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Flaming SUV rams U.K. airport; 2 arrests in third attempted attack in Britain in days

LONDON — A Jeep Cherokee trailing a cascade of flames rammed into Glasgow airport on Saturday, shattering glass doors just yards from passengers lined up at the check-in counters. Police said they believed the attack was linked to two car bombs found in London the day before.
Britain raised its terror alert to “critical” — the […]

U.S. Supreme Court Bans School Assignment by Race

‘When it comes to using race to assign children to schools, history will be heard.” So wrote Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., invoking the historic 1954 school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education in support of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday that invalidated two districts’ policies that assigned some children to specific schools […]

London - West End car bomb foiled by chance

A massive terrorist strike which could have killed hundreds of nightclub revellers in London has been foiled by chance.
A car bomb packed with petrol, gas canisters and nails was found in the early hours of Friday in the capital’s West End. Senior officers said the explosion could have caused “significant” injury and loss of life […]

Israel to free 250 Palestinian prisoners

SHARM EL SHEIK, EGYPT — Israel will release 250 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Monday as he and Arab leaders met here to shore up Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and search for fresh peacemaking opportunities.
The summit, which was held by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and included King Abdullah […]

UN: Afghan Poppy Harvest Growing Rapidly

Afghanistan’s poppy harvest is growing rapidly and this year’s yield could exceed last year’s record crop. Top counter narcotics officials from the United States and Britain say Afghanistan’s growing trade in illegal drugs is firmly linked to the Taleban insurgency. VOA correspondent Meredith Buel has more in this background report from Washington.
In the recently released […]

Democrats spooked by rise of ‘new Reagan’

The Democratic party is so alarmed by the prospect of competing against Fred Thompson, a Republican who portrays himself as a successor to Ronald Reagan, that it is advising campaigners how to attack the former actor and Tennessee senator.
Mr Thompson is not expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination until next month, but […]

Pressure builds anew on immigration bill

Pressure builds anew on immigration bill
A Senate showdown is expected this week on a proposed overhaul. Bush calls the status quo ‘unacceptable.’
By Jonathan Peterson, Times Staff Writer
June 25, 2007
WASHINGTON — Senators seeking to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws urged fellow lawmakers Sunday to move forward this week with a plan that would strengthen enforcement along […]

CIA reveals decades of plots, kidnaps and wiretaps

The CIA is to declassify secret records detailing operations including illegal domestic surveillance, assassination plots and kidnapping, undertaken from the 1950s to the early 1970s, at the height of the Cold War and the Vietnam conflict.
The records were compiled in 1973 at the behest of the then CIA director, James Schlesinger, and collected in a […]

U.S. Urged to Accept Azeri Radar

Senior government officials warned on Thursday that a snub from Washington over Moscow’s proposal to share an Azeri radar base would strengthen their belief that Russia was the real target of a planned U.S. missile defense system in Central Europe.
General Yury Baluyevsky, chief of the General Staff, said that with Iran posing no immediate missile […]

Spying fears lead to Blackberry ban for government workers

PARIS: French Government officials have been ordered not to use handheld BlackBerry devices amid fears that Britain or the US might spy on them.
The French General Secretariat for Defence is worried because all BlackBerry emails are transmitted from servers in Britain and the US, and are at risk of being picked up by agents at […]

Pakistani Traders Offer Reward for Rushdie Beheading

Pakistani traders on Thursday announced a reward of 10-million rupees for anyone who beheads Salman Rushdie following Britain’s decision to award the novelist a knighthood.
The announcement came during a protest by 200 traders at Aabpara market, one of the main bazaars in the capital, Islamabad, an Agence France-Presse photographer said.
“We will give 10-million rupees to […]

Scientology: The Empty Wallet of an Indian Tourist

One of our writers goes undercover to give you an inside view of the cult of Scientology.
Scientology: The Empty Wallet of an Indian Tourist
by Rajdeep Singh
The Church of Scientology is certainly one of the most controversial religions in this country, and perhaps the world. Few people outside the church know what goes on within its […]

My Abortion Dilemna

I’ve long believed in the right of women to have abortions. I used to think, “It’s there body, let them make the choice”. I’ve also impregnated two women, both of whom had abortions. One I fully supported, the other I was unaware of until years later.
My opinion about the whole issue began to change a […]

Death Count Rises as Mid-East Further Dissolves Into Chaos

Thursday finds us with the Middle-East region of the world in flames, descending deeper into madness.
Civil War in Gaza?

Hamas appears to have overrun Fatah positions, executing a senior Fatah leader in the process.
The success of Hamas suprises many as Fatah has been receiving support from Israeli and American sources. While Israel has battles Fatah […]

Marine Says He Erased Photos of Haditha Victims

The testimony is the first evidence suggesting that any officer may have engaged in a coverup in the 2005 deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians.
By Tony Perry, Times Staff Writer
June 8, 2007
CAMP PENDLETON — A staff sergeant testified Thursday that he was ordered to destroy grisly pictures of women and children killed by Marines so that […]