European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 9 Bollywood actress wants kiss warrant dropped new Delhi Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty appealed to the supreme court monday to quash an arrest warrant issued against her and Hollywood Star Richard Gere for violating the country obscenity a Media report the court was scheduled to hear the Appeal an Indi an news Agency a judge in the City of Jaipur is sued the warrant last month for both Gere and Shetty after a kiss at a Public aids awareness event in new the judge has since been transferred from his students among dead in afghan Border fighting Afghanistan Bor Der fighting Between afghan and pakistani forces has killed 13 peo including seven school age afghan officials said As the most serious clashes in years Between the two countries went into a second the skirmish in the Eastern province of Pattia killed six afghan Border police along with the seven said Murad a Deputy corps commander of the afghan he said 25 civil ians and three Border police had been wounded in the arson suspected in fatal russian cafe fire Moscow ten people were found dead after a fire swept through a cafe in a russian police and emergency officials said and prosecutors indicated they suspect the Early morning Blaze gutted a Small cafe and bar at a Market in Southeast of state run Rossiya television re ported that investigators were not ruling out the possibility that the victims were killed before the fire broke out and that the cafe was set ablaze in an attempt to de stroy regional Emer gency official Pyotr Lashko said on Rossiya that one of the victims had a knife Japan takes Early Steps to Amend Constitution Tokyo japans parliament Laid the groundwork for Amend ing the pacifist Constitution Mon handing prime minister Shinzo Abe a needed political Vic Abe has championed strength ening military cooperation with the United states and a More prominent japanese role in peace but moves to overhaul the Constitution have drawn fire from critics concerned about re surgent from the associated press jeans Gregory a couple walk past a store Selling Jordache jeans in Havana earlier this despite a 45yearold Embar go against products from the United states can still be found in the what cuban embargo distributors abroad get brands to castros Island by will Weissert the associated press Golden Arches Are nowhere to be theres not a single Starbucks or and no Way to buy a a Corvette or a but even in you can get a despite the trading with the enemy which governs Washington 45yearold sales on Fidel castros Island Are lining the pockets of corporate Colgate and Gillette series shaving Cream and Jordache jeans All Are easy to cubans who Wear Contact lenses can buy Bausch parents can Surprise the kids with a Mickey mouse fire dozens of american brands Are on Sale Here and not in some Blac Market Back there in the lobbies of gleaming government run hotels and in crowded supermarkets and pharmacies that answer to the communist the companies say they have no direct knowledge of sales in and that the amounts involved Are Small and would be impractical to but its hard to deny that a portion of the transactions wind up Back in the United we try and do what we can to police but in a globalized its impossible to catch every said Vada director of global issues management for Nike Trade sanctions bar american tourists from visit ing Cuba and allow exports Only of food and farm medical supplies and some telecommunications but wholesalers and distributors in latin America and Canada routinely sell some of americas most recognizable brands to cuban Cuba has for years sought out american goods As a Way of thumbing its nose at the officials at three foreign owned import companies operating in who refused to have their names published for fear of economic said the communist government itself still imports the vast majority of american Christopher assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export said from Washington that Cuba even sends delegations on buying Hunting for specific american products in third countries for resale Back cuban press authorities did not make relevant officials available to discuss the in a country where tourism is the leading Revenue stocking american brands helps reassure according to Daniel a cuban Economy expert at the inter american dialogue in Wash average cubans would rather have coca cola than a Noname generic soda there not familiar that Means the government can charge Erikson and obviously for the tourist Industry its important for the foreigners who visit Cuba to see products that they know and All american products Are sold in cuban convert Ible considered foreign currency and Worth apiece about 25 times the islands regular although government salaries have increased in recent the average monthly pay is still around meaning few cubans can afford but last Economy minister Jose Luis Rodriguez said 57 percent of the population has Access to hard currency dollars or convertible pesos either through jobs in tourism or Money from rela Tives a 2004 report by the commission for assistance to a free Cuba estimated that remit Tances from the United states alone total billion a Kawa Meh palestinian Interior minister resigns by Ibrahim Barzak the associated press Gaza Gaza strip the palestinian Interior minister re signed on accusing Hamas and Fatah leaders of thwarting his efforts to halt new violence that is threatening the survival of the palestinian coalition the loss of Interior minister Hani Kawas a Ca reer civil ser vant who was a com Promise candidate for the top Secu Rity was a major setback for the govern which was formed in March by rivals Fatah and Hamas to end months of factional eight palestinians were killed and 52 wounded in Street Battles since in the worst Vio Lence since the Power sharing one Man was shot dead while driving a bread delivery truck near a Security compound during a hundreds of masked men patrolled Gaza taking up positions around government build Homes of politicians and other sensitive one gun Battle erupted near the Headquarters of the pro Fatah National Security Kawas Mehs resignation High lighted the deep rifts Over who controls the Security Hamas and Fatah had put off dealing with the explosive and Kawas Mehs resignation and the renewed fighting made a com Promise even More Kawa Meh had proposed the gradual integration of rival Security branches under a joint com in the first the forces were to have focused on followed by a Clampdown on clan feuds and other his plan never got off the mainly because sides were afraid to yield control to a joint Kawa Meh first threatened to resign two weeks ago to protest the resistance to his prime minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas accepted the resignation monday after saying he Learned about it on save thousands of dollars under stateside prices military sales privileged to 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