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...Amnesty report cites instances where seven European nations - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Sweden and Great Britain - helped the CIA in the rendition of 13 terror suspects. "All involve men being bundled onto planes and transferred abroad, without due process, to places of detention where they have suffered abuse," Amnesty charges...
...Wada of his award last week. So far, Wada has been less than repentant. "My style has been to borrow other artists' compositions and add some of my own ideas to them," he told the Yomiuri Shimbun the day before his award was retracted. "Only artists who have studied abroad can understand the subtle difference in nuance...
...very glad some people abroad are able to fully understand the Catalan spirit. I have to say, your article was very close to the thoughts and feelings of many Catalans. May one day freedom reach us as well. As a matter of fact, we in the south of Europe are a key component in preventing fanaticism around the world. The day the geographically big nations listen to the small ones, things will be better for all. Roger Bofill Vic, Spain...
...IREA, Spain's biggest independent real estate consulting company. "Developers and banks are generally pretty conservative in Spain," she says. "There'd have to be a dramatic drop in housing values to endanger banks." In fact, expertise gained in Spain's fat years has propelled companies to seek success abroad - thus hedging their exposure to the domestic market. Metrovacesa's €5.5 billion purchase last year of French developer Gecina made it the largest publicly traded real estate developer in Europe, and the country's biggest banks are reaching out, too. "We haven't seen the end of the expansion...
...involved in Guantanamo issues believes the suicides could put a crimp in the international praise Bush has received for his tentative détente with Iran: "It reinforces the perception that he can't play nicely with the world and will stir up the monitoring organizations, which hurts the President abroad." The detainees' deaths are unlikely to become a domestic political liability, the source says, because the American voter assumes "that if they're in Gitmo, they're pretty bad." But the former official adds, "People don't react very well to surprises like this, because it reinforces the notion that...