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POLITICS: Financial Crisis Likely to Further Erode U.S. Influence
While the White House and U.S. lawmakers hash out final terms of a proposed 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout, foreign policy analysts are warning that the current financial crisis could very well hasten the decline of U.S. power and influence overseas.U.S.: Bipartisan Group Urges Deeper Diplomacy with Muslim World
In an implicit indictment of President George W. Bush's "global war on terror" and the hawkish pronouncements by Republican candidate John McCain, a bipartisan group of nearly three dozen U.S. leaders called here Wednesday for Bush's successor to place much greater emphasis on high-level diplomacy - including direct engagement with Iran and Syria - in dealing with the Middle East and the Muslim world.POLITICS-US: Rebalance Security Budgets, Say Experts
As the United States struggles to deal with what some analysts say is its most serious financial crisis in decades, a group of experts called Monday for major changes in the way Washington spends money to protect its national security.RIGHTS: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia on the Rise in Europe
Both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have risen in Europe over the last four years, according to a survey conducted earlier this year and released here Thursday by the Pew Research Centre.POLITICS-US: Arab Americans Favour Obama by Wide Margin
With less than two months before the November elections, Arab American voters in the United States are poised to vote heavily Democratic, according to a poll released here today by the Arab American Institute (AAI).POLITICS-US: Bush Administration Still Cautious on Georgia
As if the outgoing administration of U.S. President George W. Bush didn't already have enough on its plate, the question of whether and how to re-arm Georgia in the aftermath of its thrashing last month by Russia is moving steadily up its increasingly crowded foreign policy agenda.POLITICS-SOMALIA: U.S. Policy Likely to Bring Blowback
U.S. counter-terrorism policies and support for the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia have helped create an increasingly desperate humanitarian and security situation in the East African nation, whose population has become increasingly radicalised and anti-U.S., according to a new report by a major U.S. human rights group.POLITICS-US: McCain’s Palin Choice – Bold or Reckless?
Four days after picking a little known Alaskan governor as his vice presidential candidate, the big question in the minds of voters and media is whether Sen. John McCain is bold or reckless.
POLITICS-US: McCain's VP Pick Seen as High-Stakes Gamble
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain stunned the political establishment Friday by choosing as his running-mate the little-known Alaska governor with virtually no national, let alone international, experience.POLITICS: Iran Could Reap Benefits of U.S.-Russian Tensions
Iran could emerge as a big winner, at least in the short term, from the rapidly escalating tensions between the United States and Russia over Moscow's intervention in Georgia, according to analysts here.
POLITICS-US: Biden Helps Obama Plug Key Gaps in Electorate
In picking six-term Senator Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running-mate, Sen. Barack Obama hopes to plug some key gaps in the electoral constituencies whose support he hopes will send him to the White House in the November elections just 10 weeks from now.POLITICS-US: A Really Bad Couple of Weeks for Pax Americana
Whatever hopes the George W. Bush administration may have had for using its post-9/11 "war on terror'' to impose a new Pax Americana on Eurasia, and particularly in the unruly areas between the Caucasus and the Khyber Pass, appear to have gone up in flames - in some cases, literally - over the past two weeks.POLITICS-US: Success of Attack on Iran's Nuclear Programme Doubtful
A military attack on Iran's major nuclear facilities by the United States or Israel would likely result only in a delay - and not a particularly significant one at that - in Tehran's ability to produce the fuel necessary to build a nuclear weapon, according to a report released here Friday by an influential think tank on nuclear proliferation issues.POLITICS-US: No Traction in the Middle East
More than five years after invading Iraq as a first step towards "transforming" the Middle East, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush seems to have lost its footing - let alone its unquestioned domination - throughout the region.POLITICS-US: Gates Strategy Stresses Unconventional Warfare
U.S. defence strategy should be focused primarily in the short to medium term on unconventional threats, particularly "violent extremist movements such as al Qaeda and its associates", while it "hedge(s)" against the growing military power of "rogue states such as Iran and North Korea" and potential rivals, notably China and Russia, according to major policy guidance released here Thursday by Pentagon chief Robert Gates.POLITICS-US: Neocon Flap Highlights Jewish Divide
A mushrooming media controversy pitting neoconservatives against a prominent Jewish-American political commentator could mark a new stage in the growing battle over who speaks for the U.S. Jewish community on foreign policy issues, particularly regarding the Middle East.POLITICS-US: Air Force Think Tank Advises Against Iran Attack
Amid rising speculation about the possibility of an Israeli or U.S. bombing attack on Iranian nuclear facilities earlier this month, a major study produced for the U.S. Air Force by a top defence think tank concluded that U.S. military action against Iran was "likely to have negative effects for the United States".DEVELOPMENT: Think Tank Urges Major Changes in U.S. Food Aid
The United States should urgently implement major changes in its emergency food aid and overseas trade and development policies to deal with the record rise in global grain prices that is threatening recent gains in poverty reduction in many developing countries, according to a report by a bipartisan task force sponsored by a major foreign policy think tank here.POLITICS: Gilani May Be Pincushion for U.S. Frustration
When Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani begins his first official visit here at the White House Monday, the welcome is likely to be a little warmer than he might wish.
POLITICS-US: Latino Voters Heavily Favour Obama
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is preferred by a nearly a three-to-one margin over his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, among Latinos who are registered to vote, according to a major new poll released Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Centre.US/IRAN: Scowcroft, Brzezinski Urge Bush to Drop Precondition
Two of Washington's most prominent foreign policy greybeards praised Saturday's direct participation in multinational talks with Iran by a senior U.S. diplomat but called on the administration of President George W. Bush to drop his demands that Tehran freeze its uranium enrichment programme as a precondition for broader negotiations.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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