Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil producer, may use petroleum as a weapon if the Islamic Republic's interests come under attack, Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said, hardening a stance he outlined in April. ``Tehran would not use oil as a weapon, but if its interests come under attack, it will use all available means, including oil,'' he said, according to a transcript of an interview posted today on the Web site of Iran's main state television station. Vaziri-Hamaneh said oil prices would reach ``over $100'' a barrel should Western nations try to impose an oil embargo on Iran to pressure it to halt its uranium enrichment program. Crude oil prices have been gaining this year in part due to mounting tension over the Islamic nation's nuclear program and its vow to enrich uranium for generating atomic power. ...
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 Specter: White House eavesdropping deal near Senate Judiciary Committee chair says Bush ‘does not have a blank check’. No, just a free hand to ignore the Constitution |
The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program into law, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday.Bush and senior officials in his administration have said they did not think changes were needed to empower the National Security Agency to eavesdrop — without court approval — on communications between people in the U.S. and overseas when terrorism is suspected.But Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and other critics contend the program skirted a 1978 law that required the government to get approval from a secretive federal court before Americans could be monitored....
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| Karzai Calls Taliban Leader A Coward. No one mentions the fact that about 25 American Bodyguards and all the Coalition Troops that protect him |
Afghanistan's president on Sunday called the Taliban's fugitive leader a coward, saying Mullah Omar should come out of hiding and face justice. Afghan President Hamid Karzai's comments come amid claims, allegedly made by Omar in an audio tape aired Sunday by a Pakistani television station, that the U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan government lack the wisdom to solve Afghanistan's escalating violence. Karzai did not comment on the tape's authenticity. But he told CNN's Late Edition television program that if Omar is "really in charge" he should come out of hiding and "face the danger that he is causing to hundreds of young people in Afghanistan and Pakistan." "It needs guts to do what he's talking about, and he doesn't have it," he said. ...
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| 'Witches' Living In Exile In Ghana Camps Try To Help Isolated Widows In Africa |
A year ago, Fatimata Chimsi was living happily with her son, his wife, and the couple's six children in Karaga, a tiny village in northern Ghana. That is, until the longtime widow was accused of being a witch in late 2004. Furious neighbors insisted that Ms. Chimsi had "killed" an elderly man. Afraid that she might be lynched, she fled in the middle of the night, riding on the back of her son's motorbike. Today, Chimsi resides at the Kpatinga "witches" camp. Mournfully rocking back and forth on a bamboo mat in her clay hut, she cries, "If my family wasn't allowed to visit me, I would die from loneliness." More than 1,000 women live in exile among six camps in this impoverished region. Isolating widows or older women as witches is a deep-rooted custom in this part of the world. Indeed, accusations of witchcraft may be seen as a way to keep women subservient in African society. ...
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| U.S. Population to Hit 300 Million This Fall |
The U.S. population is on target to hit 300 million this fall and it is a good bet the milestone baby — or immigrant — will be Hispanic. No one will know for sure because the date and time will be just an estimate.But both Latino immigrants and those born in the United States are driving the population growth, accounting for almost half the increase last year, more than any other ethnic or racial group.White non-Hispanics, who make up about two-thirds of the population, accounted for less than one-fifth of the increase.When the population reached 200 million in 1967, there was no accurate tally of U.S. Hispanics. The first effort to count Hispanics came in the 1970 census, and the results were dubious....
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| Quake Hits Central Indonesia 6.2 Magnitude Quake Causes Panic, But No Damage |
A powerful earthquake struck Indonesia's Sulawesi island early Sunday, panicking residents but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, the Hong Kong Observatory said. The 6.2-magnitude quake, which hit just before dawn, was centered under the sea 180 miles southwest of the city of Manado on the central island of Sulawesi, the observatory said in a statement. "I was so shocked because my furniture and my roof started creaking," one witnesses in Gorantolo city told Indonesia's state news agency Antara. "When the shaking started, I immediately thought of my wife and child who were still asleep." The agency said many people in the city fled their houses when the quake struck. There were no reports of damage or injuries. ...
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