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Collapse of I-5 bridge in Washington State: no fatalities, many questions
The collapse of a 'functionally obsolete' bridge on I-5 in Washington State plunged three, later rescued, into icy water. It's also reviving a debate on how to fund billions in infrastructure repair. Three people were rescued from icy water after a section of the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed Thursday evening 60 miles north of Seattle, raising the prospect of a renewed debate over funding critical infrastructure repairs across the country. A semitruck with an oversize load that hit the upper span of the bridge at about 7 p.m., Pacific time, caused the collapse, Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste…Written on Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:34
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Barack Obama defends ‘just war’ using drones
Written by Mark Mardell/ BBC NEWSWritten on Friday, 24 May 2013 13:48
President Barack Obama has defended the use of drones in a "just war" of self-defence against deadly militants and a campaign that had made America safer. In a wide-ranging speech on a programme shrouded in secrecy, he said there must be "near certainty" that no civilians would die in such strikes. In a renewed push to shut Guantanamo Bay, he said he had lifted a moratorium on prisoner transfers to Yemen. Mr Obama also defended the use of drones to kill four US citizens. "We are at war with an organisation that right now would kill as many Americans as… -
Obama Resets Terrorism Fight
Written by Council on Foreign RelationsWritten on Friday, 24 May 2013 13:00
Obama Resets Terrorism Fight President Barack Obama defended his administration's efforts to fight terrorists overseas (ABCNews) as "proportional" and "just," but said he would seek to curtail drone use, limit presidential war powers, and work to close the Guantanamo prison as part of a gradual winding down of the fight against terrorism that began in 2001. Obama's proposals were welcomed in the two countries most affected by drone strikes (AP), Pakistan and Yemen, although Pakistan says the strikes should stop completely. Analysis "The enduring impact of Mr Obama's speech will not be what he says, but whether the new policies… -
Ahmadinejad to Challenge Aide's Ban From Election
Written by Council on Foreign RelationsWritten on Thursday, 23 May 2013 10:25
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will ask Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to reverse a ban (Reuters) preventing Ahmadinejad aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from running in next month's presidential poll. The Guardian Council charged with vetting candidates disqualified Mashaei along with ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the June 14 election, leaving in the field only eight hardline candidates loyal to Khamenei. Analysis "Even if Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, the candidate most closely associated with Ahmadinejad, is allowed to run, it is uncertain whether or not he will be able to rally the beneficiaries of the populist policies followed in…
Sanford completes political comeback in South Carolina race
Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) -- Mark Sanford is living proof that life is full of second chances. The former Republican governor of South Carolina, whose political career was left for dead…
Russia's Unpopular Intelligentsia
This weekend the Obama administration, in keeping with the provisions of the 2012 Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law and Accountability Act, will make public a list of Russian citizens deemed…
Obama vows Israeli friendship on first visit as president
Barack Obama has said Israel has "no greater friend" than the US, as he makes his first visit to the country as president. Arriving in Tel Aviv, Mr Obama told PM…
Massachusetts Primary Battles Heat Up
Two Democratic congressmen will square off in the April 30 primary; Republicans have a three-way race. The winners will face each other in a special election scheduled for June 25. All…
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WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
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Review Seth Cropsey, Mayday: The Twilight of American Naval Superiority (New York: Overlook, 2013), 336 pp., $29.95. SEA POWER is a conscious
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N.B. Ce texte a été publié en 2006 sous la plume des journalistes Anne Bergerot et Nicolas Dugauy. La question pertinente est: Pourquoi Haiti n’a pas
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Amazon.com, book review - Publication date: October 24, 2011 Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as
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Profiles in Courage, written by John F. Kennedy, shared the history of eight Senators who had distinguished themselves by their acts of bravery and
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Boxing Legend Joe Frazer Dies
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Joe Frazer, one of the biggest boxing legend of the 1960s and 70s, died last… -
Pope Benedict Will Visit Cuba and Mexico Next Spring
JSF-POST, November 13, 2011 Cuba's Catholic Church announced on Thursday that Pope Benedict plans a…Be the first to comment!
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Oprah Winfrey and Farrakhan visiting Haiti
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Port-au-Prince - Oprah Winfrey arrived in Haiti on Sunday a few hours after the nation… -
Famous Dead People of 2011
JSF-POST, December 27, 2011 It’s difficult to name all the famous people who died…Be the first to comment!
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