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POLITICS: Attitudes Toward U.S. Worsen in Arab World
Despite renewed U.S. efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement this year, popular views of the United States in the Arab world have actually worsened since 2006, according to a major new survey of public opinion in six Arab states.POLITICS-US/IRAQ: Stuck!
"Tell me how this ends," Gen. David Petraeus, then commander of the 101st Airborne Division, asked a Washington Post reporter during the "liberation" of Iraq almost exactly five years ago.TRADE-US: Bush Faces Uphill Battle on Colombia Trade Pact
As U.S. President George W. Bush Tuesday formally submitted his free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia to Congress, most analysts agreed that the White House faces a tough, uphill fight to get it approved, particularly in the House of Representatives.POLITICS: Iranian Public Sees Reduced U.S. Threat
While still distrustful of U.S. intentions, the Iranian public believes that the threat posed by Washington has diminished over the past year and favours increased exchanges between the two countries, including direct talks on stabilising Iraq and other issues, according to a major new survey released here Monday by WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO).POLITICS-US: Iraq Still a Quagmire Say Experts
Despite a reduction in violence over the past 15 months, '’the U.S. risks getting bogged down in Iraq for a long time to come, with serious consequences for its interests in other parts of the world,’’ according to a new assessment by the same group of experts who advised the bipartisan blue-ribbon Iraq Study Group (ISG) in 2006.POLITICS-US: North Korean Nuclear Deal at Risk?
Growing tensions between North Korea and the new, more hawkish South Korean government are spurring concern among U.S. experts that already halting progress toward implementation of a denuclearisation deal with Pyongyang could unravel.ENVIRONMENT: Major Climate Campaign Hits U.S. Airwaves
Building on his Oscar for the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore Wednesday launched a 300-million-dollar media campaign to mobilise the public for concrete action to reduce global warming.POLITICS: U.S. Image Improved Slightly in 2007
After three years of steadily declining ratings, global perception of the United States as a positive influence in the world appears to have improved marginally during 2007, according to a survey of 23 countries released by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Wednesday.POLITICS: Why Did the U.S. Invade Iraq?
So why, exactly, did the U.S. invade Iraq five years ago this week?RIGHTS: U.S. State Department Found Little to Cheer in 2007
The global human rights panorama offered a decidedly mixed - if not mostly negative - picture in 2007, according to the latest edition of the State Department's annual human rights "Country Reports" released here Tuesday.IRAN: Int’l Support Ebbs for West’s Nuclear Hard Line
Public support for stronger measures, including possible military strikes, to curb or destroy Iran's nuclear programme has declined significantly in most countries around the world compared to 18 months ago, according to a new survey of public opinion released Tuesday by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).POLITICS-US: Foreign Policy Increasingly Flows Through Pentagon
U.S. foreign policy is becoming increasingly dominated by the Pentagon rather than the State Department, and Congress is doing virtually nothing about it, according to a new report released here Thursday by several human rights organisations.RIGHTS: Global Poll Shows Strong Support for Gender Equality
Large majorities of people around the world agree that women should enjoy full equality of rights compared to men, according to a survey of nearly 15,000 respondents in 16 developed and developing countries released here Thursday by WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO).POLITICS-US: U.S. Diplomacy Sidelined by Loyalty to Uribe
Washington's strong backing for President Alvaro Uribe has all but removed it from playing any significant diplomatic role in defusing the crisis sparked by Saturday's attack by Colombia on anti-government guerrillas on Ecuador's territory, according to analysts here.HEALTH-US: Rare Consensus Behind 50-Billion-Dollar AIDS Plan
In an increasingly unusual display of bipartisanship, both the White House and the Republican and Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives have agreed on a bill that, if passed, would provide 50 billion dollars to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis over the next five years.ARMS-US: Satellite Shootdown Fuels Fears of New Space Race
Independent arms-control critics here say that Wednesday's successful strike by a missile launched from a U.S. warship in the Pacific Ocean of a dying spy satellite will add to growing fears in Russia and China that Washington is determined to assert military dominance in space.PAKISTAN: U.S. Reactions To Election Results Mixed
Forty-eight hours after Pakistani voters overwhelmingly repudiated the Bush administration’s "man in Islamabad", President Pervez Musharraf, Washington seemed uncertain about whether the election results marked a setback to U.S. strategic interests or an advance.POLITICS-CUBA: U.S. Awaits Its Own Transition to Review Policy
Despite Tuesday’s historic announcement by President Fidel Castro that he is retiring from public office, U.S. citizens must await the departure of their own sitting president 11 months from now before Washington’s nearly 50-year hostility toward the Caribbean island is likely to be reviewed. Even then, change is not guaranteed.POLITICS: Can the U.S. Brace Its Fall?
"Is the American era over?" That was the big question that launched a lengthy analysis by veteran international affairs reporter James Kitfield in the influential ‘National Journal’ last May. Significantly, the article - which featured interviews with an all-star cast of former top U.S. policy-makers - was titled "The Decline Begins."POLITICS-US: Obama Surpasses Clinton as Democratic Front-Runner
Landslide victories in three Democratic presidential primaries Tuesday appear to have propelled Sen. Barack Obama past Sen. Hillary Clinton into front-runner status in the race for the party’s nomination.POLITICS-US: The Cat’s Pause
As the man responsible for the health and strength of the U.S. military, Pentagon chief Robert Gates is increasingly finding himself between the devil and the deep blue sea.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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