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POLITICS-KOREA: Japan’s Breakthrough Could Further Split Bush Team
The historic breakthrough achieved by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's unprecedented trip to North Korea on Tuesday may spur new tensions between hawks and doves in the administration here who are still battling over U.S. policy in the Mideast and Iraq.INDONESIA: Papua Murder Case Could Set Back U.S. Military Plans
The killings of two U.S. teachers and an Indonesian colleague in an ambush on the road to the giant Grasberg gold and copper mine in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua could set back hopes by the U.S. government for quickly renewing close military ties with Jakarta.DEVELOPMENT: Oxfam Launches Rescue Plan for Coffee Growers
Oxfam America is launching a worldwide campaign to save the livelihoods of some 25 million coffee farmers in poor countries threatened by a five year freefall in global coffee prices.ENVIRONMENT-CHAD: World Bank Directors Say Pipeline Can Continue
The World Bank's executive board has decided the institution can keep supporting an increasingly controversial multi-billion-dollar pipeline project that will pump oil drilled in the Central African country of Chad to Atlantic ports in Cameroon 1,000 kilometres away.ENVIRONMENT-ECUADOR: Bank Expert Says Pipeline Violates Polices
In a major blow against a controversial oil pipeline project in Ecuador, the former head of the World Bank's environment department has found that the project fails to comply with the Bank's social and environmental policies.RIGHTS: More Countries Pledge ‘No More Landmines’ – Report
Despite some notable setbacks during the past year, the coalition spearheading efforts to abolish the production and use of anti-personnel landmines says it is advancing toward its goal.POLITICS-U.S.: Bush Ends 18-Year UNESCO Boycott; Details Fuzzy
President George W. Bush's unexpected announcement Thursday that the United States will rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ends an 18-year U.S. boycott of the Paris-based agency that was initiated by his closest spiritual predecessor, former President Ronald Reagan.POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Con Hawks May Have Over-reached on Iraq
By launching a major campaign over the last two months to extend the war on terrorism as far as the Saudi royal family, neo-conservative ideologues who have emerged as the predominant force around President George W. Bush appear now to have overplayed their hand.POLITICS-U.S.: Democrats Discomfited by Iraq Debate, Vote
Democrats had a thoroughly enjoyable August.POLITICS-U.S.: Vision of Might and Right Triumphed After Sep 11
When excerpts of the document first appeared in the New York Times in the spring of 1992, it created quite a stir. One senator described it as a prescription for ''literally a 'Pax Americana'.''POLITICS-U.S.: ‘Chicken Hawks’ Lead Push for War with Iraq
A high-ranking State Department official was speaking to a room full of senior military officers last month when he cracked, ''There's more combat experience on the 7th floor of the State Department than in the entire Office of the Secretary of Defense.''POLITICS: Afghanistan is Not to be Forgotten in Rush for Iraq
Thursday's foiled assassination attempt against Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and blasts in the capital Kabul that reportedly killed at least 10 people are certain to bring that country back into the limelight just when President George W. Bush wants to focus world attention on the alleged necessity of ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Bush Ignoring Conditions on Military Aid – Groups
The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is ignoring conditions placed by Congress last year on 100 million dollars in military aid to Colombia, say three prominent U.S. human rights groups.POLITICS-U.S.: Washington Goes to War, Over War
War has been declared in Washington, but not against any foreign country, at least for the moment.RIGHTS: Groups Shocked as Officials Urge Judge to Back ExxonMobil
Weeks before the State Department told a trial judge that a lawsuit against oil giant ExxonMobil for alleged human rights abuses in Indonesia could endanger Washington's 'war on terror', Indonesia hinted the suit might put U.S. interests at risk, says Human Rights Watch (HRW).BOOKS-U.S.: Best-selling Evangelical Series Gives Reading of Bush
If you have been curious about why the George W Bush administration, one of whose most important constituencies is the Christian Right, seems to hate the United Nations, despise peacekeeping, love Ariel Sharon, and want desperately to bomb Baghdad to "kingdom come", you might choose as your holiday reading the book that has been number one on the New York Times best-seller list since its release in early July.RIGHTS-BOLIVIA: Abuses in Chapare Linked to U.S. Anti-Coca Efforts
Bolivian security forces, trained, funded and equipped by the United States, have committed serious human rights abuses with impunity in the coca-growing Chapare region, says a report released here by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).LABOUR: China Faces Growing Unrest in “Rust Belt” – Report
As China becomes more integrated into the global economy, its refusal to permit independent trade unions is fuelling worker unrest, especially in the country's north-eastern "rust belt" says a report released here Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLITICS-U.S.: Senate Committee Clears Women’s Rights Treaty
In a direct challenge to the administration of President George W. Bush, the Democrat-led Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted on Tuesday to send a 23-year-old international treaty on the rights of women to the full Senate for approval.ECONOMY-U.S.: Bush on Verge of Fast-Track Trade Victory
U.S. President George W. Bush is on the verge of winning "fast-track" authority to negotiate new trade agreements, but at the expense of human rights and environmental protections, say die-hard critics.POLITICS-U.S.: Right-Wing Hardliners Tighten Grip on Foreign Policy
Ret. Gen. Colin Powell is unquestionably the most popular U.S. Secretary of State in the last half century, if not in U.S. history.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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