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TRADE-US: Business Wins Big Supreme Court Ruling Over Activists
In a victory for multinational corporations and other forces for economic globalisation, the US Supreme Court Monday struck down a Massachusetts law that penalised companies doing business in Burma.POLITICS-US: World Smiles, Pentagon Uneasy at Korea Breakthrough
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori compared it to the "collapse of the Berlin Wall," while the foreign ministry in Beijing called it a "major event of historic significance."FINANCE: Top World Bank Report Author Resigns in Apparent Protest
The lead author of the World Development Report (WDR), the annual flagship of the World Bank's development policy, has submitted his resignation, apparently to protest pressure by outside forces on the WDR team's work.RIGHTS: 1999 Another Grim Year of Abuses, Says Amnesty
Last year saw little improvement in global human-rights conditions, as imprisonment, torture, and political killings continued to be used by many governments to silence opposition and maintain their hold on power, according to the annual report by Amnesty International released here Wednesday.RIGHTS: ‘Dismal Decade’ for Refugees and Displaced
The 1990s proved a "dismal decade" for refugees and others uprooted from their homes, and 1999 was a particularly bad year, according to a new report by a major US refugee rights organisation released here Tuesday.HEALTH: Life-Saving Drugs Increasingly Ineffective
Antibiotic drugs, which since the invention of penicillin 70 years ago, have greatly expanded life expectancy around the globe, are becoming increasingly ineffective, as deadly microbes develop resistance to their curative effects, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) released here Monday.ARMS-US: Missile Defence Seen as Spurring New Arms Race
When the celebrated actor Paul Newman starred in a 1966 Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller, 'Torn Curtain,' about an "anti-missile missile" that would "make nuclear weapons obsolete," little did he suspect that it would inspire a fast- rising Republican star and fellow-actor named Ronald Reagan who would pick up the idea and run with it as president 15 years later.RIGHTS-US: Attack on Secret Evidence in Immigration Cases Gains Momentum
A three-year-old campaign by civil- rights and Arab-American groups to ban the use of secret evidence in immigration courts is gathering steam.RIGHTS-US: Attack on Secret Evidence in Immigration Cases Gains Momentum
A three-year-old campaign by civil- rights and Arab-American groups to ban the use of secret evidence in immigration courts is gathering steam.CHILDREN: Elian Case Ricochets Against Germany
At the same time that a federal appeals court in Atlanta Thursday announced that six-year-old Elian Gonzalez could not apply for asylum against his Cuban father's wishes, US President Bill Clinton was pressing German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Berlin on behalf of US parents who have lost custody of their children to courts in Germany.POLITICS-US/CUBA: Court Rules Elian Belongs With Father
Elian Gonzalez, the six-year-old subject of an international custody dispute, moved a giant step closer to returning to Cuba Thursday when an Atlanta federal appeals court ruled that only his father could apply for political asylum on his behalf.POLITICS-PERU: Sunday Elections Will Affect US Ties, Says White House
US President Bill Clinton warned Friday that the decision by Peru's electoral authorities to proceed with presidential elections Sunday will "inevitably" affect US policy toward the Andean nation.TRADE-US/CHINA: Normalised Trade Ties Pass Decisive Congressional Test
The US House of Representatives, handing President Bill Clinton his biggest trade victory since 1994, approved permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status for China here Wednesday.TRADE-US: Clinton Signs Africa-Caribbean Bill
Celebrating his first trade victory in six years, US President Bill Clinton Thursday signed into law the Trade and Development Act of 2000, which is designed to promote US commerce with sub-Saharan Africa and two dozen countries of the Caribbean Basin.FINANCE-IRAN: World Bank Approves First Loans to Iran Since 1993
The executive board of the World Bank, overriding opposition from the United States, approved its first loans to Iran in seven years. The loans, totalling 232 million dollars, will finance projects to upgrade and expand Teheran's sewage system and upgrade the country's primary-health and nutrition facilities.RIGHTS-CONGO: Situation in Eastern Congo “Disastrous”
Murder, rape, and pillage have been committed against non-combatants in eastern Congo by the major forces in conflict there, according to a new report released here Tuesday by the Africa division of Human Rights Watch (HRW).RIGHTS-CONGO: Situation in Eastern Congo “Disastrous”
Murder, rape, and pillage have been committed against non-combatants in eastern Congo by the major forces in conflict there, according to a new report released here Tuesday by the Africa division of Human Rights Watch (HRW).RIGHTS-CONGO: Situation in Eastern Congo “Disastrous”
Murder, rape, and pillage have been committed against non-combatants in eastern Congo by the major forces in conflict there, according to a new report released here Tuesday by the Africa division of Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLISonsal Fight Brews Over Sanctions Against Cuba
A major storm is brewing in Congress - and especially within the RepublicPy - over the future of the 40ade embargo against Cuba.RIGHTS: US Congress Moves to Fight Human Trafficking
The US House of Representatives, tackling a growing problem that has already caught the attention of US intelligence agencies, has approved a new bill designed to punish and prevent trafficking of women and children by international crime syndicates.TRADE-US: Africa/Caribbean Trade Bill Clear House of Representatives
In a major victory for free-trade forces, the House of Representatives Thursday voted 301-110 to approve a trade bill that will provide new preferences to exports from sub-Saharan Africa and 24 Caribbean and Central American nations.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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