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...draws about 62,000 visitors to Iceland every year and there are fears that tourists may now boycott the country. European Heroes: Whale Of An Opportunity Brassed Off SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO The country's top military committee, the Supreme Defense Council, dismissed 16 senior generals in a bid to rid the military of high-ranking personnel affiliated with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The dismissals are meant to secure the military's loyalty to the democratic government that succeeded Milosevic in 2000. As many as 200 lower officers may be fired as well, as the country seeks to gain NATO...
...They need to get rid of the $1.5 million deficit and it’s inconceivable that it could happen without layoffs,” he said...
...failing to observe the Muslim tradition of burial within 24 hours. Those comments, as well as the calls for trial rather than summary execution, reflect a resentment of occupation even among many Iraqis who had loathed Saddam - the fact that it took an American invasion and occupation to get rid of him deepens their humiliation, and hasn't necessarily endeared the U.S. to them. That sense of alienation may be reinforced by incidents a raid Sunday on a Baghdad house where U.S. forces believed Saddam was sheltering, during which four innocent Iraqis were reportedly killed and a number wounded...
...debts and repeatedly refused to turn over their transmission lines to the newly formed national grid. Erdogan denied that his government was engaged in a political witch-hunt. "We have no personal vendetta," he said last week. "We have a duty to the people who elected us to rid the country of dirty odors." Analysts agree that while the crackdown may serve a political purpose, it may also be part of a long overdue anticorruption drive required by the European Union as a condition for accession negotiations to begin. "If you are going to fight corruption, you have to deal...
...have some Crimson Cash, it’d be a nice way to get rid of it,” he said...