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| Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:00:00 EST Lax uranium rules rile ex-regulators |
| Former nuclear regulators, citing terrorism concerns and outraged that the new energy bill passed by Congress reverses existing limits on uranium exports, plan to urge Congress to pass legislation that would restore a 1992 law restricting the amount of uranium that can be released from government inventories and sold in international commercial markets. |
| Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:00:00 EST Chugging along |
| The U.S. economy continues to chug along at a relatively robust pace. Gross domestic product expanded at an annualized rate of 3.4 percent in the second quarter, according to a preliminary estimate from the Commerce Department. |
| Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:00:00 EST CAFTA: Points on the board for Bush |
| So now we can add CAFTA to the list of bills—trade promotion authority in 2001 and 2002, the Medicare prescription drug bill in 2003—that the Republican House has passed by one- or two-vote margins. The House leadership once again took to the floor a measure on which they knew they were short of the 218 majority and went about squeezing out the last votes one by one. This time they had to extend the nominally 15-minute roll call to only 69 minutes. On Medicare/prescription drugs they had to drag it out almost three hours. |
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| Police question bomb suspects |
| 4.30pm: Suspect in London suicide bomb inquiry faces extradition hearing in Rome. |
| Two Britons killed in Iraq blast |
| 4pm: Two British contractors killed in bomb attack on embassy convoy in southern Iraq. |
| Lech's Gdansk |
| Travel: Twenty-five years after Lech Walesa led the strike that spelt the end for the communist regime, Niall Griffiths explores a brighter Gdansk with the founder of modern Poland. |
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| Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:27:45 EDT Astronauts step out for space walk |
| Two space shuttle astronauts have stepped outside to repair a gyroscope on the International Space Station and perform an experiment to test new techniques for repairing a shuttle damaged in flight. Steve Robinson and Soichi Noguchi are due to spend more than six hours floating in space today, the first of their three planned excursions outside the shuttle. |
| Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:36:02 EDT Official kidnapped, 11 killed in Iraq attacks |
| Insurgents in Iraq struck again on Saturday, whisking away an Iraqi government official at gunpoint and killing at least 11 people in various bombings and ambushes, including one that again targeted foreign diplomats. |
| Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:39:55 EDT Police quiz London bomb suspects |
| All four men suspected of planting failed bombs on London's transit system on July 21 are in custody after raids in London and Rome, according to sources close to the investigation and Italy's interior ministry. |
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