 Pressure is growing on US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with more retired generals calling for him to resign over the Iraq war. The White House has said it is happy with the way Mr Rumsfeld is handling his job and the situation in Iraq. But the backing comes as the number of retired generals calling for him to be replaced has risen to six. It is being described as a rebellion led by those who know Mr Rumsfeld's handling of the war from the inside. The two most recent retired generals to voice their unease about Mr Rumsfeld's handling of the war are Maj Gen John Riggs and Maj Gen Charles H Swannack Jr, both of the Army. In a radio interview Gen Riggs, a former division commander, said it was time for Mr Rumsfeld to go because he fostered an atmosphere of "arrogance" among the Pentagon's top civilian leadership. "They only need the military advice when it satisfies their agenda....
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 Burundi lifts 34-year old curfew |
Burundi has lifted a midnight to dawn curfew that has been in place for 34 years, saying the country is stable. A new government was elected last year following a civil war that killed an estimated 300,000 people. The curfew was used by the government in the 1970s - dominated by a Tutsi minority - to try to maintain control. But the country soon spiralled into chaos - as Hutu rebel groups took up arms against increasingly brutal repression by the military. The curfew remained in force for the next three decades - with Burundians prohibited from venturing on to the streets between midnight and dawn. Now the government says these restrictions are no longer necessary. Peace has returned to almost all of Burundi - with only one small rebel group still active and the government is trying to negotiate a peace deal with them. ...
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| Iguana Invasion Leads Fla. Town to Raise Taxes |
Death and taxes may be life's only certainties, but for folks in this upscale island town, add iguanas. And another tax. During the last three decades, the resort community on Florida's Gulf Coast has been overrun by the black, spiny-tailed, nonnative lizards that demolish gardens, nest in attics and weaken beach dunes with burrows.Last month, Lee County commissioners agreed to create a special tax for Boca Grande to cover costs of studying the infestation on the barrier island of Gasparilla, where scientists estimate there are up to 12,000 iguanas on the loose, more than 10 for every year-round resident....
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| Iraqi construction workers killed |
Seven Iraqi workers with a construction company have been killed in the southern city of Basra, police say. Ten employees were handcuffed and blindfolded and taken to a residential area in the northern part of the city. They were lined up against a wall to be shot. Seven of them were killed, but three managed to escape. Separately, two policemen were killed when a large convoy transporting police vehicles was ambushed by gunmen near Baghdad, police have said. Eighteen others were injured in the attack, which took place late on Thursday when the convoy deviated from their planned route while returning to the southern city of Najaf. Thirty-five police made their way back to Najaf and another 53 headed to one of Baghdad's main police stations. ...
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| Teen Faked Her Own Kidnapping 911 Call Launched a Two-State Search |
A Kansas community is trying to figure out why a seemingly well-adjusted teen faked her own abduction.Kelsey Stelting called 911 on Tuesday pleading for help. "I've been kidnapped," she says on the 911 recording. "I have been taken from in front of my house. I am, I am in the back of a van. I was told, he put a gun to my head and told me to run or he would shoot me and my family."In response to the frantic 911 call, authorities launched an Amber Alert and began a massive search that spanned two states. Kelsey turned up 15 hours later, saying she had escaped from her abductor by hitting him with a piece of glass....
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| British adventurer ordered out of Russia Bureaucratic snag might dash dreams of 36,000 mile trek on foot |
An adventurer’s attempt to walk from the tip of South America to his home in Britain hung in the balance on Friday after a court in Russia ordered his deportation for failing to get a stamp in his passport.Former paratrooper Karl Bushby was detained in the freezing wastes of Russia’s Far Eastern Chukotka region on April 1 after the latest leg of his journey took him across the frozen Bering Strait from Alaska.Anyone deported from Russia is usually barred from returning for five years — a bitter blow for Bushby, who after seven years of walking is about halfway through his 36,000 mile trek. The court in the settlement of Lavrentiya fined Bushby and Dimitri Kieffer, an American who helped him cross the treacherous ice bridge, $72 and ordered both to be deported, Bushby’s support team in Britain said....
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