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Bush’s Budget Request Would Continue Increase in Foreign Aid, February 5, 2007
The 2008 budget request, which is subject to further action by the U.S. Congress, “continues that commitment, but it
does so in what we believe is a much improved and much more strategic way,” Tobias said.
The amount does not include funding for security and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, which will fall under the
Bush administration’s separate proposed emergency supplement funding for the global war on terrorism. (...)
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Two U.S. Army soldiers unload boxes of relief supplies at Manila's international airport in the Philippines. (© AP Images)
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U.S. Looks to Envoys’ Visit To Help Break Darfur Stalemate, February 6, 2007
[...] The Security Council met with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon February 6 to discuss the inability of the
United Nations and the African Union to get Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to agree to a 20,000-strong hybrid United
Nations/African Union (AU) peacekeeping force.
Ban just returned from attending the AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
where he met with the Sudanese leader. Ban announced that U.N. Special Envoy Jan Eliasson and AU Special Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim
will visit Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and Darfur February 11-17. Ban will return to the council after those visits to discuss
the next steps based on the envoys’ recommendations. (...)
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Internet
consente ai cittadini degli Stati Uniti di vedere il Parlamento
in azione, 2 febbraio 2007
Grazie alla rete Internet gli americani hanno più opportunità di
capire come funziona il potere legislativo e di interagire con i loro
rappresentanti. E’ infatti possibile accedere al testo dei provvediementi
legislativi ed osservare dal vivo il processo decisionale.
I cittadini interessati a vedere il lavoro del loro organo legislativo
possono trovare questo genere di documenti sui siti internet del Congresso.
Sia il sito della Camera dei Rappresentanti che quello del Senato pubblicano
un’agenda settimanale ed una lista delle Audizioni delle Commissioni
che avranno luogo nei prossimi giorni. (...)
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New U.S. Intelligence Report Focuses on Iraq Instability, February 2, 2007
Classified copies of the 2007 NIE, titled Prospects for Iraqi Stability: A Challenging Road Ahead, were provided to senior
members of Congress serving on intelligence oversight committees, while a declassified version of its "key judgments" was
released to the public. The intelligence estimate was prepared by the CIA's National Intelligence Council with input from the
16-agency U.S. intelligence community. (...)
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Muslim
Rappers Use ”Voice of Youth” To Promote
Tolerance, February 1, 2007
“When we perform in Western countries, people see a positive
image of Islam,” said Native Deen member Joshua Salaam in
a USINFO webchat February 1. “When we perform in Muslim
countries, we are also promoting tolerance because some people
believe that every person in the West is bad. There are a lot of
good Muslims living in the West -- and good people in general.” (...)
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