The Serb minority in Kosovo Wednesday objected to a self-rule plan proposed by the province's Albanian leaders, asking for more concessions. The Serbs are demanding decentralized power and bigger self-governing areas in what is now a UN protectorate . One Serb leader called the latest plan "improved compared to the original version, but insufficiently compared [...]

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In a joint statement issued Wednesday, Unocal and Chevron announced early results from a vote of a majority of Unocal shareholders that favored acceptance of a Chevron offer of $69 per share. The approval of the nearly $18 billion purchase comes after months of negotiations and contentious competition from China National Offshore Oil Company Ltd. [...]

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President Bush signed a 6-year, $286.4 billion highway bill on Wednesday, ending a long debate between Congress and the White House and putting into place a permanent highway bill for the first time since September 2003. The old bill was extended six times as both sides debated spending amounts and special projects; the Senate originally [...]

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A Canadian Federal Court judge has ruled that intelligence authorities must stop interrogating Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . Justice Konrad von Finckenstein's decision also slammed Canadian counterterrorism agents for gathering information at a place where he claims Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been violated. Khadr has admitted killing a US medic while [...]

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