Full text of Tony Blair’s speech to the TUC
The News Review:
- Full text of Tony Blair’s speech to the TUC
- Rice Affirms Offer to Talk to Iran, Sidesteps Nuclear Ban Terms
- Syrian Security Repels Attack On US Embassy
- Revenge of the shareholders: Korean firms on the spot
- DISCOVER A NEW BELFAST IN THE MAKING
- Unstoppable Mushtaq and Croft’s call
- Where Christmas comes and grows
Full text of Tony Blair’s speech to the TUC
Guardian Unlimited – Sep 12, 2006
At the same time there has been a raging debate about immigration from Eastern Europe and about sentiment within our Muslim communities. In one form or another, such debates have been convulsing politics in many disparate nations. It is no surprise that people are worried: shocked by the fact that terrorists can be home-grown, shocked at death and destruction on our television screens whether from Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan or Turkey, confused as to what is the right answer. These past three days I have been in the Middle East. I’ve talked to many different people there. In media terms, there is a natural desire always to concentrate on the surface eruptions of conflict: the tragic death of so many innocent people. In an age where the picture dominates, the graphic human suffering has most impact.
Rice Affirms Offer to Talk to Iran, Sidesteps Nuclear Ban Terms
Bloomberg – Sep 12, 2006
and its allies want to preventIran from having the home-grown ability to produce a nuclearweapon. Rice said during a visit to Canada that she will discussthe Iran issue on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly nextweek in New York. Iran defied an Aug. 31 Security Council deadline to suspendenrichment. While the door remains open for U.
Syrian Security Repels Attack On US Embassy
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty – Sep 12, 2006
What we heard was some explosions and machine-gun exchange. “Militant Groups In SyriaThe attack once again focuses attention on the presence of militant groups in Syria and their uneasy relationship with the Damascus government. Volker Perthes, director of the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs, says Syria has long suppressed home-grown Islamist groups that could challenge its authority. But he says that newer, Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups have become increasingly active in Syria since the U. -led invasion of Iraq. “[The government] has of course a history of fighting the Muslim Brotherhood, which used to be the strongest Islamist group in Syria but probably no longer is,” Perthes says.
Revenge of the shareholders: Korean firms on the spot
International Herald Tribune – Sep 12, 2006
So far, they admit to having few followers among domestic investors, although Kim said the fund planned more inside attacks at other opaque listed companies, in a bid to foster the emergence of other activist funds. "If there are more funds like ours, we can create a theme in the market," said Kim. "We hope that our fund will play a trailblazer's role. "Analysts think the appearance of KCGF means that companies will now have to fend off corporate raiders not only from outside but also from inside South Korea.
DISCOVER A NEW BELFAST IN THE MAKING
New York Post – Sep 12, 2006
Though, the bar crowd is mighty good-looking (from $210, malmaison. Happily, there's more home-grown chic on hand these days. At the top of the pile you'll find The Merchant, a 26-room, over-the-top marriage of uptown and downtown style carved out of an elegant mansion. The Great Room restaurant offers Titanic-era indulgences like Lobster Thermador and Beef Wellington. Dedicated hedonists should pre-book the Silver Bentley airport transfer (from $440, themerchanthotel.
Unstoppable Mushtaq and Croft’s call
CricInfo.com – Sep 12, 2006
Letting captaincy go is a tough decision but Robert Croft is the first late-season casualty, not even waiting until the last ball to call it a day. Glamorgan have had a tough summer but Croft has performed manfully with 63 wickets in the Championship. He still has two years left on his contract and remains the best home-grown offspinner in England and Wales. A fight to the finishWhatever the Pro40 was meant to be – Twenty20′s big brother or the C&G’s little sister – it’s hard to say it has really captured the imagination. During the second half of a long summer it has often been the last thing a county needs after a hard-fought Championship match. A handful of counties – notably Essex – have slotted straight into the format, but for most it has been more hit and miss. However, the tournament is bubbling up into a tight finish.
Where Christmas comes and grows
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 12, 2006
Banstead high street is only a 10-minute walk away and 10 minutes in the car will take you to Croydon or Sutton to catch the fast train into town. Yet this pocket of greenbelt land is also very rural. The Costellos have a bluebell wood and a field that they let for sheep grazing each year, after first taking a cut of organic hay. And, of course, they have the plantation of more than 2,000 Christmas trees, of every size and several different varieties, which they sell direct to the public in December. Christmas Farm was originally a pig farm and smallholding, one of a number of plots of land offered to veterans of the First World War by Surrey County Council in 1921. When the Costellos bought it in 1990, all it lacked was a decent house. Rather than move in to the existing two-bedroom bungalow, they dismantled the outbuildings and created a four-bedroom home on the same, rather irregular, footprint.