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...Bush Administration may not have the last word on military tribunals, since it's not clear our allies will stand for them. Spain has said it will resist extraditing 14 suspected al-Qaeda members it has arrested unless it is assured they will be given civilian trials. Since foreign countries have so far rounded up the vast majority of the 350 al-Qaeda members the Administration says have been arrested since Sept. 11--including two more in Italy late last week--the Administration may be forced to back down and hold civil trials if it wants to try them...
...have to understand that I've waited my whole life for this, me and a couple of billion other Asian football fans: the World Cup at our doorstep. I've watched every televised Cup game played since Spain '82, and around here that makes me not one bit unusual. Every four years, my father and I would take a month off work and school and advance our body clocks by 12 hours so we would be up when the matches, invariably scheduled for European prime time, kicked off. Recorded replays were for wusses. Still, when I heard that Korea...
...death penalty for the same charges. A new public order and security bill will make it an offense to "undermine the authority" of the President or engender hostility toward him. In Harare, 35 people protesting proposed changes to election procedures were arrested by police on charges of public violence. SPAIN Is Britain Rock-Weary? Signaling a new readiness to explore giving up Britain's sovereignty of Gibraltar, the U.K. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw met Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Pique in Barcelona. Straw said the Rock, held by Britain since 1704, would be returned to Spanish control...
...Britain and the U.S. Iran, which long called America the Great Satan, is showing more signs than ever that it is on the road to reform, and can play a role in rebuilding neighboring Afghanistan. But what's changed in Chechnya? Are the Balkans any less bitterly divided? Is Spain's terror-riven Basque country any more unified...
...likely to fall on the taxpayer. U.S. lawmakers are drafting a bill that would commit the government to paying 90% of losses from another major terrorist attack. European insurers are lobbying for the creation of an E.U.-wide government-backed "pool," similar to existing ones in Britain and Spain, that would pay for terrorism claims...