Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Thursday that Tehran's nuclear program is peaceful and said he is "at a loss" about what more he can do to provide guarantees. "The bottom line is we do not need a bomb," he said at a news conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.Ahmadinejad said his country has not hidden anything and was working within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.With world leaders gathered at the United Nations, the United States had hoped to move decisively this week toward political and economic sanctions against Iran after it missed an Aug. 31 deadline from the U.N. Security Council to halt uranium enrichment. The enrichment process can be used to make electricity — or nuclear weapons....
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 Getting closer to Uncle Sam: Public kept in dark as business leads talks about North American integration |
While the media were busy obsessing over rumours of a budding romance between Condoleezza Rice and Peter MacKay last week, a more significant relationship was developing behind closed doors.Away from the spotlight, from Sept. 12 to 14, in Banff Springs, Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day and Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor met with U.S. and Mexican government officials and business leaders to discuss North American integration at the second North American Forum.According to leaked documents, the guest list included such prominent figures as U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Mexican Secretary of Public Security Eduardo Medina Mora and Canadian Forces chief General Rick Hillier, although we have no final confirmation of attendees. The event was chaired by former U.S. secretary of state George Schultz, former Alberta premier, Peter Lougheed and former Mexican finance minister Pedro Aspe....
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| Mideast nations want peace process |
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said today there is a new "very significant" consensus among Arab countries for restarting the stalled Middle East peace process. "We have found for the first time probably a consensus that is very significant about the need for restarting the peace process," Prince Saud al-Faisal told The Associated Press. He said the Arab League foreign ministers would meet today, but their idea is to take "stock of the past failures that prevented peace from happening and urging a new look and approach to the peace process." He said the Arab countries wish for a restarted peace process that would "concentrate on the important issues, rather than the process itself. In other words, the final status negotiations, the border, Jerusalem, Palestinian rights and so on." ...
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| Iraq torture 'worse after Saddam' |
Torture may be worse now in Iraq than under former leader Saddam Hussein, the UN's chief anti-torture expert says. Manfred Nowak said the situation in Iraq was "out of control", with abuses being committed by security forces, militia groups and anti-US insurgents. Bodies found in the Baghdad morgue "often bear signs of severe torture", said the human rights office of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq in a report. The wounds confirmed reports given by refugees from Iraq, Mr Nowak said. He told journalists at a briefing in Geneva that he had yet to visit Iraq, but he was able to base his information on autopsies and interviews with Iraqis in neighbouring Jordan. "What most people tell you is that the situation as far as torture is concerned now in Iraq is totally out of hand," the Austrian law professor said. "The situation is so bad many people say it is worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein," he added. ...
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| CDC: Test all Americans 13-64 routinely for HIV |
All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested for HIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said HIV testing should become about as common as a cholesterol check. Nearly half of new HIV infections are discovered when doctors are trying to diagnose a sick patient who has come for care, CDC officials said. "We know that many HIV infected people seek health care and they don't get tested. And many people are not diagnosed until late in the course of their illness, when they're already sick with HIV-related conditions," said Dr. Timothy Mastro, acting director of the CDC's division of HIV/AIDS prevention. "By identifying people earlier through a screening program, we'll allow them to access life-extending therapy, and also through prevention services, learn how to avoid transmitting HIV infection to others," he said...
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| Taliban Hot Topic For Washington Talks Leaders Of Pakistan, Afghanistan To Meet Bush As Militant Attacks Continue |
The Pakistani government has stepped up security for government officials in a remote border region with Afghanistan — suspected to be home to renegade Islamic militants — after the killing of one official and two of his friends on Wednesday. The incident underlined lawless conditions in Pakistan’s southern Waziristan region, where President General Pervez Musharraf sent military troops two years ago to fight suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban militants who crossed over from Afghanistan, fleeing U.S. and Afghan troops. The ongoing tension in Waziristan may be a subject under discussion Friday when President Bush meets Musharraf at the White House for a bilateral meeting. Mr. Bush is scheduled to meet with Afghan president Hamid Karzai next Tuesday. All three leaders are to meet in Washington the following day. ...
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