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ECONOMY: US Proposes More Debt Relief for Africa
US President Bill Clinton, opening an unprecedented meeting of top African officials, proposed Tuesday the broadening and improvement of existing initiatives to reduce the debt of the world's poorest nations.RIGHTS: Time for a US Truth Commission?
President Bill Clinton's unprecedented apology last week for US support of successive right-wing governments in Guatemala was greeted with considerable satisfaction by human-rights activists and researchers here.POLITICS-U.S: Foreign Policy Gap Between Leaders and Public
The gap between the general public in the United States and the foreign-policy elite appears to be growing on a range of different issues, according to a major new survey released Monday.RIGHTS: Time for a US Truth Commission?
President Bill Clinton's unprecedented apology last week for US support of successive right-wing governments in Guatemala was greeted with considerable satisfaction by human-rights activists and researchers here.RIGHTS-US: New Details of US Complicity in Pinochet Regime
New disclosures about US support for the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet have surfaced here while the administration of President Bill Clinton awaited the decision by the British House of Lords on Pinochet's fate.RIGHTS-US: Government Opts Out of Court Case on Globalisation
The U.S. government, after an intense internal debate, has decided against intervening in a key court case between powerful transnational corporations (TNCs) and a Massachusetts law to promote democracy in Burma.POLITICS: Republicans Restive Over US Iraq Policy
Republicans in the US Congress are growing increasingly impatient with President Bill Clinton's failure to provide military support to exiled Iraqi opposition groups, as required by a law passed late last year.POLITICS-US: Spy Case Deals New Blow to China Relations
Fifty years ago when the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, the explosion confirmed Moscow's emergence as the world's second superpower.MEDIA-AFRICA: Gorillas in a Media Mix
Just ten days ago Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, at a farewell ceremony at the White House, lodged the usual complaint of visiting African leaders.MEDIA-AFRICA: Gorillas in a Media Mix
Just ten days ago Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, at a farewell ceremony at the White House, lodged the usual complaint of visiting African leaders.MEDIA-AFRICA: Gorillas in a Media Mix
Just ten days ago Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, at a farewell ceremony at the White House, lodged the usual complaint of visiting African leaders.POLITICS-HAITI: Republicans Accuse Preval of Dictatorship
US Republican lawmers, citing the 21- month-old political impasse in Haiti, this week accused President Rene Preval of acting like a dictator and demanded a major review of United States policy toward the Caribbean nation.ECONOMY: Clinton Heads for Central America Bearing Aid
President Bill Clinton, bearing nearly 1 billion dollars in U.S. aid for hurricane-ravaged Central America, begins a three-day trip to the region Monday.HEALTH: International Conference on Children and Tobacco
Global anti-smoking activists are hoping for a major advance in their fight against the tobacco industry at an unprecedented conference this month on children and smoking.FINANCE-US: Washington to Surrender UNDP Leadership?
The United States was leaning against submitting a nominee to head the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a key economic agency that has been headed virtually exclusively by Americans since its creation in 1966, according to officials here.POLITICS-US: Clinton Wants Global Role for U.S.
President Bill Clinton, outlining a comprehensive foreign policy for his final two years in office, , wants the United States to remain involved in world affairs and "embrace the inexorable logic of globalisation."DRUGS: U.S. Certifies Mexico, Colombia, Waives Nigeria, Haiti
The U.S. government certified Friday that Mexico and Colombia were cooperating with Washington's "war against drugs" and it waived sanctions against Nigeria, Haiti, Paraguay and Cambodia although they were not cooperating enough./REPEAT/RIGHTS-US: Immigrants’ Free Speech Rights Threatened
The U.S. Supreme Court has a dealt a major blow to the rights of free-speech by immigrants who may be subject to deportation from the United States.RIGHTS: US Spotlights Rights Problems of China, “Rogue States”
China, Cuba and Serbia - among many other countries - experienced major setbacks in human rights during 1998, while old and new armed conflicts in Africa and Afghanistan killed and displaced thousands of innocent civilians, according to the U.S. State Departemtn's annual human rights report.ECONOMY-AFRICA: Clinton Pushes US-Africa Trade Bill
President Bill Clinton used the visit here Wednesday of Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings to push for approval of his controversial bill to promote U.S. trade and investment in Africa.POLITICS-U.S.: Ease Cuban Embargo say Ex-Lawmakers
A bipartisan group of former U.S. lawmakers wants President Bill Clinton to lift all restrictions on the sale of food and medicines to Cuba and encourage more people- to-people exchanges with the Caribbean island.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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