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Tuesday, 06 January 2009

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Leon Panetta, the former White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton, discusses the state's plans to minimize the impact on California by the federal base closure commission, while talking with reporters at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004. Panetta and Donna Tuttle, left, have been made co-chairs of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 18 member Council on Base Support and Retention, which held its first meeting Wednesday, that will look to find ways to keep as many of the state's 62 military bases from being placed on the closur

Obama's intel decisions surprise the spies

NZ Herald

Leon Panetta has been tipped as the next head of the CIA. Photo / AP WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the top US intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence- gathering surprised the spy community and signalled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration...

photo: AP / Rich Pedroncelli

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Hamas must step down as Gaza's keeper

Daily Star Lebanon

By Sultan Al-Qassemi Commentary by Tuesday, January 06, 2009...

Darwin's year

The Guardian

This year will be Darwin's year if it is anyone's year. The bicentenary of his birth, and the...

Israel has yet to learn the US lesson, that the war on terror was a failure

The Guardian

On New Year's Day Atif Irfan boarded an AirTran flight at Reagan National Airport in Washington...

Obama's VP-elect Biden to visit Southwest Asia

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden

The Star

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden will visit Southwest Asia later this week as part of a congressional fact-finding tour, his office announced on Monday. Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander would not...

photo: AP / Tom Gannam

Obama set to discuss economic stimulus with congressional leaders

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama

The Manila Times

WASHINGTON, D. C.: US President-elect Barack Obama will meet Monday with key congressional leaders to discuss a multibillion-dollar economic stimulus plan Democrats hope to pass shortly after Obama takes office. The meeting will be Obama's first with...

photo: AP / Stephan Savoia

Asian stocks rally on economic recovery hopes

A woman checks her mobile phone in front of an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008.

The Manila Times

TOKYO: Asian stocks rose on Monday, with Tokyo hitting the highest level for almost two months as investors hoped that the US economy would start to recover this year after a dire 2008. Investors took their cue from Wall Street, where shares soared...

photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi

'Halt aggression' plea by leaders

Gulf Daily News

NEW YORK: Arab states plan to introduce a new draft resolution in the UN Security Council aimed at securing an immediate end to the "Israeli aggression" in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al Malki said...

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Putin orders cuts to Europe-bound gas supplies through Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting with foreign diplomats in the St. George hall o

The Times of India

Text: MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered gas giant Gazprom to start cutting supplies to Ukraine bound for European consumers in response to Kiev's alleged siphoning...

photo: AP

The story of Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's stepsister

People walk behind barbed wire in the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005 near Oswiecim, southern Poland

The Times

Eva Schloss will never forget her 15th birthday. On May 11, 1944, she and her mother had just moved to a new hiding place in the Netherlands - their seventh. But the Dutch nurse who had led them there then betrayed them. She was a Nazi double agent;...

photo: AP / Jockel Finck