US President George Bush has strongly backed Turkey’s efforts to join the European Union.
He expressed his support during talks at the White House with the leader of Turkey’s ruling party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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[Is Blair acting like a lapdog again? The story above might have somehting to doi with it-ed]

BRUSSELS: Tony Blair was highlighting the importance of working with Turkey at today’s EU summit.
The European Council meeting in Brussels is poised to ratify a move to partially suspend negotiations with Ankara over its bid to join the [...]

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MOVES to push UK clocks forward by two hours in the summer time instead of just one are set to be debated in the House of Lords.
Lord Tanlow’s new Bill will go before peers in the House on Friday.
It is the latest attempt to bring in proposals to shift to Central European Time and provide [...]

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Public health advice for people travelling to countries that have been affected by bird flu has been published by the Department of Health.
The UK has seen no cases of the deadly H5N1 virus in poultry or wild birds.
But birds in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and South East Asia have [...]

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The European Central Bank has raised its key interest rate to 2.5%, in response to a strengthening eurozone economy and fears of growing inflation.
The quarter-point rise from 2.25% is the second in four months, after the bank had held rates steady at 2% for more than two years.
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[The majority of athletes at any games are blacks so why don't we have some white sprinters in the line ups? I was just waiting for someone to moan and cry 'racism' about the winter games.-ed]
HBO’s Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics ‘Look Like a GOP Convention’

There were some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel [...]

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A controversial European human rights programme is being imposed on Britain by the back door, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
European Commission documents show that all new proposed legislation from Brussels will incorporate the Charter of Fundamental Rights - despite it having been rejected by voters. Last night Liam Fox, the shadow foreign secretary, wrote to [...]

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Protestant-Catholic rivalries fester as Ireland is swamped by non-Whites
Unrest has continued in Northern Ireland for nearly a week after ‘loyalist’ Protestant marchers clashed with police September 10, leaving dozens of cops and ‘loyalists’ injured. Two paramilitary organizations, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) were said to have fired live rounds at [...]

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Christians can contribute vitally to the building of Europe, and join their efforts to those of other Europeans of good will, says the Vatican secretary for relations with states. Such a joint effort, contends Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, could overcome the temptation to relegate the faith to the private sphere. [...]
“It is not surprising, therefore,” [...]

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“Down with America” is the title of a recent song by the popular Belgian musician Raymond van het Groenewoud. Written in Dutch and published by EMI , “Weg met Amerika” (”Down with America”) will be available in record shops as of next week, and was played on Belgian state radio last Thursday and Friday. [...]

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Prosecutors mounting the war crimes case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic this week set about cross-examining the latest witness to testify in his defence, radical Serb nationalist Vojislav Seselj… When it came to the cross-examination, prosecutor Geoffrey Nice had no shortage of topics to raise [...]
Building on this approach, he asked Seselj to confirm [...]

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