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LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Philadelphia Eagles fans thirsty for predictions on whether their team will win or lose each week won't get them from a New Jersey pigskin-prognosticating camel. Princess, the star of Popcorn Park Zoo, won't predict the results of any Eagles games this season to protest the signing of quarterback Michael Vick. Vick spent 18 months in prison for organizing a dogfighting ring. The 2,600-pound camel went 17-4 last year and correctly picked the Pittsburgh Steelers to win the Super Bowl.

Reuters reported this week that the European Union is saying a summit with Israel, planned for the coming months, is probably called off. With the Czech Republic currently holding the EU presidency, its foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg told a Czech newspaper that the EU is “not happy with some of the steps of the Israeli government, namely construction works close to Jerusalem but also access to Gaza, which is today very limited.” He added that “The new Israeli government has not raised much excitement either.”

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refused to address an Israeli woman who asked him at a news conference on Tuesday about her husband, one of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah last year. As he has done at previous appearances at the United Nations, where he addressed the General Assembly earlier on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad also ignored a question asked by an Israeli journalist, saying only, "Next question." The Iranian president, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, is accused by Washington and Israel of supporting the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Ehud Goldwasser and...

The head of Russia's space agency Sunday said the US has rebuffed an offer from Moscow to jointly explore the moon, while announcing a separate contract with NASA for nearly one billion dollars for the International Space Station. Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency that Russia had proposed pooling resources to explore the moon. "We were ready to cooperate but for unknown reasons, the United States have said they will undertake this programme themselves," he said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in December said it envisaged setting up a manned base,...

Iran Snubs Annan Over Nuclear Program Sunday September 3, 2006 9:46 PM By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The U.N. chief got little satisfaction Sunday at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran's leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored in warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust. In a provocative move on the final day of Kofi Annan's two-day visit, Iran announced it would host a conference to examine what it called exaggerations about the Holocaust, during which more than 6 million Jews were killed by the...

NAACP: Nonpartisan Branch of the Democratic Party By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 16, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms NAACP Chairman Julian Bond claims his organization is “nonpartisan” while at the same time using vitriolic rhetoric to attack the Bush administration. Why would President Bush wish to speak before the NAACP after the way in which they’ve treated him? Some claim Bush should swallow his pride and speak before the group in the interest of “outreach.” I would argue that Bush has already engaged in more outreach than any other administration in U.S. history: 2001: President George W. Bush appoints: Condoleezza Rice, Assistant...

Putin snubs Blair by refusing to lift sanctions By Andrew Grice, Political Editor 30 April 2003 Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their deep differences over Iraq yesterday, when the Russian President openly mocked the failure of the United States and Britain to find Saddam Hussein or his alleged weap-ons of mass destruction.In an extraordinary snub to Mr Blair, Mr Putin told a joint press conference near Moscow that Russia would not bow to American and British demands for the early lifting of sanctions against Iraq until there was proof that Iraq possessed the weapons the Allies had...

UN snubs Blair plea for envoy to IraqPM left isolated by White House stance By Leonard Doyle and Paul Waugh in Athens 17 April 2003 Tony Blair was rebuffed yesterday when he attempted to persuade Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, to appoint a special representative to Baghdad. The Prime Minister wants the UN to provide a veneer of legitimacy to the interim administration being set up in Iraq by America and Britain and says it should play a "vital" role in the country's future. But in a private meeting with Mr Blair at the European summit in Athens,...

Tuesday, 19 November, 2002, 17:19 GMT Syria snubs US request Settlers and soldiers were raked with gunfire in HebronSyria has rejected a United States demand to close down an office of the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad. The request came after the group said it had carried out last Friday's ambush in the West Bank city of Hebron, which killed 12 Israelis. These operations are planned and carried out in the occupied territories as a result of the continued [Israeli] occupation and its practices Syrian foreign ministry statementBut a Syrian foreign ministry statement said the Damascus office had nothing to...

Schröder snubs France to visit UK (Filed: 25/09/2002) Break with post-election tradition indicates loosening of Franco-German ties to Blair's advantage, writes Toby Helm Chancellor Gerhard Schröder signalled a loosening of Franco-German ties - and a strengthening of those with Britain - when he broke with tradition last night to visit Tony Blair on his first foreign trip since his re-election. His decision to travel to London for talks with the Prime Minister marked a departure from the normal practice under which the German leader meets the French president immediately after an election victory. Thomas Matussek, the German ambassador to London,...