BURMA: Fear Over the Country By Moe Yu May and Marwaan Macan-Markar RANGOON - Nights are no more the same for the 45-year-old Buddhist monk who lives in a monastery in the Myay Ni Gone area, close to the heart of this dilapidated city. Nor is sleep. MORE >>
POLITICS-US: Did Bush Get New Iran Intel Last Winter? Analysis by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - White House officials have now admitted that George W. Bush was told that the intelligence assessment on a covert Iranian nuclear programme might change last August, but they have avoided answering the question of when the president was first informed about the new intelligence that led to that revised assessment. MORE >>
POLITICS-US: Hillary Clinton in the Right's Crosshairs By Bill Berkowitz OAKLAND, California - While Democratic candidates are battling it out for their party's 2008 presidential nomination, conservative partisans have been gearing up to take down the frontrunner, Senator Hillary Clinton. MORE >>
COLOMBIA: FARC Hostages Died in Military-Rebel Shootout By Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Aug 21 (IPS) - The deaths of 11 of the 12 regional lawmakers being held hostage by Colombia’s FARC rebels may have occurred in the midst of fighting between the insurgents guarding the hostages and the "Junglas", an elite military unit, according to a reconstruction of events based on interviews by IPS. MORE >>
MIDEAST: Much Ado About Annapolis By Ali Gharib ANNAPOLIS, Maryland - The Middle East peace conference that began and ended here on this crisp, sunny Tuesday was lean on specifics for a lasting peace deal between Israel and Palestine and the formation of a Palestinian state. MORE >>
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