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23 Jun 11 PRESIDENT OBAMA PULLING ALL 33,000 US ‘SURGE’ TROOPS BY SEPTEMBER 2012 UN General Assembly elects new president ‘Fertility Management’: Al Gore Calls on Women to Have Fewer Children…to Curb Pollution Iran arrests Ahmadinejad ally Malekzadeh Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson will participate in fasting and prayer for more cooperative spirit in the city Italy breaks ranks to call for ceasefire over Libya so aid can get through Federal Reserve cuts its US economic growth forecast Syrians flee to Turkey as troops amass on border ComEd says most power should be restored by Thursday night Earthquake shakes Japan awake - 6.7 "Frantic’ Arms Race in Middle East, Says Air Force Chief EU's Ashton to Haaretz: UN vote on Palestinian state not a done deal 'Hezbollah preparing for war against Israel to protect Syria's Assad' All signs say Iran is racing toward a nuclear bomb
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Wednesday to start withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan in a first step toward ending the long, costly war and returning America’s focus toward its own troubled economy. Mr. Obama said he would pull 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by year’s end, followed by about 23,000 more by the end of next summer and a steady withdrawal of remaining troops after that.
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, permanent representative of Qatar to the UN, has been elected president of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly due to begin in September. Al-Nasser was nominated by the Asian Group as the sole candidate for the annual presidency, Xinhua reported. He will assume office at the opening of the session in New York Sep 13.
On Monday, former Vice President Al Gore discussed climate change and pollution control at the Games for Change convention in New York City. Aside from his usual litanies of environmental advice nuggets, the 2000 presidential candidate delved into…family planning. Curiously, Gore said that couples need to learn to “feel comfortable having small families” so that pollution can be curbed. When asked about what could be done to address population growth, he said:
Iran's judiciary has arrested Mohammad Sharif Malekzadeh, an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on unspecified charges, an unnamed official told the semi-official Fars news agency on Thursday. "Mohammad Sharif Malekzadeh was arrested a few hours ago," Fars said. Malekzadeh resigned from his position as deputy foreign minister on Tuesday.
To help Harrisburg out of its financial crisis, area Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders have called for three days of fasting and praying for a more cooperative spirit among Harrisburg government leaders, the business community and residents. The voluntary event will start at midnight on Tuesday and run through 5 p.m. Friday. During that time, various churches and temples will be open to the public.
Italy broke ranks with Nato yesterday and demanded an urgent halt to hostilities in Libya. Franco Frattini, the foreign minister in Rome, called for an 'immediate suspension' of military operations to allow humanitarian aid to be brought to the wartorn country. He also said military leaders should provide more details about Nato bombing raids following mistakes which led to civilians being killed.
The Federal Reserve has cut its growth forecast for the US economy in the face of the impact of higher energy prices. It now estimates that the US economy will expand between 2.7% and 2.9% this year, down from its April forecast of 3.1% to 3.3%. The US central bank also warned that unemployment would remain stubbornly high throughout 2011.
Hundreds of Syrian refugees fled across the border into Turkey on Thursday to escape an assault on border regions in an escalating military campaign to punish popular dissent against President Bashar Assad, witnesses said. "They are running in panic. They have seen what happened to their villages," said one refugee, a farmer from the Jisr al-Shugour area who gave his name as Maan. Witnesses claimed that Syrian troops had massed on the Turkish border overnight Wednesday.
Commonwealth Edison expects to restore power to most of its customers by Thursday night, two days after a violent wave of storms that spawned at least two tornadoes and packed 80 mph winds at one point left about 440,000 customers without electricity throughout the Chicago area.
A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rattled northeast Japan early this morning in the same area where a massive quake triggered a deadly tsunami in March.
"The Middle East is in the throes of a frantic arms race, both in numbers of weapons and unbelievable financial costs", Maj. Gen. Ido Nehoshtan, the commander of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), told IsraelDefense this week.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, says she is not sure that there will be a vote in the United Nations in September on recognition of a Palestinian state and that the wording of the resolution is still uncertain.
Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group is preparing for a possible war with Israel to relieve perceived Western pressure to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, its guardian ally, sources close to the movement say.
Iran's leadership is undaunted by the sanctions imposed on the country, or by the damage the Stuxnet computer worm caused to the program that operates the centrifuges at the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz.
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