Posted on 06/04/2003 11:04:33 PM PDT by null and void
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Britain's Royal Mail fumes over stamps of gas-masked queen
BRIGHTON, England (AFP) - Britain's post office is not amused that a hip art gallery in the south of England is selling posters of mock stamps featuring Queen Elizabeth II (news - web sites) in a gas mask.
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"Our legal services have just written to the gallery and informed them that they are infringing our copyright and to please stop," a Royal Mail spokesman told AFP.
But the Artrepublic gallery in the seaside town of Brighton said it had no intention of withdrawing the silkscreen anti-war posters by local artist James Cauty either from its walls or its Internet site.
"We are very surprised by the reaction from Royal Mail," said Artrepublic's owner Lawrence Alkin.
Styled like genuine stamps, with the monarch's head in silhouette and a gas mask over her face, the posters titled "Black Smoke, Stamps of Mass Destruction" come in first, second and third class denominations.
They sell for 470 pounds (767 dollars, 655 euros) each.
"The thing to do is to compare a stamp next to the actual image that James Cauty has done. They're actually completely different," a spokeswoman from the gallery told AFP.
Cauty, former leader of the 1980s rock band KLF, or Kopyright Liberation Front, which in 1987 had an album destroyed after it heavily sampled the ABBA hit "Dancing Queen," said: "I am just an artist doing my job."
Hi-tech scanner turns up vodka instead of terror weapons
SINGAPORE (AFP) - A hi-tech scanner deployed by Singapore to screen cargo containers for dangerous weapons that could be used by terrorists has turned up an unusual discovery: Russian vodka disguised as fruit juice.
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Custom officials found 23,520 bottles of Starorusskaya Vodka worth 700,000 Singapore dollars (406,976 US) on Wednesday in a container after their suspicions were aroused.
The scanner's image of the cargo "was atypical of fruit drinks," the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said on its website.
"Officers then decided to conduct a thorough check of the container. Upon physical check, the contents were confirmed to be vodka," it added.
The cargo came from the Middle East and was likely to have been meant for sale to the local pubs and clubs here.
Since the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the US and the Bali bombings last year, Singapore has been on a heightened state of alert, beefing up its defences against potential threats to foreign missions, government buildings and other facilities.
Hillary Memoir Says Work, Faith Saved Her [Har, har, har]Ya got that right...primarily, of the stinking variety."Honest to God, she didn't know," Caputo said. "The president unfortunately misled everybody, including his wife and daughter."
There were many other persistent, if less sensational, burdens. She says she got through them with hard work, religious faith [channeling Eleanor], trusted friends and travel. Ireland was her favorite foreign destination.
She recounts the six "brutal" months after Inauguration Day in 1993: Her father died. White House aide and friend Vincent Foster killed himself. Her mother-in-law was dying. Critics were making hay with the missteps of a new administration.
"I did what I often do when faced with adversity," she says. "I threw myself into a schedule so hectic that there was no time for brooding."
Asked Wednesday about her book's account of the Lewinsky episode, the senator said, "I hope people will read the book. This book is about many things."
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - A Dutch court on Thursday acquitted 12 men accused of plotting a "holy war" against the West and helping to recruit al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the Netherlands.
The Rotterdam district court said there was no evidence to convict the men on charges of membership of an unspecified criminal organization that provided support to al Qaeda and the Taliban in their fight against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan (news - web sites).
Prosecutors scaled down some of the charges against the group -- four Algerians, a Frenchman, a Moroccan, a Libyan, an Iraqi, an Egyptian, a Turk, a Mauritanian and a Dutch citizen -- during the course of the three-and-a-half week trial.
The men were arrested last year in raids across the Netherlands.
RIYADH, 5 June 2003 - A Saudi sociologist has warned that the number of single Saudi women could more than double to four million by 2007 because of social problems spawned by the Kingdom's economic and social growth.
More than 20 percent of marriages last year ended in divorce.
Professor Abdullah Al-Fawzan, a sociologist at King Saud University, has cautioned that polygamy is responsible for up to 55 percent of divorces. He said that changing times impacted on relationships and led to a loss of honesty, sincerity, love, compassion and cooperation. There are now 1.5 million single Saudi women.
He expressed concern that more than 18,000 out of 60,000 marriages solemnized in 2001 ended in divorce. One of the strongest statistical findings was that the higher a man's income, the greater the chance of the couple staying together, said the Saudi sociologist, adding that changes in a couple's economic circumstances have an enormous effect on marriages.
A large difference in age, he said, was also a risk factor for the marriage.
DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- President Bush told U.S. troops in Qatar on Thursday that their duty and sacrifice had liberated the people of Iraq and that their efforts were helping the United States defeat global terrorism.
"Our actions sent along a clear message that our nation is strong and our nation is compassionate," Bush told the troops at the rally.
"America sent you on a mission," Bush added, "and that mission has been accomplished."
Introduced by Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the forces that brought down Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Bush told the troops: "Your families are proud, and so is America."
Saddam Hussein's daughters, Raghad and Rana, are planning to apply for asylum in Leeds, a cousin of their father has claimed.
The news comes as a separate report revealed Saddam's wife, Sajida, also plans to seek asylum in Britain. However a spokesman for the Home Office said that if they did claim asylum, they would be turned down.
He said: "We are not in the business of giving asylum to people who abuse human rights, including Saddam Hussein's family."
Izzi-Din Mohammed Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of the former Iraqi dictator, has claimed that the sisters and their 10 children, are making final arrangements to head to Britain from Iraq.
He told The Sun: "Saddam's daughters had British schools and hospitals in mind when they decided to ask for asylum - especially the schools. I believe the UK government will take them in because they have always been known to protect people and give them asylum."
NO WAY!!! Freepers can write better than she can. Let's just peruse the archives.
Euro-army force to stop Congo killing
The European Union agreed yesterday to deploy the new Euro-army for the first time outside Nato command, taking charge of a high-risk United Nations mission to stop the slaughter of civilians in the Congo.
The French-led force, authorised by the United Nations last week, will now come under the European Rapid Reaction Force.
Most of the 1,400-strong force will be made up of French troops wearing EU insignia, backed by British specialists, and Belgian, Canadian and African troops.
They will start moving into action next week, with artillery and fighter jet support, ready to fight pitched battles if necessary.
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