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French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at the World Leaders Forum at Columbia University in New York, March 29, 2010.
French President Heads for 1st White House Meeting with Much to Agree On, But More Troops a Sticking Point.
 

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Q: Why would U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan go out of their way to smear a journalist?

A: Because he told the truth about a night raid that killed Afghan civilians, including pregnant women.

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Russia's United Aircraft denies it will bid to build US tanker


Obama is Fighting Friends
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By Jamie Weinstein President Obama is trying to show his strength by fighting with Israel over settlements in East Jerusalem. President Obama has finally ...
The bank will house bad property loans left from the financial crisis, but Irish bank shares fell sharply amid fears that the new financial requirements could prove crippling

 

 

There have been reports of more than forty people dead after explosions rocked two separate railway stations in Moscow.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Middle East/Asia

 

Body of UAE Fund Director Found in Morocco.
Sheik Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan Found Five Days after his Glider Crashed into a Lake
 
Irish Times ~ The Arab rulers denounced Israel’s policy of settling occupied East Jerusalem as a dangerous obstacle to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East,
 

Jewish leader doubts Carter apology on Israel

At the March 18 summit in Atlanta, Carter said the US has "yielded excessively to the circumstances in the Holy Land as Israel has confiscated several lands ...

A lawyer slapped a judge in the court at Faisalabad, a few days ago. This is an ugly incidence that must be condemned. Wise people say every problem has its reason and one must inquire deeply to find out the reason in order to resolve the problem. Normally judges show personal bias and use their...

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The Associated Press — Nearly one out of every two Israelis thinks the country's international standing is poor following Israel's most serious crisis with the United ...
Soldiers leave Gaza after fierce battles
Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza Strip after some of the fiercest gun battles with Palestinian militants in the Hamas-run territory since last year's military offensive. (Boston Globe)

 

 
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 Canada
 
Coulter expressed her outrage, calling the University of Ottawa a "bush league" institution in an interview for The Washington Times...

 

 Americas

 

"I am going there because I do not want the mistake that was made in Iraq to be repeated in Iran," he said, in comments that the state news agency ABRreproduced Friday.

 

 
 

Markets/Economics

 

NYT Scapegoats Public Pensions To Push Debt Hysteria

NYT pins blame on state public pensions for possible debt crises:"California, New York and other states are showing many of the same signs of debt overload that recently took Greece to the brink [including] armies of retired public workers who are counting on benefits that are proving harder and harder to pay'

 

Analysts see reason for caution in equities, with many economists forecasting tepid growth in the near term.
 

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By Len Hart
 
 

A Time for Contrition
There has been some accountability for priests who sexually abused children, but not nearly enough for the bishops who enabled them.

 

Paul Craig Roberts

 

U.S.

 

The hatred and anger towards Muslims in this country and around the world has gone beyond the tipping point. This is not acceptable. We have to cleanse ourselves of this horrible disease.
 
The most jarring part of the Obama fly-in to Bagram was the part of the base he apparently didn't visit: the secret prison we've been running there for years. It's Gitmo on steroids.
 
KABUL -- Russia has accused the United States was "conniving" with Afghan drug producers by not destroying opium crops as U.S. troops advance in Helmand Province, one of the major opium grow...

 

 
African American mayor and police chief assert that they have been forced from office and arrested as part of an coup carried out by white politicians and their followers.
 
What reason is there to doubt our commander in chief ’s assertion that there is need to maintain an (approximately 50,000 strong) US “strike force” in or near Iraq to guarantee US interests in the Middle East, to allow Washington to move quickly against jihadists in the region and to make clear to. . .
 
 

 

Africa

 

Mogadishu's mayor orders some 1,000 Somali refugees to move away from the city's airport, citing security concerns.

 

By Border Jumpers

 

By Jerome Starkey
Jerome Starkey recently reported for The Times of London about a night raid on Feb. 12 in which U.S. and Afghan gunmen opened fire on two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials -- an atrocity which NATO’s Afghanistan headquarters then tried to cover up. Now, in a blistering indictment of both NATO and his own profession, Starkey writes for Nieman Watchdog that the international forces led by U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal are rarely called to account because most reporters are too dependent on access, security and the 'embed culture' to venture out and see what's happening for themselves...

 

Science/Environment

 

 
 
 
 
 
As we get hungrier for sustainable products, companies are falling over themselves to sell their eco-friendly image
By Anna Lappe ~ Adapted from "Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It"
 

 

Federal Survey Shows Great Plains States Could be Facing Record Levels.

 

SHE IS TRYING TO SEND HIM TO PRISON...READ THIS. WATCH YOUR BACKS. SYLVIA CLAIMS TO BE AN ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. ~ submitted by George Albayan

 

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School of Pharmacy pinpoints cinnamon and ginseng as potential life-extending ingredients in two popular herbal mixtures.

 

In a newly published study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity.
 
 

 

 

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