WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has declared a Chechen group as a terrorist organization, and is offering up to $5 million for information leading to its commander.
The State Department announced the action against the Caucasus Emirate Thursday, after President Barack Obama met Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev in France.
The group is blamed for bombing Moscow's airport in January, two subway stations …
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LLONGYFARCHIADAU: Ffion Haf o Dinas ennillodd Tlws yr Ifanc.
MEDAL: Llefaru 10 a than 12 oed. 1af. Hanna Medi, Gwyddgrug,Pencader.
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BAARIA. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, with Francesco Scianna, Margareth Made, Giorgio Faletti, Leo Gullotta, Angela Molina and Marcello Mazzarella.
REVIEW: Geoffrey MacNab
THIS sprawling Sicilian family epic is certainly heartfelt. In its early scenes, it captures some of the same magic found in the director's best known work, Cinema Paradiso.
Giuseppe Tornatore has a flair for capturing the child's-eye view of the world. The opening scenes, with their elaborate set-pieces and crowd, work the best. As he evokes the Palermo of the 1930s, the camera swoops around while Ennio Morricone music reverberates on the soundtrack. Every scene seems to …
BYLINE: Christine Qunta
While the old establishment has been gnawing at the fabric of our democracy for the last 10 years, it is now circling, buoyed by a seeming retreat of African intellectuals and a perceived weakening of cohesion within the ranks of the ANC.
Old establishment may not be the most precise way to describe what is essentially a coalition of liberal and right-wing elements in our society. It is a group of people who have failed to accept the legitimacy of our democracy. Perhaps it happened too quickly or was too far-reaching in the transfer of political power.
The content of our democracy is one of the important questions that has not been …
Byline: LARA JAKES Capitol bureau
Seventeen years ago, dairy farmer Bob Dygert of Montgomery County shelled out $15,000 for retirement insurance to provide for him and his family when he decided to hang up his milking stool.
But in 1997, Dygert and 37 other area dairy farmers who had invested in the fund were told that it had failed and that they would not receive any more retirement or death payments from the New York City-based insurance company. And $700,000 that the farmers had shelled out for the benefits also was lost.
On Wednesday, the farmers finally got their due: a $1 million settlement pursued by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on their …
Byline: Eric Anderson
Jan. 27--BRUNSWICK -- If all goes well, a year from now Herrington Farms Inc. in rural Rensselaer County could be producing enough electricity to power more than 350 homes, as well as the farm buildings themselves.
The only gas it will use to do this will be the methane from the manure produced by the farm's 580 dairy cows and from crop and food wastes.
The price Herrington gets for its electricity could yield "significant potential income for the farm," said Stephen Hoyt, chief operating officer and project manager for Troy-based Saratoga Biogas LLC.
Essentially, the project could end up turning manure into money. …
Barack Obama seized command of the race for the White House Tuesday night, defeating John McCain in Ohio and Iowa and building a near insurmountable Electoral College advantage in his historic bid to become the first black president. Fellow Democrats padded their majorities in both houses of Congress.
Obama's Ohio victory denied McCain particularly precious territory. No Republican has ever won the presidency without it.
The 47-year-old Illinois senator watched returns at a downtown Chicago hotel, then went home to a family dinner after a marathon campaign across 49 states and 21 months.
A jubilant crowd of thousands gathered in Grant Park across …
