News Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Armitage Says He Was Source of CIA Leak (R. Jeffrey Smith)
He Says He Did Not Know Covert Status By R. Jeffrey Smith -- Washington Post Sept. 8, 2006 -- Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said yesterday that he believes he was the initial ...
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Interrogation Techniques Rejected By Military Get Bush Approval (Adam Liptak)
Adam Liptak -- New York Times NEW YORK -- Sept. 8, 2006 -- Many of the harsh interrogation techniques just repudiated by the Pentagon would be made lawful by legislation put forward the same day by ...
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'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now' (Patrick Cockburn)
Patrick Cockburn -- The Independent GAZA -- Sept. 8, 2006 -- Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores ...
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Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act (Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith)
by JEREMY BRECHER & BRENDAN SMITH -- The Nation Sept. 5, 2006 -- The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the Geneva Conventions. The Washington Post recently ...
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Oil, Heating Oil Plunge to 5-Month Lows on Ample U.S. Supplies (Mark Shenk)
By Mark Shenk Sept. 8, 2006 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil and heating oil tumbled to five-month lows, and gasoline fell, on signs that U.S. fuel inventories will be sufficient as economic growth in the ...
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Scientists Find New Global Warming 'Time Bomb’ (Seth Borenstein)
by Seth Borenstein WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what ...
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Clarification of the Huge Chevron Gulf Oil Discovery (Randy Kirk)
By Randy Kirk -- Energy Bulletin Sept. 6, 2006 -- The Sept. 5th announcement by Chevron and Devon and Statoil of the huge Gulf of Mexico discovery should be clarified. The announcement claims that ...
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Wal-Mart, CVS Alarm Doctors As Retailers Push Clinics (Josh Fineman)
By Josh Fineman Sept. 7, 2006 (Bloomberg) -- Lillian Grabel had one day of blood pressure medication left and didn't want a long wait in a doctor's office for a new prescription. So she turned to ...
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Dow ends down 75 on economic worries (Tim Paradis)
By TIM PARADIS -- AP Business Writer Stocks fell for the second straight day Thursday after warnings from several homebuilders raised investors' concerns about an economic slowdown and comments ...
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Population Explosion Threatens To Trap Africa In Cycle Of Poverty (Xan Rice)
· World's poorest nations set to triple in size · Uganda leads growth that can change face of earth Xan Rice -- Guardian KAMPALA, Uganda -- Aug. 25, 2006 -- There are 27.7 million people in Uganda. ...
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Huge Oil Find Could Be Good News For U.S. Reserves (AP)
Well Drilled In Gulf Of Mexico OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Results from a deep-water test well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest a new pool of oil and gas that could boost U.S. reserves by as much as 50 ...
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