UN turns up heat on US automakers over global warming As world officials meet this week at the first major negotiation on a global warming treaty since the 1997 Kyoto protocol, the stakes are rising for an increasingly green auto industry. Third World nation troops are paid mercenaries for UN United Nations peacekeeping is being largely subcontracted to Third World soldiers who endure the risks and fatalities while Western nations bear the financial cost. The United Nations' lead crime-fighter said yesterday the benefits of globalization for international organized crime could become a tool to combat such criminal activity under a treaty approved by the U.N. General Assembly. The saga of scientist Wen Ho Lee, subject of a real-life investigation over nuclear weapons secrets, will be fodder for a television miniseries and an autobiography. A state legislator from Tulsa is leading the charge to have Oklahoma driver's license tests and manuals printed in Spanish in an effort to stop Hispanics from driving without a license or getting licensed in another state.
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In San Antonio, KROM-FM alerts listeners when the Border Patrol is in the area. EU seeks to widen European army to include more nations European Union defense ministers are holding talks to try to spread the net of the new Rapid Reaction Force as widely as possible across the continent. Blair attacks critics of European army Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued a strong rebuke to the Eurosceptic press after its critical response to his commitment that 12,500 UK soldiers will serve in a new EU Rapid Reaction Force. Putin says Russia will not try to stop European army Russian president Vladimir Putin has given his tentative backing to the UK Government's support for a European Union rapid reaction force. The Maronite patriarch said on Monday that he was worried about the future of Christians in Lebanon and the region, who face a life or death decision to stay in their countries.