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• Hunting for oil beneath the ice - CNN
U.S. crude production is at its lowest since 1949, and nowhere has that decline been steeper than in Alaska, where oil output is less than half what it was a decade ago.
Added: 05.05.2008 05:23
• Rice: U.S. won`t stand in way of Israel-Syria peace efforts - Ha'aretz
The United States would support a Turkish-brokered Syrian-Israeli peace drive but wants to see Damascus change its policy on Lebanon, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in remarks published on Sunday.
Added: 05.05.2008 05:19
• Peace talks to freeze until PM cleared - Jerusalem Post
There is unlikely to be any progress in Israeli-Palestinian talks until the political uncertainty created by the latest investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is cleared up, senior government officials said Sunday after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks with both Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
Added: 05.05.2008 05:17
• Rocket salvo hits western Negev - Ynet News
Residents of the western Negev communities awoke, yet again, to the sound of the Color Red alert on Sunday, as 10 Qassam rockets fired from northern Gaza landed throughout the area.
Added: 05.05.2008 05:15
• Iran rejects incentives that 'violate atomic rights' - Ynet News
Iran will not agree to any package of incentives offered by world powers that violate Iran's nuclear rights, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
Added: 05.05.2008 05:14
• Rice: Israelis, Palestinians must agree on final borders - Ynet News
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators should decide once and for all where to draw the line between Israeli and Palestinian territory, ending the argument over Jewish housing expansion on disputed ground, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.
Added: 05.02.2008 09:27
• Mideast Quartet presses Israel over settlements, Gaza blockade - AFP
The Middle East Quartet called Friday on Israel to freeze the construction of further settlements in the West Bank, while voicing deep concern over the Gaza Strip due to an Israeli blockade.
Added: 05.02.2008 09:23
• Report: Israel threatened to target Syria if Hizbullah attacks - Ynet News
Israel recently conveyed a warning to Syria through a third party that it would hold Damascus accountable if Hizbullah launched attacks on the Jewish state, Israeli and European sources said on Friday.
Added: 05.02.2008 09:22
• Fed joins with European banks to battle credit crisis - AP
The Federal Reserve announced Friday that it will expand a series of efforts to deal with the global credit crisis, in coordination with European central banks.
Added: 05.02.2008 09:14
• Gulf States May End Dollar Pegs, Kuwait Minister Says - Bloomberg
Gulf states are considering dropping their pegs to the dollar after the U.S. currency's decline stoked inflation across the region, Kuwaiti Finance Minister Mustafa al- Shimali said.
Added: 05.02.2008 09:12
• Chinese build secret nuclear submarine base - London Telegraph
China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region, it can be disclosed.
Added: 05.02.2008 09:09
• Ministry fined for firing homosexual employee - One News Now
Canadian ministry Christian Horizons has been fined more than $23,000 for firing an employee who was actively engaged in a homosexual relationship.
Added: 05.02.2008 09:03
• Rice Raises New Doubts Re Iran's Nuke Program - NewsMax
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raised fresh doubts Thursday about the nature of Iran's nuclear program, saying if the clerical state really wanted only an avenue to peaceful atomic energy it could quickly have it.
Added: 05.02.2008 08:58
• Stocks rise and Dow crosses 13,000 as dollar advances - AP
Wall Street shot higher Thursday as investors, while anticipating another dismal jobs report Friday, viewed the rising dollar and falling oil prices as promising signs for the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average soared nearly 190 points to close above 13,000 for the first time since Jan. 3.
Added: 05.02.2008 08:54
• Wall Street mood swing: Gloom gives way to (premature?) optimism - Int'l Herald Tribune
Despite a drumbeat of bad economic news, the stock market is up -- almost 11 percent in the last few weeks. Junk bonds, those risky corporate IOUs, are rallying. The value of financial shares, bank loans, tricky credit derivatives -- up, up, up. Many on Wall Street, the epicenter of the credit mess, seems to think that the worst is over.
Added: 05.02.2008 08:50
• Hamas: Jews planned the Holocaust - Jerusalem Post
Jewish leaders concocted the mass murder of handicapped Jews in order to keep from having to support them, and this murder is what the Jews term "the Holocaust," according to a documentary special that aired on April 18 on Hamas's Al Aqsa television station.
Added: 05.02.2008 08:38
• Up $10.9 Billion, Exxon Worries About New Tax - Washington Post
Bolstered by winter's record crude oil prices, Exxon Mobil yesterday reported a huge first-quarter profit and provoked new congressional vows to come up with legislation that would tax windfall profits or demonstrate concern about high gasoline prices.
Added: 05.02.2008 08:35
• Ultrasound Bill Downed in Florida - CBN News
A Florida abortion bill that would require all women seeking a first-trimester abortion to have an ultrasound first has failed to pass the state's senate.
Added: 05.02.2008 08:27
• N. Korea to give nuke files to U.S. - Washington Times
North Korea has tentatively agreed to give the United States thousands of records from its Yongbyon nuclear reactor dating back to 1990 to complement an expected declaration of its nuclear programs, administration and congressional officials said yesterday.
Added: 05.01.2008 08:03
• Iran Remains Most Active State Sponsor of Terror: U.S. - NewsMax
Iran remained the world's "most active" state sponsor of terrorism as it tries to build regional influence and drive the United States from the Middle East, a US government report said Wednesday.
Added: 05.01.2008 08:00
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