Following snowstorms in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Hebron the previous night, on Wednesday morning snow fell in the Negev desert and later reached the central hills and Jerusalem. Due to the snowy conditions in southern Israel, Route 40 was blocked between Sde Boker and the Nifta prison, Route 31 was blocked between Mishmar Hanegev and Lehavim and Route 204 was blocked between Yeroham and Sde Boker. Also in the South, hundreds of Beduins were injured when several tents collapsed near the Lehavim Junction due to the stormy weather. Meanwhile, one person was killed and three others injured in a car accident on the Coastal Highway, when a bus collided with a car on the section of the road between Fureidis and Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael. The casualties were evacuated to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera. ...
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 Iran’s Ahmadinejad writes letter to pope Pontiff stresses apolitical role after receiving missive on nuclear resolution |
Pope Benedict XVI received a letter Wednesday from Iran's hard-line president about the recent U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions against Tehran for refusing to compromise on its nuclear program, Iran's state-run news agency reported. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter was delivered by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki after the pontiff's general audience at the Vatican's Paul VI hall, the Vatican said. The Vatican did not release details of the content of Ahmadinejad's letter, but Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said the note focused on Saturday's Security Council vote approving sanctions against Tehran. The Vatican said Benedict stressed his apolitical role in his brief meeting with Mottaki. The pope "reaffirmed the role that the Holy See intends to carry out for world peace, not as a political authority but as a religious and moral one ... so that peoples' problems will always be solved in dialogue, mutual understanding and peace," ...
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Editor - 20:31:00 12-27-06
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| U.S. soldiers divided over Saddam’s execution On patrol in Baghdad, some cheer, some worry about insurgent backlash |
Some U.S. soldiers patrolling Baghdad’s dangerous streets Wednesday cheered news of the execution order for Saddam Hussein, but others worried his trip to the gallows could spark a surge of insurgent attacks. Iraq’s highest court rejected the former dictator’s appeal Tuesday, upholding his death sentence for the 1982 killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins tried to kill him. “It’s great news,” said Army Sgt. Danny Barrett, 25, of Denair, Calif., a soldier in Headquarters Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment. “It’s good for Iraq.” The appeals court said Saddam must hang within 30 days — something Pfc. Michael Petersen said he was not looking forward to. “I think personally that things might get heated up around here then,” said Petersen, a 22-year-old native of Pensacola, Fla., in the battalion’s Company A. “There’s still a lot of people who support him.”...
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| Freedom's prize in disturbing war Arar case shows what we have to lose |
Given their record as the ultimate rogue state, we should expect nothing different from them, nothwithstanding frivolous diplomatic tinsel from Condoleezza Rice. U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins' revelation Maher Arar is still considered a threat to his nation and is barred from entering it should be seen in the context of the Bush administration's rap sheet on abduction, torture, rendition, false imprisonment and kangaroo justice. Data from the U.S. Defence Department itself shows that of 517 Guantanamo detainees, only 8% were considered al-Qaida fighters, while 40% had no connection with the terror outfit at all and only 5% had been arrested by U.S. forces. ...
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| Iran may cut cooperation with IAEA Parliament votes to re-examine ties to U.N. nuclear agency over sanctions |
Iran's parliament voted Wednesday to urge the government to re-examine its ties with the U.N. nuclear agency following a Security Council decision to impose sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear program. The move signaled that Iran was likely to reduce its cooperation with the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. Iranian state radio predicted that once the bill came into effect, "the agency will become an ineffective and weak body." The vote came four days after the Security Council voted to impose limited sanctions on Iran for its refusal to cease enrichment of uranium — a process that produces the material for either nuclear reactors or bombs. The United States and its European allies suspect Iran's civilian nuclear program is a cover for developing a nuclear bomb. Iran says its program is strictly for generating electricity....
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| Six bodies found after helicopter goes down in UK |
Rescue workers recovered six bodies after a helicopter carrying gas rig workers went down off the northwest English coast on Wednesday, police said. Royal Air Force helicopters and Coast Guard ships were still searching for a seventh person who was on board the helicopter which plunged into the sea near a gas production rig 24 miles off the coast in Morecambe Bay. "We've recently recovered a sixth body from the sea," police Superintendent Mick Gradwell told the BBC. Utility company Centrica Plc said some of its employees were on board the helicopter, which carried five gas rig workers and two crew members. Centrica, which produces gas from the Morecambe Bay gas fields, said the helicopter was operated by CHC Scotia Ltd, a contract company. The helicopter had taken off from Blackpool airport to pick up gas rig workers to bring them back to shore, he said. It had stopped to pick up passengers at two rigs and was about to go to a third platform when it ditched in the sea, Gradwell said....
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