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POPULATION: Hillary Clinton Defends US on Reproductive Rights
Hillary Rodham Clinton was in her element at The Hague Tuesday, just 24 hours after attending King Hussein's funeral in Jordan and during the same day that the U.S. Senate began deliberations on her husband's impeachment trial.POLITICS-RUSSIA: Kremlin Tries to Boost Image Over Kosovo
Talks on negotiating a peace agreement in the embattled Kosovo province of Yugoslavia simmered throughout Europe Tuesday and Moscow attempted to boost its image by continuing its own mediation efforts.MIDEAST: Jordan’s Succession Surprise Underlines Uncertainty
This month's sudden and unexpected change in the succession plans of Jordan's King Hussein is underlining concern here over potential instability in a region long deemed vital to U.S. national interests.POLITICS-UNITED STATES: The Titanic Threatens to Sink the Iceberg
The tensions in the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate as the impeachment debate drags on recalls a joke that has been circulating on the Internet for a year now: Had Bill Clinton been the 'Titanic', the iceberg would have sunk.GULF-IRAQ: Ferocious War Of Words In Volatile Region
The worst-case scenario for US military strategists after December's Operation Desert Fox was a united Arab front that would strengthen the hands of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.//REPEAT//CONFLICT-IRAQ: Arab League’s Mildness Disappoints Baghdad
As if to underline the rules, U.S. planes attacked an Iraqi anti-aircraft battery on Sunday as Arab League foreign ministers were meeting in Cairo to try to reach a common stand to end the Iraqi crisis.CONFLICT-IRAQ: Arab League’s Mildness Dissappoints Baghdad
As if to underline the rules, U.S. planes attacked an Iraqi anti-aircraft battery on Sunday as Arab League foreign ministers were meeting in Cairo to try to reach a common stand to end the Iraqi crisis.POLITICS-AFRICA: Countries Take Sides In Sierra Leone
Last year nations of Central, Southern and East Africa turned against each other over the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This year it is happening in West Africa with the civil war in Sierra Leone.POLITICS-US: Clinton Trial Grinds On, Despite Lack of Attention
U.S. politicians have argued for months over whether President Bill Clinton should be removed from office for allegedly lying under oath about an affair with a former White House intern, but most of the public simply sees the trial as an annoyance that will not end.RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Sharif At Loggerheads With Judiciary
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resolute efforts to hammer home the supremacy of the executive in Pakistan has put the government on an inevitable collision course with the judiciary.POLITICS-U.S: Clinton ‘Crumbs’ for Cuba Offer Not a Few Lessons
Last week's decision by President Bill Clinton to reject calls by top Republican, business and other establishment figures in the United States to undertake a review of Washington's nearly 40-year hostility toward Cuba underscores a number of realities about U.S. politics today.RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: The Genocide of Justice
As the international clamour grows for punishing two top Khmer Rouge leaders who surrendered recently to the Cambodian government, questions remain how about they can be brought to trial if local authorities refuse to initiate action against them.POLITICS-U.S.: Iraq Attacks Raises New Diplomatic Questions
This week's U.S.-British air attacks on Iraq, while unlikely to oust Saddam Hussein from power or even significantly reduce his ability to build and deploy weapons of mass destruction, may still have profound diplomatic and regional consequences.MALAYSIA: Mahathir Counts on Asia Amid Capital Controls
Malaysia's capital and currency control regulations are here to stay, even as Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad counts on Asian help to get by in tough times.INDIA-PAKISTAN: Nuke Status Shrinks Room For Independence on Iraq
The newly acquired nuclear weapons status of India and pakistan has led not to a more independent, assertive, diplomatic posture, but rather to a shrinking of the room for diplomatic manouevre, specially vis-a-vis the U.S.PAKISTAN: Washington Draws Blank on Osama bin Laden
Pakistan is showing a surprising independence in standing firm against U.S efforts to marshal assistance in hunting down fugitive Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden who is in Afghanistan.POLITICS-US: Impeach Clinton, But for What?
Bill Clinton has angered many of his U.S. constituents during the first six years of his presidency - but even his critics disagree about why they want him to leave office.SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Time for Self-Criticism By ASEAN
Calls for self-criticism by the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose leaders meet in Vietnam next week, are rising as the group is buffeted by gusts of economic and political instability.FINANCE-POLITICS: ‘High-Rhetoric’ Fight Between World Bank, IMF/repeating
Nineteenth Street in downtown Washington is starting to become like the Siachen glacier, a disputed mountain expanse over which Indian and Pakistani troops sporadically exchange gunfire.FINANCE-POLITICS: ‘High-Rhetoric’ Fight Between World Bank, IMF/repeating
Nineteenth Street in downtown Washington is starting to become like the Siachen glacier, a disputed mountain expanse over which Indian and Pakistani troops sporadically exchange gunfire.FINANCE-POLITICS: ‘High-Rhetoric’ Fight Between World Bank, IMF/repeating
Nineteenth Street in downtown Washington is starting to become like the Siachen glacier, a disputed mountain expanse over which Indian and Pakistani troops sporadically exchange gunfire.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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