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RUSSIA/SYRIA/IRAN
Olmert meets Medvedev in bid to dissuade arming of Syria, Iran
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Monday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin, the first tete-a-tete between the two leaders. Olmert seeks to persuade Medvedev not to sell weapons to Iran and Syria, but with little chance of success, diplomatic sources said.
Iran creates international panic after claiming US plane violated airspace
An Iranian news agency sparked fears of an international standoff and left the Pentagon scrambling to identify its planes today after it reported that a US jet had strayed into its territory and been forced to land.
WORLD OIL SUPPLIES
Gulf states planning alternative oil routes in the event of Iran War
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates has been discussing with other Gulf Cooperation Council states routes that would be out of range of Iranian short-range missiles fired toward the Gulf. Officials said the UAE could expand oil export terminals on its east coast to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, located along the Iranian coast. "The GCC is united in making sure that oil and gas supplies will not be interrupted," UAE economic analyst Mohammed Al Asoumi said..
WORLD FINANCIAL MARKETS
Bank shares plummet and Icesave deposits frozen
The global financial crisis wiped billions of pounds from the value of British banks today as 300,000 British savers were blocked from accessing their money in the Icelandic bank Icesave after it collapsed.
IMF says rapid and decisive global action needed to stem crisis
Decisive and aggressive action is needed from the world’s leading economies to head off the looming danger that the escalating financial crisis will spark a deep and severe global downturn, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today.
"OBAMA-NATION" AUTHOR HELD IN NAIROBI
Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya
... Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was this morning being held after failing to reckon with Obamamania. He had been planning to launch his book, entitled The Obama Nation Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, before travelling to one of Nairobi’s slums to donate money to the Senator’s half-brother George, who was found living in squalid conditions two months ago.
HEALTH
S.Africa on alert after fatal bleeding sickness
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African health authorities are on high alert after three people died in hospital from an unknown, infectious disease similar to hemorrhagic fever, health officials said.
Millions to die in China from lung disease: report
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tens of millions of people will die from respiratory illness and lung cancer over the next 25 years in China if nothing is done to reduce smoking and fuel burning indoors, scientists warned.
In an article published in The Lancet, they predicted 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 18 million deaths from lung cancer between 2003 and 2033 from smoking and biomass burning at home.
ANCIENT ISRAEL
Burial artifact inscribed 'Son of High Priest' found near West Bank fence route
Israeli archaeologists working along the proposed route of the West Bank fence north of Jerusalem have unearthed part of a sarcophagus cover with the inscription "son of the High Priest" and dating to the time of Jesus and the Second Temple, the Israel Antiquities Authority said.
RELIGION
Church Leaders Pave Way for World's Largest Reformed Body
… This week’s historic gathering is being hosted and supported by the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, the largest Protestant denomination in the Netherlands. A member of both WARC and REC, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands is the result of a 2004 merger of the Netherlands Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. … A uniting General Council will be held in June 2010 in Grand Rapids, Mich., under the banner “Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
MARRIAGE REFORM
'Bride' and 'Groom' to be Restored to Calif. Marriage Forms (AP)
Olmert meets Medvedev in bid to dissuade arming of Syria, Iran
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Monday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin, the first tete-a-tete between the two leaders. Olmert seeks to persuade Medvedev not to sell weapons to Iran and Syria, but with little chance of success, diplomatic sources said.
Iran creates international panic after claiming US plane violated airspace
An Iranian news agency sparked fears of an international standoff and left the Pentagon scrambling to identify its planes today after it reported that a US jet had strayed into its territory and been forced to land.
WORLD OIL SUPPLIES
Gulf states planning alternative oil routes in the event of Iran War
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates has been discussing with other Gulf Cooperation Council states routes that would be out of range of Iranian short-range missiles fired toward the Gulf. Officials said the UAE could expand oil export terminals on its east coast to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, located along the Iranian coast. "The GCC is united in making sure that oil and gas supplies will not be interrupted," UAE economic analyst Mohammed Al Asoumi said..
WORLD FINANCIAL MARKETS
Bank shares plummet and Icesave deposits frozen
The global financial crisis wiped billions of pounds from the value of British banks today as 300,000 British savers were blocked from accessing their money in the Icelandic bank Icesave after it collapsed.
IMF says rapid and decisive global action needed to stem crisis
Decisive and aggressive action is needed from the world’s leading economies to head off the looming danger that the escalating financial crisis will spark a deep and severe global downturn, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today.
"OBAMA-NATION" AUTHOR HELD IN NAIROBI
Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya
... Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was this morning being held after failing to reckon with Obamamania. He had been planning to launch his book, entitled The Obama Nation Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, before travelling to one of Nairobi’s slums to donate money to the Senator’s half-brother George, who was found living in squalid conditions two months ago.
HEALTH
S.Africa on alert after fatal bleeding sickness
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African health authorities are on high alert after three people died in hospital from an unknown, infectious disease similar to hemorrhagic fever, health officials said.
Millions to die in China from lung disease: report
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tens of millions of people will die from respiratory illness and lung cancer over the next 25 years in China if nothing is done to reduce smoking and fuel burning indoors, scientists warned.
In an article published in The Lancet, they predicted 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 18 million deaths from lung cancer between 2003 and 2033 from smoking and biomass burning at home.
ANCIENT ISRAEL
Burial artifact inscribed 'Son of High Priest' found near West Bank fence route
Israeli archaeologists working along the proposed route of the West Bank fence north of Jerusalem have unearthed part of a sarcophagus cover with the inscription "son of the High Priest" and dating to the time of Jesus and the Second Temple, the Israel Antiquities Authority said.
RELIGION
Church Leaders Pave Way for World's Largest Reformed Body
… This week’s historic gathering is being hosted and supported by the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, the largest Protestant denomination in the Netherlands. A member of both WARC and REC, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands is the result of a 2004 merger of the Netherlands Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. … A uniting General Council will be held in June 2010 in Grand Rapids, Mich., under the banner “Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
MARRIAGE REFORM
'Bride' and 'Groom' to be Restored to Calif. Marriage Forms (AP)