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Civil rights have eroded in Putin's Russia!

MOSCOW, Russia - February 26, 2008 - Civil rights in Russia have been eroded under President Vladimir Putin, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, five days before a presidential election widely criticized in the West.

In a report, the London-based rights group said new laws restricting non-government organizations (NGOs), police breaking up anti-Kremlin demonstrations, and compl

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Wholesale prices jump in January!

WASHINGTON - February 26, 2008 - Battered by bad economic news, consumer confidence plunged while wholesale food, energy and medicine costs soared, pushing inflation up at the fastest pace in a quarter century.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that wholesale inflation jumped by 1 percent in January, more than double the increase that analysts had been expecting.

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U.S. home foreclosures jump 90% as mortgages reset!

February 26, 2008 - Bank seizures of U.S. homes almost doubled in January as property owners failed to make higher payments on adjustable-rate mortgages.

Repossessions rose 90 percent to 45,327 last month from the same period a year ago, according to RealtyTrac Inc., a seller of foreclosure statistics that has a database of more than 1 million properties. Total foreclosure filings

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Rising inflation creates unease in Middle East!

AMMAN, Jordan - February 25, 2008 - Even as it enriches Arab rulers, the recent oil-price boom is helping to fuel an extraordinary rise in the cost of food and other basic goods that is squeezing this region’s middle class and setting off strikes, demonstrations and occasional riots from Morocco to the Persian Gulf.

Here in Jordan, the cost of maintaining fuel subsidies amid

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Turkish raid strains U.S.-Kurd ties!

AMADIYAH, Iraq - February 25, 2008 - Peshmerga Gen. Muhammad Mohsen took down his American flag, folded it up, and placed it in his office corner Sunday, reflecting the growing anger in Iraq's Kurdish north with U.S. support for Turkey's campaign against separatist rebels operating in the region.

The intermittent offensive against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rea

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France, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia secretly launch their first joint war game!

February 25, 2008 - DEBKAfile’s military sources report exclusively that the first Persian Gulf exercise without the U.S. in many years began February 24, 2008. It will last ten days. It is also the first time the United Arab Emirates and France have invoked their 19-year-old military pact. France has contributed 1,500 navy marine and air force personnel to the exercise, the UAE 1,500,

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U.S. can attack Russia in 2012-2015!

MOSCOW, Russia - February 23, 2008 - After 2012-2015, the U.S. will be able to annihilate Russian strategic nuclear forces by a non-nuclear pre-emptive strike.

''I declare that the likelihood of a military threat is great as never before now,'' Konstantin Sivkov, the first vice-president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems, told Interfax AVN military ne