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AUSTRALIA
RUSHES ARMY REINFORCEMENTS TO EAST TIMOR
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DILI, East Timor: Australia rushed troop reinforcements into East Timor
on Tuesday to help enforce a security clampdown a day after separate
assassination attempts on President José Ramos-Horta and
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão prompted fears of a resurgence
of unrest. Following the attacks, which left Ramos-Horta, co-winner of
the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, in "extremely serious" condition with
gunshot wounds, East Timor's Parliament agreed to impose a state of
emergency and restrict civil freedoms. The East Timorese police and
soldiers, backed by United Nations forces, erected roadblocks and
searched all vehicles entering or leaving the capital, Dili, as the
hunt continued for renegade East Timorese soldiers blamed for the
attacks. - IHT.com
DANISH
POLICE ARREST 3 IN PLOT TO ASSASSINATE CARTOONIST - COPENHAGEN,
Denmark (AP) - Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people
suspected of plotting a cartoonist's assassination for his depiction of
the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims
two years ago. Three of Denmark's largest newspapers said they would
reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated
by fanatics. "That shows that terror is not only despicable, but also
at the end powerless," Politiken's chief editor, Toeger Seidenfaden,
said. It was one of 12 Muhammad cartoons published in 2005 and then
again in 2006 that led to protests in Muslim countries. Investigators
said they foiled the plot in its early stages in a pre- dawn raid in
the western Denmark city of Aarhus. The police intelligence agency,
PET, said two Tunisians and a Danish citizen of Moroccan origin were
arrested. - Breitbart.com
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ARIZONA SEEING FLIGHT OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS -
PHOENIX — The signs of flight among Latino immigrants here
are multiple: Families moving out of apartment complexes, schools
reporting enrollment drops, business owners complaining about fewer
clients. The Arizona economy, heavily dependent on growth and a Latino
work force, has been slowing for months. Meanwhile, the state has
enacted one of the country’s toughest laws to punish
employers who hire illegal immigrants, and the county sheriff here in
Phoenix has been enforcing federal immigration laws by rounding up
people living here illegally. State Representative Russell K. Pearce, a
Republican from Mesa takes reports of unauthorized workers leaving as a
sign of success. An estimated one in 10 workers in Arizona are Hispanic
immigrants, both legal and illegal, twice the national average.
“The desired effect was, we don’t have the red
carpet out for illegal aliens,” Mr. Pearce said, adding that
while “most of these are good people” they are a
“tremendous burden” on public services. - NYTimes.com
NAVY
PLANES SCRAMBLE AS RUSSIAN BOMBER BUZZES USS NIMITZ AIRCRAFT CARRIER
TWICE - U.S.
fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that
buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the
weekend, The Associated Press has learned. A U.S. military official
says that one Russian Tupolev 95 flew directly over the aircraft
carrier USS Nimitz twice, at a low altitude of about 2,000 feet, while
another bomber circled about 58 miles out. The official was speaking on
condition of anonymity because the reports on the flights were
classified as secret. The Saturday incident, which never escalated
beyond the flyover, comes amid heightened tensions between the United
States and Russia over U.S. plans for a missile defense system based in
Poland and the Czech Republic. - ABCNews.com
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GM POSTS BIGGEST ANNUAL US AUTO LOSS - DETROIT
(AP) -- General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on
Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and
said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers
in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help. The earnings
report and buyout offer came as GM struggles to turn around its North
American business as the economy weakens. - Biz.Yahoo.com
RUSSIAN
PRESIDENT PUTIN THREATENS TO AIM NUKES AT UKRAINE - Russia
May Target Nuke Missiles On Ukraine - Russia has said it may target its
missiles at Ukraine if its neighbour joins Nato and accepts the
deployment of the US missile defence shield. Russian President Vladimir
Putin made the comments in Moscow alongside Ukraine's President, Viktor
Yushchenko. Mr Putin has condemned US plans to include Poland and the
Czech Republic in its missile defence shield. - BBC.co.uk
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