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U.S./CHINA: Cooperation or Conflict?
The United States government should put greater time and effort into creating an "affirmative agenda" of cooperation on security, trade, finance and human rights with China, says a report released Tuesday in Washington.CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Grasping the Geopolitics of Warming
The Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, the Pentagon and the Federal Bureau of Investigation should pool data and offer a comprehensive review of the national security threat posed by global warming, say U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Hagel.POLITICS-PAKISTAN: Madrasas Resistant to Govt Pressure
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's plans to crack down on Karachi's religious schools and the violent sectarian and jihadi groups many of them support has been an outright failure, says a report released Wednesday by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG).U.S./JAPAN: Waiting for a Formal Apology on “Comfort Women”
Pressure has been growing in Washington in support of a bipartisan resolution calling on the government of Japan to acknowledge its role in forcing some-200,000 so-called "comfort women" into sexual slavery during World War Two.RIGHTS: Asian Firms Urged to Rethink “Golden” Pipeline
Construction of natural gas pipelines in Burma could involve the use of slave labour, illegal land confiscation, forced displacement and violence against villagers, says Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLITICS-US: House Ties Iraq Withdrawal to War Funding
The new Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a 124-billion-dollar war spending bill with an explicit deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, in one of the most vocal challenges yet to the George W. Bush administration's policy in the country.POLITICS: U.S. Nukes Plan Viewed as Provocative
The announcement earlier this month that the United States will pursue the design and construction of new nuclear weapons has not been warmly embraced by the rest of the world.CULTURE-US: Battling Evil with Abs of Steel
If the new Hollywood blockbuster "300" weren't so homoerotic, Osama Bin Laden would probably make the film mandatory viewing for all members of al Qaeda.POLITICS: Zimbabwe Increasingly Isolated
International condemnation is building over an incident earlier this month in which long-time Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe violently clamped down on the country's political opposition.FINANCE: U.S. Investors Back Away From Sudan
One of the largest community foundations in the United States has introduced a new divestment strategy from Sudan in a bid to increase pressure on the Sudanese government to curb what many rights groups describe as an ongoing "genocide" in the country's Darfur region.ENVIRONMENT: Across the Globe, Warming Viewed as “Critical”
Climate change is of real concern in all parts of the world, but there is disagreement over whether the problem is urgent enough to require immediate, costly measures or whether more modest efforts will be satisfactory, according to an international poll released Wednesday.LABOUR-US: Many “Guest Workers” Treated Like Chattel
So-called "guest workers" in the United States are routinely forced to handover the deeds to their homes to recruiters, cheated out of wages, held captive by employers who seize their passports and visas, and denied basic standards of living conditions and health care, according to report released Monday in Washington.POLITICS-US: Chavez Ascends as Bush Stumbles
A report released Thursday by the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue charges that United States' policy in dealing with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has shown little skill or consistency as Chavez moves to challenge Washington's agenda in Latin America.POLITICS: US Rights Report Glosses Over Terror War Abuses
The U.S. State Department's annual Human Rights Reports, released Tuesday in Washington, points to the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and the failure of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf to improve his country's human rights record as some of the concerning trends in international human rights over the past year.LABOUR-CHINA: Lure of Cities Often Ends in Despair
China's rapid development and modernisation has come at a terrible human cost for the country's millions of domestic migrant labourers, who are living in cities in appalling overcrowded conditions and are exposed to dangerous working environments, says a report released Thursday by Amnesty International.RIGHTS-US: Fate of Many “Ghost Prisoners” Still Unknown
The U.S. government should account for all "ghost prisoners" detained by the Central Intelligence Agency in secret prisons around the world, urges a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLITICS-US: Expert Warns Against Cold Shoulder to Morales
Thirteen months after the election of Bolivian President Evo Morales, political, ethnic and racial schisms have widened in the country but the United States should stay politically engaged, says a report released by a prominent New York-based think tank.POLITICS: Nations Move to Ban Most-Random Bombs
When more than 40 government delegations meet in Oslo, Norway later this week to negotiate a treaty banning the use of cluster munitions as early as 2008, some of the main users and manufacturers of these weapons will not be in attendance.POLITICS-U.S.: Protests, Arrests Grow Over Sudan’s Darfur
A number of prominent activists were arrested here Wednesday on the steps of the Sudanese embassy protesting the ongoing slaughter in the country's Darfur region and the Bush administration's lack of action in the matter.POLITICS: Guantanamo Hearings ‘Designed to Convict’, Says Expert
Pre-trial hearings that began Tuesday at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba of prisoners taken in the U.S. "war on terrorism" are "designed to convict," says one expert.POLITICS: War Overtakes Economy as U.S. Voters’ Top Concern
The war in Iraq and other foreign affairs are more important to voters in the coming presidential election than the economy, marking the first time since the Vietnam era that U.S. citizens are putting more weight on foreign policy than domestic concerns, according to a poll released Wednesday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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