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| 6/22/06 World Cup: Portugal v Holland, Mexico v Argentina Portugal goes through to the last 16 in a World Cup for the first time in 40 years. Angola gets its second historic point and leaves the competition with its head held high. Mexico showed that it still has arguments to use and in the classic in Group C, 0-0 but another great game of football. Ivory Coast ended up giving the Serbia-Montenegro team the worst send-off they could have hoped for, because they will never again play in a World Cup. |
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Annan pleads for end to international deadlock on nuclear non-proliferation With the world “sleepwalking” down the path towards more States, and possibly terrorists, acquiring nuclear weapons, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly urged the Conference on Disarmament to take action after nine years of deadlock and two recent high-profile failures to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). “I do not discount the depth of the difficulty that you face in settling longstanding differences, especially over nuclear disarmament and negative security assurances,” Mr. Annan told the Conference, which was established in 1979 as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community and is meeting in Geneva. |
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Seven arrests over 'Chicago Plot' The streets of Liberty City were busy with FBI agents and vehicles The seven, mainly Americans, had no apparent links to international terror. |
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Recent Veterans Administration DATA THEFT COSTING MILLIONS (Washington Bureau) By JAMES W. CRAWLEY Media General News Service WASHINGTON - The loss of personal information affecting 26.5 million veterans and military personnel has cost the Department of Veterans Affairs nearly $15 million so far and the amount is sure to rise many more millions, VA officials acknowledged Wednesday. Any veteran or service member whose record was on the stolen laptop computer will be able to get free credit monitoring for a year, Secretary Jim Nicholson also announced. "It's not going to be cheap," he said during a news conference. |
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Russian Town Officially Bans Da Vinci Code from Cinemas The administration of the Russian regional center of Vyazma has officially banned cinemas from featuring the movie, The Da Vinci Code, the decision being motivated by the special role Christianity plays in live of Vyazma residents. “The decision was taken by Vyazma administration in connection with the fact that Christianity has special meaning for the residents of Vyazma — the town with lasting spiritual traditions,” the Interfax news agency quoted a city official as saying on Tuesday. The official added that the celebrations of the Day of the Town had been held at the same time with the Orthodox holiday of the Holy Trinity. Da Vinci Code movie based on the novel by Dan Brown has raised a wave of protests among Orthodox Christians in Russia, but Vyazma was the first town to officially ban the film from cinemas. |
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| In Afghanistan, "the Taliban now have three different press spokesmen covering three separate regions of the country. In Kandahar this summer, Taliban cassettes, DVDs and magazines are available in numbers never previously seen. ... The Taliban have also begun broadcasting a pirate station called the 'Voice of Sharia' from mobile transmitters in at least two southern provinces," reports The Independent. "In response, Western forces in the country are extending a fledgling military funded radio channel called Radio Peace," which aims to counter Taliban propaganda portraying President Hamid Karzai as a "puppet" of the United States. The Washington Post reports on "an unsigned but official-looking document" recently delivered to Afghan media outlets, which directed them to avoid any material that "weakens public morale or damages the national interest," among other instructions. Karzai disavowed the document, which the national journalists' association called "illegal." The document is believed to have come from the Afghan intelligence service or government officials "seeking to indirectly intimidate the press." Source: The Independent (UK), June 23, 2006 |
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Iraq PM unveils unity proposals The plan is thought to offer talks with some Sunni rebel groups, and a review of the status of purged members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party. Armed militias will also come under scrutiny, and may be urged to come together under a government umbrella. But there are concerns that some insurgent groups may reject the plan. |
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China Publishes First "White Paper" on Listed Companies SHANGHAI, May 20 (Xinhuanet) -- A research report on 2001 annals of China's listed companies was jointly released Monday by Shanghai Security News and the State Information Center, constituting the country's first authoritative study. The newly published report researches some 1,100 financial documents filed by various listed companies in 2001 and analyzes their influence on China's economic development. The report shows that average investment growth of listed companies amounted to 83.3 percent in 2001, considerably higher than the 12.1 percent in national fixed asset growth. According to the report, listed companies contributed eight percent of China's gross domestic product and 17 percent of the country's total enterprise tax payments last year. The report concludes that China's listed companies in general have economically performed better than most large domestic enterprises. The research points out that although China's listed companies need further improvement, they contribute greatly to upgrading Chinese enterprises and establishing a modern enterprise system in China. Enditem |
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Sri Lanka general killed in blast The blast hit a car carrying General Parami Kulatunga near a military base just outside the city, officials said. Gen Kulatunga was the third-highest ranking officer in the Sri Lankan army and a veteran of the civil war. |
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US pair charged over Iraqi death Two US soldiers have been charged over the shooting of an unarmed man near the Iraqi city of Ramadi. Specialist Nathan Lynn was charged with voluntary manslaughter, and both he and Sgt Milton Ortiz Jr will face charges of obstructing justice. The men are accused of helping another soldier place a rifle next to the body of the dying man. |
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US urges calm over Israeli gunner US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged Israel to "give diplomacy a chance" in the standoff over an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants. US urges calm over Israeli gunner |
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Bush blasts 'terror funds' report The US president has accused US newspapers of hampering the "war on terror" by publishing details of a secret scheme to track money transfers. The New York Times revealed last week the US government had monitored global money transfers using a banking group. |
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Israeli soldiers push into Gaza Israeli forces have taken up positions in southern Gaza after an overnight incursion aimed at rescuing a soldier captured by Palestinian militants. They reached the disused international airport apparently without meeting resistance, hours after delivering air attacks on bridges and a power station. It is the first major incursion since Israel withdrew from Gaza last year. |
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Congress mulls slew of Net-sex rules By Declan McCullagh Published: June 27, 2006, 1:11 PM PDT When it comes to topics conducive to political speechifying, few compare to the volatile mix of the Internet, sex and children. At a hearing before the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, politicians served up a dizzying slew of suggestions about what kind of new federal laws should be enacted. The ideas were all over the map, and most were new. Only one or two have actually been turned into formal legislation so far, but politicians are vowing to take action in the very near future. |
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Israel seizes Hamas legislators Israeli forces in Gaza At least seven ministers and 20 MPs were rounded up in raids in several towns, Palestinian officials said. Israeli ground forces meanwhile massed at Gaza's northern border, as troops and tanks dug into positions in the south, a day after they invaded. |
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| The CEO of Pfizer, Hank McKinnell says that a priority for the drug industry is regaining public trust. "We’ve done considerable research on this. We’re starting to use what little legislative muscle we have to improve the situation by working on the Medicare prescription benefit package," he said. McKinnell attributes part of the industry's unpopularity to "our direct-to consumer advertising" of prescription drugs. "We didn’t do enough to strengthen and reinforce the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. It was a consequence of our success that we created visibility for products and many people in the public said, 'That would be nice, but we can’t afford it'," he said. McKinnell didn't mention recent scandals that have rocked the industry, such as the recall of Merck's Vioxx in 2004, industry secrecy over its marketing practices, controversy over the funding of patient groups or its involvement in disease mongering. | |
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