US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with "serious political consequences" after Finance Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods. The reaction was reportedly given to the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC, and it was made clear that the statements came from the top level of the US State Department, newspaper VG reports.VG claims that two classified reports promised a "tougher climate" between the USA and Norway if Halvorsen's remarks represented the foreign policy of the new red-green alliance of the Labor, Socialist Left and Center parties....
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 Europe complicit in CIA "dirty work": investigator |
A Swiss investigator said on Friday European governments had been complicit in illegal CIA activities in the "war on terror," after reports that the Americans ran secret prisons in Europe. Swiss senator Dick Marty, investigating the allegations for the 46-nation rights group Council of Europe, said he was personally convinced of the existence of the detention centers but had yet to come up with concrete proof."It's not possible to transport people from one place to another in such a manner without the secret services knowing about it," he said. "What was shocking was the passivity with which we all, in Europe, have welcomed these things."Marty is to present a preliminary report to the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe on January 23 over reports the Americans ran centers in eastern Europe where suspects where interrogated, tortured or transported to other countries in a process Washington calls "rendition."...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060113/ts_nm/security_rendition_dc
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| Debris fire burns in New Orleans |
A smoky fire was burning Friday in a 100-foot-high pile of furniture, refrigerators and other hurricane debris in the city's hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward. The fire, reported late Thursday, covered about 4.6 acres and was largely under control, firefighters said. They were dropping water from helicopters and planned to let the blaze burn itself out. ...
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Editor - 17:15:00 01-13-06
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| Prison riot at California's San Quentin injures 25 |
A group of Hispanic inmates at San Quentin, California's oldest and most famous prison, briefly rioted in a dining hall incident that left 25 injured, a spokesman said on Friday. Sgt. Eric Messick said the incident occurred as a group of inmates in the general reception area began beating others during the evening mealtime on Thursday."Preliminary information suggests that it was because of an act of disrespect that occurred," he said....
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Editor - 17:12:00 01-13-06
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| Army Pointing to Hostile Fire As Cause of U.S. Helicopter Crash That Claimed Lives of Both Pilots |
A U.S. Army reconnaissance helicopter went down in the northern city of Mosul Friday, killing its two pilots, and a senior officer said it may have been shot down. The armed OH-58 Kiowa was on a combat air patrol with another Kiowa when it went down. Lt. Gen. John Vines, chief of the Multi-National Corps Iraq, told Pentagon reporters that there were indications the crash was due to hostile fire. Soldiers on the ground had said there was some firing in the area when it crashed....
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1503348
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| Bush rebuffs Merkel on Guantanamo |
Bush has rejected criticism over the Guantanamo Bay camp raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during talks in Washington. President Bush said it was a necessary part of protecting the American people. But the two leaders presented a united front over Iran resuming its nuclear programme, and commentators said they appeared to have got on well. It is her first official US visit since her election which, Mr Bush joked, much like his own, was not a landslide win. The two leaders discussed a range of subjects - from the Balkans and the Middle East to the Iraq war - which had strained relations between the US and Germany in recent years. "We openly addressed that there sometimes have been differences of opinion, and I mentioned Guantanamo in this respect," Ms Merkel told the press conference afterwards. ...
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