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/ 27 February 2004
France has called for an ”immediate” international civilian force to restore order in Haiti and help stem the poverty-stricken Caribbean state’s slide into chaos. ”This force would be charged with assuring the restoration of public order and support actions in the field of the international community,” said Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin.
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/ 20 February 2004
Howard Dean on Wednesday ended his attempt to build a presidential campaign on anti-war sentiment and reformist zeal, but signalled his intention to become an independent power broker in the Democratic Party at the head of a grassroots organisation.
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/ 22 December 2003
The Bush administration on Sunday put the United States on a high state alert, saying it had picked up credible intelligence of a possible terrorist attack ”that could either rival or exceed” September 11. The homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, did not give details of the expected nature of a potential attack, but mentioned ”significant concern” that aircraft could be used again.
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/ 17 October 2003
Out of a record -billion, there is something in next year’s Pentagon budget for everyone, even William Shakespeare. With the help of United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld the Bard will get a million. That is the sum set aside for a new scheme to bring Shakespeare to US military bases for the first time.
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/ 10 October 2003
The United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, revealed the depth of the fissures within the Bush administration this week with a remarkably bad-tempered interview in which he claimed not to have been told about an important overhaul of policymaking on Iraq.
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/ 4 September 2003
The Bush administration plans to open a huge loophole in the United States’s air pollution laws, allowing an estimated 17 000 outdated power stations and factories to increase their carbon emissions with impunity.
Suspected arms dealer Hemant Lakhani’s deal of a lifetime was doomed from the start. Posing as a buyer from Somali, an undercover FBI agent led Lakhani into an elaborate sting operation that ended on Tuesday with his arrest.
The former UN inspector hired by the Bush administration to find evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction will claim in a report next month that Iraqi forces were ordered to fire chemical shells at invading coalition troops.
He thinks his country should not have invaded Iraq, he wants Bush’s tax cuts reversed. Political suicide or the leader of the race for the Democratic nomination? Could he be the man to kick Bush out of the White House?
President George W Bush’s trip to Africa this week signalled a recent strategic decision to increase the United States’ military presence to bolster what Washington now sees as two important national interests on the continent — the supply of oil and the struggle against terrorism.