Vice President Dick Cheney delivers remarks Monday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington.
At the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this week in Washington, a conservative Christian couple from eastern Tennessee told me that their son had decided to join the Israeli army. It was one [...]

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Paris: From church roofs and grand statues to drain covers and even the humble tweezer, objects made of metal are being targeted by thieves in France looking to cash in on a surge in raw material prices, the police have said.
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KUWAIT CITY: Washington will launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, say sources. The attack will be launched from the sea and Patriot missiles will guard all oil-producing countries in the region, they add. Recent statements emanating from the United States indicate the Bush administration’s new strategy for Iraq doesn’t include any proposal [...]

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Interesting web blog
http://worsethansf.blog.com/

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China warned the United States on Thursday not to meddle in its trade relations with Iran after Washington expressed concern about a planned investment by a Chinese oil company in an Iranian gas field.
“We think this kind of cooperation and relationship is legitimate. Normal cooperation should not be interfered,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu [...]

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[I think this is an admission that Russian rocket scientists are better than American scientists. Take Note: Iran has many Russian scientists working on their missles programmes-ed]
NASA has agreed to the price and the delivery dates of the four spacecrafts from the Russian Federal Space Agency, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
NASA is to [...]

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President Alexander Lukashenko’s office said the compromise was reached in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A Kremlin official declined immediate comment.
“As a result of the discussion, a compromise was found which will make it possible to unblock this dead-end situation, including concerning the transit of Russian oil to European countries,” Lukashenko’s office [...]

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Russia is to launch a special satellite this year in search for extraterrestrial civilisations in remote galaxies, the ITAR-TASS news agency reports.
The Spektr R (Spectrum-Roentgen) x-ray satellite to be launched later this will carry a 20-metre antenna for the study of galaxies and extraterrestrial civilisations.
“It would be arrogant of us to presume that human beings [...]

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[What is that sub doing next to Iran?-ed]
A US nuclear-powered submarine has collided with a Japanese tanker near the Straits of Hormuz, Japanese and US government officials have said.
The USS Newport News did not suffer substantial damage, and there were no injuries to crew, a US Navy spokeswoman told the AFP news agency.

There were no [...]

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The Irish language (Gaeilge) is set to get official status in the EU on 1 January, bringing the total to 23.
The European Commission says Bulgarian and Romanian are expected to get official status on the same day, when the two Balkan countries join the EU.
According to Ireland’s 2002 census, 1.57 million of the four million [...]

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