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...Treasury, Canada's federal government and the United Auto Workers (UAW) - are keenly interested in getting GM stock back into circulation. "There is a lot of interest from the future stakeholders ... to start the process of selling down the shares. All agree that it's important to make General Motors a publicly traded company," says Ray Young, GM's chief financial officer. The earliest it would happen, Young projects, is around the first or second quarter of 2010. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...piracy? The pirates who hunt down ships are based on land. That's the reality. We can play our part by organizing locals to reject piracy on land. We have also started restructuring Somalia's navy. I have appointed an experienced general to be the commander of the navy...
...More recently, it's been external pressures Palau has been worried about. It joined a group of a dozen island nations that successfully petitioned the U.N. General Assembly for a June 3rd resolution declaring climate change a security issue. The goal is to persuade the Security Council to address the threat posed by rising sea levels to the nations' existences. Scientists predict that many of Palau's smaller islands may become uninhabitable as they sink into...
...Justice Department has a long history of securely detaining and successfully prosecuting terror suspects through the criminal-justice system, and we will bring that experience to bear in seeking justice in this case." - Attorney General Eric Holder. (Wall Street Journal, June...
...wartime aerial assault. Investigators are picking through the rubble that lies all around for clues. Rescuers in the building have been conducting a search of their own, hoping to lift survivors to safety. After hours of rummaging, they locate the body of Kamal Ahmed, the hotel's much-liked general manager. But he is no longer alive, to the despair of his family...