Algo vai muito mal nos serviços de inteligência dos EUA e da Inglaterra: ambas as agências não sabem espionar. Os dois birôs, que construíram fama durante a Guerra Fria, se mostraram incompetentes tanto para alertar a Casa Branca quanto Downing Street sobre ameaças iminentes a seus países, segundo as comissões. Pior, porém, é que em vez de atenderem a interesses legítimos de uma nação, passaram clara impressão de que viraram instrumentos políticos de governos que precisavam, diante da opinião pública, justificar ações como a invasão do Iraque.
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Tomar las cosas demasiado en serio nunca trae buena cuenta. Camilo José
O crescimento do setor de petróleo e gás produziu um passivo ambiental de cinco mil quilômetros de extensão. Investidores e governo abandonaram a regularização de empreendimentos antigos por causa da prioridade de erguer infra-estrutura nova. Doze dutos interestaduais de transporte de gás natural e petróleo não possuem o aval do Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Renováveis (Ibama).
The former president of Peru, Alberto K Fujimori, who is fighting extradition to Peru on human rights and corruption charges, may run for a seat in Japan's legislative elections, his spokesman said.
A passagem do Dia Mundial dos Refugiados terá no Brasil um significado especial este ano. Após seis anos fechado, o escritório do Acnur no país reabriu as portas há dois meses e meio, como mais uma ferramenta para auxiliar os 3.200 refugiados que buscaram asilo em terras verde-amarelas. Amanhã, em parceria com a arquidiocese, o órgão da ONU vai realizar uma feira de saúde e lazer para os refugiados, a maioria dos quais — aproximadamente 2.000 — encontra-se no Rio de Janeiro, sendo o maior contingente composto de angolanos.
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico - Transit officer Salvador Macias Medina parked his car just over the bridge connecting Mexico to El Paso, Texas, poised to help migrants navigate through Ciudad Juárez and to their hometowns for Christmas. "I've been here since 2 p.m. and not a single compatriot has sought help."
Here are the three things that I found most interesting about Tuesday's New Hampshire primary in which Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton and Republican Sen. John McCain won upset victories that threw the 2008 presidential race into uncharted territory...
The rapid escalation of the U.S. anti-immigration hysteria -- fueled by ratings-hungry cable-television hotheads and leading Republican presidential hopefuls -- is a dangerous trend: It may lead to a Hispanic intifada that may rock this nation in the not-so-distant future.
The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants had capsized in the Pacific. The bodies have not been identified, and officials said the government was searching for more victims around the coastal town of San Francisco del Mar, 200 miles west of the border with Guatemala. If the victims are confirmed to be migrants, it could be evidence that smugglers are increasingly turning to boats to avoid highway checkpoints set up to deter the flow of Central Americans into southern Mexico.
American officials say the migration, which has grown into a multimillion-dollar-a-year smuggling enterprise, has risen sharply because many Cubans have lost hope that Raúl Castro, who took over as president from his brother Fidel in 2006, will make changes that will improve their lives. Cuban authorities contend that the migration is more economic than political and is fueled by Washington's policy of rewarding Cubans who enter the United States illegally.
Bipartisan Compromise Fails To Satisfy the Right or the Left
The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was crushed yesterday in the Senate, with the forces of the political right and left overwhelming a bipartisan compromise on one of the most difficult issues facing the country.
Senate Democratic and Republican leaders announced on Thursday that they had agreed on a way to revive a comprehensive immigration bill that was pulled off the Senate floor seven days ago.
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