President Bush generally favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country, but does not want to be more publicly supportive because of opposition among conservative House Republicans, according to senators who attended a recent White House meeting.Several officials familiar with the meeting also said Democrats protested radio commercials that blamed them for Republican-written legislation that passed the House and would make illegal immigrants vulnerable to felony charges.Bush said he was unfamiliar with the ads, which were financed by the Republican National Committee, according to officials familiar with the discussions....
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 1,000 secret CIA flights revealed |
The CIA has operated more than 1,000 secret flights over EU territory in the past five years, some to transfer terror suspects in a practice known as "extraordinary rendition", an investigation by the European parliament said yesterday. The figure is significantly higher than previously thought. EU parliamentarians who conducted the investigation concluded that incidents when terror suspects were handed over to US agents did not appear to be isolated. They said the suspects were often transported around Europe on the same planes by agents whose names repeatedly came up in their investigation. They accused the CIA of kidnapping terror suspects and said those responsible for monitoring air safety regulations revealed unusual flight paths to and from European airports. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1762212,00.html
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| Romania struggles to shelter flood victims |
More than 15,000 Romanians who fled areas flooded by the Danube River are crowded into tent communities and faced with dwindling food supplies, residents and volunteers said Wednesday.With waters still rising after about two weeks of flooding, hundreds have taken refuge on a hill overlooking Chiselet, a village of 3,400 people in south-central Romania.Some are in makeshift shelters made from plastic sheets, while others have crammed into army tents. Food is running low, they say, and there are no toilets, forcing them to use a nearby field.Volunteers and authorities on Wednesday brought bread, clean water and canned foods -- provided by the government -- and promised to set up portable toilets Thursday....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/04/26/romania.floods.ap/index.html?section=cnn_world
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| Body error upsets soldier's widow Wrong body sent from Iraq to Australia |
In what Australia's defense minister has called an "unacceptable, terrible mistake," the body of the first Australian soldier to die in Iraq has been left behind in Kuwait.Instead, the wrong body was loaded onto a commercial flight that arrived in the southern city of Melbourne early Thursday.Private Jake Kovco, 25, died in Baghdad on April 21 when he accidentally shot himself while cleaning his gun.The blunder left his widow, Shelley Kovco, distressed and had Defense Minister Brendan Nelson demanding answers over the mix-up.Nelson ordered Kovco's body be brought home immediately -- by private charter, if necessary....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/26/iraq.australian.mistake/index.html?section=cnn_world
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| Former Tennessee Teacher Charged With Sex With Student Arrested for Probation Violation |
A former teacher already charged with violating probation since she was jailed for having sex with a student has been arrested again. Warren County Sheriff Jackie Matheny says Pamela Rogers is in court this morning. She has been in jail since Monday.This time, the 28-year-old Rogers is accused of communicating with the teenager and sending him sexually explicit videos.Prosecutors told the Southern Standard [newspaper] in McMinnville that Rogers contacted the now- 14-year-old student electronically hours after an April 12th court hearing on an earlier probation violation charge....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193307,00.html
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| Embattled Solomons PM steps down |
The new Solomon Islands Prime Minister Snyder Rini, whose election last week triggered widespread rioting in the capital Honiara, has resigned. He announced he was quitting just before MPs were due to vote in a no-confidence motion against him. Mr Rini confidently predicted he would win the vote, but some of his key backers switched sides in recent days. His resignation was greeted with jubilation in Honiara, where people honked car horns and cheered. "People are very excited that Rini has gone [and] are looking forward to getting rid of the old leaders in the old government," 38-year-old farmer, Samson Maneka, told the Associated Press. "The majority of Solomon Islanders are happy with this change." ...
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