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In Belarus exposed espionage network USA
| The authorities of Belarus exposed espionage network which allegedly operated under the cover of the U.S. Embassy in Minsk. That was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the first channel Belarusian State Television. According to the TV, one of the American diplomats is the FBI staff personnel. |
Posted: 12:22 PM, 3/25/2008 |
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Ex-head of VR has been implicated in the scandal surrounding the Russian company
British oil company BP and its former head, Lord Browne (Browne), together with the Russian TNK-BP were mentioned in the lawsuit the American company RSM Production Corporation associated with the attempted bribery of officials in Grenada. This was reported in the Sunday edition of The Times newspaper.
Among the defendants in the suit had previously been named as a co-holder of Alfa-Group Mikhail Fridman.
Recall RSM Production Corp. filed in November 2006 suit in the Southern District Court of New York against Russian businessman Mikhail Friedman and Leo sits, as well as the Prime Minister of Grenada, Gregory Bowen (Gregory Bowen), alleging that Friedman and Blavatnik bribed the then Minister of Agriculture Bowen, to prevent the issuance of licenses to Americans.
TNK half belongs to the British BP, another 25 per cent is owned by Alfa Group, a company Renova Viktor Vekselberg and Access Industries Leonard Blavatnik belongs to 12.5 per cent each.
RSM Production Corporation is a holding company Greenberg Petroleum. |
Posted: 1:35 AM, 3/25/2008 |
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Barak Obamu support the Governor of New Mexico
The Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, eliminated from the struggle for the presidency of the United States, March 21, announced the support of the Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama, CNN passes.
Richardson plans to publicly declare support for Obama during the pre-event in Portlende, Oregon. The governor told supporters story in the email that sees black senator as a president who will go down in history, and noted that he was moved by speech delivered Obamoy 18 February.
Bill Richardson left from the presidential race in January, after a defeated in the primaries in the states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Democratic primaries in Oregon due to be held on May 20. Surrounding preliminary election among Democrats - primaries in Pennsylvania, scheduled for April 22. |
Posted: 10:28 PM, 3/22/2008 |
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Historians have questioned the origins of John McCain
Historical research has not confirmed that the presidential candidate of the Republican Party of the United States John McCain is a descendant of the legendary Scottish king Robert Bruce I, writes The Guardian on 21 March.
Information that cousin grandmother of 71 - Summer McCain comes from the Scottish king, could not be confirmed or denied, claim specialists in genealogy. Historical documents that could prove the origin Senator from the State of Arizona, was not found.
Historians, however, do not exclude that the myth of royal blood McCain may have some grounds, as the founder of the dynasty Bryusov who died in the 1329 year, it was more than ten children. Thus, about two hundred million inhabitants of land, including John McCain, in theory, could be descendants of the Scottish king.
Robert Bruce led the movement for independence from England, Scotland, and after the victory over the British in 1328 in King of Scotland was found. |
Posted: 5:10 PM, 3/22/2008 |
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The Governor of New Mexico formally endorsed Obamu
On Friday, the Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson officially endorsed presidential candidate of the Democratic Party Obamu Barak, the agency AP. For the support of former presidential candidate and struggled headquarters Hillary Clinton, but Richardson chose Obamu saw its president, which will go down in history.
Support Richardson, the only Hispanic governor in the United States could balance the chances Obama and Clinton to a vote of Hispanics, among whom more popular still enjoys Clinton, which won the February Democratic primaries in New Mexico.
In addition, as superdelegatom, Richardson could attract the party Obamy other superdelegatov whose voices can help Obame prevail in the dispute over the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.
In January 2008, suffered a defeat in the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, Richardson refused to participate in the presidential race.
The following Democratic primaries will be held April 22 in Pennsylvania. |
Posted: 4:35 PM, 3/22/2008 |
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McCormack explained scandal in the State Department curiosity staff
The spokesman of the U.S. State Department Sean McCormack said that the agency staff found guilty of illegal viewing personnel files of candidates for the presidential nomination of the United States, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama, wanted to satisfy their curiosity, CNN reported.
"I can not give you exact figures, but every year in the State Department recorded several cases of illegal access to personal data of citizens" - McCormack said at a special press conference.
The fact that State Department employees illegally browsed personal affairs participants presidential race, it became known after the American press reported that the unauthorized viewing of files Barak Obama from the State Department dismissed two employees who worked under contract.
According to the agency, the case Obamy seen at least three occasions, the first time even January 9, 2008, but lower-level managers did not consider it necessary to report these incidents to their superiors.
Earlier, the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has Obame apologized for what had happened and demanded an investigation concerning all cases of illegal access to personal data of American citizens. The headquarters of Clinton, in turn, has requested to disclose the names of companies who advised laid-off employees.
These companies were Stanley Inc. and The Analysis Corp, the first not so long ago won a competition for the provision of government services in the field of work with passports. Both laid-off staff members were recommended precisely Stanley Inc. The third officer involved in the scandal, has not been dismissed, but received a strict reprimand.
McCormack explained that the personal Hillary Clinton was viewed during training requests. As an example, held training officer passport office were invited to enter the name of a member of their family, but he chose Clinton. Circumstances view personnel files illegally and McCain have not clarified.
According to a source in the U.S. Department of State, viewed the case contains scanned images of politicians for applying for a passport, birth date, the primary biographical information and information on citizenship. |
Posted: 10:41 AM, 3/22/2008 |
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Lewis Libby forbidden to engage in jurisprudence
Washington banned the Court of Appeal to deal with jurisprudence Lewis Libby, reported AP. Lawyers withdrawal licences from the former Chief of Staff, Vice-President of the United States Dick Cheney is linked to a loud affair disclosure of secret CIA agent Valerie Pleym in 2003.
Most Libby was charged with perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to representatives of the federal authorities. On aggregate charges Lewis Libby, facing up to thirty years jail, but in the end he was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison.
Subsequently, President Bush softened punishment Libby - former Chief of Staff Cheney was sentenced to a fine of 250 thousand dollars and 2 years' probation. |
Posted: 6:59 PM, 3/21/2008 |
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Two members of the U.S. State Department dismissed for viewing files Obamy
Employees have lost U.S. State Department, after having learned that they were using an official position, viewed in the database Foreign Ministry information concerning United States presidential candidate Barack Obama.
About unauthorized access to files containing information about Obame, writes in Wednesday newspaper The Washington Times, became known in the middle of March. The internal investigation revealed that officers viewed files Obamy containing, inter alia, information on his foreign trips, not convey this information to third parties. According to preliminary figures, former civil servants moved curiosity rather than selfish motives.
Immediately after it became aware of unauthorized access to the database of the Department of State, two consular officers were immediately dismissed, and the third received a strict reprimand, said Foreign Ministry official spokesman Sean McCormack USA.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, writes The Washington Times, is notified of the incident and had instructed her staff headed by the agency to strengthen measures to protect information relating to famous Americans. Representatives of the election headquarters story called the incident "a flagrant violation of safety rules and the right to privacy."
The leakage of data on Obame not the only incident of its kind in the U.S. Department of State. In 1992, it became clear that the Foreign Ministry officials, taking advantage of public office, trying to find information about Bill Clinton, for the period of war in Vietnam. Opponents of the ex-President of the United States argued that Clinton at the end of 1960 - ies used illegal means in order to evade military service. Proceedings of the illegal access to data Clinton stored in databases and the State Department, took three years. Guide State Department and special services, said The Washington Times, then assured that have taken all possible measures to prevent the recurrence of such an incident. |
Posted: 3:51 PM, 3/21/2008 |
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American women have given 7.5 years in prison for fraud on the Internet school
Federal Court sentenced a San Francisco consultant on education Judy Green (Judy N. Green) to 7.5 years in prison for fraud in connecting schools to the Internet, reports United Press International.
As the court found, from 1998 to 2003 Green inflated cost of equipment and traffic, which offset the government of the United States under the federal aid program for schools E-Rate.
For six years, a woman resorted to fraud in the 25 projects on connecting to the Internet in seven states.
E-Rate program was launched in 1996 to fund educational programs and Internet connection of schools to the Internet. According to the Ministry of Justice of the United States, as a result of enforcement of anti-monopoly investigation of the programme in various machinations were found 12 people and six companies. Total damage from actions fraudsters exceeded 40 million dollars. |
Posted: 6:34 AM, 3/21/2008 |
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Range Rover crashed into a crowd of people at avtoauktsione in Chicago
On Wednesday Range Rover car lost control and crashed into a crowd of people gathered in the automobile auction in Chicago, the agency AP. In the incident, 11 people injured, three of them are in critical condition. When rescuing injured two firefighters received injuries.
A car belonging to a company-organizer of the auction, the auction went into the house when the driver lost control, resulting in engine speed and sharp gains protaranila van parked on the road, and then entered the building and crashed into a people living there.
Causes of the accident are not known, the organizer of the auction company refrained from commenting. |
Posted: 8:57 PM, 3/20/2008 |
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Police arrested 13 participants in anti-war demonstrations in Washington
Police arrested 13 participants in anti-war demonstrations in front of the United States Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. A total of protests against the war in Iraq, devoted to the fifth anniversary of the military operation, was attended by more than a hundred people, AP reported.
The demonstrators gathered in front of the building and the Internal Revenue Service began chanted slogans: "This is a crime scene and you do not arestovyvaete those." The protesters tried to block the entrance to the tax office. Soon, the police managed to drive away anti-war activists.
Participants in the protest explained that the Internal Revenue Service building chosen reasons that the war in Iraq is in the taxpayers' money. That is, in fact, the tax agency is funding a military operation, believed opponents of war in Iraq. |
Posted: 8:29 PM, 3/20/2008 |
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Cosmetic tycoon gave New York museum of 131 million dollars
Leonard Lauder, owner of Estee Lauder cosmetics empire, giving New York Whitney Museum of American Art (Whitney Museum of American Art) 131 million dollars. As the newspaper writes The New York Times - it is the largest charitable contribution in the history of the museum.
Leonard Lauder Stewardship Council headed by the museum since 1994. Thanks to his initiative, the museum was able to buy dozens of major works of contemporary American artists, including the works of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Jackson Polloka. In the amount of nearly 200 million dollars. Lauderu fund owned American Contemporary Art Foundation made the biggest contribution to the museum collection.
In 2007, the Whitney Museum has announced the construction project branch in one area of Manhattan, which had given rise to speculation about the sale of the main building of the museum, located on Madison Avenue, which was built on the draft Bryuera Marseilles. Lauder confident that the collection should remain at the Whitney Madison Avenue has become in the "icon" modernist architecture of the building.
Origin brother Ronald Leonard Lauder, Estee Lauder Companies owner of a well-known collector, is the Board of Trustees of the other major New York collection - MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art.
Last week the New York Public Library has received one hundred millionth contribution from financier Stephen Shvartsmana. |
Posted: 7:55 PM, 3/20/2008 |
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As head McCain Shiites and Sunnis against American friends
Senator from Arizona John McCain, Hosni ceremony in the United States from the Republican Party, announced that Shiite Iran helps Sunni group Al-Qaeda in Iraq, "Reuters reports.
71-year-old senator told about his views on cooperation of Iran and al Qaeda at a press conference in the Jordanian capital Amman, where he visited a brief visit on March 18.
McCain Oblichitelnaya it stopped after the assistant whispered to him that Shiite Iran could hardly provide support for the Sunni group that openly expresses the need for the physical destruction of the Shiites, whom considers apostates.
Oseksya Republican candidate, but his most likely opponent in the upcoming election - Democrat Senator Barack Obama - had ottoptatsya to quote McCain.
"Just yesterday are: Senator McCain among Sunnis, Shiites, Iran and Al-Qaeda" mixed in a heap. seems that's why he voted for war against a country with which Al-Qaeda in general has been nothing in common. perhaps that's why he was not aware that the war in Iraq encouraged by the enemies of America better than what any event over the past decade. "
But this did not stop Obama. He recalled an elderly opponent promise "to pursue Osama bin Laden and the gates of hell". Black senator promised to seek terrorist number one slightly closer - namely, in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"I am here with some candidates difference on safety. in hell for bin Laden, they can come down, but look for it where he now hides, they reluctantly" - porassuzhdal Obama.
This statement represents a response to criticism makkeynovskuyu Obamy initiative to send troops into Pakistan to know that bin Laden hiding there. Republican Senator derided the proposal fellow Democrat, saying that he had nothing soobrazhaet in foreign policy, once going to bomb key ally the United States in the Middle East.
Obamy offensive against McCain in the direction in which he considers himself a specialist, tried to discourage the Assistant Republican candidate Mark Solter. He said that "Iran, vooruzhayuschy Shiite extremists, as you know, has sent arms and Sunni terrorists, too." And it has become known, according to the Soltera, with the words Frederick Kagan - Officer of the American Enterprise Instityut. "
Recall that John McCain in his campaign's emphasis on his experience and knowledge in foreign policy matters. He insisted that the other candidates were prosecuted in these matters much worse it, and therefore would not be able to ensure the safety of fellow citizens, which is ready to offer it. |
Posted: 3:02 PM, 3/20/2008 |
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The U.S. Embassy in Minsk stopped issuing visas
The U.S. Embassy in Minsk suspended the issuance of visas. The message posted on the website of diplomatic representation.
As can be seen from statements by the embassy, this measure is linked to a recent recommendation by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, which advised the United States diplomatic mission to reduce the number of employees.
In this situation, the embassy resources, noted in a statement sent to "other priorities". What exactly tasks involved are not specified. Diplomats also note that the citizens of the United States Embassy services will be provided in full. |
Posted: 9:58 AM, 3/20/2008 |
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Fed lowered the base bid to 2.25 per cent
On Tuesday the Committee on the open market system of the United States Federal Reserve lowered base interest rate by 75 basis points to 2.25 per cent.
As stated in a press release Fed, the measure is designed to encourage moderate economic growth and reduce the risks of economic activity. However, the danger of continuing recession persists.
According to the latest information indicated in the statement the Fed, economic activity continues to decline, consumption growth is slowing and financial markets otsayutsya under considerable pressure. Also, inflation grew, and grew some of the indicators of inflationary expectations.
The last time the base rate lowered in January 2008, and since September 2007 the figure, which stood at 5.25 per cent whereas, declined six times already. |
Posted: 10:49 PM, 3/19/2008 |
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China's dry cargo pilot accused of polluting San Francisco Bay
Federal prosecutors handling the U.S. pilot of the Chinese dry cargo John Cote charged with criminal negligence and violation of environmental laws, Associated Press reports. If the helmsman found guilty, he faces 18 months in prison and a fine 100 thousand dollars.
Cargo ship Quote Cosco Busan, the state-owned Chinese company China Ocean Shipping Group, in October 2007, was faced with a support column in the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. As a result, in the Gulf waters spilled about 250 tons of fuel oil in the region and the state of emergency was declared.
The Prosecutor's Office alleges that Cote lose control ship due to negligence testimony radar, not consulted with the captain about the footsteps of the course and was unable to take advantage of navigational tools to avoid clashes with the supporting columns of the bridge.
In turn, the steering argues that is a lot of fog radar worked poorly, and with the Chinese captain of the ship were carried out all the necessary consultations. Lawyer John Cote adds to this that the charges are not confirmed yet indicated that the official experts environmental impacts incident. |
Posted: 8:08 AM, 3/19/2008 |
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Older Americans are accused of murdering homeless
Two older Americans accused of the murder of homeless people to receive compensation insurance, writes The Guardian on 19 March.
The trial of 75 - Summer Rattershmidt Olga (Olga Rutterschmidt), and 77 - year old Helen Gouley (Helen Golay) began in Los Angeles on 18 March. According to the investigators, elderly women committed at least two murders: in 1997 and in 2005.
Crimes committed by the same scheme. Women get acquainted with the homeless man belonged to him in confidence, helped find housing, the process of his insurance, and then forged his signature on treaties with other insurance companies. After that the victim odurmanivali alcohol and hypnotics and killed, instseniruya accident. After some time after the murder of women received insurance payments, giving relatives of the victims themselves.
Rattershmidt Gouley and received insurance payments in the amount of more than three million dollars. Reported that part of the money was spent for the services of Plastic Surgeons.
Both defendants threatens imprisonment of up to 160 years. It became known during the investigation, women, friends for more than 20 years, started with stealing purses in the locker rooms of sports. |
Posted: 5:12 AM, 3/19/2008 |
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The American stock indices have risen sharply
After the message the Fed to lower the U.S. base interest rate from 3 per cent to 2.25 per cent on Tuesday indicators major U.S. stock indexes have gone up sharply, transmits Agency France Presse.
Dow Jones Index rose 420.41, paragraph (3.51 per cent) to 12396.66 item, which is a daily record of growth since July 2002. Vysokotohnologichny Nasdaq jumped to 4.19 percent (91.25 points) and the item was 2268.26, while the Standard & Poor's 500 reached 1330.74 item, rising to 4.24 per cent (54.14 points).
Recall Committee on Tuesday to open markets, the Fed, in an effort to encourage moderate economic growth and reduce the risks of economic activity, has announced the reduction of the base rate to 0.75 to 2.25 per cent. This measure is not surpassed the expectations of analysts, who had predicted a significant decline. Since September 2007 the base rate was reduced by more than half. |
Posted: 2:57 AM, 3/19/2008 |
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President of the United States Agency changed the chapter on missile defense
U.S. President George W. Bush proposed the nomination of Army Major-General Patrick O'Reilly (Patrick O'Reilly) at the head of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agency USA, said the Army Times website.
To date, the Agency headed by Henry Obering (Henry Obering), and certainly was his deputy. It is anticipated that the U.S. Senate, which is made to the candidacy O'Reylli to decide on his appointment shortly.
Why Bush decided to change the chapter of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agency dollars unless specified. Also, it is not known what will continue Obering, head of the Agency since 2004. At one data Obering will increase, on the other - will resign.
If the nomination is approved O'Reyli Senate, it will become the second in the entire history of an army general, headed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agency dollars. Since 1996, all heads of the structure were from the Air Force. |
Posted: 2:51 AM, 3/19/2008 |
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