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Murdoch set to back Blair for a place in his boardroom

Fox TV owner and media magnate Rupert Murdoch is expected to offer Tony Blair a senior role in his News Corporation empire when he stands down as Prime Minister.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14265.htm

As they set out a vague plan for bringing a cessation of violence in the Israel-Lebanon conflict at a joint press conference in the White House, they repeatedly referred to the threat posed by Iran and Syria, and their links with Hizbullah.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1832856,00.html


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Cabinet ministers warned that Mr Blair's refusal to stand up to Mr Bush would hasten his own exit from power.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1202887.ece


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With one in five of Lebanon's 3.8 million population homeless and hostilities continuing, WFP has launched a three-month US$8.9 million emergency operation to feed over 300,000 people, including 50,000 in Syria.

http://www.wfp.org/english/?ModuleID=137&Key=2174


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Aid workers are finding it impossible to get medical supplies and food safely to isolated villages in southern Lebanon due to the Israeli bombardment, aid agencies said on Friday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28781822.htm



MSF: Aid corridors 'an illusion'

An international medical charity has said that Israel's promised humanitarian aid corridors in south Lebanon are an illusion and that rockets have landed close to its teams two days in a row.

http://tinyurl.com/s8sa3


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A House of Lords committee has called for Prime Minister Tony Blair to be stripped of his power to send Britain to war.

http://tinyurl.com/qg6aj


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Tony Blair flies to California this week to address the annual get-together of News Corporation - led by one Rupert Murdoch. From Europe to broadcasting, terrorism to the direction of the nation, what is the truth about one of the most intriguing relationships in British public life?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1827023,00.html


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The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan has described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding problems caused by local corruption. The stark warning came from Lieutenant General David Richards, head of Nato's international security force in Afghanistan, who warned that western forces there were short of equipment and were "running out of time".

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072306D.shtml

An Afghan government inquiry found that a recent U.S.-led coalition bombing in southern Afghanistan killed 10 civilians and wounded 27, an official said Thursday. But a U.S. official disputed those figures.

http://tinyurl.com/hb3rr


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Melbourne Herald Sun [Australia]

07/14/06

British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a police interrogation over what he knew about the cash-for-peerages scandal. The scandal yesterday threatened to claim its biggest victim -- his chief fundraiser and trusted confidant Lord Michael Levy. ... Levy, who was not charged, was arrested and interrogated over allegations that the cash-strapped Labour Party traded peerages and other honours in exchange for donations. The scandal not only threatens the Government but, some say, leads all the way to the Prime Minister...

http://tinyurl.com/hbe96


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's top fundraiser, Lord Levy, was arrested Wednesday in an investigation into whether Labour party leaders improperly nominated financial backers for seats in the House of Lords, Levy's spokesman said.

http://tinyurl.com/hocdn


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President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Thursday into reported civilian casualties from a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in a southern town this week, a senior official said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060713/ap_on_re_as/afghan_attack_inquiry


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Details of the still-undisclosed memo began to leak out, first in a Daily Mirror article reporting that during the Bush-Blair conversation the president, shockingly, had suggested that allied forces should bomb the Arab television network Al Jazeera.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/britain.php


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Green Reaction to UK Nuclear Power Plan: Environmentalists Express Dismay at 'a Huge Mistake'
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0712-01.htm

Don’t Be Fooled: Nuclear Power Kills
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/29-0



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nuclear+power
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=John+LaForge

International Herald Tribune [France]

07/11/06

Britain will send 900 more soldiers to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, where its forces are facing intense resistance from resurgent Taliban loyalists, the defense secretary, Des Browne, said Monday. Also Monday, officials said a U.S. warplane had dropped four 500-pound, or 225-kilogram, bombs on a militants' hideout in Uruzgan Province, also in the south, killing more than 40 suspected members of the Taliban. One Afghan soldier was killed and three members of the U.S.-led coalition forces were wounded in fighting Monday in Uruzgan. Heavy clashes in neighboring Kandahar Province over the weekend left 20 militants and a Canadian soldier dead...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/news/brits.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mr Murray has posted full texts of all passages the Foreign Office ordered deleted from the book version of Murder in Samarkand, the former Tashkent ambassador's account of alleged British complicity in torture by the despotic Uzbekistan regime.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1817625,00.html


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