Farhan Haq

//ATTN EDS: Please relate the following to ‘Cyprus: Violence Wakes World Up to 22-Year-Old Crisis’ moved earlier from London.//

The United States should punish Turkey for provoking deadly violence in Cyprus, a delegation from the U.S. Congress argued Friday.

DISARMAMENT: Canberra Commission Urges Immediate Steps to Disarm

By Farhan Haq

The world's five declared nuclear powers must state their commitment to disarm their nuclear arsenals and follow up with concrete steps, including the end of nuclear testing, a 16-member international commission argues.

MUSIC-USA: Mixing and Scoring, Brits Ignite Dance Floors

By Farhan Haq

The torch song has long been a staple of smoky nightclubs, with the moody songs of lost love wafting over the lonely souls in the bar-room.

U.S.-POLITICS: Republicans Seek Equal Rights for Fetuses

By Farhan Haq

When they adopt their platform this week for the U.S. presidential election, delegates at the Republican National Convention will seek to confer equal rights for a new group of individuals -- unborn fetuses.

DISARMAMENT: Nuclear Powers Could Bring CTBT to UN Assembly

By Farhan Haq

The world's nuclear powers, stung by India's objections to a nuclear test ban treaty, are considering options to bring that treaty to the United Nations without an international consensus, analysts believe.

US-IMMIGRATION: Republicans Seek Restrictions on Citizenship

By Farhan Haq

Heated political debate over the rights of immigrants threatens to affect the key amendment to the U.S. Constitution that first conferred equal rights to former slaves.

ECUADOR: Bucaram Woos U.S. Bankers after Populist Campaign

By Farhan Haq

Abdala Bucaram Ortiz does not become Ecuador's next president until Saturday, but his visit this week to the United States shows how far he must go to placate U.S. investors worried by his populist campaign.

UNITED STATES: Scrapping Welfare Could Prove Expensive

By Farhan Haq

Ending welfare is not merely cruel -- it is potentially costly as well, warn defenders of the U.S. federal welfare system, which President Bill Clinton has promised to scrap.

CULTURE-USA: Heroin Chic Comes Back

By Farhan Haq

It's stylish, it's current, it's the focus of immense media coverage and political debate, and it can kill you if you try it.

UNITED STATES: Critics See Racial Politics in Welfare Reform

By Farhan Haq

When President Bill Clinton explained why the six-decade-old welfare system needed to be overhauled, he contrasted the widows who received welfare in the 1930s with welfare recipients today.

OLYMPICS-U.S.: Experts Wonder if Homegrown Terrorism is Rising

By Farhan Haq

From church burnings in the South to a pipe bomb at the Olympics Games last Saturday, the face of terrorism in the United States is increasingly becoming domestic.

BURUNDI: United Nations Gives Mixed Reaction to Buyoya Coup

By Farhan Haq

Who is Pierre Buyoya, the Burundi Army major who last week, for the second time in nine years, assumed power in a coup?

OLYMPICS-U.S.: Bomb Brings Back Spectre of Phone Tapping

By Farhan Haq

As U.S. investigators continue their search for the culprits of the weekend bomb attack at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, U.S. President Bill Clinton argues the incident proves the need to strengthen anti-terrorist laws.

U.S.-INDONESIA: Nike Endorses Monitoring After Labour Flap

By Farhan Haq

Cicih Sukaesih, a short, small-boned Indonesian woman, may not seem a formidable force.

BURUNDI: United Nations Renews Plea for Action Amid Coup Rumours

By Farhan Haq

Reports that Burundi's multi-ethnic coalition government had been overthrown Wednesday have sparked new life into the long-stalled effort to send a U.N. peacekeeping force there.

CUBA: United States Still Seeks Criticism for Shootdown

By Farhan Haq

A U.S.-led campaign to penalise Cuba in the U.N. Security Council for its Feb 24 shootdown of two U.S. civilian planes has stalled, but U.S. diplomats are adamant that the United Nations will hold Cuba responsible for the act.

CUBA-U.N.: Washington Backs Off as Sanctions Threat Withers

By Farhan Haq

When Cuba shot down two U.S. civilian planes last Feb 24, the United States demanded immediate action, while Cuba asked for more time to determine the facts behind the case. Now, the shoe is on the other foot.

(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/01)

By Farhan Haq

For a visitor to New York, few experiences are as unpleasant as a ride on the century-old subway system: hot, crowded and slow, the New York subway for years has been a symbol of urban decay.

UNITED STATES: New York Police Deemed Human Rights Threat

By Farhan Haq

New York City police have weathered numerous corruption scandals in recent years but are now facing an even larger challenge: charges that they are human rights violators.

GUATEMALA: Prospect of Amnesty Troubles Human Rights Groups

By Farhan Haq

Amnesty has been granted 12 times by the Guatemalan government during the 35-year civil war, but the possibility of a 13th declaration is sparking anxiety among human rights groups.

CUBA: No U.N. Action Likely Now on Cuban Shootdown

By Farhan Haq

A U.N. debate over whether to penalise Cuba over the Feb 24 shootdown of two U.S. planes is not going to result in any sanctons against Havana for now, diplomats on the U.N. Security Council say.