The proclamation that President George W. Bush issued on June 26, 2003, to mark the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture seemed innocuous, one of dozens of high-minded statements published and duly ignored each year.

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"Arab nations concerned about Iran's nuclear program want to meet regularly with the six international powers trying to ensure that it remains peaceful, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.

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Peace Now, the Israeli advocacy group, said in a report released Tuesday that in the last year Israel has nearly doubled its settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, in violation of its obligations under an American-backed peace plan.

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"The Palestinian Authority is considering cutting off its diplomatic contacts with Israel and unilaterally declaring statehood, the Arabic-language a-Sharq al-Awset daily reported on Friday. Good idea-- bad idea?

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Dr. Marion D. Thorpe, Jr., U.S. Congressional Candidate for Florida's 23rd District, acknowledges and commemorates the Month of February as Black History Month. Dr.

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When it comes to Iran's nuclear capabilities, whose word would you rather take: that of a Nobel prize-winning head of an international agency specializing in nuclear issues who was proved triumphantly right about Iraq, or that of a bunch of belligerent neocons who make no secret  …

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Spencer's comment: "Evidently the jihadists didn't get the memo about how Islam eschews all racism, etc., despite some of the, shall we say, dodgier statements of Muhammad. There they go, misunderstanding their own religion again" (Picture from Hamas al-Aqsa TV.)

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Rice has turned to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking as a priority in the waning months of the administration.

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A major sting operation is currently taking place at the State Department Headquarters in DC, and employees have been seen fleeing, many screaming hysterically. They 've been fleeing "killer" wasps that have infested areas around office buildings, that is.

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A couple weeks ago, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) asked Secretary Condoleeza Rice if the administration thought President Bush had the power to take military action against Iran without permission from Congress.

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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is heading today to Tehran for a meeting of foreign ministers from countries neighboring Iraq.

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