President Barack Obama is in Poland, in an effort to strengthen relationships in Eastern and Central Europe, and to ask support for emerging Arab democracies. Our correspondent reports from Warsaw, the final stop on the president's six-day, four-nation European tour.President Obama Friday began his first trip to Poland by paying tribute to the country's 20th-century mens timberland 6 inch war dead at its Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.Then, the president laid a wreath at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. The granite monument marks the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto and the persecution of Polish Jews.Later, Mr. Obama hosted a working dinner for the presidents of 18 countries taking part in the Central European summit.

As the dinner began, Mr. Obama told the leaders the United States has taken great inspiration from the blossoming of freedom and economic growth in Eastern and Central Europe.Serbia and Romania boycotted the dinner, to protest the inclusion of the president of Kosovo, a country they do not recognize. The folliwing countries were represented at the timberland roll top boots dinner: Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, as well as Poland.Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski officially welcomes Mr. Obama on Saturday. The two leaders will discuss trade issues, including the exploration of the shale gas found under Poland.

They will also likely talk about an agreement to station U.S. F-16 fighter jets in Poland, a deal Russia opposes. Cooperation on the war in Afghanistan will probably be on the agenda as well.Another likely topic of conversation is support for emerging democracies in the Middle East and North Africa, which administration officials have compared to the former cheap timberland boots communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe two decades ago.And Polish officials may bring up the problem of Poles having to obtain visas to travel to the U.S.Mr. Obama is expected to discuss many of the same issues later in the day with Prime Minister Donald Tusk.Former Polish president and Solidarity labor leader Lech Walesa declined an invitation to meet with Mr. Obama and Polish political leaders on Saturday. His only explanation was, It did not suit me. Previous U.S. presidents have met with Mr.

Russia will never leave the Baikonur cosmodrome rented in Kazakhstan, even upon the completion of its new Vostochny space launch site, the head of Russia's Space agency Roskosmos said on Monday.Anatoly Perminov told local media that "We will not abandon Baikonur till the end of times...space cooperation with Kazakhstan would be gradually switched to the entirely commercial tracks."According to Perminov, Kazakhstan has already offered Russia to use one of Baikonur's launching pads for commercial launches after Russia's shift to the Vostochny cosmodrome cheap timberland boots of its main space operation. Besides, Baikonur will be used for Russian-Ukrainian joint commercial launches.In addition, Perminov revealed that Russia plans to use the Kourou launch site in French Guiana this year, and eyes cooperation agreements with Israel, Vietnam, Nigeria, Belarus, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

The Vostochny cosmodrome is being constructed in Amur region, which would become Russia's point of origin for space travels to the Moon planned by 2025.Roskosmos plans to complete the building of Vostochny infrastructure by the end of 2011, Perminov said."There are a few problems, one of the main ones being the assertion contained in this statement that the correlation between strategic offensive and defensive weapons, reflected in the treaty, is not legally binding for the U.S. and Russia because it is stipulated in the preamble. This thesis cannot be timberland roll top boots defended by lawyers," he said.Lavrov also said the final draft resolution was more hard-lined than the initial version by including some Republicans' positions."Indeed, some of its points make this position more hard-lined as compared with the principles offered by the draft statement that was debated by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations," he said.

When addressing the State Duma the same day, Lavrov voiced confidence that Russian deputies would ratify the new treaty, since "the treaty is fully consistent with Russia's interests," and "there are all necessary preconditions for that."Lavrov nonetheless threatened that should Washington deploy its missile defense system in full-scale, Russia would withdraw from the START.If the State Duma fails to ratify the treaty, it would undermine Russia's reputation, said Lavrov."The main consequence will be that the treaty that really brings our relations with the United States to a fundamentally Timberland boots 6 inch new qualitative level, to the level of equality, parity, and a balance of interests, will not come into force. I think this will deliver a serious blow to our reputation," he said.Lavrov also expressed his hope the text of the new START would not be modified during the ratification process by the State Duma.

U.S. President Barack Obama says it is time to end the $4 billion subsidies for oil and gas companies and invest in energy independence for the United States.During his weekly address Saturday, Obama said investing in clean renewable energy sources is one way to combat rising gas prices straining family budgets. timberland boots cheap He said he disagrees with a congressional proposal that cuts investments in clean energy by 70 percent to lower the deficit. Obama also called for the United States to continue safe, responsible domestic oil production.

He said the U.S. attorney general has launched a task force to root out fraud and manipulation of oil markets.The president said the United States can live within its means without sacrificing investments in energy, education, and job creation now and into the future.In the Republican weekly address, Senator Mike Johanns said Obama administration policies have burdened the primary job creator, small businesses.Johanns said a leaner, more efficient government best supports the country and people looking for work.Representatives from North Africa and the Middle timberland boots brown East attending the conference say unrest is likely to continue and could spread, but the impact on oil production is harder to gauge. The chairman of IHS-CERA, Daniel Yergin, says the International Energy Agency's Emergency Response Program can handle any significant short-term disruptions.

We have a well-worked out emergency system that grew out of the 1970s, the whole purpose of which is to deal with disruption and it provides a kind of coordination and collaboration among consumers and to have the emergency machinery in place," he said.So far there has been no shortage in world production and the Organization of Petroleum timberland boots for women Exporting Countries is considering a special meeting to study an output increase, if it becomes necessary.But even if stability returns to Libya and other nations in that area, growing demand in developing nations like India and China will put pressure on energy companies to find and produce more oil in the years ahead.

"The Palestinians need to focus on their good international relation and try to convince as many countries as possible to follow Brazil and Argentine that have acknowledged a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders," he said, referring to the letters sent by the leaders of Argentine, Brazil and mens timberland 6 inch Uruguay to Abbas confirming their recognition of an independent Palestinian state in 2011.However, Prof. Eytan Gilboa from the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies at the Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv holds another view. He warned that the unilateral declaration could jeopardize the Oslo accords.

"It would free Israel from all its obligations under the Oslo peace process, and it would be able to say that 'there is already a Palestinian state and the conflict is solved,'" he told Xinhua.Asked about the possibility of future negotiations under Washington's brokering, Awwad was doubtful that the U.S. has a role to play in the future."The U.S can not continue to lead the negotiations after they have acknowledged that their own failure in trying to convince Israel to freeze the settlement cheap timberlands construction," he said.Another choice for the Palestinians is that, some analysts argue, the negotiations would be transferred from U.S. sponsorship to the Quartet, which in addition to America includes the European Union, the United Nations and Russia.However, U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who returned to the region this week, vowed that his country would continue efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks despite difficulties.

"There are still many difficulties and obstacles in the way but we are determined to persevere in our efforts to see independent and viable state of Palestine," Mitchell told reporters on Tuesday after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.Gilboa said that he was not sure whether the Obama administration does have a plan on what to do next."They have sent George Mitchell here again to try the resumption of talks. It seems that it's going to be very difficult, timberland boots for women because the Palestinians demand to completely freeze settlement construction while Israel is not prepared to do that, especially in Jerusalem," he said.Analysts believe that a difference between Mitchell's current visit and his previous trips to the region is the U.S. now is planning to deal with various issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts."The U.S. seeks to help the two parties reach an agreement to all final-status issues, and that would pave the way for a final peace treaty.

Moscow police has detained about 150 people, mostly young, on Tuesday evening in the downtown Manezh Square near Kremlin, in an effort to prevent a planned nationalist protest, according to local media reports."All of them were detained while coming from the Okhotny Ryad metro cheap timberland mens boots station to Manezh Square," said a police source as quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency.One of the detained was Dmitry Dyomushkin, leader of an illegal nationalist organization called Slavic Union.According to the RIA Novosti news agency, radical nationalists had planned a December 11 Movement rally named after the massive riots in the same place by nationalists and football mobs last month.

The rally claiming "Russia for Russians only" was scheduled for 7 p.m. Moscow time (1600 GMT) Tuesday at the Manezh Square.Prior to the planned rally, Moscow police have cordoned off Manezh Square and the neighboring Red Square, barring all entrances. Heavy security forces were also deployed at the site. The nearby Okhotny Ryad underground shopping center, which usually closes at 10 p.m. Moscow time (1900 GMT), had been closed some 3.5 hours earlier Tuesday. The GUM shopping timberland boots outlet mall on the Red Square, however, remained open.Moscow city police spokesman Viktor Biryukov only confirmed the arrests of 10 people."At the moment it's difficult to say how many exactly have been arrested. It can be said that about 10 people have been arrested and sent to police stations in the central part of Moscow," said the spokesman as cited by the Interfax news agency.He meanwhile did not specify the reasons behind such arrests, saying all might be clear on Wednesday."The police are on alert, the entire city is under control," he added.

The issue of race hate violence has drawn wide attention in Russia recently. Last month, two massive riots broke out in downtown Moscow ignited by some conflicts between ethnic Russians and internal migrants.President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, in response to violent nationwide protests, appointed timberland boots outlet intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as Egypt's first vice president in 30 years, and also appointed Aviation Minister Ahmad Shafiq as the new prime minister."Omar Suleiman has been sworn in as deputy to President Hosni Mubarak," the MENA news agency reported.Suleiman, 74, has been the director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Services since 1993, a position in which he played a prominent public role in diplomacy, including in Egypt's relations with Israel and the United States.As Egypt's intelligence chief, Suleiman was in charge of the country's most important political security files.

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At the same time, along with the Egyptian Finance Ministry, the Central Bank of Egypt issued Egyptian treasury bonds worth 13 billion Egyptian pounds.MENA reported that an unnamed official source explained that the desire by the banks to purchase the bonds reflect confidence in the ability of the Egyptian economy to overcome the current Egyptian crisis.Ramez said the foreign currency reserves at the central bank hit 36 billion dollars, helping achieve stability in timberland 6 inch boots sale the market.The Central Bank intervened directly in early 2009 during the world economic crisis. The Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt Farouk el-Okda sent an official message to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday, saying Egypt is not in need of any monetary or financial assistance to compensate losses during the massive protests as it plans to take several local measures to face the current crisis.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday landed on Sharm el-Sheikh with his family, after a speech delegating power to his Vice President Omar Suleiman on Thursday night, according to Al Arabiya TV.An airport source told Xinhua earlier that Mubarak and his family left for Sharm el-Sheikh accompanied by Lieutenant General Sami Hafez Enan, chief of staff of the Egyptian army.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in a televised speech on Thursday night that he will hand over power cheap timberland mens boots to Vice President Omar Suleiman, but will not resign, in a response to more than two weeks of mass protests against his 30-year rule.The Egyptian army on Friday delivered a televised statement to guarantee the political reform and people's demands in specific through peaceful transition of power, and calm the nationwide protests that hit the country for more than two weeks. At the same time, the army urged people to go back to normal life.

However, the statement was not welcomed by protesters who demanded the army to act for the people.Thousands of protestors on Friday marched to the presidential palace, and some blockaded the Egyptian television building chanting anti-Mubarak slogans.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak pledged timberland roll top boots Tuesday that he would not run for the presidency again in his speech to the nation which fell into chaos after eight days of anti-government demonstrations demanding an end of the president's 30-year rule.In his speech on Tuesday night, Mubarak said that he does not intend to run for another term after massive anti-government protests shook the country for the past eight days.Mubarak said that he will work in the last months of his term to ensure a smooth transfer of power."My main responsibility is to ensure stability, and in the next few months I will work on the country's stability," he added.

The UN Children's Fund warns thousands of Ivorian refugees, who have fled to Liberia, are threatened by disease outbreaks. UNICEF says cramped living conditions are increasing health and protection risks for children and women. The United Nations reports more than 36,300 Ivorian refugees have fled to Liberia, 85 percent are children and women. The UN Childrens Fund says communities along the border with the Ivory Coast are sheltering most asylum seekers.UNICEF says local inhabitants are timberland roll top boots very welcoming to the refugees. But, it notes Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, with more than 80 percent of the population living on less than $1.25 a day. And this, says UNICEF spokeswoman, Marixie Mercado, limits the ability of these poor communities to care for themselves and the refugees. She says their coping mechanisms are being stretched to the limit.

In some communities, especially those closest to the border, refugees far outnumber local inhabitants, and residents say they cannot absorb more refugees. Severe food shortages and inadequate shelter aggravate protection risks for children and women, and the threat of disease outbreak remains one of the most pressing humanitarian concerns, Mercado said. For the majority of refugees and local inhabitants, the nearest health facility is a good four-hour walk away through mud paths timberland 6 inch boots sale and dense forest. UNICEF spokeswoman Mercado, who recently returned from Liberia, says the overcrowded conditions of the communities are increasing the health and protection risks. She says in some villages as many as 30 people may be living in one small dwelling. In many cases, she notes, women and children are sleeping out in the bush.There have been a few cases of sexual and gender-based violence reported-very, very few. Many of the victims are unwilling to come forward. But, there have been very few cases thus far.

But, these conditions of shelter definitely aggravate risks for women and childrenThe shortages of food means that-for example, children are criss-crossing the border. There are reports of children working as porters, carrying loads, she said. Mercado says the shortage of food among the residents black timberland boots and refugees aggravates risks for everybody. She notes local inhabitants say they have used up their food stocks until May.UNICEF is providing the refugees with safe water and sanitation. It is conducting special therapeutic feeding for severely malnourished children and recently supported a Ministry of Health-led campaign to immunize 150,000 children-both refugees and Liberians--against measles.Mercado says this was in response to a measles outbreak that has killed five Liberian children in Nimba County, where 97 percent of the refugees are hosted.

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A two-year moratorium on the burning of forest lands in Indonesia, that was supposed to start at the beginning of the year, is still on hold. The ban is part of a one billion-dollar deal with Norway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that some scientists say are the primary cause of global warming.Indonesia is the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. Deforestation, mostly because of the burning of forests for palm oil farming and mining that currently timberland boots cheap happens at a rate of 100 million hectors a year, accounts for 50 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 26 percent by 2020.

A two-year moratorium on the development of new forest land, that was supposed to begin back in January, is a key part of Indonesia's environmental initiative and is part of a one billion dollar deal with Norway to protect forests and reduce emissions.But the ban has been delayed and the task force charged with developing the moratorium is struggling to come up with ways to make environmental gains without causing economic pain.Nur Masripatin, director of the Center for cheap timberland mens boots Standardization and Environment with the Ministry of Forestry, says it is not economically feasible to expect Indonesia to halt development in all rural areas. If your country, having 70 percent of your country land is forest and your population keep growing, is it realistic that in the future, 30 years in the future, you expected your forest still [is] 70 percent of the forest area?" she asked.

The task force is working on definitions she says that will help delineate what areas will be affected by the ban.Green Peace campaigner Yuyun Idradi is skeptical that the moratorium, when it is finally enacted, will have any environmental impact. He says the ban will only cover new land permits, not existing ones, and that most of the areas to be covered are already designated as protected forests. He says the whole process is being delayed by corporate lobbying."Negotiation is being closed black timberland boots and there is no information at all up to now and we don't know how the new draft and when it is going to be signed," Idradi stated.Robert Daniel with the Climate Change Unit at the British Embassy in Jakarta says when the ban is enacted, it will not significantly reduce short-term emissions of greenhouse gases. "What you are talking about is climate change here, Daniel said. Very little forest will be protected as a result of the moratorium. But that is not the point. As we were saying before, this is a process. It is a step along the road to reducing deforestation.He says the process involves getting businesses to buy into the economic advantages of sustainable development practices.

The average oil prices were between 70 to 80 dollars per barrel in 2010 compared to 59 dollars a barrel for 2009, after a big dive during the global financial crisis.Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah said in December oil prices will not likely to cross the 100 dollars a barrel mark in 2011 and the current prices are acceptable for both oil producing and consuming countries.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in October the black timberland boots economic outlook for GCC countries has improved guaranteed by stable oil prices and recovering world economy.GCC economies will likely to expend 4.2 percent in 2010, following a 2.3-percent growth of GDP in 2009, the IMF said.That analysis was echoed by a report from the Diplomatic Center for Strategic Studies in Kuwait which said oil revenues in GCC countries rose by 15.6 percent or the equivalent of 63 billion dollars over the past year to reach 465 billion dollars.

The 27-percent increase is expected to bring a 9-percent economic growth in these countries at the current prices in 2011.Among the six countries, the world's top liquified natural gas (LNG) exporter Qatar would record the highest growth rate, with its real GDP projected to rise by around 10.6 percent in 2011 driven by the expansion in the gas sector.Growth were forecast at around 3.9 percent in Saudi Arabia, at nearly 3.3 percent in Kuwait and the UAE, at 6.1 percent cheap timberland boots in Oman and around 4.9 percent in Bahrain.Greek police detonated on Friday afternoon a suspicious package spotted at the entrance of the Regional Development and Competitiveness Ministry building in Athens, which eventually proved a false alarm.A squad of counter-terrorism experts proceeded to a controlled explosion of the package, as Greek authorities are on alert for possible attacks by local guerilla groups.

According to early information by Greek media, experts discovered after all that the package included only a table lamp.Greek police is on alert over the past few weeks, as local militants have threatened with attacks on "representatives of the status quo" during the trial of 13 young persons accused of terrorism activity which opened in Athens last Monday.The youths are considered as members of the "Conspiracy of the Nuclei of Fire" group which is timberland boots cheap linked to a long series of attacks on political, police and financial targets since 2009, including the case of the more than a dozen parcel bombs addressed to foreign embassies in Athens and European leaders last November.Last summer a stronger explosive device hidden inside a parcel addressed to Michalis Chrysohoidis, Citizens' Protection Minister at the time, killed a police officer next to his office.Chrysohoidis currently is Regional Development and Competitiveness Minister.

French telecom giant Vivendi said Wednesday it has sold its remaining stake in NBC Universal to U.S. General Electric (GE) for 3.8 billion U.S. dollars."Vivendi has concluded ... the sale of the remainder of its stake in NBC Universal, a 12.34 percent stake, for 3.8 billion U.S. dollars to GE," the group said in a statement.Following the recent transaction, the French media and entertainment group has garnered a total of 5.8 billion U.S. dollars from the U.S. company mens timberland roll top boots after selling last September 7.66 percent of its NBC shares worth 2 billion U.S. dollars.French telecom giant Vivendi said Wednesday it has sold its remaining stake in NBC Universal to U.S. General Electric (GE) for 3.8 billion U.S. dollars."Vivendi has concluded ... the sale of the remainder of its stake in NBC Universal, a 12.34 percent stake, for 3.8 billion U.S. dollars to GE," the group said in a statement.

Following the recent transaction, the French media and entertainment group has garnered a total of 5.8 billion U.S. dollars from the U.S. company after selling last September 7.66 percent of its NBC shares worth 2 billion U.S. dollars."We are very satisfied that our strategic objective to exit NBC Universal has been completed ... Vivendi now has control of all its assets and is fully focused on pursuing its profitable growth strategy," said Jean-Bernard Levy, CEO of Vivendi.Vivendi cheap timberland boots employs 49,000 workers in 77 countries across the world. It reported a 4.8-percent growth in its adjusted net income to 2.21 billion euros (3 billion U.S. dollars) for the January- September period in 2010.Foreign Minister of France Michele Alliot-Marie wrapped up a four-hour visit in the Gaza Strip to check up the humanitarian situation, where angry relatives of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails received her with shoes and rotten eggs.

As soon as Alliot-Marie's convoy arrived from Israel Erez border crossing, where dozens of furious relatives of Palestinian prisoners received her near the borders with signs saying she is not welcome, while other protesters jumped on her car or laid down on the road to block the convoy.After the convoy, accompanied by United Nations vehicles and officials, was blocked for around ten minutes, Hamas police, which rules the Gaza Strip, intervened and dispersed the protesters and let the discount timberland boots convoy pass through. It is the first time for Alliot-Marie to visit Gaza since November.A Xinhua reporter said that despite the furious protests against her visit, she faced the angry protesters with smiles, while her personal bodyguards were tensed and upset. Alliot-Marie' s deputy for development affairs was lightly hurt while pushing the protesters, who tried to penetrate the convoy.