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<title>PLDM submits lists with signatures in support of signing convention on small border traffic to Foreign Ministry</title>
<link>http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/119547/</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) submitted the collected 5,810 signatures that support the signing of the convention on small-scale border traffic between Moldova and Romania and the resolutions of the meetings held in 13 border districts to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration on May 14. 

PLDM voiced hope that the people&rsquo;s will expressed at the public meetings of May 11 will be taken into account by the Moldovan authorities and will serve as a stimulus for finalizing the talks and signing the convention as soon as possible. 

PLDM plans to hold the People&rsquo;s Assembly for Free Movement within the Border Zone of the EU in the Square of the National Opera House in Chisinau on May 25.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 06:29:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Lupu and Shevchuk discuss Transdniestria conflict in Brussels</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Moldovan Speaker Marian Lupu had an informal meeting with the head of the Transdniestrian parliament Evgheni Shevchuk in Brussels and considered the possibility of immediately resuming the Transdniestria conflict settlement talks. 

According to the Moldovan Parliament&rsquo;s press service, the informal meeting was attended by the EU Special Representative for Moldova Kalman Mizsei and other European officials. 

The participants voiced hope that the initiated dialogue will go on and stressed the necessity of resuming the Transdniestria conflict settlement talks in the 5+2 format as soon as possible.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 06:28:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Romanian MEP says Moldova’s expectations of convention on small border traffic are unrealistic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;The proposal that the convention on small cross-border traffic should include Transdniestria submitted by the Moldovan authorities is unrealistic because Romania is the EU&rsquo;s eastern border, while Moldova does not have control over its whole territory,&rdquo; MEP Renate Weber was quoted by the Romanian press as saying. 

The official said that if the Moldovan authorities propose that the convention should cover all Moldova&rsquo;s territory, including Transdniestria, this means they consider they have influence over the whole territory. 

&ldquo;Of course, on one officially recognizes Transdniestria. The EU regards it a Moldovan territory, but de facto the situation is different.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 06:27:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Interpol says FARC document not altered</title>
<link>http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/119546/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Colombian officials did not tamper with computer files that belonged to rebel leaders indicating rebel ties to Venezuela, Interpol officials said Thursday.The files reviewed by Interpol indicated direct ties between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and the leftist government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.The files also noted a relationship between the FARC and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.Chavez and Correa have denied having political ties with the FARC.The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the files indicated Venezuela offered the FARC the use of one of its ports to receive arms shipped from Russia, and may have offered to help the rebels procure arms such as rocket-propelled grenades.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 06:05:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Man spends three days trapped in SUV</title>
<link>http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/119526/</link>
<description><![CDATA[An injured man spent three days trapped in a sport utility vehicle obscured by thick brush 20 feet from a busy California highway.Duc Vinh Do crashed Saturday on I-680 in North San Jose, the San Jose Mercury News reported. He was finally able to reach his cell phone, which was in the back seat, Tuesday afternoon.Once Do had called 911, finding him was a difficulty. A 911 operator was able to get his general location by triangulating the signal from his cell phone off towers in the area.Police tried driving up and down the highway sounding their sirens, asking Do to tell operators when he could hear them. Eventually, a helicopter located the SUV.Do crashed Saturday night while driving home from an evening in San Jose.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 06:05:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>UPI NewsTrack TopNews</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Emergency war spending fails in HouseWASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- House Republicans, accusing Democrats of political games, blocked passage Thursday of a bill to fund military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.The Democratic leadership had broken the war spending bill into three parts, expecting that Republicans would have little choice but to vote for the appropriations section, the Washington Post reported. Anti-war Democrats rejected that section while voting for measures that set policy limits on the Bush administration and to pay for expanded veterans' benefits as well as unrelated spending.Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio asked Republicans to vote present, and 131 GOP members followed his lead.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 05:05:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Senate sends farm bill to president</title>
<link>http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/119524/</link>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate passed a $307 billion farm bill Thursday in a veto-proof 81-15 vote.President George W. Bush is expected to veto the measure, The New York Times reported. But the five-year measure passed the House 318-106 Wednesday, more than enough support an override.Bush asked for cuts in subsidies to big farmers, arguing that they are not needed at a time when grain prices are at record highs. He charges that the bill is full of gimmicks.He faces revolt from within his own party.I know there is a veto threat from the White House, Rep. Robin Hayes, R-N.C. If the president decides to follow through I will be there voting to override him because we need this update for our nation's policies.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 05:05:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Emergency war spending fails in House</title>
<link>http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/119521/</link>
<description><![CDATA[House Republicans, accusing Democrats of political games, blocked passage Thursday of a bill to fund military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.The Democratic leadership had broken the war spending bill into three parts, expecting that Republicans would have little choice but to vote for the appropriations section, the Washington Post reported. Anti-war Democrats rejected that section while voting for measures that set policy limits on the Bush administration and to pay for expanded veterans' benefits as well as unrelated spending.Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio asked Republicans to vote present, and 131 GOP members followed his lead.We're playing political games on the backs of our troops, Boehner said.President George W.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 05:05:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Mo. mom charged in online hoax</title>
<link>http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/119516/</link>
<description><![CDATA[A federal grand jury in Los Angeles Thursday indicted a Missouri woman involved in an online hoax that ended in the suicide of a teenage girl.The indictment charged Lori Drew of O'Fallon, Mo., with three counts of obtaining protected information used to cause emotional distress to Megan Meier and one count of conspiracy, the Los Angeles Times reported. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles took on the case on the theory that Drew defrauded MySpace, based in Beverly Hills, Calif., when she pretended to be someone else online.Meier, 13, hanged herself in 2006 after receiving messages of rejection from someone she thought was a 16-year-old boy. Missouri prosecutors said they could find no grounds to bring a case against Drew, a neighbor of the girl and her family.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:05:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Young boy wanders 2 miles from home</title>
<link>http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/119515/</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Jersey police said they found a 5-year-old boy after he wandered more than two miles from home on foot while his mother was asleep.The Jersey City boy was found to be in good heath after authorities transported him to Jersey City Medical Center, the (Jersey City, N.J.) Jersey Journal reported Thursday.I fell asleep about 45 minutes ago and when I woke (the boy) was gone, the boy's 31-year-old mother told police.The child told authorities his mother had asked him to go to the store and he was on the way to his cousin's house.Officials said the child was still in the custody of his mother and the state Division of Youth and Family Services was made aware of the Tuesday incident.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:05:00 +0300</pubDate>
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