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...Rice was clearly exhilarated by her first trip to Mosul. She had visited Baghdad twice before, and flew there again after her Mosul stop. But she told reporters aboard her plane she much preferred talking to local pols and hands-on activists from small communities. "It's like the difference between visiting Birmingham and Washington," she said. The Birmingham native didn't leave much doubt about which city she preferred...
...issue a distress signal, three fiberglass speedboats with powerful outboard motors had pulled alongside the Semlow, a 58-m cargo boat often chartered by the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) to ship aid to Africa's neediest. The pirates hooked a small metal ladder to the ship and scrambled aboard. "There were 15 to 20 men wearing shorts and T shirts," remembers Mahalingam. The boarders were barefoot but carrying pistols, AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The pirates rushed to the bridge where, in halting English, they demanded to see the captain; they quizzed Mahalingam and his nine-man crew...
...over the past seven months, Somali pirates have attacked 25 vessels, including the Semlow in June, another ship carrying food aid in September, a Maltese-registered cargo ship carrying 15 tons of iron ore, and, just last weekend, a cruise ship with some 300 American and British holidaymakers aboard. (Though the pirates fired semiautomatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, the ship's crew used an on-board "acoustic bang" to scare the pirates off, according to a spokeman for the liner.) Maritime authorities are worried not only that the number of attacks off Somalia has jumped from last year...
...White House officials are, not surprisingly, downplaying the outcome of the Summit. They are instead encouraging the idea that the talking itself was a victory of sorts. Aboard Air Force One, National Security Adviser Steven Hadley told reporters that "It's not deadlocked." He added, "We went from a summit which was supposed to bury FTAA to a summit ... in which all 34 countries actually talk in terms of enhanced trade and an FTAA." That's putting a rosy tint on it, but for the administration it will have...
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