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...Guantánamo inmates who are not considered security risks, and Portuguese Foreign Minister Luís Amado wrote to his European counterparts urging them to join his country's effort to help the U.S. close down Guantánamo. "The time has come for the European Union to step forward," Amado said in his letter. "We should send a clear signal of our willingness to help the U.S. government in that regard, namely through the resettlement of detainees...
Almost from the moment that federal prosecutors charged Blagojevich with scheming to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder, a diverse coalition of local, state and national politicians has called on him to step down. The state legislature on Monday took the first steps to start impeachment proceedings, and state attorney general Lisa Madigan has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to invoke an obscure law to declare Blagojevich unfit (at least temporarily) for office. Over the weekend, there were media reports that Blagojevich could resign as early as Monday. But late Sunday...
...page complaint last Tuesday. At various times, he has said that "Illinois is in crisis" and that "when you have all five constitutional officers, when you have members of Congress, when you have the U.S. Senator from Illinois, Richard Durbin, when you have the President-elect urging you to step aside, I think that's about as high...
...Switzerland is waging—and winning—a real war on drugs, instead of losing a war on drug users. The United States ought to step back and examine the Swiss program as a solution to its own narcotics problems. At the very least, it could refrain from criticizing the Swiss...
...contrast with the opposition's yellow shirts, are hardly pleased. But in a sign that there may be a brief respite from divisive politics, Thaksin told his supporters in a pre-recorded message played to a rally of supporters on Saturday night that "all sides [should] take one step back and respect [the results of the P.M. parliamentary election...