(CNN) — After an outcry from U.S. lawmakers over possible security risks, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates said Sunday it had asked for further review of its deal to buy management rights to terminals atmajor U.S. ports.
"We recognize that there are concerns regarding DP World’s acquisition of P&O’s U.S. terminal operations," Ted Bilkey, Dubai Ports World’s chief operating officer, said in a statement.
"Despite having already obtained approval by the federal government, we continue to take voluntary steps to assure people that the security of the U.S. will not be harmed as a result of this acquisition."
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The White House said Wednesday that critics of a deal that would let a United Arab Emirates company manage six U.S. seaports are "misinformed," but conceded it should have consulted Congress earlier.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CNN) — Harry Whittington said Friday he was sorry for what Dick Cheney and his family have "had to go through" after the vice president shot him in a weekend hunting accident.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Four members of a "death squad" from Iraq’s Interior Ministry were arrested last month, a U.S. general in Baghdad said Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that Vice President Cheney should resign if he ordered a top aide to leak classified information to the media to defend the invasion of Iraq.
(CNN) — The White House is defending its delay in disclosing Vice President Dick Cheney’s weekend hunting accident, telling reporters Monday the focus was on making sure the man Cheney shot got medical attention.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two federal air marshals are facing drug charges after allegedly agreeing to smuggle cocaine from a man who turned out to be a government witness, the U.S. attorney’s office in Houston, Texas, announced Monday.
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — President Bush on Wednesday talked up his budget on a trip to New Hampshire, hours before signing a bill he says is a major step toward cutting the nation’s deficit in half by 2009.
VIENNA, Austria (CNN) — The International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors ended their first session of talks on whether to delay reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council amid threats by the Islamic state that it would start enriching uranium if its nuclear activities were sent to the council.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — A possible tornado damaged parts of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and surrounding businesses in pre-dawn hours Thursday in suburban New Orleans, said police in Kenner, west of the city.
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