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ENVIRONMENT: Global Warming Killing Oceans’ Life Centres
Roughly 70 percent of the world's coral reefs are effectively destroyed or threatened with destruction, according to a major assessment released here Monday by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.U.S.-IRAQ: More Troops Mean More Trouble
The Pentagon's announcement this week that it is adding 12,000 more troops to the approximately 138,000 soldiers it already has in Iraq has put an abrupt end to the fleeting sense of triumph that followed November's ''victory'' by U.S. marines who regained control of Fallujah, the main Sunni rebel stronghold.RIGHTS: Fight for Justice in Bhopal Enters Third Decade
Twenty years after the disastrous leak of tonnes of poisonous gas at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, Dow Chemical, which bought Union Carbide two years ago, is coming under growing pressure to clean up the still highly toxic site and reimburse affected families for their medical and other costs./CORRECTED REPEAT*/POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Cons Hop On Extreme Right’s Anti-UN Drive
Daunted by setbacks in Iraq and the prospective difficulties in achieving ''regime change'' in Iran and North Korea, neo-conservative hawks have joined the U.S. extreme right in training their sights on a much weaker target, the United Nations, beginning with its secretary-general, Kofi Annan.RIGHTS: U.S. Downplays Report on Guantanamo Prisoner Abuse
U.S. officials Tuesday insisted that detainees held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been treated ''humanely,'' despite a Red Cross report that concluded interrogators were using psychological and physical techniques that were ''tantamount to torture''.RIGHTS: U.S. Downplays Report on Guantanamo Prisoner Abuse
U.S. officials Tuesday insisted that detainees held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been treated ''humanely,'' despite a Red Cross report that concluded interrogators were using psychological and physical techniques that were ''tantamount to torture''.POLITICS-U.S.: 25-Year ‘War on Drugs’ Fails on the Streets
Neither its nearly quarter-century ''war against drugs'' nor the almost three billion dollars Washington has spent since 2000 on Plan Colombia has resulted in higher prices on U.S. streets for cocaine or heroin, says a major report by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) released Tuesday.U.S.: Congress Pushes Penalties for Global Court Support
U.S. allies in the developing South are now being targeted by lawmakers here, who have already meted out punishment to nations that support the new International Criminal Court (ICC).POLITICS: U.S. Has Zero Credibility Among Muslims – Pentagon Panel
Al-Qaeda and radical Islamists are winning the propaganda war against the United States, says a high-level Pentagon panel, which concluded that Bush administration policies in the Middle East, its fundamental failure to understand the Muslim world and a lack of imagination in using new communications technologies are responsible.POLITICS-U.S.: From Plymouth Rock to Baghdad, Iraq
As U.S. families partake of the turkey, yams, and other staples of the traditional Thanksgiving feast Thursday, they are unlikely to reflect on the enduring ideological - as opposed to the gastronomic - influences of that hardy band of Pilgrims that celebrated their first year of survival in the Massachusetts colony on the American continent back in 1621.POLITICS-U.S.: From Plymouth Rock to Baghdad, Iraq
As U.S. families partake of the turkey, yams, and other staples of the traditional Thanksgiving feast Thursday, they are unlikely to reflect on the enduring ideological - as opposed to the gastronomic - influences of that hardy band of Pilgrims that celebrated their first year of survival in the Massachusetts colony on the American continent back in 1621.POLITICS-U.S.: Pre-emption Denied New Nukes
A cost-conscious U.S. Congress has denied funding to Bush administration projects to develop new nuclear weapons designed to target rogue states or terrorists developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD).AMERICAS: U.S. Media Miss Rumsfeld’s ‘Dirty Wars’ Talk
If three, five, or 10 years from now, Latin America returns to the military dictatorships and ''dirty wars'' of its all-too-recent past, analysts may point to the past week's conference in Quito of the hemisphere's defence ministers - and particularly Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld's role in it - as a milestone in that journey.AMERICAS: U.S. Media Miss Rumsfeld’s ‘Dirty Wars’ Talk
If three, five, or 10 years from now, Latin America returns to the military dictatorships and ''dirty wars'' of its all-too-recent past, analysts may point to the past week's conference in Quito of the hemisphere's defence ministers - and particularly Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld's role in it - as a milestone in that journey.RIGHTS: Groups Push Bulldozer Maker to End Sales to Israel
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has joined the campaign to pressure U.S.-based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc to stop selling bulldozers to Israel's military because it uses the machines to violate human rights in the occupied territories.POLITICS-U.S.: Hawks Push Regime Change in North Korea
The coalition of foreign-policy hawks that promoted the 2003 invasion of Iraq is pressing President George W Bush to adopt a more coercive policy toward North Korea, despite strong opposition from China and South Korea.POLITICS-U.S.: Don’t Count Out Realists Yet
While after a week of personnel announcements conventional wisdom appears to have concluded that the foreign policy of President George W Bush's second term will be at least if not more radical than the first, there is also a minority view that such a conclusion is premature.U.S.: Foreign Student Numbers Drop
The number of foreign students studying in the United States has dropped for the first time in more than three decades, in part because of a perception those students are not welcome here.IRAQ: Reinforce Rules of War, Urges Amnesty
Amnesty International (AI) has urged the U.S. government to conduct an open investigation into the apparent killing of a wounded prisoner in Iraq by a U.S. soldier, and to make the probe's findings public.POLITICS-U.S.: Hawks Flying High With Rice Posting
U.S. President George W Bush's nomination of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to replace Secretary of State Colin Powell consolidates the control over U.S. foreign policy of the coalition of hawks that promoted the war in Iraq, led by Vice President Dick Cheney.POLITICS: Unilateralism Threatens U.S. Role in Asia
In a major review of U.S. relations with Asia, two high-profile task forces are urging the Bush administration to pay significantly more attention to the region and adopt a less unilateralist posture in its dealings there.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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