 Bush has indicated the US has dropped its staunch opposition to a proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan. Mr Bush said on his visit to Pakistan he understood the need for natural gas in the region and that the US argument with Iran was over nuclear weapons. The $6bn project for the 2,600km (1,625 mile) pipeline will bring Iran revenue, Pakistan transit fees and India energy. The nations hope to start construction in 2007, with key talks due this month. The US had previously stated it was "absolutely opposed" to the gas pipeline, even indicating Pakistan and India could face sanctions if the project got under way. But in Islamabad, Mr Bush said: "Our beef with Iran is not the pipeline, our beef with Iran is... they want to develop a nuclear weapon and I believe a nuclear weapon in the hands of the Iranians will be very dangerous for all of us." ...
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 Hamas hails 'breakthrough' visit |
Members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas have called their visit to Moscow an "important breakthrough" amid US attempts to isolate the group. One delegate, Mohammed Nazzal, said the US was trying to put Hamas under "political siege" following its victory in the Palestinian election last month. He said the group looked forward to "good relations" with Russia. The delegation is meeting religious and political leaders on the second day of their trip. "We consider this visit to be a very important breakthrough," Mr Nazzal told AFP news agency. "The US administration is trying to isolate Hamas, they are trying to place Hamas under political siege. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4773594.stm
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| Fastest view of molecular motion |
Scientists have made the fastest ever observations of motion in a molecule. They "watched" parts of a molecule moving on an attosecond timescale - where one attosecond equals one billion-billionth of a second. The researchers say the study gives a new in-depth understanding of chemical processes and could be used in future technologies like quantum computing. The study, which relies on short pulses of light from a specially built laser, was published in the journal Science. "Understanding how something changes in time means really understanding its essence, and we are now looking at changes on a very, very fast timescale," said team member Dr John Tisch, of Imperial College London, UK. The researchers devised a new technique to "see" the motion of protons, one of the building blocks of an atom, in molecules of hydrogen and methane. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4766842.stm
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| Official: U.N. Food Agency to Run Out of Food Needed to Feed 3.5 Million Kenyans |
The U.N. food agency will soon run out of food needed to feed some 3.5 million Kenyans facing prolonged drought because it has received a fraction of the required funding, officials said Saturday. The World Food Program has enough cereal to last until April but will run out of other staples by month's end, program spokesman Peter Smerdon said. The program needs $225 million to buy more than 33,000 tons of food each month until February 2007 but has received only $28 million, he said. "If we don't get any more food aid it will be a catastrophe," Smerdon said. "We are already on the edge because food is running out and we are supposed to be feeding people until February next year." ...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1686990
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| Pakistanis, Pro-Taliban Tribesman Clash Security Forces Clash With Pro-Taliban Tribesmen in Northwestern Pakistan |
Armed pro-Taliban tribesmen clashed with security forces Saturday in northwestern Pakistan in the aftermath of a military strike on a suspected militant hide-out. Hundreds of families fled the remote town. About 500 armed tribesmen traded fire with paramilitary forces in the bazaar of Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region. An Associated Press reporter saw both sides using mortar shells and assault rifles. Some shells hit closed shops. It was not known if there were any casualties. Soon after the clashes started, phone lines to the town went dead. The violence came as President Bush visited the capital, Islamabad, about 190 miles to the northeast, and voiced solidarity with Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in fighting terrorism. ...
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| Fifty-four immigrants discovered in a pair of furniture trucks were being under arrest Friday for allegedly conspiring with their smugglers to sneak into the country illegally. |
The arrests mark the first time local authorities have applied a new state law on migrant smuggling to smuggled immigrants. The people were discovered Thursday about 50 miles west of Phoenix. Authorities said they obtained confessions from several in the group who said they paid smugglers, commonly called "coyotes", up to $2,000 each to bring them across the border. All 54 were booked into a county jail. Frustrated by the federal government's perceived inaction in repairing America's immigration system, state lawmakers approved the smuggling law a year ago that created the state crime of human smuggling. If the smuggled people are guilty of a conspiracy, what of the people who knowingly offered illegal bribes (or, did they think that bribes were not illegal) to "Duke" Cunningham? Shouldn't they be held criminally liable for their actions?...
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