Topic: - on December 20, 2002 at 11:57:51 AM CET
UN wants Western data on Iraq
The UN's chief weapons inspector has called on the United States and Britain to hand over intelligence relating to sites where they believe Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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Topic: - on December 12, 2002 at 12:42:05 PM CET
Hamas
. . . in their own words.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 7:13:53 PM CET
Das letzte Hemd
Getting Shirty Over Tax Hikes
"Es ist bald wieder Weihnachten, und da wird es langsam Zeit, sich über die Geschenke für unsere Lieben Gedanken zu machen, zum Beispiel für unseren Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder. Was mag der sich besonders wünschen?...klar......er will unser letztes Hemd!!!!!" - eine Ketten-Mail mit Folgen. Die ersten gespendeten "letzten Hemden" sind schon im Bundeskanzleramt eingetroffen.
The "last shirt for Schroeder" campaign was launched two weeks ago by Christian Stein, an Internet marketing consultant from Dortmund. The campaign Web Site www.aktionletzteshemd.de recorded 33,200 people as saying they had sent a shirt so far. "Dear Gerhard, I wish you a happy festive season and send you my last shirt to fulfill your greatest Christmas wish. That should make all further tax increases superfluous as I have nothing else left anyway," shirt senders write to Schroeder.... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 7:05:23 PM CET
Secret blasts rattle Cheney's neighbors
Neighbors of Vice President Dick Cheney are being shaken and rattled at least once a day by mysterious blasts on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory where Cheney lives. The Navy says the explosions are part of a construction project that has been going on for several months now, but won't say more because the project is classified.
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Topic: - on December 7, 2002 at 12:03:08 AM CET
Weil Massensport und Faschismus eigentlich viel gemeinsam haben...
...hat sich Peter Westentaler, ehemals Kampfköter/Schoßhündchen Jörg Haiders, nunmehr entschlossen mit Frank Stronach gemeinsame Sache zu machen! "Der ehemalige FPÖ-Klubobmann, der Wunschkandidat von Bundesliga-Präsident Frank Stronach gewesen war, wurde im Zuge der 6. Ordentlichen Hauptversammlung der Bundesliga für vier Jahre eingesetzt", heißt es im ÖFB-Pressetext.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:32:36 PM CET
Putin packs vodka to avoid 'Delhi Belly'
Vladimir Putin is trying to avoid 'Delhi Belly' during a visit to India by washing his cutlery in vodka.
The Russian President's staff are using the alcohol as a disinfectant for all his hotel meals.
A Russian microbiologist is in charge of the operation to make sure he avoids stomach upsets during the trip.
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 2:40:13 PM CET
Europe's youngest MP
"I didn't just want to grumble, I really wanted to do something," says 19 year-old Anna Luhrmann, the youngest member of parliament in Germany - and in the whole of Europe.
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Topic: - on November 28, 2002 at 12:35:16 AM CET
Germany to Give Israel Patriot Missiles
Germany has a "moral duty" to protect Israel and will provide Patriot anti-missile systems to help its defense against Iraq if war erupts in the Middle East, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 3:48:34 AM CET
Analysis: Austria, rejoining the east-I
Harry Potter would surely have enrolled. A school for wizardry has just opened in Austria in the forbidding mountains around Klagenfurt. The apprentices will be granted a sorcerer's diploma upon completion of their studies. This is a wise move. Austria may need all the witchcraft it can master in the next few years.
Chancellor's Wolfgang Schoessel's conservative People's Party convincingly won the elections on Sunday with more than 42 percent of all votes cast. In the process, it trounced Jorg Haider's much-decried far right outfit, the misnamed Freedom Party, which lost a staggering two-thirds of all its supporters. Schoessel may now feel that, thus humbled, the Freedom Party may constitute a more reliable and less erratic partner in a future coalition government.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 2:02:59 AM CET
Clinton shows mercy to turkey
An enormous turkey breathed a sigh of relief on the eve of Thanksgiving after President Clinton granted the bird an official presidential pardon, sparing it from the dinner table.
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The other one & his turkey
Please let me B(p)ush the red button
U.S. President George W. Bush pets 'Katie' at the annual turkey pardoning in the Rose Garden of the White House.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 1:56:31 PM CET
Teen caught smoking pot kills himself
A teenaged hockey player from Kelowna committed suicide at a Lower Mainland hotel after he was caught doing drugs. After the exhibition game on Saturday afternoon, two Kelowna players were caught smoking marijuana.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 2:20:39 AM CET
Bush sign Homeland Security bill
The new Department of Homeland Security is the largest reorganization of the federal government since World War II. The Cabinet-level intelligence clearinghouse will be dedicated to protecting the United States from terrorist attacks and will combine about 170,000 federal workers from 22 agencies.
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