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Ayatollah orders reconsideration of scholar’s death sentence. Iran’s supreme religious leader has ordered the country’s chief judge to review a reformist scholar’s death sentence, which has been the cause of Iran’s largest protests in years, a lawyer for the scholar…

Maybe not a walk in the park after all Special Republican Guard: Iraq’s loyal and formidable force. Despite doubts about the overall fighting capability of the Iraqi military, the Pentagon considers Iraq’s Special Republican Guard a formidable combat force willing to…

Catholic Bishop’s statement against an Iraq warThere’s some powerful stuff here. A few paragraphs that particularly impressed me. Based on the facts that are known to us, we continue to find it difficult to justify the resort to war against…

Italy gets tough on crime! Former prime minister gets 24 years for conspiracy to murder.

Many states facing big ’03 deficits Declining tax revenue and the falling stock market are creating massive deficits in quite a few states, including the biggest ones. Huge spending cuts and tax increases seem the only way out. While last…