US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in a news conference Saturday with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw at the end of a UK visit. In response to questions on when Guantanamo might be closed, she insisted that:the United States doesn't desire to keep Guantanamo in being any [...]

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In a speech in Los Angeles on Friday, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that the US Department of Justice, through its anti-gang initiative, will give out $15 million in grants to six areas to help fund their fight against gang violence. The eligible areas are Los Angeles, California; Tampa, Florida; Cleveland, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; [...]

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The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled Friday that Bosnia's main ethnic groups dominating the country's two semi-autonomous regions must discontinue use of ethnic symbols, including anthems, flags, and coats of arms adopted after the 1992-95 Bosnian war, because they were discriminatory. Serbs in the Republic of Srpska and Muslims and Croats in the [...]

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President Bush on Friday completed a two-day summit in Cancun with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper by once again calling on the US Congress to pass immigration reform legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States as temporary workers. Earlier this week the Senate Judiciary Committee [...]

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Pascale Duparc Portier : "As expected, French President Jacques Chirac delivered a much-awaited televised public address on the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) last night, Friday, 31 March 2006. He formally confirmed the promulgation of the Statute on the equality of opportunities (loi sur l'égalité des chances) containing the controversial article on the [...]

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