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POLITICS-U.S.: Troops Take 19th-Century ‘Monroe Doctrine’ Global
U.S. troops appear suddenly to be deploying everywhere, and with very little notice.HEALTH-U.S.: Bush Ponders Anti-Abortion Conditions for AIDS Money
Population and women's reproductive-health groups are calling on U.S. President George W. Bush not to impose strict, anti-abortion conditions on his five-year, 15-billion-dollar plans to fight HIV-AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean.POLITICS-U.S.: Voices Urging Talks with North Korea Grow Louder
The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is under growing pressure to agree to bilateral negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear programme.RIGHTS-EGYPT: Street Children Often Abused by Police, says Report
Street children and truants are subject to widespread abuse by Egyptian police, including arbitrary arrests, extortion, beatings, and sexual abuse, says a report released here and in Cairo on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLITICS-U.S.: 19th Century Imperial Spirit Inspires Hawks on Iraq
''Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords''.POLITICS: Growing Rift Over U.S. Policies Mirrors Islam’s Divide
For the past 17 months, foreign-policy experts have been telling readers of U.S. newspapers that the world is not experiencing so much a ''clash of civilisations'' between the West and the Islamic world as a civil war between a small minority of extremists and the vast majority of moderate, forward-looking, peaceful Muslims.RIGHTS-U.S.: Congress Delays Pentagon’s ‘1984’ Spy Scheme
In a sharp rebuff to President George W. Bush's plans to construct a powerful new computerised spying system, Congress has agreed to restrict further research on the programme and ensure that no U.S. citizens are targeted by it.POLITICS-U.S.: Hawks and Realists Still Battling Over Post-War Iraq
While final touches are being put on war plans that could involve as many as 250,000 U.S. troops, officials here are still fighting among themselves over the shape of a post-war Iraq.TRADE: U.S. Opening Offer for Americas Deal Ignores Farm Subsidies
In its opening bid in negotiations for a regional free trade accord, the United States on Tuesday offered to eliminate all tariffs on textiles and apparel imported from other nations of the Americas within five years.POLITICS-U.S.: Drive to Iraq Puts Western Alliance System at Risk
With the Bush administration in a seemingly headlong rush to war, the current international crisis over Iraq's disarmament appears to be threatening the global system of alliances Washington built in the post-World War II era.HEALTH-U.S.: Congress Skirmishes Over Bush AIDS Programme
Two weeks after announcing his five-year, 15-billion-dollar ''emergency plan for AIDS relief'', U.S. President George W. Bush is under fire by activists for pressing Congress to limit U.S. money for the disease next year and insisting that the vast majority of it be spent on bilateral programmes instead of a United Nations' fund.POLITICS: Why Is the United States Going to War Against Iraq?
Why is the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush preparing to go to war against Iraq?POLITICS-U.S.: Bush Revives Alleged Al-Qaeda-Baghdad Link
Of all the assertions about Iraqi wickedness catalogued in U.S. President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address Tuesday night, the most intriguing was his unexpected revival of an alleged connection between Baghdad and al-Qaeda.U.S.: World Community Gives Bush AIDS Pledge Mixed Reception
While welcoming President George W. Bush's pledge to sharply increase funding for HIV/AIDS programmes overseas, Africa and AIDS activists complain that the plan's funding for the U.N.-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria remains far short of what is required and targets too few countries.RIGHTS-U.S.: Landmark Decision Finds Washington Stole Indian Land
While the United States often lectures other countries about respecting the rights of their minorities, particularly those who inhabit natural resource-rich lands and are deprived of their benefits, it is failing to apply the same principle at home, despite an unprecedented injunction by an international body to do so.POLITICS-U.S.: Military Spending Inadequate, Hawks Tell Bush
If there was any doubt about the global ambitions of the Bush administration hawks, it was dispelled this weekend when a group of influential right-wing figures complained that the current military budget of almost 400 billion dollars - greater than the world's 15 next biggest military establishments combined - is not enough to sustain U.S. strategy abroad.POLITICS-U.S.: Military Spending Inadequate, Hawks Tell Bush
If there was any doubt about the global ambitions of the Bush administration hawks, it was dispelled this weekend when a group of influential right-wing figures complained that the current military budget of almost 400 billion dollars - greater than the world's 15 next biggest military establishments combined - is not enough to sustain U.S. strategy abroad.POLITICS-U.S.: Hawks Flap Frantically as Polls Slip
''Now, you should know that I'm an ultra-conservative Baptist preacher,'' Tom, a support technician at a major Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Dallas, Texas, told a reporter who was having problems with his email service this week.POLITICS-U.S.: Bush Moves to Restore Military Ties With Indonesia
The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has moved a major step closer toward normalising military ties with the Indonesian military (TNI), which it hopes will be a key ally in its ''war against terrorism'' in Southeast Asia.RIGHTS-ETHIOPIA: Group Decries Repression of Students, Teachers
Ethiopia's attacks on the freedom of expression of students and teachers should be criticised much more strongly by western countries, despite their deepening alliances with the government in Addis Ababa, says a report released here Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLITICS-U.S.: Africa Activists Denounce Bush’s ‘Malign Neglect’
U.S. activists for Africa are strongly denouncing what they call the administration's ''malign neglect'' of the continent, insisting that Africa's problems represent a more serious threat to long-term U.S. security interests than radical Islamist terrorism.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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