Day March 8, 2005

It’s getting to be a trend

Bulgaria blames U.S. troops for fatal Iraq shooting  U.S. ally Bulgaria blamed U.S. troops on Monday for the fatal shooting of one of its soldiers in Iraq and demanded punishment of those responsible.  A Bulgarian inquiry into the shooting last…

Warren Buffett attacks American ‘spending junkies’

Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most successful investors, has launched his most withering attack to date on the US trade deficit, describing Americans as “rich spending junkies” who could turn into a nation of “sharecroppers”. “Without policy changes, currency…

Italy and Lebanon

Hostage’s freedom car was not speeding says minister The car carrying an Italian intelligence officer who was killed by US fire in Baghdad was not speeding and was not ordered to stop as American officials have indicated Italy’s foreign minister…