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Archive for the Month of May, 2005.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 1 through 36 of 36.
- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in comments apparently directed at the United States that the Islamic republic's nuclear programme was 'none of your business'.
- At the outset of Bush's second term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell. He hinted, in no uncertain terms, that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of the rogue enemies of America, and that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement and without us putting pressure on them 'to do it'.
- 'I feel like I got hit with a bullet.' She told us that she realized that 'it wasn't me who had been shot,' as her boy lay limp and lifeless beside her, his 'blood and brain matter were sliding down my arm.'
- US aid to Palestinians goes to checkpoints, Zionist organization.
- Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, says that he has reliable information that the United States is sheltering Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. The Venezuelan leader has demanded a response to the extradition request presented by Caracas. - A former British military official has backed a sensational claim that the Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, was torpedoed by US forces in August 2000.
- Saudi Arabia has crafted a plan to protect itself from a possible invasion or internal attack. It includes the use of a series of explosives, including radioactive 'dirty bombs,' that would cripple Saudi Arabian oil production and distribution systems for decades. - Georgia asked Saturday for calm negotiations over the withdrawal of two Soviet-era bases as Moscow threatened retaliation if services were cut to the facilities -- something Georgia's parliament threatened to do earlier this year.
- A senior Chinese diplomat on Thursday accused the Bush administration of undermining efforts to revive negotiations with the North Korean government and said there was "no solid evidence" that North Korea was preparing to test a nuclear weapon.
- Government admits hand in veteran's Agent Orange death. - The Israeli air force is sending 10 F-16 fighter jets and about 150 air crew to participate in major war games in Alberta later this month. - Myanmar on Sunday charged the USA with being behind the May 7 deadly bombing incident in Yangon.
- Australia has succeeded in having Timor drop its claim of sovereignty over key resource-rich areas of the Timor Sea for two generations; by which time the oil and gas fields in the area will be commercially exhausted. - Thousands of protesters in Bolivia have marched through the main city of La Paz to pressure the president to toughen a controversial new energy bill. - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that if he is assassinated, his government has a contingency plan to prevent his enemies from taking control of the world's No. 5 oil exporter. "Some people might want to kill me, but they don't dare ... because if they did, they fear what would happen the next day," the Venezuelan leader said in a television broadcast.
- The Minister of Health, Dr. Thohni Al Wuheidi, asserted that the Israeli authorities have buried 80 tons of Nuclear waste near the city of Nablus. Dr. Al Wuheidi noted that this would affect the environment, and pollute the aquifer water with radiation, confirming previous warnings of Dr. Yousef Abu Safiyya, the head of Environment Quality Authority, who condemned the Israeli violations of the environment in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). - Haitian dissidents find themselves the targets of massive repression. The repression that has already killed 10,000 people must end immediately.
- Another fake document produced by the US government. Rebel MP George Galloway’s Respect Party claimed today that evidence that he profited from Saddam Hussein’s regime was forged. Mr Galloway’s name had been pasted on to a list of people and companies alleged to have made money out of the Oil For Food programme. His name appeared in a different typeface to other words on the same line, the print was lighter in colour and Respect suggested it had been stuck on and then the page re-photocopied.
- Laura Bush was mobbed by angry Palestinians on a trip to Israel. One man yelled "How dare you come in here! Why your husband kill Muslim?". As she left, visitors and media grew so aggressive that Israeli police locked arms to form a human chain and pushed by Israeli media and protesters who got to close. U.S. Secret Service agents packed tightly around her. - Brazilian landless farmers are heading home battle-scarred but victorious after their epic 238km journey to the capital and an audience with the president in their bid for agrarian reform. - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his government was interested in nuclear energy and could start talks with Iranian partners to study possible atomic and solar power projects.
- Syria says it has stopped military and intelligence co-operation with the US.
- The US economic sanctions on Syria are a step away from US military action on the middle eastern country, a US congressman said here during a conference on reform in the Arab world. "Sanctions are one step below a military confrontation, and sanctions are preferable to military confrontation, frankly," said US Rep. Christopher Shays, a Republican from Connecticut.
- The government threatened Tuesday to demolish squatter shacks in what it called an urban beautification campaign after the arrests of about 10,000 street traders in the capital, a stronghold of the opposition. The opposition accused the ruling ZANU-PF party of trying to provoke confrontations so it can declare a state of emergency before the tattered state of the economy leads to riots.
- Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have rallied in the capital Caracas to demand the US extradites a Cuban exile accused of bombing an airliner in 1976. "Bush is protecting a terrorist while he is supposedly fighting against terrorism - that's hypocrisy,". - Regime forces capital residents to level their own homes. Some call it postelection retaliation.
- Why Are Nukes OK for You, But Not for Us?
- French voters rejected the European Union's first constitution Sunday, a stinging repudiation of President Jacques Chirac's leadership and the ambitious, decades-long effort to further unite the continent
- The world's richest nations greatly exaggerate their aid to poor countries – with the US, the worst offender, giving only 0.02% of its income in real assistance, says a study released today by ActionAid International. - Something amazing has been taking place in Latin America in recent years that deserves wider attention than the continent has been accustomed to attract. The chrysalis of the Venezuelan revolution led by Chávez, often attacked and derided as the incoherent vision of an authoritarian leader, has finally emerged as a resplendent butterfly whose image and example will radiate for decades to come.
- Officials in the Kenyan government reacted harshly today to the news that the US will suspend military aid until Nairobi decides to sign the bilateral agreement guaranteeing immunity for US citizens - civilian and military - before the International Criminal Court (ICC), in case they are charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide. - Venezuela is threatening to refuse entry to US officials in response to the decision to bar Venezuela's top judge from entering the United States. - Thousands of protesters have converged on the Bolivian capital La Paz for an angry demonstration over ownership of the country's gas reserves. - Devil went down to Georgia just to Ogle his Stream of Gold; Patriot threw a hand grenade but the Damned thing didn’t explode. - For Buribek, like for many Uzbek farmers, growing cotton is a dangerous affair.
- Richard Perle spoke to the AIPAC conference and proclaimed, to loud hosannas, that the United States must start dropping bombs on Iran to stop its dangerous nuclear program.
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