LAUNDERING CHARGES: An Irish financier was charged with trying to launder millions in a daring 2004 robbery of a Northern Ireland bank, a record-setting theft that authorities blamed on the outlawed IRA. Ted Cunningham, 59, offered no plea after being charged with 10 counts of handling more than $6 million in money stolen from Northern Bank in Belfast.
ISRAEL WARNED: The U.S. State Department said it has repeatedly told Israel to treat Arab-American Palestinians as American citizens at border crossings and elsewhere. Nonetheless, department spokesman Sean McCormack said, “it’s a continuing issue. It’s a continuing problem.” Arab-American leader James Zogby complained in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about the problem, which he said has been “an issue for many decades” for Arab-Americans traveling in the region.
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