israel violated agreements with the United States by its use of cluster munitions in Lebanon last summer should lead to an immediate cutoff of all US cluster munitions sales to Israel, Human Rights Watch said today. The Bush administration is expected to report to Congress today on a State Department investigation into the use of US-made cluster munitions by Israel. Demining groups estimate that Israel used cluster munitions containing some 2.6 to 4 million submunitions in Lebanon, the majority of which were produced in the United States. Israel’s use of cluster munitions was the most extensive anywhere in the world since the 1991 Gulf War.
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Monday, January 29th, 2007 | Post a comment
MOSCOW – Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov branded Gay Pride parades a “satanic act” today and vowed to stop any attempt by homosexuals to march through Russia’s capital this year, Russian news agencies reported.
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Monday, January 29th, 2007 | Post a comment
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Iran, Syria and the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah must be “called to account” for creating chaos in Lebanon, President George W. Bush said, after riots last week in the capital, Beirut.
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Monday, January 29th, 2007 | Post a comment
DAVENPORT, Iowa – Hillary Rodham Clinton left caucus-goers here yesterday believing that Bubba had given her a baptism by fire in how to deal with “evil and bad men.”
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007 | Post a comment
Administration Strategy Stirs Concern Among Some Officials
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007 | Post a comment
Russia maintains listening posts along the Syrian border with Israel which it uses to follow IDF movements in the Golan Heights, it was revealed Thursday night.
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007 | One comment
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 | Post a comment
TOKYO: Lebanon’s embattled premier has pinned the blame on Iran and Syria for a Hezbollah-backed nationwide opposition strike during which three people died, in remarks published here on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 | Post a comment
SAN FRANCISCO – More than 300 passengers and crew aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, which is heading for Auckland next month, have been struck down by a highly contagious form of stomach virus.
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 | Post a comment
Newt Gingrich: Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem facing mortal Iranian threat, says former US Speaker of the House; emphasizes ‘three nuclear weapons are a second Holocaust’
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