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...driver was released and it remains unclear whether he faces any criminal charges. While eating dog meat has been banned in the Philippines since 1998, the Animal Kingdom Foundation alleges that as many as 200,000 dogs a year are slaughtered here for their meat. Last year, during a visit to Baguio - known as center of canine cuisine - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo hosted a dinner for the Baguio City officials where she made comments that the local media deemed to have fallen well short of condemning the practice: "Dog meat keeps you warm, does it not?" the President is reported...
Savvier resorts have since factored in spa jaunts, restaurant touring and ice skating, as well as amenities like first-class child care--whatever it takes to make a mountainside stay an experience instead of a mere visit...
...purported Saudi connection to the contras began, say U.S. sources, after CIA Director William Casey asked King Fahd for such help on a visit to Jidda in February 1984. There are conflicting reports on Fahd's initial response. But by mid-1985 the Saudis' secret aims coincided with those of the U.S. "Since the U.S. was helping Saudi Arabia tame Iran," says Ghadry, "Saudi Arabia would help the U.S. with the contras...
...stay away from Cabrini-Green do so. Diana remembers calling an ambulance after Charles accidentally cut his head. It never came. She finally carried the frightened, bleeding child to the fire department, where someone took him to the hospital for stitches. The children's friends will not visit the project because they are too afraid. Sitting at her kitchen table, half watching All My Children on the TV, she answers her mobile phone. It's the Tupperware lady, pressing to come by and get $5 Diana owes her. Diana asks, "Do you know where I live?" She repeats the question...
...compared to Nazis, then seemed to express approval for the security wall Israel is building in the West Bank. She has stuck to her internationally unique position that Iran should be denied access even to civilian nuclear power, and even praised the "swiftness" of Chinese justice on a visit this month to China. Diplomacy, then, is not her forte...