DHAKA - Hundreds of opposition activists marched in the capital Dhaka and set at least one vehicle ablaze as a day-long strike took hold across Bangladesh on Sunday, witnesses said. The main opposition Awami League party and its allies called the strike to protest police brutality during previous demonstrations and to demand for electoral reforms ahead of next Januarys parliamentary polls.
On Saturday night, protesters also torched a bus and damaged several vehicles in the capital, police and witnesses said.
The strike on Sunday, a working day in mainly Muslim Bangladesh, began at dawn, shutting down schools, markets and businesses. Reports from the southern city of Chittagong said the strike had halted the delivery of goods from the countrys main port and largely paralysed the city.
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MOSCOW - Russia successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine from the area of the North Pole, the defense minister said on Sunday. The nuclear submarine K-84 launched the missile Saturday, and all three test warheads hit their target, a testing range in the Archangelsk region on the Barents Sea, Sergei Ivanov reported to President Vladimir Putin in televised comments.
"The launch was successful" he said, adding that it had been challenging: Aiming from the North Pole, where the concepts of latitude and longitude are relative, makes this launch difficult. Ivanov suggested it was the first time a test-launch from the area had been conducted by the Russian military in 11 years.
He spoke days after an unsuccessful test of a new sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile. An experimental Bulava missile launched from a submerged nuclear submarine in the White Sea on Thursday veered off its designated flight path and fell into the sea, according to the Defense Ministry.
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HELSINKI, Finland - In 2004, the European Union appeared close to lifting a ban on selling weapons to China. Today, it is balking and avoids the issue as if it were a rusty grenade with the pin pulled.
The 17-year-old ban on arms sales is unlikely to go soon because the Europeans are fence-sitting _ for several reasons. The EUs 25 member states are split on the issue and wary about another rift with the United States, which vehemently opposes ending the ban. Additionally, Chinas glacial progress in improving human rights and its bellicose language about Taiwan have slowed the momentum on the issue.
But the Chinese are not giving up and were quick to raise the weapons ban issue on Saturday at a summit with the EU in Helsinki, Finland. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reminded the Europeans they promised to scuttle the ban. At a joint news conference with EU leaders he said the bloc must display vision and courage and end it immediately. He called it a matter of mutual respect and equality.
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China, you do not even need Tiawan. More mandate may await.
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Article: America has warned China it might help defend Taiwan, which raises a deeply troubling scenario to some: the EU arming an authoritarian power fighting American forces defending democracy on Taiwan.
One word needs to be changed:
America has warned China it might help defend Taiwan, which raises a deeply troubling gratifying scenario to some: the EU arming an authoritarian power fighting American forces defending democracy on Taiwan.
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Imagine that. Europe finally located two of its last lonely neurons and managed to rub them together. Willfully blind regarding the Iranian threat, they somehow managed to recognize that Iran's biggest sponsor might not have their best interests at heart. Especially not so with respect to buying scads of the most advanced weaponry available. Go figure. Maybe it has something to do with Finland holding the EU presidency. The Finns have been mighty rational of late.
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At a joint news conference with EU leaders he said the bloc must display vision and courage and end it immediately. He called it a matter of mutual respect and equality.
Why do murdering monsters always pull this kind of love talk out of their ass when they want something?
HELSINKI: French President Jacques Chirac, who has upset Finland in the past with scathing comments, went on a charm offensive on Sunday by describing the country's prime minister as sexy. "Let me introduce you to the sexiest man in Finland. You can believe me, it's written everywhere in the papers here," Chirac told Spanish leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as he introduced him to Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen at an EU-Asia summit. Chirac's comment was overheard by a Reuters photographer as the three men met at the summit's opening ceremony in Helsinki.
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Introducing the Finnish Prime Minister, Conan O'Brien.
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Um, is he taking cues from Ahnold? Lol, too weird.
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Just when I feel I can't be more ashamed of having him as President he manages to shatter the record and provoke me another attack of CDS (Chirac Derangement Syndrom).
But, on his discharge, just let me say he's not just a corrupt and crooked embarassment, he's a truly harmful petty little man blinded by his false ideologies, who's done much, much, much damage to France, starting from the 70's, with its institutionalisation of unemployment and its family reunion law which turned a working immigration of a few tens-hundreds of thousands into a 10-13 millions settlement immigration.
So, he's just not ridiculous, he's on the other side, somehow that's more dignified, I guess.
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France is screwed unless they can manage to find another Charles the Hammer. And even if they did manage to find a new Charlemagne, they would burn him at the stake of Political Correctness rather than support him and win back France.
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Glad I didn't garage sale those glacier glasses and ice axe. We'll save a bundle on pine straw and air conditioning. Now where did I put those mukluks.
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Don't worry, as soon as AlGore hears about this, he'll fly his plane (Destroying valuable Ozone and using pesky oil) and pay the scientists a visit. Then upon his return (burning more fuel and destroying more ozone) he'll announce that the earth will melt if Global Warming is not stopped.
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That's too bad. Global warming would be great for Russia and Canada. On the other hand, global warming would be bad for world peace - countries might start clashing over the Artic and the Antartic.
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I don't care, I'm so fat I'm as insulated as a seal or something. Cold means nothing to me, better, it tightens my tissues, making me look like I've got actual muscle. So, I'm all for global cooling, if it helps me with the chicks.
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#16 So, I'm all for global cooling, if it helps me with the chicks.
But it makes your manhood shrink like a frightened turtle!
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I've found it helps if one stands a bit closer to the porcelain.
How timely, was at a fundraiser yesterday making small talk w/spouse's hygenist, who we knew, etc., I mentioned we all like old movies, have movie night and she brought up ....
An Inconvenient Truth - couldn't remember Bore, but was too late to see it, I said there are Russians scientists who believe we're in global cooling, Mars and Pluto are warming,...
But she replied, how's that going to help the polar bears?
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Send in the Motherly Commie Airborne - the Sun and Ice Caps refuse to obey the Enviros and Lefties, ergo the Sun + Ice are obvious traitors to the Motherland, Socialism, Global Workers-Proletariat and the glorious, permanently poor and starving but optimistic, People's OWG.
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DHAKA - Hundreds of opposition activists marched in the capital Dhaka and set at least one vehicle ablaze as a day-long strike took hold across Bangladesh on Sunday, witnesses said. The main opposition 
HELSINKI, Finland - In 2004, the European Union appeared close to lifting a ban on selling weapons to China. Today, it is balking and avoids the issue as if it were a rusty grenade with the pin pulled.
HELSINKI: French President Jacques Chirac, who has upset Finland in the past with scathing comments, went on a charm offensive on Sunday by describing the country's prime minister as sexy. "Let me introduce you to the sexiest man in Finland. You can believe me, it's written everywhere in the papers here," Chirac told Spanish leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as he introduced him to Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen at an EU-Asia summit. Chirac's comment was overheard by a Reuters photographer as the three men met at the summit's opening ceremony in Helsinki.
