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WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee released bank records Wednesday clarifying long-disputed details of first son Hunter Biden’s business relationships in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine — bringing the total documented income from foreign sources to the Biden family and their associates to $20 million, the panel said. Committee chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said Hunter Biden appeared to deliver the Russian, Kazakhstani and Ukrainian businesspeople access to his father — noting that each of the post-Soviet associates allegedly attended at least one of two dinners at Washington’s Café Milano with then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son. “During Joe Biden’s vice...

EU told to open door to 20m migrant workers By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor Last Updated: 2:56am BST 14/09/2007 A huge increase in economic migration into the EU is being proposed by the European Commission. It wants to relax controls and open the borders to an extra 20 million workers from Asia and Africa over the next two decades. That would more than double the present non-EU resident population now living in the 27 member states. It now stands at about 18 million out of a total of around 490 million. The Commission is drawing up a new ''blue...

Waiting in the Wings: Expedition 12, Space Tourist Olsen Prepare By Tariq Malik Staff Writer posted: 11 August 2005 06:44 am ET HOUSTON—As the crew of NASA’s space shuttle Discovery celebrates their safe return to Earth, two astronauts are gearing up for their own launch toward the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev are set to ride a Soyuz spacecraft to the station in October on the twelfth expedition to the ISS. McArthur will command ISS Expedition 12, with Tokarev serving as flight engineer. Physicist Gregory Olsen, a paying spaceflight participant whose trip...

US Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking with CNN, called on Israel to release additional Arab prisoners from Israeli jails. Powell said he was "confident" regarding the continued implementation of the Road Map, as both sides have been executing the plan. Israel has dismantled outposts and released prisoners, he noted. As for the Palestinian Authority, US State Department officials announced they would scrupulously track the $20 million being given to the Palestinian Authority by the Bush administration. Officials added that they are confident the new PA administration will distribute the money in the proper fashion. In a further effort to...