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Today's lead stories:
Is the War Over?
North Korea Next?
Republicans Steamrolling on Capitol Hill
Bombed Turkish Village
More Gaza Killings
Is the War Over?
Haaretz is reporting that the Red Cross has temporarily
suspended humanitarian operations in Baghdad due to a `chaotic
and unpredictable` situation. This as many reports this afternoon
that say US troops have taken Baghdad, which some are calling
the end of the War. Nila Razook a correspondent is with AFP.
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North Korea Next?
Today the United Nations is holding talks about whether
to impose economic sanctions on North Korea, in an effort
to deter that nation from pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation
treaty. North Korea is due to officially withdraw from the
nuclear nonproliferation treaty tomorrow. North Koreas leader,
Kim Jong Il, says he needs nuclear weapons to prevent a US
pre-emptive strike and that he will view any economic sanctions
as an act of war. In response, the US has stealth bombers
in the region, and its planning to move 17,000 US troops closer
to South Koreas capitol, Seoul. Some Korea experts say there’s
still time to avert a war, but only if the United States adopts
a team approach, as Shelley Schlender reports.
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Republicans Steamrolling on Capitol Hill
Congressional Republicans have been buoyed by what they
say has been a successful mission in Iraq. With only minor
setbacks, and little opposition from the Democrats, the Republican
agenda would appear to be moving ahead full steam on Capitol
Hill. Josh Chaffin reports.
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Bombed Turkish Village
A day after the Turkish Parliament rejected selling the
country's public forests to satisfy the International Monetary
Fund, the ruling AK Parti government proposed selling parts
of Turkey's beautiful Mediterania Coastline as a means of
paying the country's massive 200 billion dollar debt. The
IMF has insisted on strict austerity measures for Turkey since
the Parliament forbid a Northern invasion of Iraq March 1st.
Under an agreement reached with the IMF over the weekend,
45 thousand government workers will lose their jobs and most
of the others will have their wages frozen. This after US
war-planes accidentally bombed the Turkish province of Urfa
three separate times with Tomahawk Cruise missiles. Aaron
Glantz reports from the bombed village of Ozveren.
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More Gaza Killings
A bomb ripped through a Palestinian high school in the West
Bank village of Jaba'a, outside of Jenin this morning- wounding
15 teenagers. A right wing group identifying itself as "Revenge
of the Infants" claimed responsibility for the attack.
Israeli Police however have responded saying there is no evidence
indicating that "revenge of the infant" group is
responsible for the bombing. This as last night, Israeli air
force shot 3 missiles into a Gaza city neighborhood in a targeted
assassination of a suspected Hamas military operative. Kristen
Ess has more from Gaza city, where Palestinians say the Israeli
policy of extra judicial killings is against international
law and killing too many Palestinians.
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