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Slow, Painful Change A visit to Israel illustrates the harsh realities of the Palestinian conflict—and refutes some assumptions about this troubled land. July 7, 2006 - We arrived at the prime minister’s office an hour after the Hamas groups holding a captured Israeli soldier issued an...

Going Green With windmills, low-energy homes, new forms of recycling and fuel-efficient cars, Americans are taking conservation into their own hands. July 17, 2006 issue - One morning last week ... 29 years after president Jimmy Carter declared energy conservation "the moral equivalent of war"...

A new report describes Canadian teen Omar Khadr being carried into Guantanamo Bay interrogations on a stretcher, dangling from a door frame for hours and used as a human floor mop to clean his own urine. The Center for Constitutional Rights in New York released the first major overview Monday...

Re: RE: Lobsters Aren't Food Agreed, seafood is great. Especially the big roaches with butter, mmmm. :D

What effect will N Korea missile tests have? The US has dismissed demands from North Korea to have sanctions against it lifted as a precondition for returning to talks on its nuclear programme. US envoy Christopher Hill, who is on a tour of the region, accused the North of trying to divert...

MOSCOW, Russia -- Shamil Basayev, the rebel Chechen warlord believed to have masterminded the deadly school siege in Beslan and many other terrorist attacks, has been killed, the head of the Federal Security Service said Monday. FSB head Nikolai Patrushev told Russian President Vladimir Putin...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime. While Japan...

By David McNally National myths die hard. And few Canadian myths are more entrenched than the notion of this country as a peacekeeper, free from the militarism and imperialism of the US. Yet this image is a wild fantasy that obscures some ugly truths. Take Canadian participation in the war on...

There’s an old, awful joke that – in direct proportion to its offensiveness and horrific frankness – gets to the heart of one of the fundamental hypocrisies of Canadian apartheid and the comfortable air of superiority with which we tend, from here, to observe the catastrophic racial dystopia...

Russian airliner crash kills at least 122 Airbus jet carrying 200 veers off Siberian runway, bursts into flames MOSCOW - A Russian passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked Siberian runway early Sunday and plowed through a concrete barrier and into some nearby garages, bursting into flames...

Israel says its troops have left their positions in northern Gaza but has rejected a Palestinian cease-fire offer. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected the offer proposed by Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, and will not accept a truce until the ruling Hamas Party free an Israeli...

‘Creating a British Muslim culture’ for kids London school, with government funding, sets its own course LONDON - “I know we’ve come a long way, we’re changing day to day, but tell me, where do the children play?” — Cat Stevens. As jump ropes swirl and soccer balls fly across its playground...

Integration questions stir passions in Germany Experiment seems to have failed; government scrambles to find solutions BERLIN — With tensions rising between Muslim immigrants, their children and the native-born populations in Western Europe, the question of how to integrate foreigners has...

Abuse plagues Muslim women in Germany Traditional attitudes linger, leading to forced marriages and violence BERLIN - Imagine a home with so much pressure to cook, clean and take care of younger siblings that you don’t have enough time to do homework. Imagine your parents forbidding you from...

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A suspect was questioned in Canada in connection with an alleged plot to bomb tunnels between Manhattan and New Jersey and flood New York's financial district, CBC News has learned. An FBI official in Washington told CBC News that one suspect in the plot was questioned in Canada. But the...

American Dream, American Nightmare The greatness of the United States is unique—and not a model to be exported by narrow-minded nationalists. July 5, 2006 - I spent the early morning yesterday in my Paris apartment re-reading George Orwell’s long essay, “Notes on Nationalism.” It was written...

UNITED NATIONS - China and Russia resisted an attempt by the U.S., Japan, and Britain to impose sanctions against North Korea for its missile launches Wednesday, saying only diplomacy could halt the isolated regime's nuclear and rocket development programs. Japan, within range of North Korean...

Very nice touch adding "A place to make friends" I've certainly made a few. :D

NASA counts down to 4th of July launch Weather outlook improves; latest tank-foam issue resolved CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - For the third time, NASA loaded the shuttle Discovery's external tank with rocket fuel — this time in preparation for what could be the space agency's first Fourth of...