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TWENTY photographs of men suspected of taking part in "ferocious" clashes with police during riots in Bradford were released yesterday. More than 300 officers were hurt in disturbances in the west Yorkshire city on July 7, suffering injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to broken limbs. As the suspects' pictures were released, Det Ch Supt Max McLean, who is leading the inquiry, said: "These people are not just faces in the crowd. They committed crimes. "All we need is a name and we will track them down and arrest them." Mr McLean also took the unusual step of releasing ...

Croatia harvests 912,000 T of wheat -paper ZAGREB, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Croatia harvested an estimated 912,000 tonnes of wheat this year, short of the one million tonne target but still leaving up to 250,000 tonnes of surplus grain for export, the daily Jutarnji List reported on Friday. The crop was about 10 percent down on last year. The daily said thunderstorms in June and early July caused losses of up to 30 percent of the crop in places in northern Croatia. The yield from some 215,00 hectares sown to wheat had been planned at 4.65 tonnes per hectare ...

Shot by cops in his homeThe issue: Wounded Aurora man is charged with crimes Our view: Surely he's suffered enough for a police mistake You'd think an innocent homeowner who was shot twice in the belly by police when he answered their knock at his door last week had suffered enough.But no. In Aurora, prosecutors decided to rub salt in those wounds by charging 49-year-old Jerry Norris with crimes: first degree assault and criminal attempt. As soon as he was released from the hospital Wednesday he was jailed until he could raise a $50,000 bond.Why did the police come to ...

Rosa Wagner, a Polish Jew who lost her family in the Holocaust, thought she had found happiness with her second husband. But 15 years later she learnt he had been the commander of a Nazi death squad High on the hill in the Jewish section of the Cementerio Gral del Sur, the rambling South General Cemetery in Caracas, are two graves. One is a grey marble tomb, lovingly cared for and in pristine condition, the name of its occupant picked out in white lettering. Fifty yards and 30 years of funerals up the hill, the other is a rough, unfinished ...

Prayers requested during week of 7/29/01 Pray for Ben injured in farming accident Mr. K going through a child custody situation Mrs.LoneGOPinCT's mother in surgery on 8/02/01 Latest update on Grassontop's grandson's and father's situation Update on Militiaman7's grandson Isaiah Prayer request for Militiaman7's grandson, Isaiah LeeMcCoy with some decisions on work and school PoisedWoman's friend Jim Goyen with Alzheimers Freedom'sWorthIt's friend Earlene with cancer rushed to the hospital Prayers requested during week of 7/22/01 Prayer request for Grassontop, his son, and grandson Latest update on RMDupree's cousin Christian in critical condition Prayers for luis gonzalez's son Update on ...

The Last Battle American POWs Demand Justice By Chris Bury W A S H I N G T O N, Aug. 3 — The men are old now, in their 70s and 80s, and their numbers are dwindling, but their sense of outrage still burns more than half a century after they were forced to work in slave labor for Japanese companies during World War II. On its surface, it seems like a simple story: Aging American former POWs demand justice — and compensation — from the Japanese companies that brutally mistreated them during captivity. But their stories, compelling as ...

THE German government said yesterday that it was "astounded" by comments by the new American ambassador to Berlin, who criticised low levels of German defence spending weeks before arriving to take up his post. Dan Coats, a former soldier and Republican senator, said in his appointment acceptance speech to the US Senate this week that Germany needed to spend more on its armed forces. He said: "Clearly there has to be a recognition on the part of the Federal Republic of Germany that if they are to maintain a central partnership and position in Nato it has to be ...

A group in North Carolina plans to protest the ''overwhelming number of illegal Hispanic workers invading the area.'' A California coalition urges people to lobby against giving legal status to undocumented immigrants. And on New York's Long Island, the topic at a conference this weekend is the ''illegal immigration disaster.'' Sparked by changing demographics, anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise throughout the country. Observers say much of the hard feeling is directed at Hispanics, whose numbers grew 58 percent to more than 35 million in the last decade, according to census figures. Anti-immigration advocates feel newcomers lower wages, increase unemployment, ...

How shell we call now Cnet.com -- Russian American or American Russian? In Runet a sensational information has been spread. Russian programmers, obtaining for a very long time cooperation with a well-known US site Cnet.com and who were refused, have finally got to know, that this highly desired site is being created by 10 programmers and about 100 content filling specialists from Russia. Cnet.com real office is situated in Moscow, and the work at the site is being carried out through a Swiss firm.Apropos, this information has been published in Runet with the request to tell about similar curious things. ...

God, family, and Domino's Pizza. That was the doctrine Thomas Monaghan promoted at his privately held pizza empire. Monaghan invited chaplains to Domino’s Ann Arbor, Mich., headquarters, instituted daily mass there, and regularly channeled part of his profits into conservative Catholic causes. So it was only natural that when he sold his company for $1 billion in December 1998, Monaghan made an effort to invest the proceeds in a manner consistent with his religious convictions. He then went a step further. About a year ago Monaghan helped create and seed a mutual fund that invests according to conservative Catholic ...

OHRID, Macedonia, Aug 4 (AFP) - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana is expected here on Sunday to participate in peace talks between Macedonian and ethnic Albanian leaders, Western sources close to the talks said Saturday. A Macedonian foreign ministry official confirmed the information to AFP. The official said Solana would arrive in Ohrid early Sunday from Ukraine, along with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko. Solana was expected to leave Macedonia later on Sunday, the official said.

Look for a program on your computer called WHAGENT.exe (webhancer) Find the directory where it has installed itself and read the license.txt file (if this does not cause you some serious concern then I don't know what will about your privacy). This is a program that tracks your internet usage and was downloaded in an AOL update the week of July 4th... I picked up on it during a system clean and removed the program. My AOL internet connection did not work again until tonight when I reinstalled AOL off of a 4.0 CD. The first 3 times I connected ...

By Molly Ivins	AUSTIN -- Gee, how nice. The Republicans are mounting a big campaign to win women over to their cause. The campaign is called "Winning Women," and The New York Times says they're going to spend millions on us. Take off your aprons, girls, and get your hair out of those pincurls -- we have a new beau. The GOP is coming to woo us. Molly Ivins More Editorial Columns at Intellivu.com    	If I may offer our new suitor a little advice: Don't send candy, don't send flowers. Here are a few things we could use. 	One of ...

US envoy in Israel casts doubt on Arafat BY MICHAEL EVANS YASSIR ARAFAT must prove himself a “genuine leader” before he can be invited to visit President Bush at the White House, America’s new Ambassador to Israel said yesterday. Daniel Kurtzer, who took over last week as Mr Bush’s envoy in Tel Aviv, described the leader of the Palestinian people for more than 40 years as an enigma. Mr Kurtzer, a career diplomat and the first Orthodox Jew to serve as US Ambassador to Israel, has been a Middle East specialist for more than 20 years. This first published comment ...

GENEVA -- The United Nations scrutinized the U.S. record on race Friday for the first time, as critics accused Washington of not doing enough to combat discrimination.In its report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the United States said it had taken steps to protect people against discrimination based on "race, color, national origin."Ralph Boyd, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice, told the panel that more must be done, adding the government had a broad range of guarantees to ensure civil rights.The United States ratified the International Convention ...

Posted at 11:37 p.m. PDT Friday, Aug. 3, 2001 Firings standards vary for consultants BY CHRIS O'BRIEN, ERIC NALDER AND BRANDON BAILEY Mercury News While the Davis administration moved swiftly in recent weeks to dismiss a handful of low-level energy contractors who had apparent conflicts of interest, a group of powerful consultants to the administration has enjoyed far more lenient treatment. These consultants earned $50 to $300 an hour for negotiating long-term electricity contracts, mapping energy needs and providing financial and legal advice. Of about 50 people involved in this work, only about half were required to fill out statements ...

William F. Buckley, Jr. August 4, 2001Two terrorists less?On one day, the papers ran an obituary on an American flier who in 1943 shot down the plane carrying Adm. Yamamoto from a Japanese base in Rabaul, New Britain. There was jubilation in America over that nice coordination of intelligence and warmaking, and I remember the special glee of a 15-year-old who had quivered with indignation when the Japanese admiral a year or two earlier had broadcast that he looked forward to dictating the terms of surrender to the Americans in Washington, D.C. On the same day there was news of ...

U.S. Fugitive Tied to Clintons Caught in Brazil BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 3 -- Brazilian authorities today arrested American fugitive Peter Franklin Paul, wanted by U.S. officials for stock fraud. Paul is a onetime event organizer for Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Paul was indicted by a New York grand jury in June on charges that he and three other men conspired to manipulate the stock price of a media company. (snip) Read the rest of the article about Judicial Watch's client at this url: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30817-2001Aug4.html

NIS, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Gunmen ambushed a police unit just outside the boundary with Kosovo, killing two Serb policemen and injuring two others, police said Saturday. The attack late Friday was the most serious incident since May, when Yugoslav forces regained control of the area in southern Serbia, the larger of Yugoslavia's two republics. Yugoslav forces took over the region after ethnic Albanian rebels pulled out under a NATO-brokered deal. A top ranking police official who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that a renegade rebel group launched the attack. Rebels sprayed gunfire into a police camp ...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Friday that the controversial policy of the Clinton administration to send Cubans rescued on the high seas back to Cuba remains in place. ``We will analyze all policies with Cuba, but right now, the same policy that my predecessor had in place stands,'' Bush said during a wide-ranging interview in the White House with The Herald and seven other newspapers. The interview came as Bush, in a buoyant mood Friday, savored two big successes this week in the House -- passage of an energy bill that includes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...