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...later: "Cobos cannot be trusted with the management of public affairs. The Vice President has become Cobos Iscariot." The President's supporters are concerned Argentina's veep might make use of the President's absence during an upcoming trip to China to call a special session of Congress and reject a recent executive decree ordering the seizure of central bank reserves to pay off part of Argentina's voluminous foreign debt. "Cobos has clearly become the leader of the opposition and has been making use of the vice presidency to block the legislative bills of this government," pro-Fernandez legislator...
...slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Serbia handed over former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Hague last year, and Tadic has said he is committed to meeting Serbia's international obligations. But Mladic and Hadzic remain on the run and most Serbs reject the idea of handing them over to the ICTY. (Read: "Karadzic a No-Show at His Bosnia War-Crimes Trial...
Some nutrition experts reject such either/or simplification. "There's almost this threat, like "If you don't drink chocolate milk, then your children will not get the nutrition they need!" says Marlene Schwartz, deputy director of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. For Schwartz, the dairy industry's campaign is one as concerned with market share as it is with nutrition. "The real issue is a food-industry segment saying, "We want to market our product to children. So we are going to add extra sugar that is completely unnecessary to improve the taste so that...
Honduras has a new President, at least in name: wealthy cattle rancher Porfirio Lobo, who won 56% of the vote in the nation's Nov. 29 elections. But supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, deposed in a June coup, are urging Hondurans to reject the new government, while neighboring states have said they will not restore ties unless Zelaya is reinstated to finish his term. The U.S. is under fire for saying it would recognize Lobo's government regardless...
However, many of these proposals are funded through money that is already legislated for use, and, given the economic realities of the moment, encouraging job growth is far more important than fiscal prudence. The government should look to break the grip of the recession and reject calls to curb necessary domestic spending...