Conservative pundit Tony Snow will be named White House press secretary, Republican officials said Tuesday night, in the latest move in President Bush’s effort to remake his troubled White House. Snow is expected to be named on Wednesday. He will replace Scott McClellan, who is stepping down in a White House makeover intended to re-energize Bush’s presidency, bring in new faces and lift the president’s record-low approval ratings. McClellan had served as Bush’s chief spokesman — the most prominent public figure in the White House after Bush — for nearly three years. Snow, a Fox News commentator and speech-writer in the White House under Bush’s father, has written and spoken frequently about the current president — not always in a complimentary way. ...
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 Terror Mastermind Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi Rejects New Iraq Government As American 'Stooge' |
Terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi revealed his face for the first time Tuesday in a dramatic video in which he dismissed Iraq's new government as an American "stooge" and called it a "poisoned dagger" in the heart of the Muslim world. The video, in which he also warned of more attacks to come, was posted on the Internet only days after a breakthrough in Iraq's political process allowing its Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders to start assembling a government. It also followed a high-profile audiotape from Osama bin Laden and seemed a deliberate attempt by al-Zarqawi to reclaim the spotlight following months of taking a lower profile amid criticism of bombings against civilians. It was his first message since January. ...
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| New blasts heard from Sri Lanka Tiger territory |
New explosions were heard from Tamil Tiger territory in Sri Lanka's east on Wednesday in what appeared to be more air strikes on the rebels, but a military spokesman had no information on the attacks.The government said it had launched attacks on Tiger territory on Tuesday after an attack on naval patrol boats near the northeastern port of Trincomalee, and a suspected suicide bomb in the capital killed nine and wounded the army commander. "There are new explosions," Trincomalee camera shop owner George David told Reuters. "A plane is bombing." The army had previously said attacks had ceased. They were the first official military action since a 2002 ceasefire halted two decades of civil war, and raised fears that the already battered truce might be on the brink of collapse....
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| Experts debate hurricane warnings |
Weather forecasters need to do a better job of translating their scientific data about threatening hurricanes into better-understood warnings, several experts said at a conference on Tuesday. Ahead of the June 1 start to the Atlantic hurricane season, researchers at the American Meteorological Society's annual Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology pondered the lessons of last year's devastating hurricanes. "There is a lack of communication between the scientists and the risk-management folks," said Sytske Kimball, assistant professor of meteorology at the University of South Alabama who chaired a discussion on the issue. "We speak different languages, use different terminologies." ...
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| 20 years on, no end in sight to the suffering |
Hundreds of thousands of people across Europe will today commemorate the 20th anniversary of the world's worst human-made disaster - when Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power complex exploded during a routine safety test and sent a plume of radioactivity a mile high to drift over 40% of Europe and as far away as Japan. Between 50 and 250 million curies of radiation, approximately equal to 100 medium-sized atomic bombs, was unleashed. But there will be no celebrations of progress in Ukraine - home to Chernobyl - Russia, or Belarus, the three most affected countries, which said yesterday they were struggling with a legacy of ill-health, poverty and psychological illnesses affecting their people.Yesterday Belarus said that one-sixth of the country was still contaminated and the disaster had cost it $235bn (£131.5bn) so far. ...
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| RETIRED US GENERALS More Top Brass Blast Rumsfeld |
Two retired generals and an admiral denounce his leadership -- and say he's protected by a handpicked ring of high-ranking yes men. In mid-April, under fire from a half-dozen retired U.S. generals for broad failures in Iraq, the Bush White House dispatched Donald Rumsfeld to the front lines of the American heartland. The secretary of defense appeared on talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated show to fight back against the decorated military commanders who called for his resignation."The sharper the criticism comes, sometimes the sharper the defense comes from people who don't agree with the critics," Rumsfeld told Limbaugh during the April 17 interview. He dismissed the barrage of reproach, suggesting that "the same kinds of criticism" had come and gone during all major American wars, from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam. "This, too, will pass," Rumsfeld said....
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