Spanish Media Organized Nationwide Mass Protests(AP) LOS ANGELES The marching orders were clear: Carry American flags and pack the kids, pick up your trash and wear white for peace and for effect.
Many of the 500,000 people who crammed downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to protest legislation that would make criminals out of illegal immigrants learned where, when and even how to demonstrate from the Spanish-language media.
For English-speaking America, the mass protests in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities over the... (more)
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U.N. flies warlord Taylor to face tribunalFREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, captured on the run in Nigeria with sacks full of cash, was flown to Sierra Leone on Wednesday to be tried on war crimes charges.
A white U.N. helicopter carrying Taylor left neighboring Liberia and landed inside the compound of the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal that will try the former warlord, U.N. officials said. A second U.N. chopper also landed on the helipad in the capital, Freetown.
Taylor w... (more)
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Israeli Voters, by Thin Margin, Support Parties Vowing PulloutJERUSALEM, Wednesday, March 29 — Israelis voted Tuesday to bring to power a new centrist party, Kadima, which is committed to a further pullout from the occupied West Bank.
Kadima's leader, Ehud Olmert, will become prime minister, but his support proved tepid and he will find it harder than expected to impose his agenda on a larger coalition.
Kadima, founded in November by Ariel Sharon when he broke with the Likud Party, won the most seats in the 120-member K... (more)
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Russian Defense Minister Advocates Pre-Emptive Strikes on Terrorist Bases AbroadThe Russian Army has a right to make pre-emptive strikes on terrorist bases, including those located abroad, Russian Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday.
“Russia has always held, and continues to hold, that we have the right to use pre-emptive strikes, if we are 100% certain that terrorist attacks against Russia or Russian citizens are being planned.” Ivanov was quoted by Prime Tass as saying Tuesday at a press conference in Moscow.
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'We're on the eve of World War III': Ex-Mossad chief urges West to unite, warns of Muslims imposing ideology
JERUSALEM – Global civilization is on the verge of "World War III," a massive conflict in which the Islamic world will attempt to impose its ideology on Western nations, according to Meir Amit, a former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.
Amit, one of the most esteemed figures in the international defense establishment, warned Islamic nations and global Islamist groups will continue launching "all kinds of attacks" against Western states. He urge... (more)
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Russia Suspects Hidden Agenda Behind U.S. Spying AccusationsRussia’s foreign minister accused the United States on Monday of having “hidden political motives” for a report that said Moscow turned over information on American military plans to Saddam Hussein during the invasion of Iraq, AP reported.
Sergey Lavrov’s comments were the first formal statement from President Vladimir Putin’s government about the Pentagon report, though a spokesman for Russia’s foreign spy agency over the weekend had denied the... (more)
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Corrupt police and Iraqi crime gangs are the new 'enemy' for British troopsIt took one phone call to demonstrate the limits of British power in Basra.
Men from Zulu Company of the First Fusiliers were visiting a police station as part of their ambition to foster a professional police force to provide security once they have gone.
They wanted to discuss equipment levels as well as the success of efforts to cleanse the force of barbaric militias.
Instead, a captain told them politely, but firmly, that they had to leave.
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The rancid relationship: Britain's close alliance with the United States has become nothing but one-way trafficA senior British military commander in the invasion of Iraq said the other day that Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, should be tried for war crimes. He was speaking in private and, I assume, did not mean to be taken literally. But there was no mistaking the anger in his voice.
It reflected a deep fury at the decision to disband the Iraqi army after the invasion, a decision that was the formal responsibility of the US proconsul Paul Bremer, but, according to British offic... (more)
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Russia Denies Passing On Iraq War Info(CBS/AP) Calling the allegations “baseless,” Russian officials are denying that their government provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence on U.S. military movements and plans during the opening days of the war in Iraq.
Those claims were made in a Pentagon report released Friday.
The report does not assess the value of the information or provide details beyond citing an Iraqi document that says the battlefield intelligence was provided to Saddam through ... (more)
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Israel 'to consult US on borders'Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he will seek backing from the US and international community for his plans to create permanent borders.
Speaking two days before the elections, he said Israelis must first agree among themselves where the border should lie.
Mr Olmert's campaign has centred on his plan to establish permanent borders.
He has in the past suggested making the controversial West Bank barrier - some of which is being built in o... (more)
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Children Continue To Be Main Victims Of U.S. OccupationNew York, March 24 - ICH - One of the most tragic consequenes of the Iraq war has been its effect on children. The war continues to claim them among its main victims, while the health of the majority of the population also continues to deteriorate. In the 1980s, Iraq had one of the best health care systems in the region. Following the 2003 invasion by the coalition forces, an ongoing cycle of insurgent violence and occupation forces’ counter-attacks have significantly damaged ... (more)
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Battle for Baghdad 'has already started'The battle between Sunni and Shia Muslims for control of Baghdad has already started, say Iraqi political leaders who predict fierce street fighting will break out as each community takes over districts in which it is strongest.
"The fighting will only stop when a new balance of power has emerged," Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Massoud Barzani, the Kurdish leader, said. "Sunni and Shia will each take control of their own area." He said sectarian cleansing had already begun.<... (more)
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41% of Israel's Jews favour segregation· Poll reveals widespread anti-Arab sentiment
· Academics warn of racism 'becoming mainstream'
A poll of attitudes among Israel's Jews towards their country's Arab citizens has exposed widespread racism, with large numbers favouring segregation and policies to encourage Arabs to leave the country.
The poll found that more than two-thirds of Jews would refuse to live in the same building as an Arab. Nearly half would not allow an A... (more)
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Pentagon: Russia fed U.S. war plans to IraqAs U.S. troops moved toward Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein received intelligence about their battle strategy and troop movements from a Russian ambassador, according to a Pentagon report.
The Russians claimed they obtained the information from sources inside the U.S. Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar, and conveyed it to Hussein via the Russian ambassador to Iraq, the report said.
Russia dismissed the report on Saturday. "Such unfounded accusations have been ... (more)
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Flashback: Top Chinese General: We'll Nuke U.S. in Fight for TaiwanChina is prepared to destroy "hundreds" of American cities if it is attacked by the U.S. during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese general said on Thursday.
"If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition onto the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons," said Gen. Zhu Chenghu at a meeting of foreign journalists.
He added that China's definition of its "territory" includes warships and ai... (more)
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Britain is 'likely base for son of Star Wars'Britain has been named as a prime candidate to host missiles for America's controversial "son of Star Wars" defence system, a senior US general has revealed.
The disclosure risked infuriating Left-wing Labour MPs and prompting a fresh examination of transatlantic links and the relationship between Tony Blair and President George W Bush.
Lt Gen Trey Obering, head of the US Missile Defence Agency, said Britain was one of three candidates to be the European host of int... (more)
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U.S.: Iraq on own to rebuildThe head of the U.S.-led program to rebuild Iraq said Thursday that the Iraqi government can no longer count on U.S. funds and must rely on its own revenues and other foreign aid, particularly from Gulf nations.
"The Iraqi government needs to build up its capability to do its own capital budget investment," Daniel Speckhard, director of the U.S. Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, told reporters.
The burden of funding reconstruction poses an extraordinary challen... (more)
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Envoy Accuses Iran Of Duplicity on Iraq: Fighters Receive Support, Khalilzad SaysBAGHDAD, March 23 -- Iran is publicly professing its support for Iraq's stalemated political process while its military and intelligence services back outlawed militias and insurgent groups, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Thursday.
Iranian agents train and arm Shiite Muslim militias such as the Mahdi Army, linked to one of Iraq's most powerful clerics, Khalilzad said, and also work closely with Sunni Arab-led insurgent forces including Ansar al-Sunna, blamed for dozens of d... (more)
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U.S. alert sparks political rowRome, March 23 - A security alert by the United States advising Americans to take "precautions" while visiting Italy ahead of next month's election fuelled tension on Thursday between Premier Silvio Berlusconi and opposition leader Romano Prodi .
The State Department advisory warned of possible attacks by al Qaeda terrorists as well as street demonstrations by domestic radical groups opposed to Berlusconi, similar to a protest that sparked rioting in Milan earlier this month .
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Did Russian Ambassador Give Saddam the U.S. War Plan?Following are the ABC News Investigative Unit's summaries of seven documents from Saddam Hussein's government, which the U.S. government has released.
The documents discuss Osama bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda and more.
The full documents can be found on the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office Web site: http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm.
Note: Document titles were added by ABC News.
"U.S. War Pl... (more)
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Belarus riot police halt protestsRiot police in the Belarussian capital, Minsk, have broken up a five-day demonstration against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
More than 100 troops poured into the central square and loaded protesters onto waiting trucks.
Small groups of demonstrators had gathered in the square since Mr Lukashenko secured a third term in office last Sunday.
The opposition condemned the election result, saying the vote was rigged.
The BBC's Em... (more)
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Britain pushes for military option to restrain TehranThe Times - BRITAIN is pressing for a United Nations resolution that would open the way for punitive sanctions and even the use of force if Iran were to refuse to halt its controversial nuclear programme.
In a confidential letter obtained by The Times, a leading British diplomat outlines a strategy for winning Russian and Chinese support by early summer for a so-called Chapter VII resolution demanding that Iran cease its nuclear activities.
If the Government in Tehr... (more)
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