"The WAR on error"
The year 2006 could rightly be called the German secret service's annus horribilis. In the last 12 months, Germany's Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) has been investigated for its alleged roles in the Iraq war, extraordinary rendition and torture of terrorist suspects, and the spying on and employment of German journalists at home and abroad. Now, one of the secret services overseers has issued a warning that the German intelligence apparatus is out of control and that the Parliamentary Control Committee, the government body which supervises the BND, has no idea what is going on.
Chancellor Merkel is facing a growing rebellion inside her conservative bloc after several prominent regional leaders said that they could no longer support health reforms that had been billed as the flagship project of her administration. The rebellion is being led by conservative leaders from the states of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.
Angela Merkel is the sort of politician who regards convictions and principles as an obstacle to her political work. Her pronouncements are chosen to suit the most immediate political requirements and whatever is called for to advance her own personal career.
Germany has so far paid out almost $6 billion to people forced to work for the Nazis during World War II, the chiefs of a compensation fund have announced.
The EU must make clear that its policies protect the interest of all its people and that it is strong and unified in enforcing them.
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European Council urges Israel to release detained Hamas ministers alongside release of abducted IDF soldier Shalit; ‘Israel must put an end to all activities which are contrary to international law, including settlement activities and construction of barrier on Palestinian land.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah president of the Palestinian Authority, has announced that he will dissolve the recently elected parliament and call new presidential and parliamentary elections. The move is an unconstitutional attempt to unseat the Hamas-led government that has been engineered by the United States and Israel. It threatens to precipitate a full-scale civil war.
Arms and foreign fighters flooded into the Somali capital Sunday and a call to jihad filled mosques as Mogadishu braced for an impending war. The powerful Somali Islamic Courts Council, which seized much of the south of the country, has promised to launch a holy war Tuesday unless troops from neighboring Ethiopia leave.
The European Union has expressed its "deepest concern" about the deteriorating security situation in Somalia and the risk of an imminent war in the African country.
Fears of war between Somalia's Islamists and Ethiopia are rising as a rift develops between Western powers trying to avert it.
Iran's moderate former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has won election to Iran's powerful clerical body, the Assembly of Experts.
Iranians have dealt a blow to President Ahmadinejad’s hardline Government, by thwarting his allies in municipal and clerical elections.
The dollar fell against the yen on speculation a report today will show the U.S. current-account deficit widened to a record on a flood of imports from China. The euro received support from an announcement by Iran, the world's 4th-largest oil exporter. The country will calculate fuel and other overseas revenues in euros rather than dollars, to reduce its dependence on the U.S. currency, the Oil Ministry said.
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