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POLITICS: U.S. Gloom Over White House Middle East Talks
U.S. President Bill Clinton meets the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority at the White House this week, but chances are slim for any major breakthrough in the long-stalled Mid East peace process, according to political sources.POLITICS: U.S. Gloom Over White House Middle East Talks
U.S. President Bill Clinton meets the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority at the White House this week, but chances are slim for any major breakthrough in the long-stalled Mid East peace process, according to political sources.POLITICS-US: Massacres Jeopardise Anti-Drug Aid to Colombia
Hawks within the administration of President Bill Clinton want to expand U.S. military assistance to Colombia, currently confined to the war against drug traffickers, to help Bogota's battle with leftist rebels, according to government sources.POLITICS-US: Rockefeller, General Support Food, Medicine Sales to Cuba
Financier David Rockefeller and the former supreme commander of US military forces in the Atlantic have joined a growing coalition of business, medical and humanitarian groups who are calling on Washington to permit US companies to sell food and medicine to Cuba.POLITICS-US: Albright Sets Four Goals for 1998
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright blasted Republican lawmakers Tuesday for refusing to hand over money owed to the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), simply to satisfy their anti-abortion policies.POLITICS: U.S. Cautious Over Iran’s Call for Dialogue
The Clinton administration is treading warily toward any "people-to-people" exchanges with Iran while welcoming the spirit of an unprecedented television address to the United States by Iranian President Mohammed Khatami.ENVIRONMENT: It’s Official – 1997 Warmest Year on Record
The year 1997 was the warmest on record, as measured by land and ocean surface temperatures, according to top U.S. government scientists. Global temperatures last year increased by an average of .083 degrees Celsius over the previous record year, 1990.POLITICS-US: Washington Cements Links with Turkey
President Bill Clinton appears determined to cement the alliance between the United States and Turkey, despite reservations over Turkey's human rights record and the military's influence on the civilian government.DEVELOPMENT-GUYANA: IMF, World Bank Approve Debt Reduction Package
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Tuesday announced they had agreed on a debt- reduction package for Guyana that could eliminate about a quarter of the country's billion-dollar debt burden by Dec. 1998.ECONOMY-GUYANA: IMF, World Bank Approve Debt Reduction Package
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Tuesday announced they had agreed on a debt- reduction package for Guyana that could eliminate about a quarter of the country's billion-dollar debt burden by Dec. 1998.US-OUTLOOK: Elections Sure to Haunt Clinton in 1998
U.S. President Bill Clinton faces a difficult year in 1998, especially because many of the foreign policy targets he set this year remain uncompleted - or are at risk.ECONOMY: U.S. to Upgrade its Ties with Vietnam
The United States, moving ever closer to its former enemy in Southeast Asia, is preparing to upgrade economic ties with Vietnam, the State Department said Wednesday.CINEMA-USA: Amistad Awash in Stereotypes
'Amistad', U.S. Director Steven Spielberg's latest movie, is a powerful and compelling account of a 19th century slave mutiny. But, unfortunately, it falls far short of hopes that it would provide an African-American parallel to 'Schindler's List' - the award-winning blockbuster about the Jewish Holocaust olf World War II.RIGHTS-US: Public Ignorant of Economic, Social Human Rights
Most people in the United States remain largely ignorant of their economic, social and cultural rights under international law, according to a new survey released here Wednesday.POLITICS: New Approach Needed to Prevent Conflict
The world needs a new comprehensive approach to preventing conflicts - including a U.N. rapid reaction force of 5,000 to 10,000 troops - says a report by a global commission of experts on conflict, released here Tuesday.RIGHTS-CHINA: Clinton in Low-Key Meeting With Chinese Dissident
US President Bill Clinton welcomed to the White House Monday China's most famous ex-political prisoner, Wei Jingsheng, for a meeting which the administration kept deliberately low-key.RIGHTS: War-Ravaged Burundi Flooded with Foreign Weapons
International arms dealers are flooding Burundi with weapons, despite an embargo against the war-wracked Central African nation where tens of thousands of innocent non- combatants have died in recent years, according to a new report released here Monday.POLITICS-AFRICA: Albright Trip to Bless ‘Soldier-Princes’
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, making her first trip to Africa since assuming office, will this week confer Washington's blessings on the so-called "soldier princes" of Central Africa.RIGHTS: Commercial Gain Came First in 1997
The United States and other rich, industrialised nations tended to ignore serious human rights abuses during 1997 in order to pursue commercial and other interests, says Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLITICS: Haiti is Latest Worry for U.S.
Question: In what country is the political situation so worrisome that President Bill Clinton has dispatched his Secretary of State and his former National Security Adviser there on separate trips, in the past six weeks?//REPEATING FOR SOME POINTS// POLITICS-US: Worries Over Politics and the Military
U.S. military advisors in foreign lands are involved more than ever before in teaching armed forces about the benefits of democratic government. Back home, however, the military is becoming increasingly politicised, say analysts.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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