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MEDIA-US: Public’s Grasp of Current Issues Unchanged Despite Internet, Cable TV
Despite the emergence of 24-hour cable television news and fast-growing use of internet news sources, the U.S. public's knowledge of national and international personalities and issues is little changed from nearly 20 years ago, according to a new survey released by the Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press.POLITICS: Top Wolfowitz Postings Went to Iraq War Backers
Of the top five outside international appointments made by embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz during his nearly two-year tenure, three were senior political appointees of right-wing governments that provided strong backing for U.S. policy in Iraq.POLITICS: Top Wolfowitz Postings Went to Iraq War Backers
Of the top five outside international appointments made by embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz during his nearly two-year tenure, three were senior political appointees of right-wing governments that provided strong backing for U.S. policy in Iraq.POLITICS-US: Cheney Daughter Rages Against Syria
Just a week after Vice President Dick Cheney accused Congress' senior Democrat and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi of "bad behaviour" for visiting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his daughter and former senior State Department official, Elizabeth Cheney, called Thursday for a global diplomatic embargo against Damascus.POLITICS-US: Breaking the Army
President George W. Bush's ongoing "surge" of some 35,000 troops to add to the 140,000 already deployed in Iraq is highlighting growing concern, particularly among the military brass, that the U.S. army is overstretched and fast becoming "broken".POLITICS: Elliott Abrams and Deja Vu All Over Again
It has an all too familiar ring to it: A crisis area - in this case, the Middle East - finds itself in desperate need of a peace process capable of tamping down the forces of violence and destabilisation which the United States itself has played a central role in unleashing.POLITICS: Elliott Abrams and Deja Vu All Over Again
It has an all too familiar ring to it.RIGHTS: Broad Support for U.N. Intervention Against Genocide
Less than two years after the heads of the world's governments endorsed "humanitarian intervention" by the United Nations against genocide and other massive abuses of human rights, a new survey released here Thursday has found strong support for the concept among general publics around the world.POLITICS-IRAN: Lessons in Capture, Release of Britons
The drama surrounding the release of 15 British sailors and marines after 12 days in Iranian captivity was designed to convey two key messages that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush would do well to heed, say experts here.POLITICS-IRAN: Lessons in Capture, Release of Britons
The drama surrounding the release of 15 British sailors and marines after 12 days in Iranian captivity was designed to convey two key messages that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush would do well to heed, say experts here.POLITICS-US: Public Anxiety Over Foreign Policy Nears Crisis
Increasingly anxious about the course of U.S. foreign policy under President George W. Bush, particularly in Iraq, the country appears to be moving toward a "full-blown crisis of public confidence," according to the latest "Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy" survey designed by veteran pollster Daniel Yankelovich released here Tuesday.ENVIRONMENT-US: Warming Activists Hail High Court Ruling
In a decision hailed by environmental activists as a milestone in the fight to curb global warming, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday ruled that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.POLITICS-US: Tough Week for Bush Middle East Strategy
To the extent the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has a coherent Middle East policy, it took some serious hits this past week.POLITICS-US: Tough Week for Bush Middle East Strategy
To the extent the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has a coherent Middle East policy, it took some serious hits this past week.POLITICS-MIDEAST: Arabs See Both US and Iran as Harming Iraq
Large majorities of Arabs believe the United States' role in Iraq is negative and want U.S. troops to leave that country sooner rather than later, according to recent surveys in five Arab nations released here, Wednesday, by the Arab American Institute (AAI) and Zogby International, a polling firm.POLITICS-US: Showdown Looms Over Iraq Withdrawal
With U.S. President George W. Bush reiterating his threat to veto legislation that makes funding for the Iraq war conditional on a deadline for withdrawing at least some U.S. troops, Washington appeared Wednesday to be moving rapidly toward a major confrontation between the White House and Democrats in Congress.MIDEAST: Possible Breakthrough Seen in Israeli-Arab Peace
As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wound down her latest and most intense round of Middle Eastern "shuttle diplomacy" Monday, a star-studded international cast of former top-ranking diplomats and government leaders said they were "convinced there exists now a major opportunity to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement."MIDEAST: Possible Breakthrough Seen in Israeli-Arab Peace
As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wound down her latest and most intense round of Middle Eastern "shuttle diplomacy" Monday, a star-studded international cast of former top-ranking diplomats and government leaders said they were "convinced there exists now a major opportunity to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement."POLITICS-US: Tentative Moves Toward New Palestine Govt
How seriously and to what ends is the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush willing to engage the new Palestinian government of national unity?TRADE: Support Builds for Labour, Environment Standards
Strong majorities in both developing and developed countries believe that international trade agreements should require governments to abide by minimum labour and environmental standards, according to a new survey of public opinion in 10 countries.POLITICS: Iraqis Increasingly Pessimistic, Anti-U.S.
Four years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraqis have never been more pessimistic about their lives and antagonistic toward their purported liberators, according to a major new poll released Monday by BBC, ABC News, USA Today and the German ARD television network.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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