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POLITICS-U.S: Trans-Atlantic Group Calls for Nuclear Deal With Iran
Ahead of a crucial International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting, next week, a group of some 50 prominent experts and former foreign-policy officials from the United States and Europe have mooted a deal with Iran on it's controversial nuclear programme.POLITICS-US: Katrina Exposes the “Third World” at Home
As thousands of people in New Orleans approach their fifth day without food, water or shelter, the news media and, doubtless, millions of ordinary citizens are wondering how state and particularly federal authorities could have been so slow to respond to one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.POLITICS-US: Will Katrina Bring An Isolationist Revival?
It was Jim Hoagland, the Washington's Post's liberal hawk par excellence, who first pondered the possible foreign policy consequences of Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans.POLITICS-US: Pentagon Foresees Pre-emptive Nuclear Strikes
Amid increasing tension between the United States and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme, and growing concern about overstretched U.S. ground forces, the George W. Bush administration is moving steadily toward adopting the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states as an integral part of its global military strategy./CORRECTED REPEAT/POLITICS-US: A Hyperpower With Feet of Mud
The United States may not quite yet be perceived as the "pitiful, helpless giant" that haunted the dreams of Richard Nixon 35 years ago, but it's getting close.POLITICS-US: Anti-Terror Strategy in Doubt on 9/11 Anniversary
If U.S. President George W. Bush was counting on Sunday's "Freedom Walk" and country music festival at the Pentagon to revive the patriotic spirit (and rally his sagging approval ratings) that followed the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on their fourth anniversary, he is likely to be very disappointed.POLITICS-US: Darfur Crisis Eclipsed But Not Forgotten
Exactly one year after the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush declared the ongoing violence in Darfur, Sudan to be "genocide", activists here declared that the president had failed to follow through with a sustained effort to provide help to the victims.POLITICS-US: Anti-Terror Strategy in Doubt on 9/11 Anniversary
If U.S. President George W. Bush was counting on Sunday's "Freedom Walk" and country music festival at the Pentagon to revive the patriotic spirit (and rally his sagging approval ratings) that followed the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on their fourth anniversary, he is likely to be very disappointed.POLITICS-US: Katrina Aid Steered to Notorious TV Preacher
Just one week after the U.S. State Department denounced right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson's call for the Central Intelligence Agency to "take out" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Washington's federal disaster agency recommended that people wishing to donate to victims of Hurricane Katrina should send their cash to Robertson's main charity organisation.RIGHTS-INDONESIA: Poisoning Case Tests Civilian Rule
The commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to bring the military under the full control of the civilian authorities faces a key test on the one-year anniversary of the murder-by-poison of a leading human rights activist, according to a major U.S. rights group.POLITICS-US: Katrina Exposes the “Third World” at Home
As thousands of people in New Orleans approach their fifth day without food, water or shelter, the news media and, doubtless, millions of ordinary citizens are wondering how state and particularly federal authorities could have been so slow to respond to one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.POLITICS-US: Katrina Exposes the “Third World” at Home
As thousands of people in New Orleans approach their fifth day without food, water or shelter, the news media and, doubtless, millions of ordinary citizens are wondering how state and particularly federal authorities could have been so slow to respond to one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.POLITICS-US: Iraq War Splurge Hits Home at 230 kph
With state, local, and federal officials still grappling with the extent of the devastation and human suffering inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and points east, suggestions that the already plunging political standing of Pres. George W. Bush could also be a major casualty of the disaster have begun taking hold.POLITICS-US: Iraq War Costs Now Exceed Vietnam’s
The U.S. Treasury is paying out more each month to sustain the war in Iraq than it did during the Vietnam War, according to a new report that calls the ongoing conflict "the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years".DEVELOPMENT: Connecting Nature, Power and Poverty
In a significant challenge to neo-liberal orthodoxy, a major Washington-based think tank is calling for greater local and democratic control over environmental resources as the most effective means to lift some two billion people out of rural poverty.TRADE: Asia Displaces Near East as Top Arms Importer
Arms merchants from industrialised nations are increasingly finding Asia, which has replaced the Near East as the world's top conventional-weapons market, the place to go, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).POLITICS-IRAQ: Democracy or Disintegration?
One day after the formal presentation by a majority of Iraq's elected leaders of their proposed constitution, opinions here and in Baghdad appeared divided over whether the draft would lead to greater democracy or the virtual, if not actual, disintegration of the country.POLITICS: Iran’s Growing Sway in Iraq Defies Neocons’ Logic
Anyone who still believes that the U.S. neo-conservatives who led the drive to war in Iraq are diabolically clever geo-strategic masterminds should now consider Iran's vastly improved position vis-a-vis its U.S.-occupied neighbour.POLITICS-US: Democrats Fumble Iraq Policy
While Republicans voice growing unease over U.S. President George W. Bush's vow to "stay the course" in Iraq, Democrats remain deeply divided about their position on a conflict that most of them privately describe as a major foreign policy disaster.POPULATION: Seven Billion in Seven Years
Despite fertility declines in most countries and reduced life expectancy due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in some African nations, the global population will reach 6.5 billion people by the end of this year and should hit seven billion by 2012, according to a report released here Tuesday by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).DEVELOPMENT: Least Church-Going Rich Countries Give Most
Nations where fewer people attend church tend to be more generous in their support for development in poor countries than those where church attendance is much greater, according to the third annual edition of the "Commitment to Development Index (CDI)", published this week in Foreign Policy magazine.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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