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Updated:
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 18:59
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Legislation Authorizes FEMA Camps In U.S.
A new bill introduced in Congress authorizes the Department of Homeland
Security to set up a network of FEMA camp facilities to be used to house
U.S. citizens in the event of a national emergency.
‘Uranium
For Iran Nuke In 2009'
Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon
later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic
Studies (IISS) predicts.
Timothy
Geithner confirmed as US treasury secretary
The US senate has confirmed Timothy Geithner, the former head of the
New York City Federal Reserve branch, as the new treasury secretary
in the Obama administration.
U.N.
crime chief says drug money flowed into banks
The United Nations’ crime and drug watchdog has indications that
money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat
in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Republicans
suggest Alcatraz for Guantanamo prisoners
Republicans have an answer to the thorny problem of where President
Barack Obama should put the 245 inmates of Guantanamo Bay – Alcatraz
prison, in ultraliberal San Francisco.
Obama’s
Neocon: The Curious Case of Richard Holbrooke
In wee morning hours on Friday, January 23, a U.S. spy plane killed
at least 15 in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. It was Barack
Obama’s first blood and the U.S.’s first violation of
Pakistan’s sovereignty under the new administration.
Demands
for Israeli war crimes probe grow The Arab League has put forward a
request to the United Nations, calling for an investigation into
Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
