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...agencies were on high alert; Italian officials even discussed closing the Rome and Milan metros in the final 48 hours of Ramadan. But authorities say last week's arrests were the culmination of long investigations, not hasty responses to the Istanbul blasts. And some of them were meant to thwart a different threat: the export of suicide bombers from Europe, mainly to Iraq. Groups like Ansar al-Islam have reportedly stepped up recruitment on the Continent. "There has been a call from Ansar for kamikazes from Europe," says an Italian investigator. Authorities say they intercepted a satellite-phone conversation...
Last month, more than half of the HLS faculty signed a petition urging Summers to add Harvard’s weight to the flurry of lawsuits filed this fall challenging the 1996 Solomon Amendment, which allows the Pentagon to cut off federal funding to universities that thwart military recruitment efforts...
...admitted that it enriched uranium at the Kalay-e electric plant outside Tehran in violation of its agreements with the IAEA. The revelation is part of massive disclosures Tehran made in an attempt to avoid threatened international sanctions for its nuclear activities. The disclosures may at least temporarily thwart U.S. efforts to bring more international pressure on the country over the nuclear issue. "Iran did give a load of information," says a State Department official. "It was very, very specific and very, very extensive...
...billion economy is South America's largest and among the world's top 15. It has always cared more about its own trading bloc, Mercosur - a $620 billion customs union that includes Argentina - than about an ftaa. So what seems to matter most to Lula is the chance to thwart U.S. hegemony. "The U.S. thinks first and foremost about the U.S., so now it's up to the Brazilians to think more about ourselves," he told Time last year. "Foreign trade and relations depend on daring, wisdom and political will...
...discussion came less than a month after a majority of HLS’ faculty signed a letter calling on Summers to add Harvard’s weight to the growing number of suits challenging the 1996 Solomon Amendment, which allows the Pentagon to deny federal funding to universities that thwart military recruitment efforts...