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...small welcome mat before she arrived, releasing its most prominent political prisoner, Muslim business executive Rebiya Kadeer, after five years in jail--a move designed to remove the issue of human rights from the bilateral agenda. But Rice's overriding goal was to find a way to restart the six-way talks among North Korea, the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, stalled since Pyongyang confirmed in early February that it possessed nuclear weapons. Bush and Rice have long believed that the best way to disarm Kim Jong Il is to persuade China, which has the greatest stake...
...over new zealand, people are fighting the power. At Marsden Point, near Whangarei, Greenpeace activists held a sit-in atop a disused power station last month to protest plans to restart the plant and run it on coal. On the Gowan river, near Marlborough, kayakers turned a March 5 whitewater festival into a demonstration against a hydroelectricity project. In the Waikato, south of Auckland, furious farmers last week burned in effigy the boss of a company that wants to run a power line through their green acres on pylons 70 m high. Bring electricity infrastructure too close to a Kiwi...
...stupid things,” Kovacs said. “All three of us went over the line one race, so we all had to restart. I flipped in another race, which meant I finished a mile behind everyone else...
...Islamic Jihad. Domestically, its stagnant economy raises the pressure on a regime dominated by a small ethnic minority (the Allawites) trading on a long bankrupted Baathist ideology. Its international economic and diplomatic isolation, combined with the strategic blow of losing its hold on Lebanon while Israel and the Palestinians restart their peace process could leave the regime dangerously vulnerable to gradual internal collapse...
...North Korea's nuclear announcement certainly blindsided Washington, which had hoped to restart the six-party talks next month. U.S. attentions were elsewhere, most notably on stopping Iran from doing what North Korea claims to have done. Frankly, the administration's chances of stopping Iran from joining the expanding club of nuclear-armed states may not be much better than its prospects of holding back North Korea...