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Taliban insurgents urged the international community and right groups to stop Afghan President Hamid Karzai approving the execution of about 100 prisoners whose death sentences were approved by the supreme court.
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George is determined to spend every one of his remaining 612 days in office making sure that the US is a global pariah:
UN-hosted talks on climate change have ended in deadlock.They were aimed at paving the way for the climate summit taking place in Bali in December which will focus on how to forward the Kyoto Protocol.
However, the US said it was unlikely to take part in negotiations at the end of this year on a global agreement to cut emissions of carbon dioxide.
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However, Dr Harlan Watson, the United States chief negotiator on climate, told the BBC: "I think there's a lot going on but I certainly wouldn't want to raise expectations, however, that there's going to be some sort of a new negotiation under the framework convention itself.
"I just think that it's not going to happen. It's certainly not something we think the time is right for."
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From the LATimes blog:
Rick Santorum for U.S. representative to the U.N.? It isn’t just National Review Online that’s floating the possibility.To his fans, the soon-to-be-ex-senator from Pennsylvania is doubly qualified to succeed John Bolton, with or without confirmation by the incoming Democratic Senate. First, as he demonstrated not wisely but too well in his losing re-election campaign, Santorum is even more fervent than Bush opposing to Iran and “Islamic fascism.” Then there is the potential Third World appeal of the "compassionate conservative" who was canonized during the campaign by New York Times columnist David Brooks.
If the ambassadors of the world got an earful from this freak our reputation would be irretrievably shot. And it would no longer be just American canines who had to worry.
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