Rising Oil Prices Worry Finance Ministers
WASHINGTON - Finance officials from the world’s leading industrial powers expressed concern Friday about zooming oil prices and vowed to take action to prevent the global economy from getting knocked off course.
The pledge by finance ministers and central bank presidents from the Group of Seven countries comes on the [...]

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U.S. suggests Iran sanctions not linked to UN
The Bush administration called on Friday for Russia and the countries of Europe to impose their own penalties on Iran over its suspected nuclear arms program if no agreement on sanctions could be reached soon at the United Nations Security Council.
“If the Security Council cannot act over a [...]

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Iran sanctions ‘depend on proof’
Russia has ruled out sanctions against Iran unless there is proof that its nuclear programme is not peaceful.
Mikhail Kamynin of the foreign ministry said Russia must see “concrete facts” proving Iran’s non-peaceful activities.
The US has been trying to rally support from UN Security Council members like Russia for tougher [...]

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Israeli troops could reoccupy part of Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops could reoccupy parts of the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip if cross border violence escalates, a senior army general told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Friday.
Major-General Yoav Gallant, commander of Israel’s southern forces, said the army had stepped up an offensive against militants firing rockets [...]

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Iran shells Kurd positions in Iraq: Kurd official
Is this false news, a hoax or could the Iranians be that stupid?
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iranian forces shelled Iranian Kurdish guerrilla positions inside mountainous northern Iraq early on Friday morning to repel an attack, a Kurdish official said.
“This morning Iranian Kurdish fighters infiltrated the border into the [...]

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Gaza Strip has been under heavy rocket attacks from Israel since Friday, said a spokesman for the Israeli military.
Israel responded to an attack of Qassam -type missiles by throwing about 2,000 rockets in the last couple of weeks, a statement from the Israeli military spokesman read. The statement also gave news of the Israeli military [...]

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Bush won’t rule out nuclear strike on Iran
President Bush refused on Tuesday to rule out nuclear strikes against Iran if “diplomacy fails” [AMI: The kind of WMD diplomacy used before the war of aggression against Iraq] to curb the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions.
Iran, which says its nuclear program is purely peaceful, told world powers it [...]

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by John Stokes
New studies make the Bush administration’s “liberation” argument for a ‘pre-emptive’ war against Iraq seem questionable.
The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by U.S.-led coalition forces has been responsible for the death of at least 150,000 civilians (not including certain of Iraq), reveals a compilitation of scientific studies and corroborated eyewitness testimonies.
The majority [...]

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DETROIT — President George W. Bush’s character is diseased. Serial lies spew from his forked tongue as the result of a damaged mind and personality that will not permit him to face the truth. He lies about leaks and leaks about lies.
Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush’s shady and cynical servant, refuses to deal with the [...]

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The Iraq Nuke Showdown continues on both Bill Hemmer’s Fox News Live (12 - 1 p.m.) and on Studio B with Shepard Smith. They made sure to inject the fear by repeating on both programs that the president of Iran had said he would cut off the hand of any aggressor.
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