 Iran's supreme spiritual leader has backed talks with the United States on the instability in Iraq - but warned Washington against "bullying" tactics. This marks the first time Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has publicly endorsed such talks, which are under discussion. Ayatollah Khamenei also warned Iran will not accept any UN Security Council ruling on its nuclear plans that goes against its interests. The council is considering what action to take over Iran's nuclear activities. The comments by Ayatollah Khamanei, who holds final say on all state matters in Iran, follow criticism by conservatives of a major shift in Iranian policy in agreeing to hold high-level negotiations with the US. ...
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 Family in snowbound RV rescued after 17 days |
Inside their snowbound RV, the family's supplies and fuel were running low, and news reports indicated that a search for the six missing relatives had been called off."We had fuel and food, but we were running short. We were rationing," said Elbert Higginbotham, one of the missing.The family decided to send two members out for help, hoping to end more than two weeks trapped in the snowy wilderness. It worked. On Tuesday, 17 days after they first vanished during a trip to the Oregon coast, they were rescued.All six -- Pete Stivers, 29, and Marlo Hill-Stivers, 31; their children Sabastyan, 9, and Gabrayell, 8; and Stiver's mother and stepfather, Elbert and Becky Higginbotham -- were reunited in Glendale, about 80 miles north of the California border....
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| China To Tax Chopsticks. They must be learning from us how to tax everything |
China will tax disposable wooden chopsticks and luxury items such as yachts, the government says, citing a need to protect the environment and redress the gap between rich and poor. The Finance Ministry announced the change in policy, which takes effect April 1, on Tuesday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Buyers of yachts, golf balls and golf clubs will face a 10 percent tax, while luxury watches will be taxed at a rate of 20 percent, it said. The change reflects the communist leadership's goals of countering the widening gap between rich and poor and of protecting the environment, which has been ravaged by more than two decades of industrialization. ...
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| NKorea weapons 'could not hit US'. Praise the Lord our Chicken Hawks are safe |
North Korea does not yet have an operational missile that could hit the continental US, a US report says. But its weapons could target South Korea and Japan, and it is working on a longer-range solid-fuel missile. Missile exports were a significant source of foreign exchange for the country, the report by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies also said. Concerns over North Korea's weapons programme rose this month when it test-fired two short-range missiles. A US military official told a government committee that the missiles represented a "leap forward" for Pyongyang's programme in terms of reliability and accuracy. The report by the California-based NGO said that North Korea did not currently have "an operational missile" to strike the US. The longer-range Taepodong-X missile could theoretically reach Alaska, Hawaii and parts of the coastal US, US officials believe, and an untested third version, Taepodong 2, could potentially strike further into the country. ...
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| U.S., Iraqi forces capture 50 insurgents |
Insurgents attacked a police station Wednesday for a second day in a row, but U.S. and Iraqi forces captured 50 of them after a two-hour gunbattle. About 60 gunmen attacked the police station in Madain, south of Baghdad, with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles, said police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammadawi. U.S. troops and a special Iraqi police unit responded, catching the insurgents in crossfire, he said. Four police were killed, including the commander of the special unit, and five were wounded, al-Mohammadawi said. None of the attackers died, and among the captives was a Syrian. On Tuesday, about 100 masked gunmen stormed a jail in Muqdadiyah near the Iranian border and freed more than 30 prisoners, most of them fellow insurgents. ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-03-22-iraq_x.htm
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| Flight instructor recalls training of 9/11 hijackers at Moussaoui trial |
Two of the pilot-hijackers from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks abandoned a small airplane on a taxiway of Miami International Airport during their flight training, but their actions didn't attract serious scrutiny from federal officials. A flight instructor at the school where Sept. 11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi received commercial pilot training testified Wednesday at confessed al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui's death-penalty trial. Instructor Daniel Pursell testified that instructors at the school breathed "a collective sigh of relief" when Atta and al-Shehhi completed their training and left the school. Pursell said that the Dec. 26, 2000, incident at the Miami airport was one of several problems the school had with the pair. ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-03-22-moussaoui_x.htm
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