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Wednesday, 2 June 2010
U.S. high court may have a role in UN harassment case
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Bowing out
Topic: xian wan, japan By Biodun Iginla and Xian Wan, BBC News and the Economist's Senior News Analysts Jun 2nd 2010, 9:46 by TOKYO FOR months Yukio Hatoyama’s tenure as prime minister has looked in doubt. But his decision on June 2nd to resign and take down Ichiro Ozawa, his equally powerful sidekick, with him has shocked Japan’s political establishment. It throws the country’s politics into disarray just when it is in the midst of a democratic upheaval and faces pressing economic problems that cry out for strong leadership.
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Friday, 30 April 2010
Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparks new US drilling ban
Topic: gulf oil spill, suzanne gould, b
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China: Diplomat beaten, injured by Houston police
Topic: chinese dipolomat, houston polic DALLAS – Three Houston police officers have been restricted to desk duty after they followed a Chinese diplomat into the parking garage of the Chinese Consulate, arrested the man and injured him, the Houston mayor said. Mayor Annise Parker said in a statement that the officers' duties will remain limited pending an investigation into how Chinese diplomat Yu Boren was injured last Saturday. Officials in China's Foreign Ministry released a statement Friday saying police harassed and beat a deputy consul-general while he was driving to the consulate. The statement said a family member also was involved, but did not say if that person was injured. The consulate in Houston did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press. Houston police and the U.S. State Department are investigating the incident. "China urges the U.S. ... to quickly investigate the details of this incident and to look into the persons responsible to ensure that the Chinese diplomatic and consulate personnel and premises are not violated," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement. "The Chinese Foreign Ministry, the Chinese Embassy and the Houston consulate have already made solemn exchanges with the U.S. side." Under international practice, the premises of foreign embassies and consulates are outside the jurisdiction of local law enforcement, and diplomats have legal immunity. Houston police tried to stop a car that was missing a license plate, CBS News reported. When the car didn't stop, they pursued it into a garage. Police handcuffed and arrested the driver, injuring him, the report said. CBS News identified the official as Ben Ren Yu. The Houston consulate website lists a deputy consul-general, Yu Boren. The officers said they were unaware they had pursued the diplomat into the Chinese Consulate's parking garage, Parker said. The U.S. State Department was taking the matter very seriously and the findings of the investigation will be shared with China "as soon as appropriate," said Susan Stevenson, spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. A Houston police spokesman declined to comment. The police force did not immediately respond to a request for a copy of the offense report, which typically is not released while an incident remains under investigation. U.S.-China relations only recently emerged from a tense period aggravated by spats over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, trade and China's currency policy. Comments on at least two major Internet portals had apparently been deleted, an indication the case was considered sensitive, perhaps because of its impact on U.S.-China ties. Houston's police chief has ordered officers to receive a list of addresses for every consulate in the city. "This is important as Houston has the third-largest number of consulates in the country," Parker said. "We cherish our international residents and want to assure them they are welcome in our city." ___
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Two NY men charged with aiding al Qaeda
Topic: al-qaeda, new york city, suzanne NEW YORK – Two New York men have been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network that included providing computer expertise and buying seven watches online for the group, prosecutors said on Friday. Wesam El-Hanafi, 33, who was born and lived in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and Sabirhan Hasanoff, 34, a dual U.S. and Australian citizen who also lived in Brooklyn, were accused of performing tasks for al Qaeda in New York, according to a U.S. District Court indictment. Prosecutors did not elaborate on tasks the men performed or the purpose of the Casio watches they purchased. "Wesam El-Hanafi and Sabirhan Hasanoff conspired to modernize al Qaeda by providing computer systems expertise and other goods and services," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. "These two New Yorkers, who allegedly pledged allegiance to al Qaeda, will now be held to account." Prosecutors declined to say when and where El-Hanafi and Hasanoff were arrested. They were due to appear in federal court in Virginia on Friday and expected to be moved to New York to appear in federal court there. They face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted. Al Qaeda is blamed for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York that killed almost 3,000 people when hijacked airliners destroyed the twin towers. Another hijacked plane hit the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth was brought down in a Pennsylvania field. The arrests of El-Hanafi and Hasanoff come just a week after a second man pleaded guilty in a separate plot to bomb New York City subways, which U.S. authorities called the most serious threat to the city since September 11. El-Hanafi is accused of traveling to Yemen in 2008 and meeting with al Qaeda members, discussing operational security matters and accepting tasks to perform for the group. Several months later El-Hanafi accepted an oath of allegiance from a third, unidentified, man and also purchased a subscription for a software program that allowed him to communicate securely with others over the Internet, according to prosecutors. El-Hanafi told the unnamed man to carry out various tasks for al Qaeda, while Hasanoff told the man not to use his U.S. passport when traveling because fewer immigration stamps would make it more valuable to al Qaeda, prosecutors said. (Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Eric Beech)
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France24 Breaking News---Former French minister gets one-year suspended sentence for corruption
Topic: france24, bbc news, biodun iginl
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Thursday, 29 April 2010
Politics this week from th e Economist form Biodun Iginla, BBC News and the Economist
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Nigerian senator Sani denies marrying girl of 13
Topic: nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, toku
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Government sends skimmers, other gear to oil spill
Topic: gulf oil spill, suzanne gould, b VENICE, La. – The government has sent skimmers, booms and other resources to clean up a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that's become far worse than initially thought and threatens the fragile marshlands along the shore, a Coast Guard official said Thursday. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Sally Brice-O'Hara said at the White House that the government's priority was to support the oil company BP PLC in employing booms, skimmers, chemical dispersants and controlled burns to fight the oil surging from the seabed. An executive for BP PLC, which operated the oil rig that exploded and sank last week, said earlier in the day on NBC's "Today" that the company would welcome help from the U.S. military. "We'll take help from anyone," said Doug Suttles, chief operating officer for BP Exploration and Production. The Coast Guard has urged the company to formally request more resources from the Defense Department. President Barack Obama has dispatched Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson had been dispatched to help with the spill. But time may be running out: Oil from the spill had crept to within 12 miles of the coast, and it could reach shore as soon as Friday. A third leak was discovered, which government officials said is spewing five times as much oil into the water as originally estimated — about 5,000 barrels a day coming from the blown-out well 40 miles offshore. Suttles had initially disputed the government's estimate, and that the company was unable to handle the operation to contain it. But early Thursday, he acknowledged on "Today" that the leak may be as bad as the government says. He said there was no way to measure the flow at the seabed and estimates have to come from how much oil makes it to the surface. If the well cannot be closed, almost 100,000 barrels of oil, or 4.2 million gallons, could spill into the Gulf before crews can drill a relief well to alleviate the pressure. By comparison, the Exxon Valdez, the worst oil spill in U.S. history, leaked 11 million gallons into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. As dawn broke Thursday in the oil industry hub of Venice, about 75 miles from New Orleans and not far from the mouth of the Mississippi River, crews loaded an orange oil boom aboard a supply boat at Bud's Boat Launch. There, local officials expressed frustration with the pace of the government's response and the communication they were getting from the Coast Guard and BP officials. "We're not doing everything we can do," said Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, which straddles the Mississippi River at the tip of Louisiana.
"Give us the worst-case scenario. How far inland is this supposed to go?" Nungesser said. He has suggested enlisting the local fishing fleet to spread booms to halt the oil, which threatens some of the nation's most fertile seafood grounds. There's a growing tension in towns like Port Sulphur and Empire along Louisiana 23, which runs south of New Orleans along the Mississippi River into prime oyster and shrimping waters. Companies like Chevron and ConocoPhillips have facilities nearby, and some are hesisitant to criticize BP or the federal government, knowing the oil industry is as much a staple here as the fishermen. "I don't think there's a lot of blame going around here, people are just cocerned about their livlihoods," said Sullivan Vullo, who owns La Casa Cafe in Port Sulphur. Louisiana has opened a special shrimp season along parts of the coast so shrimpers can harvest the profitable white shrimp before the spill has an effect. The spill has moved steadily toward the mouth of the Mississippi River and the wetland areas east of it, home to hundreds of species of wildlife and near some rich oyster grounds. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday declared a state of emergency so officials could begin preparing for the oil's impact. His declaration says at least 10 wildlife management areas and refuges in his state and neighboring Mississippi are in the oil plume's path. It also notes that billions of dollars have been invested in coastal restoration projects that may be at risk. A federal class-action lawsuit was filed late Wednesday over the oil spill on behalf of two commercial shrimpers from Louisiana, Acy J. Cooper Jr. and Ronnie Louis Anderson. The suit seeks at least $5 million in compensatory damages plus an unspecified amount of punitive damages against Transocean, BP, Halliburton Energy Services Inc. and Cameron International Corp. Jim Klick, a lawyer for Cooper and Anderson, said the oil spill already is disrupting the commercial shrimping industry. "They should be preparing themselves for the upcoming shrimp season," he said. "Now they're very much concerned that the whole shrimp season is out." Mike Brewer, 40, who lost his oil spill response company in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina nearly five years ago, said the area was accustomed to the occassional minor spill. But he feared the scale of the escaping oil was beyond the capacity of existing resources. "You're pumping out a massive amount of oil. There is no way to stop it," he said. The rig Deepwater Horizon sank a week ago after exploding two days earlier. Of its crew of 126, 11 are missing and presumed dead. The rig was owned by Transocean Ltd. and operated by BP. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said BP is responsible for bringing resources to shut off the flow and clean up the spill. "It has become clear after several unsuccessful attempts to determine the cause" that agencies must supplement what's being done by the company, she said. A fleet of boats working under an oil industry consortium has been using booms to corral and then skim oil from the surface. Landry said a controlled test to burn the leaking oil was successful late Wednesday afternoon. BP was to set more fires after the test, but as night fell, there were no more burns. None were planned for Thursday as sea conditions deteriorated. The decision to burn some of the oil came after crews operating submersible robots failed to activate a shut-off device that would halt the flow of oil on the sea bottom 5,000 feet below. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was briefed Thursday morning on the issue, said his spokesman, Capt. John Kirby. But Kirby said the Defense Department has received no request for help, nor is it doing any detailed planning for any mission on the oil spill. President Barack Obama has directed officials to aggressively confront the spill, but the cost of the cleanup will fall on BP, spokesman Nick Shapiro said. Back in Venice, some fishermen desperate to clear the oil so they can work volunteered to help with cleanup operations, even if their boats weren't adequately outfitted. Hai Huynh, 39, and his 22-year-old deck hand Robert Huynh were ready to help however they could even though the Coast Guard will only allow vessels with lifeboats to help with carrying oil booms to contain the spill. "We want to go out and help clean up the oil," Robert Huynh said aboard their freshly painted steel-hulled shrimp boat, the Miss Kimberly. "We're ready." ___ Associated Press writers Janet McConnaughey, Kevin McGill Michael Kunzelman and Brett Martel in New Orleans, Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge and Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Miss., contributed to this report.
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