Replies to post #2606 on HURRICANE KATRINA DISCUSSION

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U.S. Offers to Take in Burundi Refugees
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is offering to permanently resettle up to 10,000 refugees from a 12-year civil war in the African country of Burundi, the State Department said Tuesday. The refugees would be brought to the United States over the next two years with refugee status, and will be given the...


U.S. Urges China to Rethink N. Korea Aid photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. envoy on North Korean human rights is urging China and South Korea to rethink aid policies to North Korea, saying unmonitored assistance could prop up a "criminal regime" and suggesting that the North's nuclear ambitions are linked to its poor treatment of its citizens....


Rice: World United Against North Korea photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. spy agencies confirmed North Korea's nuclear test on Monday, even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared that U.N. sanctions prove the world is united in opposing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Such strong opposition should be a warning to Iran, too, said Rice, who...


Rebel Head Said Plotted to Keep Hostages
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government said Monday that a top Latin American rebel leader plotted to keep three Americans hostage and use them as political bargaining chips after their plane crashed in Colombia. But the defense portrayed Ricardo Palmera as a tangential sympathizer of the leftist FARC...