Word: agreement
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...France to back Hosni. Geopolitics is also probably behind the attitude of hardline Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has said he would not block Hosni's election. That move is likely to be part of an array of horse-trading necessary to find an eventual Israel-Palestinian peace agreement all Middle Eastern nations will adhere...
...what it termed the Cambridge Police Department’s “new policy” of withholding information. The police department holds reports—part of the public record—and usually makes them available only for in-person inquiries. As part of an informal agreement with the Chronicle, the department faxes reports to the newspaper upon request. In both cases, the department reviews the documents and redacts any information that might conflict with an ongoing investigation, said the police department’s legal adviser Kelly Downes. Downes said that in this regard, the department...
...made famous in The Music Man. He is one of the few people still arguing that a grand bipartisan deal is possible - though he suggests that the way to get there is through a Democratic surrender. "There's a feeling that the only way to get a bipartisan agreement is to defeat a Democratic proposal on the first hand, and then the Democrats will come to Republican leadership, and then, at that point, they'll know the only way they're going to get health-care reform is bipartisan," he recently told Iowa reporters...
...worried some U.S. analysts by calling for a more "equal" relation with the global superpower. Has also endorsed ending an agreement to refuel U.S. military ships in the Indian Ocean and expressed interest in potentially relocating some of the 50,000 U.S. troops currently deployed in Japan...
...resettlement scheme could ease the burden on some of the E.U.'s border states. Last year, more than 30,000 people are believed to have made the boat journey to the Italian island of Lampedusa, just 70 miles (113 km) from Tunisia. Earlier this year, Italy signed a controversial agreement with Libya allowing Italian authorities to automatically send would-be immigrants back to Libya without screening them for asylum claims - a move that arguably breaches the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention...