Chief U.N. prosecutor Carla del Ponte on Wednesday denied rumors that top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic had been arrested and urged Serbia to find him or risk hurting its bid to join the European Union. "Mladic remains at large, unfortunately," she told a news conference at the Hague tribunal. "The false rumors … about the arrest of Mladic have absolutely no basis whatsoever." Despite official denials by Serbia, rumors have been swirling since Tuesday that the 63-year-old fugitive was either under arrest or being talked into surrender to salvage Belgrade's EU membership prospects, up for review next week. "Serbia knows that negotiations may be suspended or may never conclude if Belgrade fails to cooperate fully," Del Ponte said. She repeated she had no doubt that Mladic was in Serbia, within reach of the authorities. ...
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Editor - 12:16:00 02-22-06
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 Mardi Gras: A Party Surrounded by Devastation |
Mardi Gras parties in New Orleans are well under way although the biggest celebrations will not happen until next week.Less than six months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the city, officials have spent millions of dollars cleaning up to present a positive image for thousands of tourists and reporters who are arriving for Mardi Gras. While the thumping noises of loud music can be heard around the French Quarter and the cat and mouse games partiers play to get beads have begun, there is a very different scene just a few blocks away from Bourbon Street. Outside the Downtown District many neighborhoods have received little or no attention since Hurricane Katrina struck."We lived out in an area down St. Claude and it's just nobody's out there. It's just deserted," said New Orleans resident Lucy Lablanc. She is now living downtown where she says there are more opportunities for work and housing....
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Editor - 12:10:00 02-22-06
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| Jury Finds Lead Paint Makers Guilty. This is so stupid, but it’s a good example of what that “Political Correct” crap can do |
Three former makers of lead paint created a public nuisance that continues to poison children, a jury decided Wednesday in Rhode Island's landmark lawsuit against the companies. The verdict means the companies that once made lead paint and pigment could be held responsible for millions of dollars in cleanup and mitigation costs, though the state never put a dollar value on its lawsuit. Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein will decide later how much, if anything, the companies must pay. The state argued that lead paint created a sweeping public nuisance that has poisoned tens of thousands of children since the early 1990s and contaminated hundreds of thousands of homes. ...
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Editor - 12:01:00 02-22-06
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| US port sale was done deal before Bush knew |
Bush did not know about a deal to hand over the operation of 6 American ports to a Dubai-owned company until it was all but sealed, the White House said today. Bush has spent the last few days vigorously defending the proposal, which has attracted the opposition of both Republican & Democrat leaders in Congress, who object to giving effective control of New York harbour and 5 other ports to an Arab company. But the White House admitted today that the President, who has threatened to veto any move by Congress to block the deal, did not know about the transaction until the furore erupted over the weekend. Politicians of every stripe have expressed concerns that terrorists could use Arab ownership of the port operations to attack America. "He became aware of it over the last several days," Scott McClellan, the White House Press Secretary, said today of the £4 billion deal to sell the British-owned P&O to Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2052757,00.html
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Editor - 11:46:00 02-22-06
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| Search Called Off for Day at Mud-Buried School, Heavy Rain and Equipment Problems Forced Delay |
It was another day of frustration with no sign of survivors as rescue workers desperately searched Wednesday for an elementary school that vanished under 100 feet of mud. Holes dug in the soft muck kept collapsing. Heavy rain forced troops and volunteers to call off work as dark fell amid fears of more landslides. Plans by U.S. Marines to use a two-ton drill fell through when no one could find the braces for it. With the search for survivors into the sixth day, rescue workers kept digging even as hopes for a miracle shrunk. No one has been pulled out alive since the first hours after a mountainside partially collapsed Friday following two weeks of heavy rain and buried the farming village of Guinsaugon. The official death toll has reached 107, based on the number of bodies recovered, but officials fear it could surpass 1,000 on Leyte island. ...
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Editor - 11:36:00 02-22-06
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| Olmert Says No Plans for Military Action Against Hamas, Will Use Diplomatic Tools Against It. |
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that Hamas is not a strategic threat to the Jewish state, signaling that he has no plans to take military action against the violent group, which swept Palestinian elections last month. As Hamas worked to form a new Cabinet, the group struck a deal to receive financing from Iran, a virulent enemy of Israel. Israel threatened to block the money and warned the Palestinians against aligning themselves with an international "pariah." Hamas, which has killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings, has rejected international calls to moderate, despite Israel's efforts to isolate the group internationally and Western threats to cut off vital financial aid. They said the wanted Democratic elections and now they don’t like it when they get it...
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Editor - 11:29:00 02-22-06
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