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EU: Russia-Georgia talks make some progress

klmn269 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:05:25 +0000

GENEVA (AP) — Mediators succeeded Wednesday in getting direct talks going between Russia and Georgia, pressing the two neighbors to resolve security and refugee issues from their August war in the troubled Caucasus.

In all, eight parties met behind closed doors at the U.N.’s European headquarters in Geneva for the one-day talks and agreed to meet again next month, EU representative Pierre Morel said.

“Today we have taken a big step forward,” Morel said. “All of the participants have recognized that the security situation remains quite unsatisfactory.”

The U.N. refugee agency estimates more than 30,000 people are still unable to return to their homes, and tensions in the region remain high.

“There are places where ethnic clashes and ethnic hatred still prevail,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin admitted.

His comments were mirrored by Georgia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria, who said he feared “ethnic cleansing in those occupied territories where ethnic Georgians still live.”

Morel said it was the first time that all of the parties had met directly. An initial attempt at negotiations broke down last month, in part over disagreements whether representatives from Georgia’s two There are BETTER ways to get fast and easy World of Warcraft gold - gold guide WoW! Experienced gamers already discovered World of Warcraft gold guides or WoW gold tips manuals. If you read even more about, you’d probably noticed that there are several WoW gold guides and that most of them promise you the secrets to fast and easy gold farming or gold trade. Now, you also probably know that most of the stuff that you’ll read online in blogs or forums will not provide you with the real WoW power leveling secrets and that you’ll probably have to spare some real-life money in order to know more about WoW gold tricks breakaway provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, should take part.

Maxim Gvindzhiya of Abkhazia’s separatist government said his delegation and one from South Ossetia attended on an informal basis this time to keep the talks on track.

The other participants were the EU, the U.N., Russia, Georgia, the United States and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said the talks “went far better” than last time.

“There were productive discussions of some of the tough issues. (But) there remain vast areas of fundamental differences,” Fried said. “There were and are a lot of people with guns … who just want to shoot.”

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack called the talks “a positive step.”

Russia, meanwhile, said it reiterated during the meeting that Georgia needs to pledge not to attack South Ossetia or Abkhazia, and that other countries should refrain from supplying Tbilisi with offensive military weapons.

Karasin said he came away with a “mixed” assessment of the meeting, but added now there is a “sense of hope.”

Johan Verbeke, special U.N. envoy for Georgia, said the sides had agreed on methods to demarcate borders and had begun work on security issues and the return of refugees.

“I’d call this a quantum leap,” said Verbeke. “All of the delegations did speak, all of the delegations listened.”

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UN tells Olmert Gaza situation deteriorating

klmn269 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:48:53 +0000

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday he was deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation
in Gaza and urged Israel to allow U.N. aid workers into the territory.

“The secretary-general today telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to express his deep concern over the consequences of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza,” the U.N. press office said in a statement.

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Olmert denounced the continuing rocket fire into Israel from Gaza, but “agreed to look seriously into the urgent matter” raised by Ban, the statement said.

Israel allowed 33 truckloads of supplies into Gaza for the first time in two weeks on Monday, and Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he would not permit a humanitarian crisis to develop there.

Before that Israel had not allowed UNRWA, a United Nations agency that aids some 750,000 refugees in Gaza, to bring in supplies since Nov. 4 during cross-border fighting in which more than a dozen Palestinian fighters were killed.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he ordered the crossings to remain closed on Wednesday “following continued rocket fire towards Israel”.

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Car bomb kills Israeli crime boss

klmn269 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:57:30 +0000

A car bomb has killed one of Israel’s most prominent crime bosses in Tel Aviv, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reports.

Israeli police identified the dead man on Monday as Yaakov Alperon, the head of one of the country’s most powerful crime families.

Alperon is the most senior figure to be killed and the latest casualty of ongoing gang wars that have left scores of people dead.

Police say Alperon was killed instantly when an explosive device was apparently detonated by remote control on a street in Tel Aviv.

‘Serious event’

In recent years, gang violence has plagued Israeli towns and cities.

“An extremely serious event took place today, and its consequences are completely clear to us,” Ilan Franco, the Tel Aviv police commander, said.

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According to Haaretz, Alperon’s assassination dominated the news, pushing Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza and a summit between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders off the airwaves.

In May last year, Alperon’s older brother, Nissim, survived the ninth assassination attempt on him.

Over the years, the Alperons have encountered numerous police interrogations and have passed through multiple courtrooms.

But police most recently focused their attention on brothers Yaakov and Nissim as heads of the crime family.

Son charged

Alperon’s death comes just days after the prosecution filed charges for indictment against his son, Dror, for alleged extortion, threats and assault of a police officer on duty.

Earlier this year, the Tel Aviv district court convicted Shalom Sheetrit and Yaron Sanker for attempting to murder Alperon, but acquitted four Belarussian citizens, who were allegedly hired as hitmen by the Ohana crime family.

According to the indictment, the Ohanas had a business dispute with the Alperons.

When the judges passed their ruling, they said that the Alperons were targets for many of their enemies.

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US supply line threatened by Pakistan truck halt

klmn269 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:54:41 +0000

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan temporarily barred oil tankers and container trucks from a key passageway to Afghanistan, threatening a critical supply route for U.S. and NATO troops on Sunday and raising more fears about security in the militant-plagued border region.

Confirmation of the suspension came as U.S.-led coalition troops reported killing 30 insurgents in fighting in southern Afghanistan and detaining two militant leaders — both in provinces near Pakistan’s lawless border.

Al-Qaida and Taliban fighters are behind much of the escalating violence along the lengthy, porous Afghan-Pakistan border, and both nations have traded accusations that the other was not doing enough to keep militants out from its side.

The tensions come as violence in Afghanistan has reached its highest level since the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime in 2001, and as a surge in U.S. missile strikes on the Pakistani side of the border has prompted protests from Pakistan government leaders.

Last Monday, a band of militants hijacked around a dozen trucks whose load included Humvees headed to the foreign forces in Afghanistan. Renewed security concerns prompted officials to impose the temporary ban on tankers and trucks carrying sealed containers in the immediate days following the attack, government official Bakhtiar Khan said. He said it could be lifted as early as Monday.

Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthews, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, acknowledged only that “the appropriate authorities are coordinating security procedures.”

“The convoys will continue flowing. We will not discuss when, or where, or what,” he said.

There was no major announcement of the ban, and it was unclear how strictly it had been enforced in the past week. News of the ban filtered into local media over the weekend. On Sunday, dozens of the trucks and oil tankers were parked along a main road near Peshawar, the regional capital, after their drivers learned they were being denied entry.

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Many of the supplies headed to foreign troops arrive in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in unmarked, sealed shipping containers and are loaded onto trucks for the journey either to the border town of Chaman or the primary route, through the famed Khyber Pass.

Last week’s ambush took place at the entrance to the pass. Police said around 60 masked militants forced the convoy to stop, briefly trading fire with nearby security officers. U.S. officials say the attackers seized two Humvees and a water truck. Several trucks carrying wheat for the World Food Program were also hijacked.

While critical of U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan’s northwest tribal regions, both Pakistan’s prime minister and president denied any plans to subvert the supply line as a pressure tactic in recent interviews with The Associated Press.

In Afghanistan, meanwhile, 30 insurgents were killed during a clash with U.S.-led coalition troops in Helmand province, a statement from the U.S. military said. There were no coalition or Afghan casualties, it said.

Also Saturday, in eastern Paktia province’s Zurmat district the coalition troops killed five al-Qaida-associated insurgents and nabbed eight, including a militant leader accused of helping the Taliban move and train Arab and other foreign fighters into Afghanistan, the statement said. The militant was not identified.

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Iraq model not good fit for Afghan war-US official

klmn269 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:50:28 +0000

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Afghanistan’s geography and socioeconomic conditions will make it hard for the U.S. military there to duplicate policies that helped stem Iraq’s insurgency, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday.

Eric Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, said even during Iraq’s most violent period, it was clear that Afghanistan would require much longer international attention than Iraq.

“It’s not going to be an easy, cookie-cutter transfer” he said of hopes that Gen. David Petraeus, the overall commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, will be able to apply to Kabul policies that worked in Baghdad.

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Afghanistan’s forbidding terrain and the fact that Taliban and other militants base themselves in rural areas also posed greater challenges to U.S. forces than Iraq’s largely urban insurgency, said Edelman.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, who takes over in January, has promised to withdraw combat troops from Iraq on a timetable that could be completed in 16 months and to bolster forces battling Taliban and al Qaeda militants in Afghanistan.

Obama has also suggested he was open to talks with more moderate Taliban leaders to explore whether the Petraeus strategy of talking to enemies that is credited with helping turn the situation around in Iraq would work in Afghanistan.

Edelman said efforts at seeking political reconciliation would make sense at some future point, but that the Afghan government should take the lead and “the question is when is that point and to whom do you talk.”

Afghan’s regionalism and complex ethnic and tribal make-up further muddy the waters when it comes to trying to separate potentially reconcilable groups from hostile foes.

“Iraq is complicated enough. Afghanistan is more complicated,” Edelman said of tribal and ethnic divides.

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Dartmouth Junior Wins County Election and Starts Town vs. Gown Dispute

klmn269 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:45:16 +0000

Vanessa Sievers, a Dartmouth College junior, was not content to wait tables or make coffee as a side job. Instead she ran for treasurer of Grafton County, N.H., and won, unseating the incumbent and unleashing a war of words.

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The current county treasurer, Carol Elliott, 68, called Ms. Sievers, 20, a “teenybopper” in an interview with a local newspaper, The Valley News, and said she had won only because “brainwashed college kids” had voted for the Democratic ticket.

Ms. Sievers beat Ms. Elliott by 586 votes out of about 42,000 cast, and won big in Hanover, home to Dartmouth, and Plymouth, home to both Ms. Elliott and Plymouth State University.

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“Carol Elliott and I have never met, and I personally don’t have anything against her,” Ms. Sievers said in a telephone interview. Ms. Elliott did not return calls seeking comment.

Ms. Sievers, a geography and history major from Montana, decided to run after the county registrar of deeds, Bill Sharp, approached the Dartmouth College Democrats.

“I said this will be a nice part-time position for one of your people, and we’re going to need the college kids to turn out for the election,” Mr. Sharp said.

There has been no love lost between Ms. Elliott and Mr. Sharp, who contends Ms. Elliott would not tell him how much money was in a county account linked to his office. In the Valley News interview, Ms. Elliott called Mr. Sharp a “buffoon.”

Ms. Sievers, now a New Hampshire resident, said she has worked as a bookkeeper and served on the school board in Livingston, Mont., while a student there.

“I have always been interested in finance and involved in politics, which are the reasons why I decided to run,” she said.

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Senior U.S. diplomat headed to Moscow for talks

klmn269 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:37:18 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department’s third-ranking official will meet Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday, becoming the most senior U.S. diplomat to visit Moscow since its August war with Georgia, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.

William Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs and a former ambassador to Russia, will see Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss “the whole gamut of relations,” said a senior U.S. official.

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Rice has not been to Russia since April, when she and President George W. Bush traveled to Sochi for a summit with then-President Vladimir Putin.

Two months before Bush leaves office, Lavrov has signaled that the Kremlin is looking ahead, saying Moscow hoped for constructive talks with President-elect Barack Obama’s administration on missile defense.

Lavrov said current U.S. proposals to ease Moscow’s concerns “fall short.” But he and Burns are expected to discuss them, as well as U.S. ideas for a follow-on to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires in December 2009.

The talks are also expected to cover Iran’s nuclear program. From Moscow, Burns goes to Paris to discuss next steps in the effort to get Iran to abandon uranium enrichment work with officials from other major powers.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has voiced hope for better relations with Obama, but also warned he would station tactical missiles near the Polish border if the U.S. anti-missile system is deployed.

Washington says the system will protect allies against possible attacks by “rogue states” such as Iran, but Russia sees it as a threat to its security. (Editing by Alan Elsner)

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Peres, Livni at UN for interfaith forum

klmn269 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:31:02 +0000

President Shimon Peres is slated to speak Wednesday before world leaders - including the Saudi king - gathered in New York for a UN summit on interfaith cooperation.

President Shimon Peres shakes hands with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at an interfaith conference in New York, Tuesday.
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Slideshow: Pictures of the week Israeli diplomats, hoping to revive a Saudi-backed plan for regional peace, have made a strong show of support for the interfaith meeting, organized under UN auspices at the request of King Abdullah after he and Spanish King Juan Carlos hosted a roundtable for political and religious leaders in Madrid last July.

Officials told The Jerusalem Post that, on the sidelines, Peres is reaching out to Arab delegations in hopes of holding bilateral talks during the three-day parley, officially billed as an event to promote a “culture of peace.”

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Peres was to meet with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday evening before a dinner reception for all attendees, including leaders from Lebanon, Qatar and Bahrain.

He is scheduled to speak after Abdullah opens the meeting, and will be followed by Lebanese and Palestinian leaders.

US President George W. Bush is slated to address the gathering on Thursday.

Kadima leader Tzipi Livni, who will arrive Wednesday in her capacity as foreign minister, was scheduled to meet with outgoing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former US president Bill Clinton, and members of the American Jewish community.

A spokesman for Livni said she has also not scheduled any meetings with Arab delegations. He told the Post that, despite interest in the Saudi peace plan, the only peace process formally recognized by Israel is the Annapolis process, which provides for any final agreement to be struck between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

The Saudi proposal would offer normalization of Arab relations with Israel in exchange for withdrawal to pre-1967 borders and offers a “just resolution” to the question of Palestinian refugees. The Arab League amended the proposal to allow for the return of Palestinian refugees to Israel.

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Face-to-face with DR Congo rebel chief

klmn269 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:35:16 +0000

The dirt roads leading the way, lined with eucalyptus trees, are cut out of black volcanic earth.

It is a place of soaring hills and verdant green pastureland, often covered in mountain mists.

It is also just a few kilometres from the headquarters of one of the country’s most feared rebel leaders, General Laurent Nkunda, whose recent military offensive in the region has displaced a quarter of a million people.

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Here, the government forces have a checkpoint just 2km away from the first rebel position.

A small detachment of Indian soldiers from the United Nations peacekeeping force is between them.

We had requested an interview with the general.

Clad in smart military uniform and surrounded by a clutch of heavily-armed rebel soldiers, Gen Nkunda claimed he would overthrow the government in the capital Kinshasa if Congolese President Joseph Kabila refused power-sharing talks.

It is a demand that President Kabila has already rejected, saying that talking to the rebel leader would be “unconstitutional”.

I asked General Nkunda if he was seriously suggesting that he would take over the whole of Congo.

Peering through his thin-rimed spectacles, the tall ethnic Tutsi general stared at me for a moment and bluntly replied: “Of course.”

What right did a rebel leader have, I asked, to demand anything from the elected government of Congo?

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Long Islanders clamor to get Obama inauguration tickets

klmn269 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:27:08 +0000

Mark X. Cronin, Long Island grassroots coordinator for Barack Obama, came on board the campaign with his wife, Carol Schlitt, in July 2007, and volunteered hundreds of hours, including 60-plus hours a week toward the end.

“The one request that my wife made was, ‘I’d like to go to an inaugural ball,’ ” said the Huntington Bay resident.

They’re still waiting to find out if they will.

Cronin said he hasn’t yet learned how the Obama team plans to distribute tickets they control for the Jan. 20 inauguration. But, like others closely connected to the campaign, he’s getting flooded with calls and e-mails from people who want them.

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Marching bands that want to participate in the inaugural parade have to apply to the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee by 5 p.m. Friday. The Presidential Inaugural Committee will choose the participants.

Inaugural officials are warning the public not to believe Web sites or brokers claiming to have inauguration tickets to sell. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who chairs the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said she is drafting a bill to make it a federal crime to scalp inaugural tickets and has contacted online sites to urge them not to sell any.

Suffolk County Legis. Jon Cooper (D-Lloyd Neck), Obama’s Long Island campaign chairman and a member of his national finance committee, said he’d try to give preference to volunteers if he is given any tickets to distribute.

“I went through the phase a couple of months ago where everyone was calling me to get tickets to the convention, then everyone was calling to get tickets to the Hofstra debate, and now everyone is calling to get tickets to the inauguration and, in some cases, the inaugural balls,” he said.

One ticket he wants is to the Illinois State ball. After all, that’s where the Obamas are from.

“It’s going to be wild,” he said. “I think it’ll be an inauguration unlike any we’ve ever seen before, just the fact that it’s going to be Barack Obama.”

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