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Italy Pays Libya With Investment, Apologizes For Colonialism - Peace Treaty Signed
$200 million per year is drop in ocean compared to Libya's $40bn a year in oil revenues, amounts to under $100 compensation per current living citizen over next 25 years. Italy will fund US$500 million of electronic monitoring devices on Libyan coastline to crack down on African migrants turning up on Italian shores in ''battle against slave traders'' (Berlusconi). more... | PDA
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Not Necessary to Recognize Israel for Good Relations With USA
Libyan revolutionary leader Mu`ammar al-Gaddafi has shown that deals can be made with the US without including a required ``recognition`` of the Zionist entity ``Israel`` more... | PDA
In Focus: Brown`s £1bn power windfall
The British government is likely to face difficult questions over why it is not using some of its own energy profits to help the fuel poor. more... | PDA
Alexander Cockburn: Iraqi surge bogus success
In an exclusive interview with PressTv, Counterpunch website`s Alexander Cockburn said that Sen. John McCain knows the Iraq surge success is misleading. more... | PDA
Gold Rush Mentality: Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground
A gold rush mentality has taken hold across the entire continent - to acquire vast stretches of African land to meet the world`s biofuel needs. more... | PDA
Beyond the Worst-Case Scenario in Somalia
The report makes clear that the Bush Administration`s malign intervention in Somalia began well before the Ethiopian invasion in 2006. Indeed, it was an application of the age-old American policy of ``divide and conquer`` - deliberately fomenting violent conflict in the society of a targeted country - that helped radicalize and empower extremist factions in Somalia. more... | PDA
Leaked Report: US-Iraq Agreement
The pact would govern the future US presence in Iraq. The draft indicates no intent to set a deadline for withdrawal of ``noncombat`` troops from Iraq. It also grants immunity from Iraqi law to US military personnel, no matter where they are located. more... | PDA
Iran, Russia agree on intelligence sharing
Iran`s Minister of Information, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejeie, on Friday met new head of Russian Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov. more... | PDA
UNESCO backs plan to build underwater museum in Alexandria, Egypt
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization `UNESCO` announced Thursday that it would help Egypt build an underwater museum in the Bay of Alexandria on the Mediterranean. more... | PDA
Bob Woodward Documents White House Spy Operation on Maliki
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and others have been targeted, according to the upcoming Bob Woodward`s book: ``The War Within.`` more... | PDA
Thai PM Samak reflects on possible referendum, resignation
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej suggested Thursday that a new referendum may be conducted for voters nationwide to decide whether or not he should step down as vehemently pressed by the People`s Alliance for Democracy `PAD` which seized and occupied gov`t House since last week. more... | PDA
Interview with Russian President Medvedev On Euronews
Transcript of the Euronews` interview with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev more... | PDA
Unprecedented Ice Storms In Kenya
Lack of solar activity in 2008 has coincided with evidence of a cooling trend across the world. more... | PDA
Qatar warns against attacking Iran
The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, has warned that Doha will not allow any country to turn the Persian Gulf into a war zone. more... | PDA
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