Protesters
disrupt Bush's July 4th address at Monticello President Bush delivered a July 4th address
before a naturalization ceremony for new citizens at Thomas Jefferson's
home of Monticello that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters who
called out "war criminal" and "impeach Bush."
Iran:
War or Privatization: All Out War or "Economic Conquest"? Tehran is to allow foreign investors, in what
might be interpreted as an overture to the West, to acquire full ownership
of Iran's State enterprises in the context of a far-reaching "free
market" style privatization program.
Business
to back carbon trading BIG business will today pledge full support
for an emissions trading scheme but it will warn Kevin Rudd against
granting exemptions from the scheme for crude political reasons.
Google
Faces More Privacy Woes After YouTube Ruling Google Inc., owner of the YouTube video-sharing
Web site, may be exposed to heightened privacy complaints from Internet
users after a U.S. judge ordered it to give Viacom Inc. a database about
online viewers.
Iran
says offers talks without nuclear freeze Iran is ready to negotiate with world powers
on its nuclear programme but without suspending its controversial uranium
enrichment work, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
US
eyes plan to empty Guantanamo prison: report The US government is developing a "long-range
plan" to empty its war-on-terror prison at its naval base in Guantanamo,
Cuba, and seeking help on what to do with inmates who won't be tried,
The Washington Post reported Friday.
NAFTA
safe, U.S. envoy says U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins hosted his last
Independence Day shindig in Canada stating even a Democratic president,
if elected, will see the benefits of NAFTA and won't attempt to renegotiate
it.
Secretive
Agency Under the Spotlight Soon after accepting the post of CIA director
two years ago, Michael V. Hayden set an unusual goal for his scandal-beset
agency: virtual invisibility.
