01:37 MURDERERS!! Rumsfeld
gloats while Baghdad is subjected to living hell Donald
Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, gloated tonight while
Baghdad was subjected to a terrifying 3 hours of massive
bombardment by aircraft and cruise missiles. More
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22:46 On Rights and Responsibilities in the Modern
World On
US’s right to use military force In accordance with the
Constitution, the USA can use military force only for
self-protection. The right of making decisions on usage of
military force is distributed between the legislative and
executive authorities. According to the international law,
leaders of countries can make decisions on usage of military
force only if they think the country is under some real
threat. President Bush is sure that Saddam Hussein is a threat
of this kind. This is what Christopher A. Preble from the Cato
Institute’s Policy Analysis Department says More
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19:42 Palestinian
Leaders: War in Iraq to Affect Peace Process
The
Palestinian leaders have expressed their anxiety that the war
in Iraq may affect the Middle East peace process, said
Palestine's extraordinary and plenipotentiary representative
to Moscow Hairi al-Oridi at a press conference in RIA Novosti
on Friday. More
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18:20 Islamic Leaders
and Arab Countries' Theologians Support Referendum in Chechnya
Supreme
muftis of the Arab countries as well as theologians and
leaders of Islamic religious organisations support the
referendum in Chechnya. Supreme muftis and respectable
theologians of Egypt, Libya, Syria, Morocco, Iran, Turkey and
leaders of Islamic movements and organisations have made
encouragement statements. More
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12:33 Collective
Security Treaty Members Urge for Peaceful Track for Iraqi
Problem Participants
in the sixth session of the Committee of the Secretaries of
the Security Councils of the member countries of the
Collective Security Treaty have called for bringing the Iraqi
problem back into a peaceful channel. More
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20:21 Bulgarian
President Does Not Support War in Iraq On
Thursday, while speaking to deputies of the People's Assembly
(parliament of the country), Bulgarian President Georgi
Parvanov spoke against the war in Iraq. According to Parvanov,
"military operations are unacceptable in the 21st century when
global problems and challenges facing the mankind request
unification and not separation or confrontation between
countries and peoples." More
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20:17 Annan Makes
Statement on Iraq The
United Nations is willing to provide all the necessary
humanitarian aid to the Iraqi population, Kofi Annan, UN
Secretary-General, says in an urgent statement. He regrets war
has come to Iraq for a third time within the last 25 years
despite international efforts to prevent it. More
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19:43 Confucius’ Descendant Condemns
Aggression China
Foreign Ministry spokesman makes a statement China
strongly calls for immediate stop of military actions against
Iraq, return to track of political solution to Iraq issue,”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said at the press
conference Thursday. The name of Quan is infrequent in China;
people with the name are considered descendants of great
K'ung-fu-tzu (Confucius). Indeed, today’s speech of the
diplomat was permeated with wisdom of great K'ung-fu-tzu who,
two thousand years before Columbus discovered America,
condemned violence and willfulness More
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19:01 The Vatican
Concerned Over Iraqi Bombardment The
Vatican is deeply concerned over the military operation
against Iraq, the press service of the Holy See said. Cardinal
Pio Laghi who had conducted a meeting with U.S. President
George W. Bush and handed him the Pope's address several weeks
before described Iraqi bombardment as "a tragedy and
catastrophe." More
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18:21 Bomb Found at US
Embassy in Berlin Was Fake Berlin
police received a phone call from an anonymous person this
morning, claiming that a bomb had been planted in a box near
the US embassy. However, analysis of the box, partly burnt by
the robotic flame thrower of the Berlin police, has revealed
that there was not actually any explosive device in the box at
all. More
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17:01 Hanoi Sharply
Denounces Military Operations of US, UK in Iraq
The
government of Vietnam resolutely condemns the military
operations of the United States and Great Britain in Iraq. The
official spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Phan Thuy Thanh, spoke
about it on March 20. More
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16:07 Blair Sends
British Troops to War in Iraq British
Prime Minister Tony Blair has authorised the British troops to
join US military operations in Iraq, spokesman for the British
Prime Minister told RIA Novosti on Thursday. According to him,
Blair made the move at night on receiving the news about the
first US strikes on Iraq. More
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14:28 German Government
Expresses "Great Concern" over Launch of Military Action in
Iraq The
German government has issued a statement regarding the start
of military action in Iraq. The press release of the German
Cabinet reads that reports about the launch of a military
operation "provoked great concern in the German government."
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14:26 China Urges USA to
Stop War in Iraq The
Chinese foreign ministry has urged the USA to immediately stop
military action in Iraq and return to peaceful means of
settling the Iraqi issue, Kong Quan, an official foreign
ministry spokesman, told a briefing in Beijing. More
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14:10 Israel Expecting
Iraqi Missile Strikes The
Wednesday night was very nervous for Israelis who were
expecting Iraqi missile strikes. Many people stayed up until
morning watching television to know all details of the
American operation in Iraq and, more importantly, not to miss
possible instructions of the Homefront Command (civil defence)
on individual protection measures. More
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13:45 Attempt Made to
Blow up US Embassy in Berlin An
explosive device was found and destroyed by a special division
of the Berlin police at the US embassy in the German capital
this morning. As a Rosbalt correspondent was told by
police headquarters in Berlin, there was an anonymous phone
call at about 4:00 local time warning that a bomb had been
planted close to the US embassy. More
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12:53 Malaysia Condemns
War Against Iraq Malaysia,
the country that chairs the Non-Aligned Movement /NAM/, which
unites 116 countries, has harshly condemned the US-led war
against Iraq. More
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12:00 Israel and Argentina Blame on Iran on 1990's
Blasts in Buenos Aires Hezbollah
and Teheran, in turn, said had no participation in the
terrorist attacks to Jewish targets in Argentina's
Capital The Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" said that
Mossad, the local intelligence service, had identified the
author of the suicide attack against a Jewish club in Buenos
Aires in 1994. The responsible for the 85 deaths would be
Ibrahim Hassen Baro, member of the Lebanese terrorist group
Hezbollah. The newspaper also states that Hezbollah planned
the attack during a secret meeting with the Iranian
Government. More
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11:00 Cuba Says US Diplomats in the Island are
Provocateurs Castro's
Government restricted US diplomats' movements within the
country and announced the arrest of conspirators. Cuban
authorities launched a diplomatic offensive against the US
interest Section office in Havana. In a TV statement, local
authorities accused the head of the US diplomatic mission in
the island, James Carson, on "repeated fomentation of internal
counterrevolution". Therefore, ordered to limit Carson and
other diplomats' activities to the same measures taken against
the Cuban mission in Washington. More
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01:12 Bush the Bully and Tory
Blair Two
warmongers, two war criminals George W. Bush and Tony
Blair are about to commit the mistake of the millennium,
namely launching an illegal attack against a sovereign nation
against international law, against the consensus of public
opinion and without any reason other than the fact that they
misjudged the international climate of public opinion, went
too far and were unable to turn back. More
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16:43 Brute Force
Applied on Iraq to Result in More
Impudence The
use of "brute force" in Iraq will bring about "only much more
impudence," nothing more, the official spokesman for the
Iranian government, Abdollah Ramazanzade, told reporters,
commenting on the intentions of the United States to start a
military operation in the region. More
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16:21 US and British
Commanders to Fix Exact Hour of Bombings
Tommy
Franks and Bryan Berring, Commanders of Forces deployed in the
Persian Gulf, will fix the exact hour of bombings, RIA Novosti
learned from a military source at a command post of the
coalition forces in the zone of the future conflict. More
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13:21 Russia, France,
Germany, China to Confirm Their Position on Iraq
Russia,
France, Germany and China intend to confirm their position on
the peaceful settlement of the Iraqi problem at the Wednesday
session of the United Nations Security Council in New York.
According to RIA Novosti, the session will be preceded by a
meeting of foreign ministers from Russia, France and Germany.
There will also be a Chinese representative, though of what
level is not yet known. More
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12:00 Venezuela Key Factor to Keep Oil Prices
Stable On
the verge of an armed conflict in Middle East, the South
American country will play a decisive role to stabilize the
oil market Venezuela, the fifth largest world's oil
exporter, will play a strategic role if finally Washington
decides to attack Iraq. The South American nation is now
prepared to pump over its official quota, after general strike
cracked one month ago. More
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11:51 Three British Ministers Resigned from Blair’s
Government 63%
of British people stand for peace The crisis in
Downing Street did not start just yesterday, when the three
ministers resigned one after another. Claire Short, the
International Development Secretary of the British government,
became the first sign of the crisis. Claire Short stated on
Sunday that she would resign from the government, if Great
Britain was going to launch the military campaign against Iraq
without the UN’s approval More
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10:00 The Americas: A Whole Continent against the
War From
Canada to Chile, Governments along the Hemisphere isolated
Bush bellicose approach to Iraq After yesterday's
speech, Bush found the strongest opposition to his plans for
Middle East from his closer neighbors. The most relevant
hemispheric governments said that they would not support US
military adventure in Iraq and that they would have preferred
a UN supported peaceful approach to this conflict. More
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02:29 The Ultimatum of
Arrogance Arrogance,
bullying, blackmail, demagogy, despotism and criminal
warmongering are the vocabulary in the diplomatic dictionary
used by Washington The ultimatum delivered by President
George W. Bush to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq is an
incredible act of arrogance which only this administration
would dare to commit. More
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19:59 NASA: No Single
Version of Columbia Shuttle Tragedy in Place Yet
The
independent commission of Admiral Geman, looking into what
caused the catastrophe of the Columbia shuttle spaceship, has
not yet shaped an single version. Sergei Puzanov, public
relations coordinator at the NASA office in the Russian
Mission Control Center, said this on Tuesday. More
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18:01 Iraqi Foreign
Minister: American Soldiers Captured in Iraq to Be Burnt or
Beheaded Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein has no intention of carrying out the
demands made by US President George Bush in his recent
ultimatum. As a Rosbalt correspondent reports, this was
announced by Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri at a press
conference in Baghdad today. More
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12:47 Official Paris
Criticises US President's Ultimatum to Iraq
The
official Paris has criticised US President George Bush's
ultimatum to Iraq. The communique circulated by the Elysee
Palace's press service on Tuesday characterises this ultimatum
as a unilateral decision taken against the will of the UN
Security Council and the international community favouring
Iraq's further disarmament in compliance with Resolution 1441.
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