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...tough new UN ultimatum to Iraq to disarm, or else. Russia has maintained that Saddam Hussein's recent offer to comply with new arms inspections means that no new resolutions are necessary. But Kremlin-watchers have long suggested this was a bargaining strategy, designed to win guarantees on Russian interests in a post-Saddam Iraq, and also to win U.S. consent for Russian military action in Georgia. Moscow says the pro-NATO government in Georgia is sheltering Chechen rebels, but until now Washington has warned Russia against attacking the former Soviet republic...
Blomquist and the Russian-born Samsonov finished sixth in the men’s four, eight seconds behind gold-medal winning Britain...
...Council by more than the nine votes needed are good. Britain's support is assured, and France is moving closer to the U.S. position; Bush's announcement that the U.S. will rejoin the Paris-based U.N. cultural agency unesco, officials say, was a plum aimed at rewarding the French. Russian support for action is also close, U.S. negotiators claim, and China, the last of the veto-wielding permanent members, is probably going to go along with the group consensus. "I think all the members of the council are now seized with the issue," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday...
When the U.S. defends itself against al Qaeda in Afghanistan, these same radical activists are silent. When the U.S. supports the Turkish government, which violently suppresses the Kurdish people and their human rights, these activists are silent. When the U.S. gives aid to the Russian government and looks the other way at Russia’s actions in Chechnya, these activists are silent. However, when Jewish people in Israel defend themselves against people who are trying to wipe an entire population into the sea, these same people are up in arms...
...terribly interested. With prices and demand still growing and U.S.-Russia relations improved, Cambridge Energy Research analyst Laurent Ruseckas says, commercial factors are now driving the $3 billion project. (It began construction last week, sponsored by British Petroleum, Norway's Statoil and others.) While there is still some Russian annoyance at the plan - and heightened tensions with Georgia over Chechen separatists - Ruseckas notes that "the Russians now understand that this is just a pipeline." In fact, the biggest impact today won't be on a superpower, but on Azerbaijan, which hopes to triple its production to a million barrels...