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POLITICS: Bush Bad for Global Peace, US Image, World Believes
As George W. Bush prepares to be sworn in for his second term as U.S. president, a strong majority of the world's people are concerned his tenure is likely to produce more setbacks to the cause of world peace and security, according to a major international poll released Wednesday.POLITICS-U.S.: Voters Hope for Softer, Gentler Second Term
If U.S. President George W. Bush steers his foreign policy in a more multilateralist direction, he will have strong support from both Republican and Democratic voters for doing so, according to a new survey and analysis based on several major polls on foreign-policy attitudes conducted over the last six months.POLITICS-U.S.: New Military Links to Indonesia Debated
Besides improving Washington's image in South and Southeast Asia, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is hoping to achieve something more concrete from its aid efforts in the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami that killed over 175,000 people along the coasts of the Indian Ocean.RIGHTS: Iranian Nobel Laureate Follows in King’s Footsteps
Almost exactly 40 years after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, in recognition of his non-violent struggle for civil rights in the United States, another Nobel Peace laureate, Shirin Ebadi, said she was ready to be arrested for refusing to appear before Iran's Revolutionary Court.POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Conservatives At Sea
Jubilant over President George W. Bush's re-election victory just two months ago, neo-conservatives who played a leading role in shaping the radical trajectory of U.S. foreign policy after the Sep. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks appear increasingly divided on key issues and uncertain of their position in Bush's second term.POLITICS-US: Bush Urged to Seize the Moment on Mid-East Peace
Three dozen of the nation's most prominent Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders Wednesday issued a special appeal to U.S. President George W. Bush to appoint a high-level special envoy to work full time on promoting peace talks between the governments of Israel and the Palestine Authority (PA).RIGHTS: Report Singles Out U.S., Sudan For Strong Censure
The impunity surrounding the ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Sudan and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in U.S.-occupied Iraq has dealt a serious blow to global efforts to strengthen respect for human rights, according to a major U.S. human rights group.POLITICS: Terror War Diverting Attention from Roots of Insecurity
The Bush administration's "war on terrorism" has diverted the world's attention from the deeper roots of global insecurity, according to the latest edition of Worldwatch Institute's annual 'State of the World' report, which calls poverty, disease and environmental decline the "true axis of evil".POLITICS-SUDAN: Roots of Bloodshed Run Deep, Experts Warn
Human rights groups and other observers remain worried about the continuing violence in the western region of Darfur, despite the signing yesterday of a final peace accord between the government of Sudan and southern rebels.POLITICS-U.S.: More Dissent in Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War
For the second time in as many months, a report by a key Pentagon advisory group has implicitly taken the administration of President George W. Bush to task for major failures in pre-war planning, particularly with respect to Iraq.POLITICS-SUDAN: Roots of Bloodshed Run Deep, Experts Warn
Human rights groups and other observers remain worried about the continuing violence in the western region of Darfur, despite the signing yesterday of a final peace accord between the government of Sudan and southern rebels.POLITICS-U.S.: Rice Surprises
Ending weeks of sometimes fevered speculation, Bush administration officials confirmed Thursday that Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice's deputy at the State Department will be a confirmed Atlanticist and arch-realist, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Zoellick.POLITICS: Meanwhile, Back in Iraq…
While the world's attention has been focused for the past 10 days on the catastrophic tsunamis in South Asia and the subsequent relief efforts, the situation for the United States and its dwindling number of allies in Iraq appears to have worsened.POLITICS: Meanwhile, Back in Iraq…
While the world's attention has been focused for the past 10 days on the catastrophic tsunamis in South Asia and the subsequent relief efforts, the situation for the United States and its dwindling number of allies in Iraq appears to have worsened.POLITICS-US: Author of "Torture" Memo Faces Stormy Confirmation
Led by a dozen retired generals and admirals, including a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, human rights groups are urging the U.S. Senate to carefully scrutinise the role of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in devising detention and interrogation policies for the Bush administration's "war against terrorism" before confirming him as attorney-general.TSUNAMI IMPACT: Hope for Survival of Stone Age Tribes in Andamans
Asia's last Paleolithic tribes appear to have survived last Sunday's tsunamis, despite the fact that their homelands in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Andaman Sea were among the hardest hit of all the areas affected by the catastrophe.TSUNAMI IMPACT: Bush Belatedly Ramps Up Disaster Response
Amid a growing debate over whether the U.S. is "stingy" in its aid to poor countries, President George W. Bush moved quickly over the New Year's weekend to demonstrate his concern over the plight of the survivors of last Sunday's tsunamis that killed at least 150,000 people across the Indian Ocean.TSUNAMI IMPACT: Hope for Survival of Stone Age Tribes in Andamans
Asia's last Paleolithic tribes appear to have survived last Sunday's tsunamis, despite the fact that their homelands in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Andaman Sea were among the hardest hit of all the areas affected by the catastrophe.U.S.: Bush Defensive as Aid Effort Lumbers Into Action
With the South Asian death toll from Sunday's tsunamis well beyond the 100,000 mark and climbing, the administration of U.S. President George W Bush is defending itself against charges that its aid commitments so far have been largely too little, too grudging and too late.CHALLENGES 2004-2005: If Not a Unipolar World, Then What?
With the United States piling up unprecedented trade and budget deficits and bogged down in Iraq without a clear exit strategy, the neo-conservative vision of a U.S.-dominated, unipolar world over which Washington would rule as the ''new Rome'' is seen increasingly by foreign policy elites here as a chimera.CHALLENGES 2004-2005: Bye Bye Unipolar World
This time a year ago, U.S. forces had just pulled former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from his ''spider hole'' near the Euphrates River, and top military commanders were trumpeting the crippling of the unanticipated deadly insurgency that bedevilled the U.S. occupation for months.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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