 Bush’s message of goodwill in Latin American ran into a wall in Guatemala on Monday, as his defense of U.S. immigration law met with disapproval from his hosts. Bush’s meetings here with President Oscar Berger, a conservative leader who has become a strong U.S. ally, were dominated by trade and the difficult issue of immigration policy. Bush pleased Guatemalans by promising to push hard, and quickly, for changes that would include a temporary-worker program for illegal workers in the United States. He said he thinks it is possible to wrest legislation out of the U.S. Congress, still deeply divided over the issue, by August. But he gave no ground in the face of questions over deportations of illegal workers, such as a raid in Massachusetts last week. Federal authorities detained over 300 employees of a leather goods maker — most from Guatemala and El Salvador — for possible deportation as illegal aliens. The raid left dozens of young children stranded at schools and with baby sitters....
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 Pakistan's Beg Profits on Risk as Corporate Bond Market Is Born |
When Nasim Beg started Pakistan's first bond fund in 2002, the south Asian nation had only a handful of corporate bonds. So Beg invested in ``badla,'' a traditional way of financing stock purchases through debt unique to the Indian and Pakistani subcontinent. Now 20 percent of his portfolio is in Pakistani corporate bonds and his biggest fund is beating the Karachi stock exchange and corporate bonds globally. ``We launched our first stock fund at the same time as the bond fund, but there was far more interest in the bond fund,'' said Beg, 59, chief executive officer at Arif Habib Investments Management Ltd., in his office in Karachi. ``History shows us that a stable bond fund will always interest people as opposed to a stock fund, which always has ups and downs.'' ...
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| Survey: Nearly half of U.S. lives paycheck to paycheck |
Four out of 10 U.S. workers often or always live from paycheck to paycheck, according to a survey released Monday. Women are more likely to live paycheck to paycheck, at 47 percent, than men, at 36 percent, according to the survey conducted for CareerBuilder.com, an online job site based in Chicago. Overall, 41 percent of workers say they often or always live paycheck to paycheck, it said. Also, 41 percent of women say they do not have enough income to live comfortably, compared with 29 percent of men. U.S. government and other research reports have found that women earn about 77 cents for every dollar earned by men for comparable work. Women are also more likely to be single parents. The new survey said 19 percent of workers who earn $100,000 or more annually often or always live paycheck to paycheck....
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| Report: Native American Trackers to Hunt Terrorists at Afghan Border |
An world-reknowned elite group of Native American trackers used by the U.S. Customs to hunt down Mexican drug and people smugglers reportedly is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan’s borders, where Usama bin Laden has been known to hide. The Shadow Wolves unit, recruited from tribes including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache, which patrols a 76-mile stretch of Arizona-Mexico border, is being sent to areas along the Afghan border to teach local units the traditional method called "cutting sign" of finding and following clues on the barren landscape, London's Sunday Times reported. If these guys were so good how come these Trackers didn’t stop the Drugs or the Invasion on Americans boarder?...
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| Officials: Trusted Belgium Bank Customer Gets Away With $28 Million in Diamonds |
A man stole $28 million worth of diamonds from an Antwerp bank where he had been a trusted customer for a year using a stolen Argentine passport, officials said Monday.Prosecutors say the suspect broke into safety deposit boxes in an ABM Amro bank in the city's diamond quarter last week. He made off with diamonds weighing 120,000 carats, police said.Police believe he may have carefully planned the robbery, becoming one of several trusted diamond traders with access to the vault. The suspect had been a regular customer at the bank for the past year, giving the name Carlos Hector Flomenbaum from Argentina.Authorities now believe that he was using a false identity because a passport in that name was stolen in Israel a few years ago....
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| Secret Hearings For 9/11 Suspects Start. Not even a Show Trial in the former land of the free |
Secret hearings for two suspected masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and a third terror suspect were held over the weekend at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the military launched proceedings to determine whether 14 high-profile detainees should be prosecuted. According to U.S. Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman, hearings for Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi Binalshibh were Friday, and a hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was Saturday. He said another hearing at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba was scheduled for Monday. The hearings are to determine whether the detainees should be declared "enemy combatants" who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted in a military tribunal. Mohammed, who was born in Pakistan and raised in Kuwait, is believed to have been the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks with the alleged help of Binalshibh, a Yemeni who also is suspected of being involved in a foiled plot to crash aircraft into London's Heathrow Airport. ...
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