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DAMASCUS (Reuters) — Syria has expressed readiness to help curb Middle East instability in exchange for peace with Israel but will not easily give up its alliance with Iran as demanded by the Jewish state.Analysts say Damascus, which wants to reach a...
DATE: Jun 26, 2007
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Horrified by headlines
June 20, 2007
Dear Sir,
As a Bermudian working overseas, I was truly horrified at today's headlines.
The present course of the Government is seriously and potentially irrevocably damaging the reputation of Bermuda in the offsh...
DATE: Jun 26, 2007
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Funny how things change
June 4, 2007
Dear Sir,
It has been brought to my attention that UBP ran an ad in your publication today using the slogan “It’s a matter of TRUST”. I find the UBP’s use of this slogan very interesting, especially since it was t...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world:
Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Canada, on Aghanistan:
A report on the murder of a Canadian aid worker in Afghanistan last summer should give serious pause for reflection to Canadians w...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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Today in HistoryToday is Friday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2007. There are 192 days left in the year.
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In 1807, a British frigate, the HMS Leopard, attacked and boarded the American ship USS>Chesapeake off the Virginia coast in search of ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2007
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(WASHINGTON) AP — Remember all that US administration talk about democracy in the Middle East?US President Bush made the seeding of democracy around the globe the rhetorical cornerstone of his second-term foreign policy, but his eager embrace of a la...
DATE: Jun 22, 2007
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The practice of journalists being made to stand up every time Premier Ewart Brown enters the room took a new twist at the press conference unveiling Michael Scott as Bermuda’s new Health Minister. A general air of confusion descended over the proceed...
DATE: Jun 22, 2007
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The Bermuda Government gave me a gift for my birthday this week. It is a computer chip (a radio-frequency identification, or RFID, chip) stuck to the windshield of my car. You’ll get one too, when your birthday comes around, for your car or your bike...
DATE: Jun 22, 2007
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Today in HistoryToday is Thursday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2007. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer begins at 3.06 p.m.
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In 1982, a jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shoot...
DATE: Jun 21, 2007
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) — They handily outnumbered their isolated Islamist rivals, had pledges of Western cash as well as military training and the endorsement of Arab powers.Yet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s forces still lost to Hamas in Gaza, a...
DATE: Jun 21, 2007
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