The Jerusalem Post
Sharon pledges to Annan to remove illegal outposts
By HERB KEINON
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan are seen during a meeting in Jerusalem Sunday.
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Israel will live up to its obligations and remove the 24 unauthorized outposts set up since March 2001, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon assured visiting UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Sunday, although he indicated this would be unlikely until after the withdrawal from Gaza.
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UN: Assad committed to full withdrawal
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Syrian troops withdrawing from Lebanon carry posters of President Bashar Assad and Syrian flags at Jdaidet Yabous Syrian-Lebanese border point, 50 kilometers west of Damascus
BEIRUT, Lebanon
President Bashar Assad reiterated his commitment to withdrawing all Syrian troops and intelligence agents from Lebanon, UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said Saturday, indicating he had received a timetable for the pullout.
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Katsav: Sensitivity to Holocaust growing
By GREER FAY CASHMAN
"Leaders of the free world are showing more sensitivity to the Holocaust than ever before," President Moshe Katsav said Sunday.
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Cabinet approves removal of 24 outposts
By HERB KEINON
Maj.-Gen. Dan Halutz arrives at cabinet meeting prior to unanimous approval of his appointment as next IDF chief of staff
Israel will remove the 24 unauthorized settlement outposts established since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon came to power in March 2001, while the fate of 81 other outposts established before that date will be determined by a special committee, the cabinet decided Sunday.
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US Jews head to Gaza in solidarity
By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Sara Lehmann is leaving her five children, aged 14 and under, at home in Brooklyn and heading to Gush Katif on Sunday to personally tell the settlers that American Jews support their right to live there.
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Sneh: Attack on Iran 'last resort'
By JPOST STAFF AND AP
Iran's nuclear plant in Bushehr in southern Iran.
Both Israel and the United States on Sunday rejected a report in London's Sunday Times which claimed that Israel had a plan in place to attack Iran's nuclear reactor and that the US would not block the attack if diplomatic efforts fail to contain Iran's nuclear development.
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US prof who compared 9/11 victims to Nazi may get settlement soon
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER
An attorney for the University of Colorado professor who compared some September 11 victims to a notorious Nazi said Friday he expects a settlement with the school "within the next day or so."
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Haaretz
PM: No progress on road map until militants disarmed
By Akiva Eldar, Arnon Regular and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held an indirect exchange of views Sunday night, starting with Abbas telling Channel 1 that, after the anticipated announcement this week of a formal cease-fire by all the Palestinian factions, he would be ready for full-scale diplomatic talks.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/551588.html
Car bomb goes off in J'lem; no casualties
By Haaretz Staff
A small explosive device went off in Jerusalem predawn Monday, but no one was hurt, Army Radio reported.
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Mofaz to meet with Palestinian Interior Minister
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz will meet in the coming days with Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef in an effort to advance the stalled negotiations over the transfer of West Bank towns to Palestinian security control.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/551528.html
Bassi to explain pullout to U.S. rabbis
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
NEW YORK - The head of the Disengagement Administration, Yonatan Bassi, will promise U.S. rabbis and Orthodox community leaders this week that the evacuation of Gush Katif will be accomplished while taking special care to preserve the dignity of the settlers and respect their feelings.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/551534.html
The Moscow News
Russia Faces Implications of Maskhadov's Killing
The killing of top Chechen rebel Aslan Maskhadov leaves the insurgency largely in the hands of Shamil Basayev, the most brutal of the warlords - a development that could undermine any chance of peace even though the Kremlin is celebrating a breakthrough in the lengthy conflict.
MosNews
The killing of top Chechen rebel Aslan Maskhadov leaves the insurgency largely in the hands of Shamil Basayev, the most brutal of the warlords — a development that could undermine any chance of peace even though the Kremlin is celebrating a breakthrough in the lengthy conflict.
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Ukrainian Journalist Murder Case Gains New Impetus
By Anna Arutunyan The Moscow News
Ukraine's former president Leonid Kuchma has been implicated in the death of opposition journalist Georgy Gongadze, who was killed in September of 2000, and whose beheaded body was found later that fall in a forest near Kiev. New developments - and strong words by newly elected President Viktor Yushchenko - gave new impetus last week to a case long stalled.
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The Boston Globe
Trial logjam plagues court system
State problem most acute in Suffolk County
By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff March 14, 2005
The number of felony cases in Suffolk County taking a year or more to go to trial has nearly doubled since 2001, part of a statewide backlog that is testing the Massachusetts criminal justice system in unprecedented ways.
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Pacific center sued over tsunami warning
March 14, 2005
HONOLULU -- Tsunami survivors and relatives of victims have sued the federal agency that operates the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, alleging the center did not do enough to warn people about the disaster.
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New cholesterol guidelines spur testing
By Ross Kerber, Globe Staff March 14, 2005
Newton-Wellesley Hospital internist Alan Glaser used to cajole his patients to take their cholesterol-lowering pills. Now he uses a persuasion tool: a quick printout of their cholesterol levels.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/03/14/new_cholesterol_guidelines_spur_testing/
Boston couple gives $6 million to Beth Israel for stem cell study
March 14, 2005
BOSTON -- A real estate developer and his wife are giving $6 million to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston for stem cell research, a controversial issue that is being considered by the Massachusetts Legislature.
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Leahy seeks $140b asbestos victim fund
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff March 14, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Senator Patrick J. Leahy gazes upon a stirring sight when he visits a cemetery in Barre, Vt.: a tombstone marking the grave of Patrick J. Leahy.
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With marriage, gay couples face tax tangles
By Kimberly Blanton, Globe Staff March 14, 2005
The conflict between Massachusetts and federal laws on gay marriage is making the routine filing of taxes anything but routine for accountants, tax officials, and newly married same-sex couples such as Jan Donley and Diane Felicio.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/14/with_marriage_gay_couples_face_tax_tangles/
S. Korean demonstrators cut off fingers
March 14, 2005
SEOUL, South Korea -- Two South Korean demonstrators each cut off a finger outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Monday to protest Tokyo's territorial claim to a set of islets controlled by South Korea, and Japan recalled its ambassador over the same issue.
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The Moscow Times
Moscow Makes Its Case for 2012
By Kevin O'Flynn
Staff Writer
A dirigible touting the 2012 Olympic bid flies over the State Duma on Sunday.
Moscow was covered in interlocking rings Sunday as the city -- a rank outsider among the five finalists bidding for the 2012 Olympics -- prepared to persuade the International Olympic Committee that it deserved a shot at hosting the Games.
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Gorbachev Defends His Policy of Perestroika
By Anatoly Medetsky and Oksana Yablokova
Staff Writers
Gorbachev attending the opening Friday of an exhibit titled "Gorbachev: Life and Reforms," which features a collection of photographs and foreign awards.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev defended his policy of perestroika and rejected accusations that it fueled the collapse of the Soviet Union at events Friday that commemorated the 20th anniversary of his ascent to power.
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U.S. Reaches Settlement With Holocaust Victims
By Frances Kerry
Reuters
MIAMI -- The U.S. government reached a $25.5 million settlement on Friday with Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, artwork and other property seized by the U.S. Army near the end of World War II after it had been stolen by Nazis.
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U.S. Doctors Secretly Assisted Yushchenko
Combined Reports
WASHINGTON -- American doctors secretly assisted in the treatment of Viktor Yushchenko after he was apparently poisoned while running for president of Ukraine, the U.S. State Department said Friday.
U.S. officials kept the doctors' role secret because they did not want to appear to be interfering in the tumultuous Ukrainian election.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/14/016.html
Maskhadov's Body in Moscow
People at the Russian Embassy in Warsaw denouncing Maskhadov's killing.
The body of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, who was slain by FSB commandos last week, has been sent to Moscow for forensic examination, officials said Friday.
But residents of the house where authorities said Maskhadov was killed in Tolstoy-Kurt denied that he had been hiding in their basement, casting doubt on Moscow's accounts of the killing.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/14/015.html
The New York Times
Government Report on U.S. Aviation Warns of Security Holes
WASHINGTON, March 13 - Despite a huge investment in security, the American aviation system remains vulnerable to attack by Al Qaeda and other jihadist terrorist groups, with noncommercial planes and helicopters offering terrorists particularly tempting targets, a confidential government report concludes.
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Hundreds of Thousands in Lebanon Protest Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in central Beirut on Monday in the largest anti-Syrian protest in Lebanon since the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri exactly a month ago.
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Bush to Permit Trading of Credits to Limit Mercury
WASHINGTON, March 13 - The Bush administration this week will propose the first federal controls on mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. The new rule will abandon the Environmental Protection Agency's original tilt toward a remedy favored by most environmental groups in favor of a system of tradable pollution allowances that is more congenial to industry.
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Kurds' Return to City Shakes Politics in Iraq
KIRKUK, Iraq - Muhammad Ahmed realized how wide the chasm between Kurds and Arabs here had grown when he recently ran into a former classmate on the serpentine streets of this troubled city.
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