Bush picks Republican lawmaker to run SEC Boston Globe
President Bush nominated conservative Representative Christopher Cox as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, prompting speculation that the agency could take a more pro-business approach. Business organizations praised Bush's selection of the California Republican and said they expected that he would focus more on regulatory reform rather than on the enforcement and stiffer rules that characterized the turbulent reign of departing chairman William Donaldson. Critics said they feared that Cox would pull back from aggressive SEC enforcement, which has resulted in big fines for some of America's largest companies in recent years and in tougher accounting and corporate governance regulations.
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Australia's beached whales head back out to sea Reuters AlertNet
All but one of 160 whales which became stranded on two beaches on Australia's southwest coast have been pushed, dragged and herded back into the ocean, rescuers said on Friday.
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Kashmir Leaders Go to Pakistan in Search of Peace CRI
It was the first time New Delhi has let separatists delegates cross to the Pakistani part of the divided territory for talks. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Head of Delegation said they'll try to communicate with more on the other side: "Hurriyat Conference will try to meet all sections of people in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and evolve a consensus on the Kashmir issue. Hardline Hurriyat leaders who insist the whole Kashmir should belong to Pakistan have refused to take part in the visit.
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Live 8 tries to ease fear on protest by 'million' Times Online
THE Live 8 team attempted to build bridges with the Edinburgh authorities yesterday by retracting Bob Geldof’s earlier call for pupils to play truant and join a million people in the city for a G8 protest.
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Bolivian president takes action to defuse protests Reuters AlertNet
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa, faced with the worst social upheaval of his mandate, signed a decree on Thursday on two key demands in hopes of ending weeks of violent protests and narrowing the deep divide between rich and poor over energy resources. Bolivians will go to the polls on Oct. 16 to elect members for an assembly to rewrite the constitution with the aim of redistributing power in favor of the poor indigenous majority, Mesa said. On the same day, he said, Bolivians will vote on a referendum for greater autonomy for provinces from La Paz, a demand of the wealthy eastern provinces where most of Bolivia's gas and oil lies. Mesa announced his intervention after the fragmented Congress failed to reach a consensus for the third day in a row, while indigenous protests raged in the streets of La Paz and brought the capital to a standstill.
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Russia to defend its global interests through dialogue: Lavrov RIA Novosti
Russia plans to defend its national interests in the world through dialogue, rather than confrontation," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told an official meeting at the Far Eastern State University devoted to the fifteenth anniversary of establishing the Russian Federation's commission for UNESCO affairs. "Apart from positive aspects, globalization has its drawbacks, such as terrorism, illicit drug trafficking and organized crime. Not everyone in the world is happy about the way Russia develops. Apart from constructive criticism, we face ill-wishers, who would like to once again view Russia as an adversary or undesirable rival. Russia wants to overcome this perception through dialogue, rather than confrontation. We intend to defend our national interests with the help of dialogue," Lavrov said.
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African leaders assert continent's image tainted Boston Globe
African political and economic leaders complained yesterday that the West unfairly perceives the continent solely as a place riven by conflict, coups, and deadly diseases, when in reality the majority of countries can absorb new investment to build roads and health systems and develop a new generation of leaders. Yet at the three-day Africa Economic Summit here, which attracted 660 people from 42 countries, many participants also acknowledged that corruption still grips several mineral-rich countries, and that Africans need to do more to tackle this obstacle to growth. The 15th annual summit, organized by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, carried a sense of urgency because the plight of Africa will be atop the agenda during a meeting of the Group of Eight summit of leaders of industrial nations next month in Scotland.
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Deep Throat's Lessons for Whistle-Blowers BusinessWeek
Plenty of folks have taken Mark Felt's lonely path since Watergate days. Here's a look at what it takes to successfully reveal wrongdoing.
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Hyperbole and Human Rights Washington Post
At his news conference this week, Bush was asked about a report by Amnesty International in which Irene Khan, the group's secretary general, referred to the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as "the gulag of our times.
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London to NY flight diverted after 'false alarm' CNN International
A Virgin Atlantic flight from London, England, to New York was diverted to Nova Scotia, Canada, on Friday after sending out a hijack signal in what the airline and government officials called a "false alarm.
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US criticizes Gulf allies on human trafficking Reuters
The United States criticized four Gulf Arab allies as some of the world's worst offenders in permitting human trafficking on Friday in a rebuke Washington hopes will promote improved human rights in the Middle East.
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Democrats rest case in Washington election challenge trial kgw.com (subscription)
Democrats rested their case Friday in the election challenge trial, after spending the week defending the disputed 2004 governor's election.
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Bay Area girl second-best speller in US San Jose Mercury News
The words came rapid-fire from the depths of the dictionary, a flurry of Latin roots and French suffixes that one by one flummoxed 270 of the 273 youngsters in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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Deputy, Man Killed in Kentucky Shootout ABC News
A sheriff's deputy and a second man were killed in a shootout after the deputy responded to a domestic violence complaint at the man's home, authorities said.
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Man Convicted of 1982 Slaying Goes Free Washington Post
A man was convicted of manslaughter for beating his girlfriend to death with a hammer in 1982, but he will walk free because the law in effect then included a five-year statute of limitations.
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Two San Diego County men killed in Fontana speedway crash Dateline Alabama
Two San Diego County men were killed when their Porsche crashed and burned at the California Speedway, authorities said. The 2005 Porsche Carrera GT went out of control, left the inside track and careened onto the grass, hit a barrier and caught fire at 10:40 a.m. Thursday, San Bernardino County officials said. The passenger, Corey Nicholas Rudl, 34, died at the scene. The driver, Benjamin Miles Keaton, 39, was airlifted to Loma Linda University Hospital, where he died about an hour later, according to the county coroner's office. The La Jolla men were not burned but died of crash injuries, Supervising Deputy Coroner Randy Emon said.
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Uzbekistan Travel Warning Kansas City infoZine
This Travel Warning is being issued to remind US citizens to the potential for terrorist actions in Uzbekistan. The Department of State has authorized the departure of non-emergency personnel and all eligible family members of U. S. Embassy personnel and urges all U.S. citizens to defer non-essential travel to Uzbekistan. This Travel Warning supercedes the Public Announcement of May 27, 2005. The United States Government has received information that terrorist groups are planning attacks, possibly against U.S. interests, in Uzbekistan in the very near future. Due to the nature of the threat, the Department of State has authorized the departure from Uzbekistan of non-emergency personnel and all eligible family members of the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent. American citizens currently in Uzbekistan should consider departing Uzbekistan via available commercial options.
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Plans for bill signing draw protests Fort Worth Star Telegram
Democrats and a group dedicated to keeping religion out of politics are protesting Gov. Rick Perry's plans to use a Fort Worth Christian school to sign bills aimed at cracking down on abortion and gay marriage.
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Quran abuses verified Newsday
One US interrogator stepped on a Quran. Guards kicked another. And in other cases at Guantanamo Bay prison, the Muslim holy book was inadvertently splashed by water balloons and a guard's urine. The U.S. military yesterday detailed five instances of confirmed mistreatment of the Quran by U.S. personnel at the war-on-terror prison in Cuba, including a fifth somewhat ambiguous case where a two-word obscenity was scribbled in English into the front of a detainee's Quran. Two people were disciplined but the other confirmed cases were closed without disciplinary action. The prison commander, Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, launched the investigation after Newsweek reported in the May 9 issue - then retracted - an allegation that a Quran had been flushed down a toilet.
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Proud end to Deep Throat mystery London Free Press
It must have been quite a sight for those in the newsroom of the Washington Post this week. Legendary reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were back together again in front of a computer screen. I know it would have sent chills up my spine. More than three decades ago, the duo, collectively known by their newsroom as "Woodstein," had broken wide open the political story of the century -- Watergate -- and helped bring down U.S. president Richard Nixon. It changed the course of history, of U.S. politics and of journalism everywhere.
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Voters set to cast ballots in south Lebanon Globe and Mail
Voters go to the polls in south Lebanon tomorrow in the second phase of parliamentary elections with the country rattled by the assassination of a prominent anti-Syrian journalist.
Assassinated in Lebanon Boston Globe
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Video forces Serbs to admit massacre Detroit Free Press
The gruesome video shown this week of the 1995 killing of six skinny young Bosnian Muslims by Serb paramilitaries is forcing Serb leaders to finally acknowledge their country's role in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. The video of the July 1995 killings near Srebrenica mark the first time most Serbs have seen such images and could change the way the nation thinks of the slaughter in Bosnia, where Serb troops overran the enclave and killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The images prompted Serbian officials to acknowledge publicly that war crimes were committed by Serbs during the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s. "Everything burst -- the whole bubble of hiding evidence and denying crimes -- within the 10 minutes it took to broadcast the video," said Natasa Kandic, a human rights activist from the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Fund.
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"Pentagon expects to strengthen military ties with India" Malayala Manorama
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that the Pentagon expects to strengthen military ties with India, one of the rising powers in Asia.
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UK referendum to be put on hold Hindu
Britain's planned referendum on the European Union Constitution is to be put on hold until the issues thrown up by this week's "no'' vote in France and the Netherlands are clarified.
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Palestinian leader to delay parliamentary elections WXXA
In a move seen as an effort to strengthen his own party's hand, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (mahk-MOOD' ah-BAHS') has decided to delay upcoming parliamentary elections by several months.
Abbas postponing July parliamentary election Reuters
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Hurriyat leaders reach Islamabad despite Indian objection Newindpress
Hurriyat leaders from Kashmir arrived for talks in the Pakistani capital on Saturday, shrugging off India's objections to their travel beyond Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.
Kashmiri separatists go to Pakistan's capital Reuters AlertNet
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Bush backs African 'Marshall Plan' People's Daily Online
The United States is willing to look for ways to fund a "Marshall Plan" for Africa even if it opposes Britain's plan for a new lending facility, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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Italy should bring back the lira, says minister Independent
The possibility of a break-up of European monetary union shot back up the agenda yesterday after an Italian minister said the country should consider ditching the euro.
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Coalition Forces Continue Insurgent Sweep ABC News
Sufis Friday, June 3, 2005 watch damage done after a suicide car bomber struck during their religious ceremony late Thursday when a suicide car bomber targeted a gathering of followers of the mystic Islamic Sufi movement, killing at least nine Iraqis and ...
Suicide bomber kills 10 at Sufi Muslim gathering Reuters
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Baby slayings shock Austria Fort Worth Star Telegram
It was a balmy spring day, and the man thought that he'd fetch some ice cream from the freezer he shared with other tenants in his apartment complex.
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Bomb kills two American troops in Afghanistan, three rebels killed Canoe.ca
A bomb killed two US troops and wounded a third as they were driving in a military convoy near the Afghan-Pakistan border, while fighting between Afghan forces and Taliban rebels left three insurgents dead, officials said Saturday An Afghan interpreter was also wounded in the blast, which hit a U.S. armoured vehicle on Friday in Urgun district in Paktika province, the U.S. military said in a statement. The wounded were evacuated by helicopter to a U.S. base for treatment, the statement said. The attack occurred as the convoy was returning from the village of Gayan. The military has started an investigation.
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N.Korean, US officials spoke by phone Reuters
US and North Korean officials spoke by telephone recently, a move which may lead to further dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang over the North's nuclear ambitions, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday.
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Hurriyat visit will lead to peace: Musharraf Hindustan Times
Calling it "a great leap forward", Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said he was confident that the visit of separatist leaders from Jammu and Kashmir would lead to peace in the region.
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Four Slain Infants Mourned in Austria Guardian Unlimited
Mourners laid flowers and lit candles Saturday at an apartment complex in southern Austria where police found the bodies of four slain infants - two stuffed in a basement freezer and two sealed in concrete-filled buckets. Authorities questioned the babies' 32-year-old mother in hopes of piecing together the chain of events that led to the deaths. Police investigated whether the woman and her longtime male companion had recently lived anywhere else besides the building on the outskirts of Graz, 120 miles south of Vienna. The woman, whose name was not released under Austrian privacy laws, has confessed to killing the children out of despair for her financial troubles and fears of driving away her longtime partner, investigators told the Austria Press Agency. Although officials initially considered the possibility that the infants may have been stillborn, evidence at the scene also pointed to slayings, police said in a statement. Police have said they believed the bodies may have been placed in the freezer as long as three years ago. She had lived in the building with her partner for the past eight years, authorities said.
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Weapons go missing in Iraq News24
The Bush administration played down a report in which United Nations weapons inspectors documented additional materials found to have been missing from weapons sites in Iraq.
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US Military Provides Details of Koran Mishandling at Guantanamo Voice of America
The US military has provided details of five incidents in which it says soldiers or interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention center mishandled copies of the Koran, but the military says its investigation confirmed that no Koran was ever flushed in a toilet, as a now withdrawn magazine report claimed last month. The U.S. Southern Command, which supervises the Guantanamo facility, said Friday that in specific incidents prisoners' Korans were kicked, stepped on, and drenched with water. In one incident, the report says a ventilation system carried a soldier's urine into a prisoner's cell, which got on the prisoner and his Koran. The report says that incident was accidental, but the soldier was removed from his post. It says the prisoner was given a new Koran and a new set of clothes. All of the incidents happened in mid-2003 or earlier, except the accidental urine incident. The investigation also uncovered several other incidents of complaints by prisoners about handling of the Koran, but concluded that the incidents were either minor or could not be confirmed.
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Fighting a corrupt system Miami Herald
Deep Throat,'' the anonymous source who helped expose corruption at the highest levels of American government, chose to step forward when journalists are under attack for using anonymous sources.
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Balance of power shifts in Bethlehem San Francisco Chronicle
Dr. Victor Batarseh attends church every Sunday, as befits the mayor who presides over the city where Jesus was born. The one-time Sacramento resident took office late last month with a simple message to his fellow Christians, a dwindling minority here: Don't worry. Christians comprise about 30 percent of the 180,000 residents of the Bethlehem governorate, although in deference to the importance of the city to the Catholic Church, by local tradition both the mayor and his deputy are Christian. But tradition ends there. Batarseh is not a member of the mainstream Fatah party of Yasser Arafat and his successor, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Instead, he is from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP -- a Marxist faction that was responsible for killing the Israeli tourism minister in 2001.
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Swiss vote on joining Schengen pact Xinhua, China
If the treaties were approved in the ballot, Switzerland will be the third non-EU member state to join the passport-free Schengen zone, following Norway and Iceland. Thirteen EU member states and two non-EU members are signatories to the treaties. Britain and the Irish Republic are due to join later this year, while new EU countries will participate later. Under the accords, Switzerland would agree to abandon systematic identity checks on its borders but link up to a Europe-wide electronic database on wanted and missing persons, illegal immigrants and property.
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Lebanese president rejects resignation demands Reuters South Africa
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud on Sunday rejected renewed demands from the anti-Syrian opposition that he resign over the killing of a former prime minister and a prominent journalist.
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EU leaders urged to continue with constitution ITV.com
German and French leaders have emerged from crisis talks pledging to press ahead with the beleaguered EU constitution despite its rejection by Dutch and French voters.
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Criminal probe into fatal tunnel fire CNN International
An Alpine tunnel linking France and Italy will remain closed indefinitely as a criminal probe begins into a truck fire that killed two people, French officials said Sunday.
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Help Africa, Brown tells oil-rich BBC News
Oil producing nations should use their wealth to help Africa, Chancellor Gordon Brown has urged. The oil producers had done well out of a recent rise in oil prices, he told GMTV's Sunday programme.
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Pak asks for ‘trilateral’ talks International Herald Tribune
New Delhi: Pakistan on Saturday made a strong pitch to involve the Kashmiris in a "trilateral" dialogue with India. Pakistan foreign minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri told this newspaper from Islamabad that told this newspaper from Islamabad that the visit of the Kashmiri leaders was an extremely important step, and that it was imperative for them to be involved in the talks for a just and acceptable solution to the Kashmir issue. He said, "We want both governments to agree to a trilateral dialogue, but as India is hesitant and still not prepared for that, as an interim measure let the Kashmiris talk to both Islamabad and New Delhi in turn." Mr Kasuri said that the last was not the ideal option as his government's first preference was for a trilateral dialogue, but it was necessary to ensure that the Kashmiris were now included in the peace process so that "they can start discussing their future and help find a solution acceptable to all".
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Pak, Indian oil ministers discuss Iran gasline Islamic Republic News Agency
The Indian Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Mani Shankar Aiyar and Pakistan's Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Amanullah Khan Jadoon discussed here on Sunday the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project.
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China flooding death toll tops 200:- Webindia123
Flooding from a week of torrential rains in China has killed more than 200 people in three southwestern provinces destroying 140,000 homes.
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Secretary Refuses to Burn Papers of Pope John Paul II BosNewsLife
Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz told Polish radio "that such a great treasure should be preserved for posterity." He said that "everything will be examined carefully" and gradually be made available to the public.
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India to help Sri Lanka with aid Radio Australia
Sri Lanka's hopes of reviving peace talks with Tamil rebels have been raised after India gave its backing to a controversial aid-sharing deal with the guerrillas.
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EC's Almunia rallies to defense of embattled euro International Herald Tribune
The European commissioner for economic affairs, Spain's Joaquín Almunia, on Friday brushed aside doomsday scenarios that the rejection by French and Dutch voters of the European Constitution could herald the demise of the euro, as an Italian minister suggested Italy should abandon the single currency. "The euro forms part of our landscape," Almunia said in an interview with Spanish radio station Cadena Ser. "I believe that no one is going to be able to wipe out an achievement that cost us so much to obtain and which is affording us many advantages." In an interview published Friday in Italian daily La Repubblica, Italian Welfare Minister Roberto Maroni said he was in favor of Italy dropping the euro and reintroducing the lira. The euro dipped against the dollar following his comments to 1.2220, but later recovered some ground to stand just above eight-month lows against the US currency in the wake of the "No" votes in France and Holland. Referring to the recent depreciation of the single European currency, Almunia said: "The euro is a currency with a great deal of respect in the international markets; it is a currency that up until only a few days ago had raised complaints that it was far too strong with respect to the dollar." However, Maroni, who is a member of the euro-skeptical, nationalist Northern League political group, accused European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet of being one of the main architects of what he described as the "disaster of the euro." He said the single currency had been unable to address the economic slowdown in Europe and a loss of competitiveness.
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2 Detained in Aruba in Missing Teen Case ABC News
Police in Aruba Detain Two Suspects in Ala. Teen's Disappearance; Bloody Mattress Found on Beach. An Aruban police officer, right, arrests a suspect in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teenager, who went missing nearly a week ago while on a high school graduation trip, the attorney general said. Caren Janssen called the men "suspects" in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, 18, but declined to provide further details. The men, who were not among the three described Saturday by police as "persons of interest," were being interrogated Sunday morning. Investigators also seized three cars and were conducting forensic tests on them, Janssen said.
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