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...been on the run since escaping house arrest in November 2000, was apprehended in the western town of Angoulême, along with suspected ETA operative Mercedes Chivite Berango. Ouster in the Offing LITHUANIA The Constitutional Court found that President Rolandas Paksas had violated the constitution in awarding citizenship to Russian businessman Yuri Borisov, who helped finance his election campaign. The ruling paves the way for an impeachment vote in parliament as early as this week. A Tightening Grip GEORGIA President Mikheil Saakashvili's National Movement-Democrats party is set to dominate parliament after winning 67% of the vote...
...operations inside the U.S., which the CIA is prohibited from doing. But, he says, as TTIC chief he can quickly get the FBI to do so to fill "gaps in our knowledge." The center is helping to monitor "a lot of folks who have acquired U.S. citizenship or green cards that are engaged in international terrorism," says Brennan. A well-placed source says the FBI now keeps tabs on about 400 individuals in the U.S. who are thought to be sympathetic to al-Qaeda or somehow connected to Sunni extremism. The FBI has also tried to co-opt some...
...pencils in day shifts as a baby-sitter and nights as a Harvard Law School janitor. Workers’ rallies and presidential canvassing all go into the same book. She’s written down these and more and soon she’ll write in a new one: citizenship classes...
Iscayau says that this may be the year that she finally signs up for U.S. citizenship classes, a requirement to eventually obtaining citizenship. It bothers her “a little” that she can’t vote, she says...
...wife is a Chinese New Zealander, gave it one. In a speech on Jan. 27, he said the government's obsession with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi and the "grievance industry" of treaty claims risked creating "a racially divided nation, with two sets of laws and two standards of citizenship." A National government, he declared, would insist on "one rule for all." It would end special treatment for Maori, abolish the Maori Development Ministry and the seven parliamentary seats reserved for Maori, purge laws of references to the treaty, wind up the treaty claims process as soon as possible...