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MEDIA-U.S.: TV Networks Fall in Line and Salute
People seeking relatively balanced reporting about the international dimensions of the crisis set off by last month's terrorist attacks on the United States knew they were in trouble when they heard CBS anchorman Dan Rather react to President George W. Bush's vow to wage a "war against terrorism."POLITICS-U.S.: Non-Muslim India, Israel Left Out In the Cold
Israel and India, eager enlistees in what U.S. President George W. Bush says is a "war" against terrorism but not against Muslims or Islam, appear to have been sidelined.POLITICS-U.S.: Major Questions Dog Onset of Military Campaign
Even as U.S. warplanes and cruise missiles carried out a second night of attacks on military and other targets in Afghanistan Monday, Washington's precise war aims remain unclear - as do the answers to a number of important questions.TRADE-U.S.: Fast-Track Push Stalls in Congress
A major push by Republicans in Congress to provide President George W. Bush with "fast-track" authority to negotiate new trade agreements stalled Friday against a near- solid wall of Democratic opposition.RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Army, Police Seen Still Working with Paramilitaries
Units of the Colombian armed forces and police continue to work closely with right-wing paramilitary groups which the U.S. State Department last month put on its list of foreign terrorist organisations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report released here and in Bogota.LABOUR: Chocolate Firms Agree to Fight Cocoa Child Slavery
The world's chocolate industry has agreed a four-year plan to eliminate child slavery in cocoa- producing nations and particularly West Africa, where most of the world's cocoa is grown.POLITICS-U.S.: Embrace of Uzbekistan Provokes Worries
President George W. Bush's warm embrace of the repressive government in Uzbekistan as an ally in Washington's new "war" against terrorism is prompting concern among human rights activists and independent analysts.POLITICS: Sep 11 Attacks Scramble Global Geopolitics
The global geopolitical chessboard has been scrambled in ways that virtually no one could have imagined before the Sep. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon.POLITICS-U.S.: Lawmakers Jettison Ideology, Bow to Bush
Eager to line up foreign support for Washington's self-described "war" against terrorism, U.S. lawmakers from both major parties are shedding long-held ideological principles in the interest of speeding legislation through Congress.POLITICS-U.S.: Anti-Terrorism Takes the Place of Anti-Communism
Much as the United States used to judge countries by whether or not they supported Washington in its anti- Soviet crusade during the Cold War, it appears that foreign governments will now be rewarded or punished by whether or not they become part of the war against terrorism, particularly of the Islamist kind.POLITICS-U.S.: Administration Factions Battle Over Bush’s War
Even as President George W. Bush heralded the coming U.S. war against global terrorism, factions within his administration were already fighting over the breadth and scope of battle.POLITICS-U.S.: Administration Factions Battle Over Bush’s War
Even as President George W. Bush heralded the coming U.S. war against global terrorism, factions within his administration were already fighting over the breadth and scope of battle.POLITICS-U.S.: Administration Factions Battle Over Bush’s War
Even as President George W. Bush heralded the coming U.S. war against global terrorism, factions within his administration were already fighting over the breadth and scope of battle.POLITICS-U.S.: Administration Factions Battle Over Bush’s War
Even as President George W. Bush heralded the coming U.S. war against global terrorism, factions within his administration were already fighting over the breadth and scope of battle.RIGHTS-U.S.: Broad Coalition Forms to Defend Civil Liberties
Growing concern about the domestic impact of last week's terrorist attacks moved an extraordinarily broad coalition of groups Thursday to vow a fight against government efforts to curb the civil liberties of U.S. citizens and foreign residents.POLITICS-U.S.: Officials Say Sudan Moving Quickly to Cooperate
Worried that it might be targeted in the new US "war" against terrorism, the Islamist military regime in Sudan, which sheltered Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network from 1991 to 1996, is providing unprecedented cooperation to Washington, according to senior U.S. officials.POLITICS-U.S.: Officials Say Sudan Moving Quickly to Cooperate
Worried that it might be targeted in the new U.S. war against terrorism, the Islamist military regime in Sudan, which sheltered Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network from 1991 to 1996, is providing unprecedented cooperation to Washington, according to senior U.S. officials.POLITICS-U.S.: Diplomatic Efforts Intensify
U.S. diplomatic efforts to line up support for as-yet undetermined action against alleged Islamist terrorists intensified Tuesday, even as Washington waited for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to decide the fate of Osama bin Laden.ECONOMY: IMF, World Bank Cancel Meetings Amid Uncertainty
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Monday they would not hold annual meetings scheduled for Sep 29-30.POLITICS-U.S.: Events Echo Pearl Harbour Miscalculations
This week's terrorist attacks are widely described as a second Pearl Harbour. The comparison is meant to evoke a loss of U.S. innocence, a surprise declaration of war by foreign attackers. But like the fateful bombing of the U.S. pacific fleet 60 years ago, the latest strikes were borne of huge miscalculations - on both sides.POLITICS-U.S.: Pace Toward Military Action Quickens
The pace toward U.S. military action in the wake of Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and at the Pentagon appeared to accelerate sharply on virtually every front Friday - diplomatic, legislative, diplomatic, and even spiritual.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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