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The Department of Defense is unable to account for the use of $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion it spent on reconstruction in Iraq.
Infographic courtesy of GOOD blog www.good.is.
Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (PDF).
Weaknesses in DoD’s financial and management controls left it unable to properly account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in DFI funds [...] -
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday rejected a Palestinian demand that direct negotiations be based on a statement by the Quartet confirming its position that the future Palestinian state will be based on the 1967 borders.
Meeting in Jerusalem with U.S. envoy George Mitchell, Netanyahu repeated his demand for the renewal of direct talks without preconditions. Mitchell [...] -
Cape Town — Archbishop Emeritus Desmond announced on Thursday that he will retire from public life on his 79th birthday in October.
Addressing the press in Cape Town’s St. George’s Cathedral, the Nobel Peace prize winner said he will limit his time in his office to one day a week until the end of February next [...] -
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July 16, 1945 marked the beginning of the Nuclear Age. On that day, the United States conducted the first explosive test of an atomic device. The test was code-named Trinity and took place at the Alamogordo Test Range in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto Desert. The bomb itself was code-named “The Gadget.”
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