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POLITICS-UNITED STATES: New Era of Moderation or More Deadlock?
With the Republican Party in turmoil over its disappointing results in last Tuesday's mid-term election, analysts here have begun to address what the outcome means for the future of both major parties in the remaining two years of President Bill Clinton's administration and beyond.ENVIRONMENT-U.S.: Poll Finds Support For Kyoto Treaty
As negotiators meet in Buenos Aires to hammer out details for curbing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, a new poll released here Thursday suggests that public support in the United States for a tough treaty may be greater than suspected.RIGHTS-U.S.: TNCs Win Court Victory Over Grassroots Activists
U.S. and other transnational corporations (TNCs) have scored a major victory against state and local governments in the United States that penalise companies doing business in repressive countries abroad.LABOUR-US: Breakthrough on Monitoring Sweatshops
Major U.S. clothing and footwear makers have reached an unprecedented accord with human-rights groups to create an independent association to monitor labour practices in their factories and those of their contractors abroad.POLITICS-US: Voters Dash Republican Hopes in Mid-Term Elections
Voters in the United States Tuesday dashed Republican hopes of substantially increasing the party's majorities in both houses of Congress in mid-term elections.POLITICS-US: Mid-term Elections Unlikely to Bring Change
American voters go to the polls Tuesday for mid-term elections and, despite months of media hype over President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, are expected to make little change to the U.S. political scene.RIGHTS-US: Dictatorships and Double Standards
In June last year, the U.S. State Department approached the government of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien with a plan to seize former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and have him extradited to Canada to stand trial on war crimes and crimes against humanity.FINANCE: G-7 Reforms Put Brazil’s Package on Fast Track
The leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised countries have endorsed proposals to reform the International Monetary Fund (IMF), including creating a mechanism to rush new loans to countries threatened by the ongoing financial crisis.RIGHTS-US: Dictatorships and Double Standards
In June last year, the U.S. State Department approached the government of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien with a plan to seize former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and have him extradited to Canada to stand trial on war crimes and crimes against humanity.POLITICS-US: ‘New Era’ in US-Colombian Ties
Colombian President Andres Pastrana Wednesday hailed a "new era" in relations with the United States when he began the first state visit by a Colombian president to Washington in more than 20 years.POLITICS-US: Defence Spending Beats Diplomacy
If defence spending is any indication, the U.S. government is betting that military power and related forms of coercion will be more effective than diplomacy in the early 21st century.POLITICS-MIDEAST: Clinton Salvages Peace Process – For Now
President Bill Clinton ended nearly nine days of negotiations Friday by brokering a deal between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to put the Oslo peace process back on track.POLITICS: Clinton Pressed to Cooperate on Pinochet Extradition
The clamour over the arrest in London of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet grew in Washington Thursday and 36 U.S. Congressman called on President Bill Clinton to cooperate with the Spanish judge who has requested his extradition.TRADE-US: Concern Over Rising Protectionist Pressure
The U.S. government, having won a year- long fight to wrest 18 billion dollars from Congress for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has turned its attention to a skyrocketing trade deficit - which may result in increased protectionist pressure here.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Police Brutality Ingrained, Say Rights Groups
Police brutality and impunity in Argentina have cast a growing shadow over democracy in that country, according to two major human rights groups in a report released here Wednesday.AID-US: Clinton Holds Line on Foreign Aid
President Bill Clinton, despite his failure to clear U.S. arrears to the United Nations, has held the line on foreign aid in his 500-billion-dollar spending bill.IMMIGRATION-US: 40,000 Haitians Can Stay in U.S.A.
Some 40,000 Haitians who fled to the United States during the military rule in the early 1990's will be permitted to remain here under the budget agreement reached between President Bill Clinton and the Republican-led Congress this week.POLITICS-US: Budget Bill OK’s IMF But UN Arrears Out
U.S. President Bill Clinton and the Republican-led Congress finally agreed on a 500-billion-dollar budget bill Thursday that included 18 billion dollars for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) but nothing of the billion dollars arrears that Washington owes the United Nations.POLITICS-US: Republicans Push For Review of Cuba Ties
Leaders of the dwindling internationalist wing of the Republican Party are pushing a proposal to launch a formal review of U.S. policy on Cuba.POLITICS-MIDEAST: Doubts Hang Over Summit Talks//REPEATING//
U.S. President Bill Clinton, aware that "the clock is ticking" is hoping for a major breakthrough in his Middle east summit talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat.POLITICS-MIDEAST: Doubts Hang Over Summit Talks
U.S. President Bill Clinton, aware that "the clock is ticking" is hoping for a major breakthrough in his Middle east summit talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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