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POLITICS-US: A Formidable Hawk Goes Down
Losing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, perhaps the most influential national security official without a formal cabinet rank, marks a serious blow to the George W. Bush administration and particularly to the hawks who led the drive to war in Iraq.POLITICS-US: Cheney’s Top Aide Indicted in CIA Leak Case
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and top national security aide resigned Friday, hours before a grand jury formally indicted him on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice following a 22-month probe into the public disclosure of the identity of a covert Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative.POLITICS-US: Frustrated Scowcroft Assails Neo-Cons, Cheney
One week after a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell issued a blistering attack on foreign policy-making in the George W. Bush administration, Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser under Bush's father, assailed neo-conservatives who persuaded the president to go to war in Iraq.RIGHTS-US: Serious Lapses Taint Probes of Detainee Deaths
Despite repeated vows by the Pentagon to fully investigate the deaths of all detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq and elsewhere in the "war on terror", a major human rights group has found a pattern of "grossly inadequate and flawed investigations" that have made it difficult or impossible to hold perpetrators accountable.POLITICS-US: Powell Aide Blasts Rice, Cheney- Rumsfeld ‘Cabal’
As top officials in the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney’s office await possible criminal indictments for their efforts to discredit a whistleblower, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Wednesday, accused a ''cabal'' led by Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld of hijacking U.S. foreign policy by circumventing or ignoring formal decision-making channels.RIGHTS-IRAQ: Hussein Trial Put Off Amid Doubts About Fairness
While international human rights groups have long wanted former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to face trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, they have serious reservations about whether proceedings that got underway in Baghdad Wednesday will meet international standards of fairness.RIGHTS-IRAQ: Hussein Trial Put Off Amid Doubts About Fairness
While international human rights groups have long wanted former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to face trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, they have serious reservations about whether proceedings that got underway in Baghdad Wednesday will meet international standards of fairness.POLITICS-US: Another Bush Disaster Nominee Assailed
A month after President George W. Bush's national disaster chief resigned after bungling the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, his nomination of a right-wing Republican politician as the State Department's next director for refugee programmes is coming under sharp attack.POLITICS-US: Washington on Tenterhooks Over Leak Case
Wrapping up a two-year investigation that a growing number of legal analysts expect to yield indictments of at least one, and possibly two, of the George W. Bush administration's most powerful men as early as this week, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has Washington on pins and needles.RIGHTS: Historic ICC Arrest Warrants Evoke Praise, Concern
Confirmation by the two-year-old International Criminal Court that it has issued its first arrest warrants, for Joseph Kony and four other commanders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, has provoked both praise and concern from western human rights and peace groups.RIGHTS: Historic ICC Arrest Warrants Evoke Praise, Concern
Friday's confirmation by the two-year-old International Criminal Court (ICC) that it has issued its first arrest warrants, for Joseph Kony and four other commanders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, has provoked both praise and concern from western human rights and peace groups.POLITICS-US: Bush Seen Increasingly as a Failed President
Amid growing signs of disarray and malaise in the White House, U.S. President George W. Bush is seen increasingly by the public at large as a failure whose policies, particularly regarding the economy and the budget, have harmed more than helped the country, according to a major new poll released here Thursday.ENVIRONMENT: Study Says Tree Loss Not Linked to Major Floods
Despite conventional wisdom, deforestation and the local populations that may be responsible for it should not be blamed for catastrophic floods that have wreaked serious human and economic devastation in Asia and Central Europe over the past few years, and most recently following Hurricane Stan in Central America, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).TRADE-US: Farm Subsidies Offer Called a “Shell Game”
If U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Rob Portman thought that his proposal to cut the ceiling on some government farm subsidies by 60 percent over five years would be greeted favourably by civil society, development and family farm groups, he is sure to be disappointed.RIGHTS-US: Halt Demanded to Life Prison Sentences for Kids
Two of the world's most prominent human rights groups are calling on the United States to immediately halt the practice of sentencing children convicted of serious crimes to life imprisonment without parole.POLITICS-IRAQ: A Lose-Lose Referendum?
Five days before Saturday's referendum on Iraq's proposed constitution, the U.S. foreign policy elite appears both anxious and gloomy, increasingly worried that win or lose, the process will bring Iraq one step closer to civil war and, with it, the possible destabilisation of the wider region.POLITICS-US: Condi May Be Bush’s Expediency Council
Just as the theocratic leadership in Iran is trying to rein in the aggressive nationalism of the new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, so Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears to be restraining aggressive nationalists in Washington who want to escalate rising tensions with Iran and Syria.POLITICS-US: Bush Raises the Stakes in Terror War
Despite fading public - and Republican - confidence in his performance in Iraq and the wider "war on terror", U.S. President George W. Bush Thursday raised the stakes by warning that a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would lead to a takeover by al Qaeda and the subversion of its pro-western neighbours.AFGHANISTAN: Four Years After US Campaign, Perils Abound
On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the launch of U.S. military operations against the Taliban regime, Afghanistan presents a mixed picture, according to experts here.RIGHTS-US: White House Losing Ground on Prisoner Treatment
Despite strong opposition from the Pentagon and the White House, the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate is coming under growing pressure to set specific standards for the "humane" treatment of detainees taken in Iraq and elsewhere in the George W. Bush administration's "war on terror".RIGHTS-US: White House Losing Ground on Prisoner Treatment
Despite strong opposition from the Pentagon and the White House, the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate is coming under growing pressure to set specific standards for the "humane" treatment of detainees taken in Iraq and elsewhere in the George W. Bush administration's "war on terror".« Previous Page — Next Page »
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