WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force operates the "world's largest
airline" and every $10-per-barrel increase in crude oil boosts its
annual operating costs by $610 million, Air Force Secretary Michael
Wynne said on Thursday.
The Air Force's bill for aviation fuel was about $6 billion in fiscal
2007, Wynne told a defense industry group. He declined to...
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By GEIR MOULSON,
The German parliament's upper house approved the European Union's new
treaty on Friday — the document's last legislative hurdle in the
27-nation bloc's most populous country.
The document, known as the Lisbon Treaty, easily won the necessary
two-thirds majority in the upper house, which represents the country's
16 state governments. All but one state voted...
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ETGAR LEFKOVIT-
Despite years of economic sanctions, Iran is winning the race to
acquire nuclear weapons, posing an unprecedented threat to the future
of the West, Ambassador to the US Sallai Meridor said Thursday.
"If we want to avoid the juncture of Iran with a bomb or bombing Iran
than the world must act decisively in...
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HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
Leading Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told The
Jerusalem Post that he would fully back Israel's peace talks with Syria
and criticized efforts to block such engagement.
"I am encouraged that Israel and Syria have renewed peace talks and
fully support Israel's efforts to advance peace with all its
neighbors," he said in...
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China and Russia on Friday condemned the United States' plans to set up
a missile defense system, which Washington says is crucial to
protecting the security of it and its allies.
"Both sides believe that creating a global missile defense system,
including deploying such systems in certain regions of the world, or
plans for such cooperation, do not...
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State Department official is credited with saving thousands from Nazis
By Michael Jay Friedman
Washington – Hiram Bingham IV, a U.S. diplomat whose unselfish actions
in saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust cost him his diplomatic career,
was honored by the U.S. Postal Service in a commemorative stamp
unveiled May 24.
Bingham’s actions and bravery linked the...
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