Saturday, April 30, 2005


US Clears Soldiers in Italian's Death
ABC News - 3 hours ago Spectators attending the funeral of Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence officer killed by US troops while defending the ex-hostage Giuliana Sgrena, hold copies of Il Manifesto, the pro-Communist daily for which Sgrena works, at the exit of

China Welcomes Taiwan's Opposition Leader
Newsday - 3 hours ago By STEPHANIE HOO. XI'AN, China -- Nearly six decades after civil war split China, a politician from the losing side returned to his birthplace Saturday to huge cheering crowds that welcomed back an old foe with shouts of "Come home often.".

Two die in attacks on tourists
NEWS.com.au - 3 hours ago By Tom Perry and Edmund Blair in Cairo. A BOMBER and two veiled women attacked tourists in separate incidents that killed two people in Cairo overnight, targeting a museum and a tourist bus. An Egyptian man

Execution uncertain in grenade murders
Boston Globe - 15 hours ago By Estes Thompson, Associated Press | April 30, 2005. RALEIGH, NC -- Relatives of the two servicemen killed in Sergeant Hasan Akbar's grenade and rifle attack said yesterday that he deserved the death sentence given to him by a military jury.

Capitol Minds
Washington Post - 11 hours ago By Norman J. Ornstein. Observing House Majority Leader Tom DeLay battle questions about his ethics, I feel as if I'm in the middle of a movie I've seen before. Call it "Groundhog Day Part II." Or "Back to the

More Anger Than Joy in Bride's Hometown
Washington Post - 1 hour ago By KRISTEN WYATT. DULUTH, Ga. -- They searched woods and alleys, crawled in sewage drains and stayed up late looking for a local woman who went missing four days before her wedding. When residents of this Atlanta

US Economic growth weakest in two years
Boersenreport - 27 minutes ago The US economy grew at its softest pace in two years during the first quarter 2005, slowing to a slowing down 3.1 percent annual rate of expansion as consumers and businesses curbed spending in the face of rising oil and raw material prices, the Commerce

Asia finance chiefs meet at ADB amid yuan talk
Daily Times - 54 minutes ago LONDON: Finance officials from Asia, which has two-thirds of the world’s foreign exchange reserves, meet next week as speculation reaches fever pitch about a Chinese currency revaluation that could rock global markets.

Bush's big gamble
U.S. News & World Report - 29 minutes ago By Paul J. Lim. For the first time, President Bush publicly threw his support behind a plan to reform the nation's Social Security system that would reduce future benefits for some Americans. In a prime-time

Ex-Vietnamese revolutionary looks back - as a happy capitalist
Kansas City Star - 59 minutes ago BY BEN STOCKING. HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - (KRT) - Her family had a chauffeur, a houseful of servants and perfect command of French. Then Xuan Phuong ran off to join the revolution at the age of 16. She spent