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WORLD NEWS

Hizbollah Flies Drone Over Northern Israel Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas flew an unmanned surveillance drone over northern Israel on Monday, the group and the Israeli army said.   Iraq president endorses US troop presence President George Bush hosts Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as U.S.-Israeli relations have dropped to their lowest point in years. Sharon Dismisses Bush Warning Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon brushed off a warning from President Bush not to allow further West Bank settlement growth, indicating Israel would continue to solidify its hold on areas it considers of strategic importance. Ban Knives A man wielding a knife seized four children from a bus and was holding them in a cellar in a western German town on Tuesday, police said. Protesters throw eggs at Blair A Labour rally at Oldham has seen Fathers 4 Justice protesters throw eggs at the prime minister. Chicagoan's protest turns into frenzy A scrum of more than 50 reporters surrounded Blaine, founder of the support group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, who had come to the Vatican to protest former Boston Cardinal Bernard Law's celebration of a requiem mass honoring Pope John Paul II on Monday evening. Recent News: Former FSB General, Wife Shot Dead in Moscow Fall in EU population forecast by 2050 Hariri murder comes under fresh scrutiny from UN special team Bush Booed At Pope's Funeral

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ECONOMY

US trade deficit hits fresh high The US trade deficit has widened to a new high as the world's largest economy consumed record imports of consumer goods and industrial materials. US appears to have fought war for oil and lost it [A] recent report that oil prices have reached an all-time nominal high and that Goldman Sachs has suggested the possibility of a "super spike" in prices to as high as $105 per barrel should be of no surprise to anyone who has studied the informed opinions of US energy experts in the period leading up to the invasion of Iraq. US monthly trade gap widens to $61bn The US trade deficit widened to a record $61bn in February, up $2.5bn from January’s upward revised $58.5bn deficit, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Recent News: Wages Lagging Behind Prices Crude Prices Slip, OPEC to Increase Output

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SECOND AMENDMENT

Dean: Guns aren't an issue "I was a governor who balanced eight budgets in a row, which is eight more than the Republicans, and I was a governor who was endorsed every year by the National Rifle Association." Recent News: Florida Politicians Back Use of Deadly Force

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WORLD WAR III

India, China and Russia to create new alliance to challenge USA's supremacy For the time being it is not known if Russia is going to have at least something to do with the "strategic partnership" of India and China. It is not ruled out, though, that Beijing and Delhi decided to do without Moscow's participation. Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran If the duly reelected American government decides to bomb Iran – or green lights Israel to do it, which is morally indistinguishable – these men will put we the people in the position of having no moral defense against Islamic terrorism. Some leftists – most crassly Ward Churchill – made something like this point after 9/11. That was overblown rhetoric; and the reference to "little Eichmanns" at Cantor-Fitzgerald was a statement of moral idiocy. Recent News: Anti-Japanese Protesters March in China

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