British officer contends Iraq war illegal
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
AP's Thomas Wagner - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| A British serviceman facing his first day of a court martial contended Wednesday that the war in Iraq is illegal. Flight Lt. Malcolm Kendall-Smith, a Royal Air Force medic, is the first British officer accused of refusing to serve in Iraq.
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Rice confident of support to pressure Iran
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
AP's ANNE GEARAN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she is confident the United States eventually will get strong backing from other members of the U.N. Security Council despite division at the start of a U.S.-driven review of Iran's disputed nuclear program.
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Widespread attacks kill 14 in Iraq
Thursday, February 16, 2006
AP's PAUL GARWOOD - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Iraq's Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into claims that a police death squad has been operating in the country, a top official said Thursday. Attacks around the country killed 14 people, including six Iraqis in a car bombing and three sheiks in a drive-by shooting.
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House probe blasts Katrina preparation
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
AP's LARA JAKES JORDAN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| The deaths and suffering of thousands of Hurricane Katrina's victims might have been avoided if the government had heeded lessons from the 2001 terror attacks and taken a proactive stance toward disaster preparedness, a House inquiry concludes.
But from President Bush on down to local officials there was largely a reactive posture to the catastrophic Aug. 29 storm - even when faced with early warnings about its deadly potential.
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Blair: Ban glorifying terrorism
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
AP's BETH GARDINER - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Prime Minister Tony Blair urged lawmakers Wednesday to support a ban on glorifying terrorism, warning that scrapping the provision would send a signal that Britain was wavering in its commitment to fight terrorism.
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Gunmen kill 11 Iraqi farm workers
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
AP's Sinan Salaheddin - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Gunmen attacked a group of Iraqi Shiites working Tuesday on a farm north of Baghdad, killing 11 and wounding two, a police chief and hospital official said. One coalition soldier was killed and six wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad.
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U.S. beef investigation to be done soon
Friday, February 3, 2006
AP's JOSEPH COLEMAN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| The U.S. investigation into a veal shipment containing backbone that prompted Japan to close its market to American beef should be finished and presented to the Japanese government in about a week, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer said Friday.
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Republicans to give Alito committee win
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito takes his first step toward the high court with a preordained Senate Judiciary Committee victory Tuesday, but the strength of opposition among panel Democrats may forecast his margin of victory in the full Senate.
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Cattle producers angry, worried about Japan beef ban
Saturday, January 21, 2006
AP's BETSY BLANEY - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Cattle producers were angry and worried Friday that the lucrative Japanese market was closed to U.S. beef imports again, this time because bone tissue found in a veal shipment raised concerns about mad cow disease.
Texas is the nation's leading cattle producing state, and Japan was the largest U.S. overseas beef market for beef. Tokyo banned U.S. beef imports after mad cow was discovered in America in 2003. Japan lifted those restrictions just six weeks ago.
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Japan Renews ban on U.S. Beef
Friday, January 20, 2006
AP's LIBBY QUAID - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Just as U.S. officials were talking optimistically of selling more beef in Asia, Japan's prime minister said Friday his country will halt imports of American beef after a recent shipment was found that may contain material considered at risk for mad cow disease.
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TSA to offer frequent fliers security pass
Friday, January 20, 2006
AP's LESLIE MILLER - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Airline passengers who buy a preapproved security pass could have their credit histories and property records examined as part of the government's plan to turn over the Registered Traveler program to private companies, federal officials say.
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Lawmakers dismayed by state of Gulf Coast
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
AP's LARA JAKES JORDAN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Progress rebuilding the Gulf Coast is still overshadowed by the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina, senators said Tuesday, promising more federal help as they viewed broken levees and the shattered homes of victims trying to restart their lives.
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Doctors fearful about Sharon's coma
Friday, January 13, 2006
AP's JOSEF FEDERMAN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Doctors have increasingly expressed concern that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shows no signs of waking up from his induced coma, Israeli media reported Friday, as the hospital said the Israeli leader's condition remained "critical but stable."
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Blair feels 'dismay' over Iran nuke move
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
AP's ED JOHNSON - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that Iran's decision to resume nuclear activities caused "real and serious alarm" across the world and it was time to reconsider whether Tehran should be referred to the U.N. Security Council.
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Sharon kept in medically induced coma
Friday, January 6, 2006
AP's Ravi Nessman - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Doctors said Thursday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be kept in a medically induced coma for up to three days to prevent further damage from a massive stroke. His sons held a bedside vigil and state media broadcast mournful songs.
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Dems weigh Alito confirmation vote delay
Friday, January 6, 2006
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Senate Democrats are considering a plan that could delay a committee vote on Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination for at least a week, slowing what could have been a quick confirmation for President Bush's pick to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Treatment brings hope for ovarian cancer
Thursday, January 5, 2006
AP's LINDA A. JOHNSON - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Pumping heavy doses of chemotherapy drugs right into the abdomen boosted survival of women with advanced ovarian cancer by 16 months in what experts call the first big advance in more than a decade against one of the most lethal cancers in women.
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Bush, Cheney defend Iraq war, spying
Thursday, January 5, 2006
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney tried a one-two punch Wednesday in defense of the Iraq war, a domestic spying program and the terrorism-fighting Patriot Act they want Congress to renew.
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Intelligence panel had clue about spying
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
AP's KATHERINE SHRADER - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Congressional intelligence committees had at least a hint in October 2001 that the National Security Agency was expanding its surveillance activities after the 9/11 attacks, according to a letter released Tuesday by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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White House supports Lebanon-Syria probe
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
AP's BARRY SCHWEID - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| The Bush administration urged U.N. investigators Tuesday to look into an allegation by a former Syrian vice president that President Bashar Assad had threatened former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri several months before Hariri was assassinated.
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Sri Lanka may be slipping back into war
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
AP's DILIP GANGULY - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| When the clock strikes midnight, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels change a note at the top of their Web site. The cease-fire agreement "enters into 1409 days today," it read Monday.
What many Sri Lankans are asking, though, is when will the updates stop - and the cease-fire end?
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AP: U.S. teen runs off to Iraq by himself
Friday, December 30, 2005
AP's JASON STRAZIUSO - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Maybe it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert. Or when he drew a crowd at a Baghdad food stand after using an Arabic phrase book to order. Or the moment a Kuwaiti cab driver almost punched him in the face when he balked at the $100 fare.
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Pace: U.S. to launch phased Iraq pullout
Friday, December 30, 2005
AP's KIM GAMEL - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| The U.S. will carry out planned withdrawals of American troops in Iraq only from regions where Iraqi forces can maintain security against the insurgents, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said Thursday.
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Iraq Shiites talk with Kurds; grave found
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
AP's JASON STRAZIUSO - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| The Shiite religious bloc leading Iraq's parliamentary elections held talks Tuesday with Kurdish leaders about who should get the top 12 government jobs, as thousands of Sunni Arabs and secular Shiites protested what they say was a tainted vote.
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Sen. Schumer sets sights high for 2006
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
AP's Devlin Barrett - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Despite being New York's less-famous senator, Charles Schumer stayed busy in 2005, keeping a hand - or quote - in almost every major congressional battle.
Now he is out to prove he has the strategy to elect Senate Democrats and maybe wrest
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American beef returns to Japan grills
Monday, December 19, 2005
AP's JOSEPH COLEMAN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Released from a two-year-long ban over mad cow fears, American beef headed back to Japanese grills on Monday, with the imported meat set to appear at a popular barbecue chain and a private banquet put on by U.S. producers.
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Bush accepts McCain's ban on torture
Friday, December 16, 2005
AP's LIZ SIDOTI - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| President Bush embraced Sen. John McCain's proposal to ban cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of terrorism suspects on Thursday, reversing months of opposition that included White House veto threats.
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House ready, Senate balks on Patriot Act
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| The GOP-controlled House plans to quickly renew portions of the USA Patriot Act before they expire at the end of the year. Some Republicans say the nation's safety could be endangered if the Senate doesn't follow suit.
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Congress expects $100B war spending request
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
AP's LIZ SIDOTI - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| The Pentagon is in the early stages of drafting a wartime request for up to $100 billion more for Iraq and Afghanistan, lawmakers say, a figure that would push spending related to the wars toward a staggering half-trillion dollars.
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Supreme Court to review Texas redistricting
Monday, December 12, 2005
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| The Supreme Court waded into the thicket of Texas politics Monday, agreeing to review controversial redistricting that produced ballot box gains for Republicans but an ethics rebuke and criminal charges for GOP Rep. Tom DeLay.
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Japan agrees to ease ban on U.S. beef
Monday, December 12, 2005
AP's HANS GREIMEL - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Japan agreed Monday to ease the country's ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports, resolving a bitter trans-Pacific trade dispute two years after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in the U.S. herd.
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NATO says Rice clears air on torture use
Friday, December 9, 2005
AP's Robert Wielaard - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| European foreign ministers said Thursday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had "cleared the air" by assuring NATO allies that the U.S. does not allow torture of terrorist suspects and respects principles of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.
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Court: Disabled can't escape student loans
Thursday, December 8, 2005
AP's Gina Holland - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| America's seniors and disabled cannot escape debts from old student loans, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, freeing the government to pursue Social Security benefits as part of an effort to collect billions in delinquent loans.
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DeLay's money laundering charges upheld
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
AP's APRIL CASTRO - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge Monday against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out far more serious allegations of money-laundering, dashing the congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader.
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Paying Iraqi newspapers troubles Bush
Monday, December 5, 2005
AP's JIM ABRAMS - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| President Bush is disturbed by the U.S. military's practice of paying Iraqi papers to run articles emphasizing positive developments in the country and will end the program if it violates the principles of a free media, a senior aide said Sunday.
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3 injured in Naval Air Station shooting
Friday, December 2, 2005 CHRIS VAUGHN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| FORT WORTH — Military officials released fresh information Thursday about a shooting that injured three at Naval Air Station Fort Worth, saying the shootings occurred as supervisors tried to prevent a distraught sailor from committing suicide.
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Sharon quits Likud to pursue peacemaking
Monday, November 21, 2005
AP's Amy Teibel - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday he gambled and broke away from his hardline Likud Party because he did not want to squander peacemaking opportunities created by Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip or waste time with political wrangling.
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Ex-DeLay aide pleads guilty in conspiracy
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
AP's PETE YOST - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Michael Scanlon, a former partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to bribe public officials, a charge growing out of the government investigation of attempts to defraud Indian tribes and corrupt a member of Congress.
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Ex-cellmate says al-Zarqawi was tortured
Monday, November 21, 2005
AP's Tanalee Smith - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| A man once imprisoned with Iraq's most feared terror leader said Sunday that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was tortured regularly by Jordanian prison officials in the late 1990s and was held for six months in solitary confinement.
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House Republicans eke out budget cut
Friday, November 18, 2005
AP's ANDREW TAYLOR - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| House Republicans sweated out a victory on a major budget cut bill in the wee hours Friday, salvaging a major pillar of their agenda despite divisions within the party and nervousness among moderates that the vote could cost them in next year's elections.
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Cheney didn't inform Woodward, Source says
Friday, November 18, 2005
AP's JOHN SOLOMON - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Vice President Dick Cheney is not the unidentified source who told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward about the CIA status of the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, a person familiar with the investigation said Thursday.
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Bush urges China to grant more freedoms
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| President Bush prodded China on Wednesday to grant more political freedom to its 1.3 billion people and held up archrival Taiwan as a society that successfully moved from repression to democracy as it opened its economy.
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Israelis, Palestinians OK Gaza deal
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's Ravi Nessman - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Israel and the Palestinians, under strong U.S. pressure, reached an agreement Tuesday to open Gaza's borders starting Nov. 25, a step vital to turning the economically crippled territory into a success in the wake of Israel's withdrawal.
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Al-Zarqawi setting sights beyond Iraq
Sunday, November 13, 2005
AP's PAUL GARWOOD - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is on the move, or at least that's the message he wants to send.
With Wednesday's attacks in his birthplace of Jordan, the al-Qaida in Iraq chief signaled he has the capacity and desire to export his suicide-bombing campaign outside Iraq's borders.
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New dams said to destroy water sources
Sunday, November 13, 2005
AP's SAM CAGE - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| New dams intended to provide cheaper power and support irrigation systems are destroying important water sources and causing economic disruption, a leading environmental group said in a report released Monday.
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Poll: Most Americans doubt Bush's honesty
Friday, November 11, 2005
AP's Will Lester - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Most Americans say they aren't impressed by the ethics and honesty of the Bush administration, already under scrutiny for its justifications for an unpopular war in Iraq and its role in the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
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Second lawyer in Saddam trial assassinated
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Three masked gunmen in a speeding Opel assassinated a second lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial Tuesday, casting doubt on Iraq's ability to try the case and leading a prominent war crimes prosecutor to urge moving the proceedings to another Arab country.
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Bush acknowledges disagreements with Japan
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
AP's JENNIFER LOVEN - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| President Bush acknowledged Tuesday that a new agreement to realign America's military presence in Japan isn't welcomed by many on Okinawa, where many U.S. troops are based, but said the two governments negotiated the best plan they could.
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France to impose curfews to quell rioting
Monday, November 7, 2005
AP's JOCELYN GECKER - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
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Chirac vows arrests and trials in riots
Sunday, November 6, 2005
AP's ELAINE GANLEY - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| French President Jacques Chirac on Sunday promised arrests, trials and punishment for those sowing "violence or fear" across France - as the urban unrest that has triggered attacks on vehicles, nursery schools and other targets hit central Paris for the first time.
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