The tepid Turkish response to Iranian President Ahmedinejad's initial statement about wiping Israel off the map have been followed equally weak statements against the re-start of Iran's uranium enrichment program.
FM Verhagen said he was closely and optimistically following progress toward a re-start of Middle East peace talks and, less optimistically, events in Iran, offering to help better align European positions to support U.S. efforts.
In August, 2008, after the plant had been acquired by Bayer CropScience, undertrained workers mishandled the re-start of a sensitive production unit, triggering an explosion that killed two employees.
The streak's end helpfully coincides with the re-start of the men's N.C.A.A. tournament, the round of 16 re-introducing us to the colorful cast of characters that made it this far.
Claire Bass, of the Humane Society International/UK said the re-start of the cull was devastating news: "For a third year running these supposedly protected animals will be subjected to a cruel and pointless death, scapegoats of the government's failed cattle TB policy.
But the passage of the Freedom Act will mean the re-starting of the very program Congress voted to kill.
Perhaps his phone call with the Argentine president has nothing to do with the re-starting of a long-stalled Buenos Aires tower.
