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POLITICS-SUDAN: U.S. Suspends Talks After Attack on Civilians
The U.S. State Department suspended talks with the government of Sudan Thursday after a Sudanese helicopter fired rockets at a crowd of thousands gathered to receive aid from a World Food Programme (WFP) relief mission.POLITICS-U.S.: Pentagon Mulls Disinformation Campaign in Terror War
When the Pentagon insists that one of its missiles hit senior al-Qaeda leaders meeting near Khost, Afghanistan, but local residents swear that the victims were peasants salvaging scrap metal, who is more credible?RIGHTS: International Court Ruling Seen as Major Setback on Impunity
Human rights groups are attacking a decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a major setback in the global fight against impunity.POLITICS-U.S: Bush to Take Anti-Terrorism Campaign to Asia
Just as tensions over Washington's conduct of its anti-terrorism war appear to be rising across the Atlantic, U.S. President George W. Bush will travel this weekend across the Pacific to Northeast Asia to press the leaders of Japan, South Korea, and China for more support.HEALTH: Groups Urge U.S. to Triple Overseas AIDS Spending
Some 200 health and relief groups have called on the Congress to triple U.S. bilateral and multilateral assistance to combat the HIV-AIDS epidemic, even as the administration of President George W. Bush has defended its latest budget request as "tremendously generous."LABOUR-GUATEMALA: Women Workers Face Persistent Abuse
Despite strong anti-discrimination laws, women and girls face persistent and widespread abuse when they work in Guatemala's booming apparel assembly plants or in private homes as live-in domestic workers, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday.POLITICS-U.S.: Mission Hegemony, Outlook Uncertain
Five months after the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, President George W. Bush appears more determined than ever to forge a new world order based on unrivaled U.S. military power.POLITICS-U.S.: Mission Hegemony, Outlook Uncertain
Five months after the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, President George W. Bush appears more determined than ever to forge a new world order based on unrivaled U.S. military power./CORRECTED REPEAT/POLITICS: Burma Cloud Hovers over Start of Winter Olympics
The brutal military regime in Burma, which is not one of the countries taking part in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, has nonetheless cast a shadow over Friday's opening ceremonies.POLITICS: Burma Cloud Hover over Start of Winter Olympics
The brutal military regime in Burma, which is not one of the countries taking part in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, has nonetheless cast a shadow over Friday's opening ceremonies.POLITICS-U.S.: Increased Foreign Military Training, Deployments Foreseen
U.S. training of foreign militaries increased steeply during the 1990s and seems poised for rapid expansion in coming months.RIGHTS-CHINA: Watchdog Decries Crackdown on Falungong
The Chinese government's harsh crackdown against Falungong, a highly organised spiritual group that uses ancient practices of exercise and meditation, has violated fundamental rights to freedom of belief and association, according to new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).RIGHTS: Colombia Seen Afoul of U.S. Military Aid Rights Terms
Even as President George W. Bush asks Congress to provide substantially more aid to the Colombian military next year, human rights groups warn Bogota has not yet met conditions on as much as 500 million dollars to be disbursed this year.POLITICS-U.S.: All Power to the Hawks
Secretary of State Colin Powell must be feeling very frustrated.POLITICS-SUDAN: U.S., European Moves Outrage Activists
Long-time U.S. supporters of self- determination for the mainly African population of the southern Sudan are increasingly sceptical of U.S. efforts to end the country's civil war, particularly in light of this week's decision by the European Union (EU) to resume aid to the largely Arab National Islamic Front (NIF) government in Khartoum.POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Groups Ask West, Commonwealth to Act Urgently
International human rights groups are calling on Western nations and the Commonwealth to follow through with tough sanctions against the government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe if it does not act immediately to ensure free and fair elections Mar. 9-10.POLITICS: Bush Moves Ever Closer to Sharon
The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has moved much closer to the views of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, so far without explicitly adopting Sharon's apparent goal - the final collapse of the eight-year-old Oslo peace process to reach a settlement of the 55-year-old Israeli- Palestinian conflict.RIGHTS-U.S.: Prisoner Transfers to Guantanamo Suspended
Amid growing international controversy, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it was temporarily suspending flights of Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners from Afghanistan to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.POLITICS: U.S. B-52 Base at Diego Garcia Under Attack in Courts
The sprawling U.S. military base at Diego Garcia, home to the giant B-52 bombers that have been pounding Afghanistan for the past three months, is under siege./REPEAT/RIGHTS: Watchdog Scores U.S. ‘Hypocrisy’
Hypocrisy characterised much of U.S. human rights policy during George W. Bush's first year as president, particularly in his "war against terrorism" following the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).ENVIRONMENT-ECUADOR: World Bank Expresses “Deep Concern” on Pipeline Project
The World Bank has quietly communicated deep concern to the managers and lenders of a major pipeline project that independent environmental groups have said threatens unique ecosystems in the Ecuadorean highlands.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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