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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States, Britain and Saudi Arabia asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to impose sanctions on British-based Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih for allegedly providing financial and material support to al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden. The United States and Saudi Arabia also asked the council to impose sanctions on Saudi businessman Adel Abdul Jalil Batterjee, who was instrumental in founding the Benevolence International Foundation, an Islamic charity that the United States has previously deemed a global terrorist group. Council diplomats said the two names were circulated among the 15 Security Council members on Tuesday. If...

WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE Is Pardongate probe dead? Spokesman asked about Marc Rich/Bill Clinton investigation Posted: December 17, 2004 5:21 p.m. Eastern Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions almost no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. If you'd like to suggest a question for the White House, submit it to WorldNetDaily's exclusive interactive forum MR. PRESIDENT! By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan...

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SAN DIEGO ---- County supervisors today could ask the state to toughen election laws by requiring people to show proof that they are U.S. citizens when they register to vote and identification at the polls before being allowed to vote. Under current law, people are not required to show proof of citizenship, and only first-time voters who register by mail are required to show identification ---- which does not have to include a photograph ---- at the polls. Supervisor Bill Horn, who recommended the Board of Supervisors petition the state to change state voting laws, said having to show birth...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's lawyer asked a judge Tuesday to throw out a libel lawsuit filed by a Hollywood stuntwoman who alleged the former actor groped her on film sets. Judge Robert L. Hess took under submission two motions to dismiss Rhonda Miller's lawsuit. "Arnold Schwarzenegger never should have been sued in this case," lawyer Martin Singer said in court. "It was an absolute lie. Pure fabrication. Why would this woman come forward 13 years after the alleged event, the day before the election, with a press conference?" Miller, 53, claims Schwarzenegger and his campaign defamed her...

Who the **** are you, asked the man from special forces (Filed: 06/04/2003) On a bridge into Basra, Olga Craig bumped into the SAS as it was gathering intelligence from Iraqis fleeing the mortar shells of Saddam's militia As a greeting, it was neither conventional nor civilised - but then neither were the circumstances. I was in retreat, he was advancing. It was 4pm one afternoon last week on the bridge into Basra, and Saddam Hussein's elite militia were sending a rain of mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades from the city. In the smoke and the confusion and the deafening...

Kinneret Rosental, mother of eleven and daughter of Hevron-pioneer Rabbi Moshe Levinger, will begin her four-month prison sentence today. Her crime: hitting a police horse. The incident began six months ago when she drove up to a Jerusalem courthouse and a police officer told her to stop - while another officer told her to go. Confused, she began to drive, at which time a third policeman took out his gun and threatened to break her windshield. Beginning to panic, she started driving quickly away and ended up hitting a traffic island - on which was standing a police horse. The...