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Posted: March 6th, 2007, 3:00am PST
QUESTION: A servant runs to a neighbor for help with stories of long hours, non-payment, physical abuse. When a diplomat's accused, immunity protects them, right? MR. TAYLOR: That's not always the case. There are many different levels of immunity. There's "limited immunity," that only covers official acts, and many staff members of foreign embassies here have no immunity.
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Posted: March 6th, 2007, 3:00am PST
QUESTION: In Virginia, domestic workers alleged that their boss, a Kuwaiti diplomat, had taken their documents, forced them to work long hours, and physically abused them. While Maryland legislators tackled the issue of human trafficking based on cases there, Mark Taylor, with the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, has been tracking the problem worldwide.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2007, 3:00am PST
Kurdistan Business Exchange Conference will open doors to worldwide commerce Major Terry Lannan, Australian Army and Multinational Forces, Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq) - This March hundreds of Kurdish businessmen and women from Sulymaniyah, Erbil, Dahuk, and Kirkuk will meet in Dubai with hundreds of businessmen and women from the Middle East and around the world interested in investing in Iraq.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2007, 3:00am PST
FOB Kalsu, Iraq March 2, 2007 Helping Iraqi farmers increase yields in Babil Province (FOB Kalsu, Iraq) The Fertile Crescent has always been the agricultural heart of Iraq. The rich farmlands created by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have long fed Iraq and the surrounding lands.
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Posted: December 4th, 2006, 3:00am PST
2:20 p.m. EST MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. No opening statements, so we can get right into your questions, whoever would like to start us off. Mr. Gedda. QUESTION: Any thoughts on the Venezuelan election? MR. MCCORMACK: Oh, well, we commend the Venezuelan people for the conduct of this election.
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Posted: December 1st, 2006, 3:00am PST
12:41 p.m. EST MR. CASEY: Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. TGIF, happy Friday. Don't have any opening statements or announcements for you, so I guess we can go right to your questions. QUESTION: Well, let me try you on the massive, hundreds of thousands of protestors in Beirut calling for the resignation of the Western-backed government.
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Posted: November 30th, 2006, 3:00am PST
12:44 p.m. EST MR. CASEY: Okay. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Happy Thursday. I don't have any opening statements or announcements, so I guess we'll get right to your questions. QUESTION: Toby Harnden with London Daily Telegraph. Kendall Myers from your Bureau of Intelligence and Research gave a lecture on Wednesday when he described the "myth of the special relationship between the UK and the U.S.
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Posted: November 30th, 2006, 3:00am PST
UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to the State Department. It's a great pleasure for me, to welcome to the State Department our Secretary of Education, Secretary Margaret Spellings, and also to welcome Pakistan 's Education Minister Javed Ashraf.
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Posted: November 29th, 2006, 3:00am PST
12:50 p.m. EST MR. CASEY: Good afternoon, everyone. I apologize for keeping you waiting a few minutes. Don't have any opening statements or announcements, so why don't we get right to your questions. George. QUESTION: Could you give us what you have on Chris Hill's deliberations in the Far East?
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Posted: November 28th, 2006, 3:00am PST
12:30 p.m. EST MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. No opening statements, so we can get right into your questions. QUESTION: All right. Mideast peacemaking. A senior Palestinian, says that the Secretary will meet with Mr. Abbas in Jericho on Thursday.