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...They themselves are terrorists.' STATEMENT, signed by 215 members of Iran's parliament, condemning the U.S. Army and the CIA over the Iraq war, in response to calls by U.S. politicians to label Iran's Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization...
...Bird, Dora the Explorer, and Dora’s cousin, Diego, figures—and an RC2 recall of 1.5 million toys from the Thomas and Friends line. In the past few years, the E.U. has toughened its regulation of companies. Last month, the members of the European parliament proposed to require more labels explaining where goods had been produced. In 2003, it outlawed the use of lead, mercury, and other metals in electronic products. E. Marla Felcher, an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government consumer safety expert who attended the talk, said she thought...
...General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a coup, have dimmed voter enthusiasm for her party, as have her statements that she would allow U.S. military strikes against terrorists in Pakistan, and would make nuclear proliferator (and national hero) A.Q. Khan available for questioning by the IAEA. Pakistan's parliament votes for a President on October 6, and the increasingly embattled Musharraf desperately needs the support of Bhutto's party. She, in turn, wants the corruption charges - which she dismisses as baseless and politically motivated - dropped before her return. On Tuesday, government officials agreed "in principle" to quash...
...case has triggered a major political battle in the Romanian capital. Members of the governing coalition regard the restitution of the castle as compensation for the injustice that the Habsburg family suffered under the communists and see the Parliament's demand to nullify the restitution as a relapse into the communist era: "This decision is an embarrassment for the Romanian Parliament," Marton Arpad, MP for the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) told TIME: "We fought 17 years to get away from Communism, now we seem to be going straight back." He called the vote in parliament a "violation...
...Archduke, who spent the first four years of his life in the castle, seems to be no less emotional about the matter. In a letter addressed to parliament, he stated: "I live once more with the feeling of dread in which I once lived as a child, when my family and I were forced out of our home and thrown into the streets in midwinter." He called the attempt to take the castle away from him a "dreadful injustice." His lawyers said they will sue the Romanian state for $200 million...