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Foreign
Japan backs Obama on
nuclear-free world
Hiroshima—Japan’s main opposition Democratic
Party, which has a good shot at winning power in
a general election this month, said on Thursday
it backed U.S. President Barack Obama’s call to
rid the world of nuclear arms. In the western
city of Hiroshima to remember the victims of the
world’s first atomic attack in 1945, party
leader Yukio Hatoyama also said Japan should
appeal to world leaders to eschew nuclear arms. |
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Clinton vows US
support for Somalia
Nairobi—U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton on Thursday pledged continued American
support for Somalia’s weak interim government as
it struggles against Islamist extremists
believed linked to al-Qaida. Clinton was to meet
beleaguered Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik
Ahmed to un-derscore U.S. backing, which has
included weapons transfers and training, for his
government and an undermanned and underfunded
African Union peacekeeping force supporting it. |
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Israeli troops
ill-treat kids
Gaza—A former Israeli military commander has
told the BBC that Palestinian youngsters are
routinely ill-treated by Israeli soldiers while
in custody, re-ports the BBC’ s Katya Adler from
Jerusalem and the West Bank. “You take the kid,
you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he’s really
shaking... Sometimes you cuff his legs too.
Sometimes it cuts off the circulation. “He
doesn’t understand a word of what’s going on
around him. He doesn’t know what you’re going to
do with him. He just knows we are soldiers with
guns. That we kill people. Maybe they think
we’re going to kill him. |
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One dead, 40 missing
as Tongan ferry sinks
nuku’alofa—An overnight ferry packed with
sleeping passengers flipped in heavy seas near
the Pacific island nation of Tonga, leaving more
than 30 people miss-ing and feared dead,
officials said Thursday. Rescuers who plucked
more than 50 survivors from the water were
hopeful of find-ing more clinging to wreckage
strewn over a wide area, but positive signs were
fading after almost a full day’s searching. |
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Don’t get swayed by
Israeli rhetoric
Ray Hanania Comment
WHEN it comes to the facts and the moral high
ground, Israel always comes up lacking. The
Jewish state hides behind its religious history
to defend itself against its own crimes against
humanity, deflects talk about justice by issuing
a one-sided claim on security, and says it wants
peace but really wants land. |
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