 Pope Benedict XVI has celebrated open Mass in the centre of Warsaw, with more than 200,000 people in attendance. The pontiff arrived in Pilsudski Square in driving rain, to the cheers of sodden but resolute crowds waving the flags of Poland and the Vatican. In his sermon the German-born Pope paid tribute to his Polish mentor, John Paul II and the fruits of his papacy. On Sunday he will visit the Auschwitz death camp to pray for reconciliation between nations and faiths. Despite Friday's wet weather, police estimated that 220,000 people were crammed into the square, with tens of thousands more in side streets and parks. Many had slept in the square overnight, to be sure of obtaining a good position. Church bells pealed as the Pope, accompanied by 120 priests and bishops who celebrated the mass with him, ascended a metal, three-tiered platform for the ceremony. ...
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 In War, Americans Have Troops In Mind. Memorial Day During Prolonged Conflict Links Civilians, Soldiers |
Americans will still fire up their barbecues, watch parades, and go camping this weekend. But for the first time in a generation, Memorial Days are coming during prolonged armed conflict. That has strengthened ties between civilians and soldiers, bringing a marked change in the way people will observe the holiday this year. Politicians of all persuasions are pushing for better veterans' services, including healthcare for the living and survivors' benefits for those who've lost loved ones. Many states are now providing free tuition at public colleges and universities for the children of those killed in war zones. Since terrorists attacked the United States in 2001, communities around the country have begun to bring back traditional Memorial Day ceremonies, many of them featuring Iraq war vets. We love the Soldiers during war, in peace time most treat them much different. ...
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| Group Disputes Toll in U.S. Afghan Strike Group says 34 civilians died, not 16, in U.S. airstrike; 10 militants killed in new violence |
An Afghan human rights group said Friday that an estimated 34 civilians were killed in a U.S. airstrike on a southern village this week far higher than the official toll.Meanwhile, suspected Taliban rebels ambushed a police patrol in central Afghanistan, and an ensuing gunbattle left 10 militants and a policeman dead. The officer was killed in the initial ambush, while the 10 militants were killed in a police counterattack, said provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang.Abdul Qadar Noorzai, the director of the Kandahar office of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, said Afghans who had fled their small village of Azizi told him that about 25 family members were killed in 1 mud-brick home and that 9 were killed in the village's religious school, or madrassa, during the U.S. airstrike late Sunday and early Monday. About 11 civilians were wounded in total, he said, and villagers reported burying about 35 "unknown people" meaning militants from outside their area...
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| Thousands flee Mogadishu battle |
Thousands of civilians are fleeing the Somali capital, Mogadishu after Thursday's gun battle left at least 60 people dead. A BBC correspondent in the city says people are packing into minibuses bound for surrounding regions, while militiamen pour into the battle zones. Our correspondent says there is only sporadic gunfire but there are fears the fighting could resume at any time. Islamist militias captured some territory from an alliance of warlords. Somalia has had no fully functioning government since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991. This year's clashes have been the worst in the capital for more than a decade, leaving some 200 people dead. ...
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| Report: British legislator says killing Blair would be morally justifiable |
Maverick British politician George Galloway has claimed it would be "morally justified" for an assassin to target Prime Minister Tony Blair, but he said he was not advocating an attempt, according to a magazine interview published Friday. Galloway was quoted as saying an attack on Blair that caused no other casualties would be a justifiable response to Britain's support for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. "It would be entirely logical and explicable — and morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq as Blair did," the monthly GQ magazine quoted Galloway as saying. However, if he knew anyone was planning such an attack, Galloway added, he would tell police. Galloway, currently in Cuba, verified the accuracy of his comments in a statement posted on the website of his political party, Respect. Today its legal to lie and start a war that kills thousands, but to kill the liars that caused so many deaths is illegal??? Justice?...
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| UN nuclear head fears new cold war |
The world could be pushed back to the brink of destruction, as during the height of the cold war, due to the spread of nuclear technology, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog has said.Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned that the former US president John F Kennedy's prediction of a world with 20 or 30 countries with nuclear weapons could become a reality.That could mean the return to prominence of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, the belief that international security can be maintained by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Mr ElBaradei told Johns Hopkins University's Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in the USA. "When it comes to nuclear weapons, we are reaching a fork in the road ... Efforts to control the spread of such weapons will only be delaying the inevitable: a world in which each country or group has laid claim to its own nuclear weapon," said Mr ElBaradei....
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