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...found to be leaking. Technicians repaired it within a few hours, but then found that one of three transmission pipes feeding water into the station's boilers was steaming up and ready to burst. Its automatic shutdown system kicked in, causing all four units of the power station to halt. That took about 1,200 MW from the country's grid and brought electrical reserves to a dangerously low level. Before the station could come back online, tens of thousands of Greek households, suffering in temperatures above 40C, switched on their air conditioners, overloading substations in the northern part...
Against the Wall MIDDLE EAST The International Court of Justice, meeting in the Hague, ruled that Israel 's controversial West Bank barrier violates international law and called on the U.N. to consider taking action to halt its construction. Jerusalem said it would not accept the nonbinding judgement, and the U.S. argued that it was inappropriate for the World Court to rule on what it called a political issue...
After months of internal debate, the Bush Administration is beginning to pressure the Sudanese government to halt the slaughter in Darfur. Secretary of State Colin Powell is scheduled to join U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on a visit to Khartoum and Darfur this week to demand that Sudan's government allow humanitarian access and rein in the Janjaweed. The U.S. is quietly working up an initial U.N. resolution that would pave the way for a peacekeeping force, probably drawn from African states...
...ballot is dangerous to the electoral system. Furthermore, voters who support Nader should resist claims that a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush. Instead, they should focus on Nader's government-reform movement, which, without proper support in the 2004 election, would come to a firm halt. BRIAN MAHONEY Cranford...
...that hasn't hurt the British economy (indeed, maybe it's helped) or the euro. E.U. member states bitterly disagreed about the war in Iraq, but still managed to agree on their new constitution. Clearly, traveling at different speeds doesn't mean that the European project comes to a halt. But if the E.U. wants to achieve some of its grander dreams - like having a strong say in global security policy, something France clearly favors, or a common vision on how European social values can be married to world-class economic competitiveness - then all the big countries have to march...