<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>allvoices - News events &gt;&gt; Political &gt;&gt; Recent</title> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/</link> <description> </description> <language>en-us</language> <item> <title>Fighting intensifies in north Lebanon</title> <description>Sectarian clashes intensified on Friday in the north Lebanese port city of Tripoli, with heavy gunfire taking over from hours of sporadic sniper fire, an AFP correspondent said. Rocket-propelled grenades were also being used in the renewed clashes, t</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/969520-intensifies-lebanon</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:35:46 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Blasts at Gaza cafe, politician's house: Hamas</title> <description>Bomb blasts rocked a cafe and a Hamas politician's home in the Gaza Strip on Friday. At least one Palestinian was killed in one of the biggest flare-ups in internal violence since Islamists seized the enclave a year ago. Hamas blamed unidentified "gu</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/969517-gaza-blasts</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:35:44 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>New subway in sight at last</title> <description>Spadina extension's groundbreaking likely in September as Ottawa prepares to pay up Jul 25, 2008 04:30 AM Robert Benzie Tess Kalinowski Staff Reporters Officials say the groundbreaking ceremony for the TTC's $2 billion Spadina subway extension is exp</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/969511-subway-hurdles</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:35:34 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Turkey shells N. Iraq</title> <description>&#239;&#191;&#189; Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq overnight the latest in a series of air raids in the region since mid-December the military said yesterday. The &#239;&#191;&#189;intensive&#239;&#191;&#189; strike targeted Kurdistan Workers&#239;&#191;&#189; Party (PKK) hide</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/969462-turkey-shells</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:29:38 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Reality check</title> <description>BG Bulgaria is coming up with an action plan to meet European Union standards...While the language in the European Commission reports on Bulgaria officially released on July 23 was diluted compared to that in leaked earlier drafts, an inescapable rea</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/969371</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:17:02 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Man fined for smoking in his van</title> <description>A painter and decorator has been fined &#163;30 for smoking in his own van because it was deemed to be a workplace. Gordon Williams, 58, of Llanafan, near Aberystwyth, west Wales, was on the way to buy teabags for his wife when he incurred the on-the-spot</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/969357-fined-smoking</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:16:40 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Timing at issue on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan: new ROC representative</title> <description>Taiwan's new representative to the United States said Friday in Taipei that timing is the main concern regarding U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, adding that he had not heard that the Bush administration will freeze the deal and that his top priority after</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/969312-taiwan-arms</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:04:23 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Tehran Blast May Have Targeted Hizbullah Arms</title> <description>The company responsible for the arms convoy, LTK, "is owned by the Revolutionary Guards and is suspected of being involved in shipping arms" to Lebanon&#239;&#191;&#189;s Hizbullah militia, the paper reported Friday The Revolutionary Guards "have intensified their </description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/969211-tehran-blast</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:37:48 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Boxer: Public needs to see EPA findings on threat of greenhouse gases</title> <description>The head of the Environmental Protection Agency told the White House in December that high levels of manmade heat-trapping gases are causing global warming and endanger the American people, Sen. Barbara Boxer said Thursday after she reviewed the EPA </description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968851-epa-boxer</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:11:43 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Need more troops for Afghanistan sooner than later: Pentagon</title> <description>The Pentagon said it needs more troops in Afghanistan sooner than later to emerge successful in the war against terror in this country where the Taliban and Al Qaeda has become stronger in recent months. "There's been no secret made of the fact that </description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968813-afghanistan-pentagon</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:10:44 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Masterson says he's paying debt</title> <description>Eagle Topeka bureau Today's most-viewed stories As he is running for the state Senate, Rep. Ty Masterson and his construction company are dealing with unpaid bills that at one point totaled $150,000 in court claims in Butler and Sedgwick counties. So</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968688</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:52:26 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>First lady leads bid to preserve mansion</title> <description>MDT The Colorado Governor's Mansion, which faces Denver's Eighth Avenue, was built in 1908. (Denver Post file photo ) Colorado's first lady said Thursday that she is spearheading an effort to preserve the 100-year-old Governor's Mansion. The Governor</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968651-preserve-mansion</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:46:30 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Kim Beazley appointed ANU chancellor</title> <description>The former Labor leader already has a strong connection with the university sector in his home state, where he is professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Western Australia...Vice-chancellor Ian Chubb said Profe</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968630-beazley-appointed</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:40:08 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Reporter's notebook: Savage plans no apology for his autism remarks</title> <description>In my readings, there is no definitive medical diagnosis for autism." On the July 16 broadcast, Savage said: "In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out."...They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968464-rename-autism</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:13:21 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Iraq provincial elections risk delay (Middle East Online)</title> <description>Iraq provincial elections risk delay Iraqi President rejects election bill, making it all but certain polls due in October will be delayed. Baghdad, 24 July 2008 (Middle East Online) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday rejected a provincial e</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968335</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:54:26 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Officials: Shooting was justified</title> <description>The Canyon County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office says two Nampa police officers acted lawfully when they shot and killed 19-year-old Rudolph Andrade in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 22. &#239;&#191;&#189; The county&#8217;s Critical Incident Task Force &#8212; made up of six local law enfor</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968269-nampa-clears</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:44:33 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>After-Dark Curfew For Under 16s</title> <description>6am UK, Friday July 25, 2008 Children in a Cornish town will be expected to be off the streets by 9pm under a new voluntary curfew during the school summer holidays...The police-led scheme, called Operation Goodnight, is relying on the support of par</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968174-curfew-cornish</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:31:49 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Burr: Ease gun limits for vets</title> <description>Since a severely mentally ill student went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech last year, killing 32 people before turning a gun on himself, Congress and several states have worked to tighten rules on who can legally purchase a firearm...Sen. Richar</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968157-vets-burr</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:31:18 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>IDF chief receives decoration from US army</title> <description>Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, surprised IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi on Thursday by honoring him with the US military's highest award. Following the reception, the two met face-to-face and di</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/968125-ashkenazi-idf</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:25:11 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Three of region's towns get share of federal grants</title> <description>Gov. Deval Patrick and Sen. John Kerry on Thursday announced $26.7 million in federal Community Development Block Grants to 55 communities, including $4.6 million worth of projects in Southeastern Massachusetts. Much of the money is going toward hous</description> <author>allvoices / news event</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/967983</link> <category>Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:07:02 -0500</pubDate> </item> </channel> </rss>
