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<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>S <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>ndersecretary of State Nicholas B<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rns has signed a deal that will provide Israel with $30,000,000,000 of military aid over the next 10 years.
The Israeli prime minister, Eh<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>d Olmert asked the <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>S envoy to thank President George W B<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>sh and the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, for their efforts in bringing abo<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>t the accord.
It will see Washington transfer $30bn over the next decade, compared to $24bn over the past 10 years. The first payment of $2.55bn will be made in October 2008. Mr B<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rns called the aid package an "investment in...
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Some 30 non-governmental organisations in Niger said overnight they are going to s<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>e the <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>nited States for nearly two billion dollars for "<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nfairly acc<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>sing" Niger of selling <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rani<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>m to the late Iraqi dictator Saddam H<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ssein.
"O<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>r lawyers are abo<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>t to file a laws<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>it against the <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>S calling for damages of abo<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>t 1000 billion CFA francs ($2.42 billion dollars) for the harm s<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ffered" by the co<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ntry, Mo<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>stapha Kadi, president of the Collective of organisations in Niger defending the right to energy (CODDAE).
The laws<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>it by the collective will...
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After more than three years in their co<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ntry, the <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. military still can't <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nderstand Iraqis.
The Iraq St<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>dy Gro<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>p said the lack of Arabic speakers has h<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rt <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. intelligence collection and analysis. The bipartisan panel said the <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. military and government rely too m<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ch on non-<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. translators, who fail to provide context.
"As an intelligence analyst told <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>s, 'We rely too m<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ch on others to bring information to <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>s, and too often don't <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nderstand what is reported back beca<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>se we do not <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nderstand the context of what we are told,'" the...
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Nearly one of every 25 weapons the military bo<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ght for Iraqi sec<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rity forces is missing, a government a<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>dit said S<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nday. Many others cannot be repaired beca<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>se parts or technical man<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>als are lacking.
A second report fo<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nd "significant challenges remain that p<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>t at risk" the <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. military's goal of strengthening Iraqi sec<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rity forces by transferring all logistics operations to the defense ministry by the end of 2007.
A third report concerned the Provincial Reconstr<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ction Team program, in which <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. government experts help Iraqis develop...
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An assistant professor of Arabic at San Francisco State <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>niversity has been stranded in Canada for three months, <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nable to ret<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rn to camp<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>s, after the <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. State Department canceled his visa and began reviewing his sec<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rity stat<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>s.
Mohammad Ramadan Hassan Salama's tro<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>bles began in J<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ne, when he arrived in Canada for what he tho<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ght was a two-day stay to change his temporary scholar visa, which was d<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>e to expire. He planned to exchange it at the <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. Cons<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>late in Toronto for the more coveted O-1 visa, granted only to those with...
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The clandestine <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. commandos whose job is to capt<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>re or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. intelligence world -- no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image -- has led them anywhere near the al-Qaeda leader, according to <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. and Pakistani officials.
"The handf<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>l of assets we have have given <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>s nothing close to real-time intelligence" that co<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ld have led to his capt<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>re, said one co<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nterterrorism official, who said...
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“Yo<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan> don’t need Sec<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rity Co<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ncil a<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>thority to impose sanctions,” Ambassador John R. Bolton says.
With increasing signs that several fellow Sec<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rity Co<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ncil members may stall a <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>nited States p<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>sh to penalize Iran for its n<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>clear enrichment program, B<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>sh administration officials have indicated that they are prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade.
The strategy, analysts say, reflects not only long-standing <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. fr<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>stration with the Sec<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rity Co<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ncil's inaction on Iran, b<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>t also the c<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>rrent...
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North Korea said it had the right to la<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nch a pre-emptive attack to co<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nter a <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S.-So<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>th Korean joint military training drill, its official media reported on T<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>esday.
<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>.S. and So<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>th Korean troops began military exercises on Monday d<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>bbed <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Uspan>lchi Foc<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>s Lens that are aimed at testing command str<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ct<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>res and comm<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>nications.
The ann<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>al exercises have been held witho<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>t incident since they began in 1975 and the North <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>s<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>ally brands them as a prel<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>de to invasion and n<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>clear war.
B<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">uspan>t the drills this year are being held with tensions high on the...
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