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Rantburg (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
A senior State Department official said Monday that the U.S. agenda for talks with North Korea will be limited to determining whether Pyongyang is willing to return to Chinese-sponsored talks on its nuclear program and to reaffirm its 2005 agreement in principle to disarm. U.S. envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth will arrive in Pyongyang on Tuesday for the highest-level bilateral...
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Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... that worry some Bushies, especially the hawks. It’s Blix himself. “Blix is awful,” says a top State Department official. As a result of reporting like this, Lizza was punished with one of the most coveted jobs in journalism: he now writes for The New Yorker
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
On June 10, 2006, the Pentagon announced that three prisoners held at Guantánamo’s Camp Delta had committed suicide. But senior Bush Administration officials quickly went one step further: violating the normal rules of decorum, they unleashed intense verbal abuse against the deceased. Prison commander Rear Admiral Harry Harris said, “This was not an act of desperation,...
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Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
An anonymous US State Department official was cited by The Voice of America as informing on the delayed talks but gave no reason. The first round of negotiations took place last July.
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Babylon & Beyond (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... the newly-formed consensus government rankled its allies in Washington when it adopted a policy statement that repeated the language of a previous mission statement legitimizing the weapons of Hezbollah. The final draft of the Cabinet ministers' statement affirms the right of "Lebanon, its government, its people, its army and its resistance" to liberate all Lebanese territory....
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Highly anticipated immigration negotiations between Cuba and the United States in Havana have been pushed back from this month to February at the communist island's request because of scheduling concerns, a State Department official said Friday.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Highly anticipated immigration negotiations between Cuba and the United States in Havana have been pushed back from this month to February at the communist island's request because of scheduling concerns, a State Department official said Friday.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Highly anticipated immigration negotiations between Cuba and the United States in Havana have been pushed back from this month to February at the communist island's request because of scheduling concerns, a State Department official said Friday.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Highly anticipated immigration negotiations between Cuba and the United States in Havana have been pushed back from this month to February at the communist island's request because of scheduling concerns, a State Department official said Friday.
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Long-planned talks on Cuban migration to the United States have been delayed until February, a State Department official said Thursday, offering no explanation for the postponement.
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OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... hostage taking, or the provision of material support or resources” for terrorism to sue the states responsible for those acts. There are important qualifications to the exception — the act must have been committed by an official of the state acting within the scope of official duty, and the state must have been either designated as a state sponsor...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long-planned talks on Cuban migration to the United States have been delayed by two months until February, a State Department official said on Thursday, offering no explanation for the postponement.
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
By Maria Armental By Michael P. McKinney Journal Staff Writer LINCOLN, R.I. -- Lincoln school officials are abandoning a proposal to extend kindergarten instruction to full-day after learning the state is projecting to cut state aid to the district. However, the district will move forward with plans to reconfigure elementary schools under a "neighborhood approach"...
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Jesus Lives! (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
From Washington Times The United States is about to lose a key arms-control tool from the closing days of the Cold War — the right to station American observers in Russia to count the long-range missiles leaving its assembly line. The end of full-time, on-site access will likely ignite complaints in Congress, with insiders from both parties [...]
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Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are built—to vacate premises. “U.S. and Russian officials signed on Oct. 20 a series of documents, which establish the procedures to be followed for the completion of U.S. monitoring activities at the Russian ICBM production facility at Votkinsk,” a US State Department official confirmed. Votkinsk’s reciprocal...