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The Israeli government is authorizing a series of ecological surveys in light of fears that a plan to prevent the Dead Sea from shrinking by pumping water into it from the Red Sea will disrupt underground aquifers in the parched region. Officials here and in neighboring Jordan are concerned about the steady drop in the Dead Sea's level, an estimated 3 feet a year, and the consequent retreat of its shoreline that has left the hotels and neighborhoods ever farther from the ancient body of water. The Dead Sea is situated at the lowest sector on Earth. Its salt-saturated water, most of which comes from the River Jordan, has no outlet other than evaporation. An ambitious rescue project developed by Israeli and Jordanian engineers was presented to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by his deputy, Shimon Peres, whose primary role is to foster regional cooperation. One of the project's main components is the digging of a canal from Eilat at the northern tip of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba to ...
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Editor - 08:16:00 03-24-07

Iran interrogates U.K. personnel

The Iranian military questioned 15 detained British military personnel Saturday and said they confessed to illegally entering the country's territorial waters as Iran accused Britain of "blatant aggression."Britain has demanded the return of the individuals and denied they had strayed into Iranian waters while searching for smugglers off Iraq's coast.The eight Royal Navy sailors and seven Royal Marines were brought to Tehran for questioning, and a a top military official, Gen. Ali Reza Afshar, said they "confessed to illegal entry into Iran's waters.""The said personnel are being interrogated and have confessed to aggression into the Islamic Republic of Iran's waters," Afshar was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA and the semiofficial ISNA news agency. He did not say what would now be done with the sailors....
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Editor - 08:05:00 03-24-07

UN envoy barred from Darfur camp

The UN's new humanitarian chief John Holmes has been turned away from a camp in Darfur for those fleeing the four-year conflict in Sudan. The UN envoy was refused entry by Sudanese soldiers to Kassab camp in northern Darfur, says the BBC's Karen Allen, who is travelling with him ...
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Editor - 08:02:00 03-24-07

Bush assails Congress over Iraq funds

Bush assailed the Democratic-led Congress on Saturday for challenging him over funding the Iraq war and the firing of federal prosecutors, and demanded that lawmakers back down.Bush has threatened to veto a bill passed by the House of Representatives that ties a deadline for a troop withdrawal to the latest emergency bill to fund the war. A showdown is also looming as Democrats in Congress seek testimony under oath of Bush's close political aide, Karl Rove, and other White House advisers over the ouster last year of eight U.S. attorneys. The White House has offered to allow the aides to answer questions in closed-door interviews but they would not be under oath and there would be no transcripts made. Congress is investigating whether politics motivated the dismissals of the prosecutors. ...
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Editor - 08:01:00 03-24-07

Moussa: No plans to modify Arab peace initiative

Arab states have no intention of modifying an Arab initiative for peace to make it more palatable to Israel when they convene at a summit in Saudi Arabia next week, the head of the Arab League said on Saturday.Secretary-General Amr Moussa said the 2002 initiative, which offers Israel normal ties with Arab countries in return for full withdrawal from all lands occupied in the 1967 Middle East war, remained on the table. "We fail to understand why we should modify such a peace offer, and make it less objective and less positive. We are not going to fall into this trap," Moussa told a news conference with visiting United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "Our hand will continue to be extended on the basis of that initiative," he added. ...
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Editor - 07:59:00 03-24-07

Russian cave explorers escape quarry collapse

About 20 Russian cave explorers escaped injury when an abandoned quarry near Moscow collapsed on Saturday, an Emergencies Ministry spokesman said.Viktor Beltsov said a rock blocking the entrance to the cave had been removed and that there were no reports of casualties. "Nobody was injured. There were around 20 people inside, according to preliminary investigations," he said. ...
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