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SUDAN: Darfur Activists Frustrated With US Inaction
Africa and human rights activists who have been pressing U.S. President George W. Bush to take strong measures to halt what he himself has called "genocide" in the Darfur region of Sudan are growing increasingly infuriated with Washington's inaction.POLITICS: Arabs Less Worried About Iran, Poll Finds
U.S. and Israeli hopes of forging of a Sunni Arab alliance to contain Iran and its regional allies may be misplaced, at least at the popular level, according to a major survey of six Arab countries released here Thursday.POLITICS: Arabs Less Worried About Iran, Poll Finds
U.S. and Israeli hopes of forging of a Sunni Arab alliance to contain Iran and its regional allies may be misplaced, at least at the popular level, according to a major survey of six Arab countries released here Thursday.U.S.: Proposed ’08 Pentagon Earns Superlatives All Around
How big is President George W. Bush's proposed 2008 Pentagon budget?POLITICS-US: One CEO’s Dissent from War on Terror
Meet Richard Wade Vague. Tall, friendly, dressed in a dark, finely tailored suit, with a firm, confident handshake and a ready, if surprisingly modest, smile, he looks like the quintessential successful 51-year-old self-described "conservative" corporate executive that he is.POLITICS-US/IRAQ: No Light at Tunnel’s End
A long-awaited study by the U.S. intelligence community released here Friday concludes there is little, if any, light at the end of tunnel in Iraq.POLITICS-US: Lawmakers Move to Restrain Bush on Iran
Increasingly concerned about the escalating rhetoric against Iran by senior U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush, members of Congress are trying to put limits on his ability to attack the Islamic Republic.POLITICS-US: Lawmakers Move to Restrain Bush on Iran
Increasingly concerned about the escalating rhetoric against Iran by senior U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush, members of Congress are trying to put limits on his ability to attack the Islamic Republic.POLITICS: Africa to Get Its Own U.S. Military Command
For the first time in its history, Africa is poised to get its very own U.S. military command.POLITICS-US/IRAQ: Who Is the Enemy?
Two incidents involving U.S. forces in predominantly Shi'a southern Iraq over the past week appear to demonstrate the growing complexities and dangers of the country's civil conflict.AFGHANISTAN/US: Washington Ups the Ante
Despite growing domestic opposition to his plans for escalating U.S. military intervention in Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush is calling for a sharp increase in Washington's economic and military commitment to Afghanistan.POLITICS-US: Mideast Strategy Increasingly Targets Iran
Six months after last summer's war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, Iran has become the George W. Bush administration's "Public Enemy Number One", against which its Middle East strategy is increasingly focused, according to one of the U.S.'s leading experts on the Gulf.POLITICS-US: Revolt Builds Against Bush's Iraq Policy
In the first step toward what some believe could eventually lead to a constitutional crisis, a key Congressional committee approved a non-binding resolution here Wednesday formally dissenting from President George W. Bush's plan to send some 21,000 more troops to Iraq.POLITICS: U.S., Iranian Publics Not So Different
The people of Iran and the United States share many of the same hopes and fears about global problems but remain deeply distrustful of each other's government, according to a major survey of public opinion in both countries released here Wednesday.POLITICS: Bush Urged to Make Israeli-Palestinian Peace Now
As U.S. President George W. Bush puts the final touches on his State of the Union Address, an unusually broad group of Middle East specialists here is hoping that he will make his proposed two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a centrepiece of both his speech and his last two years in office.ENVIRONMENT-US: Industry Hops on Climate Bandwagon
Sensing shifts in the political climate that gave Democrats control of Congress in November's mid-term elections, 10 major U.S. corporations have joined with four environmental groups in calling for mandatory cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming.POLITICS: Bush Continues to Unite the World… Against Him
Despite two years of a concentrated effort by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her public diplomacy major- doma Karen Hughes to boost Washington's global image, more people around the world have an unfavourable opinion of U.S. policies than at any time in recent memory, according to a new BBC poll released here Monday.POLITICS-US: Democracy Languishes, but Neo-Con Strategy Lives
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) may have effectively closed up shop two years ago and its key neo-conservative allies in the administration, such as Scooter Libby and Douglas Feith, may be long gone, but the group's five-year-old Middle East strategy remains very much alive.IRAQ: U.S. Offers Scant Help to Fleeing Refugees
With some two million of its citizens having fled to other countries and another 1.7 million internally displaced, Iraq has become one of the world's biggest and fastest growing humanitarian crises for which the United States should take far more responsibility, according to human rights groups and other experts.IRAQ: U.S. Offers Scant Help to Fleeing Refugees
With some two million of its citizens having fled to other countries and another 1.7 million internally displaced, Iraq has become one of the world's biggest and fastest growing humanitarian crises for which the United States should take far more responsibility, according to human rights groups and other experts.ENVIRONMENT: Evangelicals, Scientists Team Up on Warming
One year after the launch by nearly 100 evangelical Christian leaders of a major initiative on global warming, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) has announced a joint effort with scientific groups to urge stronger efforts by the government to protect the global environment.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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