Posts Tagged ‘gov’t’
Afghan govt wants donors to support its priorities (AP)
AP – At an international conference on Tuesday, the Afghan government will ask donors to put 80 percent of aid money behind programs that the Afghans — not foreign capitals — deem important to development.
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Setback: BP cap in limbo over gov’t questions (AP)
AP – BP’s work to cap its Gulf of Mexico gusher was in limbo Wednesday after the federal government raised concerns the operation could put damaging pressure on the busted well and make the leak worse.
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Enviro groups stunned that govt ignoring 27K wells (AP)
AP – Leading environmental groups and a U.S. senator on Wednesday called on the government to pay closer attention to more than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico and take action to keep them from leaking even more crude into water already tainted by the massive BP spill.
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Gov’t sues to throw out Arizona immigration law (AP)
AP – The Obama administration sued Arizona on Tuesday to throw out the state’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law and keep other states from copying it.
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Gov’t files suit to throw out AZ immigration law (AP)
AP – The federal government took a momentous step into the immigration debate Tuesday when it filed a lawsuit seeking to throw out Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants, saying the law blatantly violates the Constitution.
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Blasts mar Biden’s call for new gov’t, unity (AP)
AP – Vice President Joe Biden urged rival Iraqi politicians Sunday to end months of delays and select new leaders for their wobbly democracy, predicting a peaceful transition of power even as suicide bombers struck government centers in two major cities.
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Biden: Iraqi gov’t must include top vote-getters (AP)
AP – Vice President Joe Biden says all the main political blocs must be included in the new Iraqi government for it to succeed.
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