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POLITICS-U.S.: The Good Soldier Abandons the Field
Monday's announcement that Secretary of State Colin Powell, by far the most popular of U.S. President George W Bush's war cabinet, has submitted his resignation marks the formal launch of a new scramble for top national-security posts that could bring an even more hard-line configuration to power.POLITICS-U.S.: The Good Soldier Abandons the Field
Monday's announcement that Secretary of State Colin Powell, by far the most popular of U.S. President George W Bush's war cabinet, has submitted his resignation marks the formal launch of a new scramble for top national-security posts that could bring an even more hard-line configuration to power.POLITICS-U.S.: Arafat’s Passing Poses Major Test for Bush II
The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will test whether U.S. President George W Bush intends to maintain his staunch support for Israel's right-wing government at the risk of further alienating the U.S.' European allies and Muslim public opinion.POLITICS-U.S.: Bush Pick for Legal Chief Bedevils Foes
Wednesday's appointment by U.S. President George W Bush of his long-time friend, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, as the next attorney general puts Democrats and civil-rights activists in something of a quandary.POLITICS-U.S.: Springtime for Spooks?
The biggest source of speculation about President George W Bush's foreign policy in a second term is if it will continue on the same aggressive trajectory that marked the first or whether, chastened by Iraq, it will be more restrained over the next four years.U.S.-IRAQ: ‘Phantom Fury’ Poised to Become Phantom Victory
With Monday's launch of 'Operation Phantom Fury' to regain control of the key insurgent-dominated Sunni city of Fallujah, the administration of U.S. President George W Bush appears to be moving toward another ''phantom victory'' in its broader quest to achieve a stable, pro-western Iraq.U.S.-IRAQ: ‘Phantom Fury’ Poised to Become Phantom Victory
With Monday's launch of 'Operation Phantom Fury' to regain control of the key insurgent-dominated Sunni city of Fallujah, the administration of U.S. President George W Bush appears to be moving toward another ''phantom victory'' in its broader quest to achieve a stable, pro-western Iraq.POLITICS-US: Legal Know-How Absent at Guantanamo Bay?
Four months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prisoners held at a special jail at Guantanamo Bay in the U.S. "war on terrorism" have the right to challenge their detention to an independent forum, the legal process appears far from fair, according to human rights groups.POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Con Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America …
An influential foreign-policy neo-conservative with longstanding ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W Bush has laid out what he calls ''a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term.''U.S. ELECTION: Minorities Backed Kerry
Minority communities on Tuesday continued their trend of backing the Democratic candidate in the presidential vote, but re-elected George W Bush recorded several sizeable gains among many groups, according to the latest exit polls.U.S. ELECTION: New Bush Foreign Policy Posture Unlikely
Earnest hopes that U.S. President George W Bush will be prepared to seriously ''reach out'' to U.S. friends and allies overseas to make his foreign policy less aggressive and unilateral in his second term are likely to be earnestly disappointed.U.S. ELECTION: New Bush Foreign Policy Posture Unlikely
Earnest hopes that U.S. President George W Bush will be prepared to seriously ''reach out'' to U.S. friends and allies overseas to make his foreign policy less aggressive and unilateral in his second term are likely to be earnestly disappointed.IRAQ: U.S. Failed to Guard Evidence of Abuses – Report
Crucial evidence of alleged human rights abuses that could be used in upcoming trials of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his top aides has apparently been lost or damaged due to U.S. neglect, says a report released Thursday.U.S. ELECTION: Bush, Republican Right, Extend Mandate
Despite starting a war with no discernible end and plunging the federal budget into record deficits, U.S. President George W Bush and right-wing Republicans have scored a significant, if narrow, electoral victory that consolidates their control over an increasingly polarised nation.U.S. ELECTION: Bush, Republican Right, Extend Mandate
Despite starting a war with no discernible end and plunging the federal budget into record deficits, U.S. President George W Bush and right-wing Republicans have scored a significant, if narrow, electoral victory that consolidates their control over an increasingly polarised nation.U.S. ELECTION: Bush, Republican Right, Extend Mandate
Despite starting a war with no discernible end and plunging the federal budget into record deficits, U.S. President George W Bush and right-wing Republicans have scored a significant, if narrow, electoral victory that consolidates their control over an increasingly polarised nation.U.S. ELECTION: The Test for the West
It is the future unity of the ''West'' that, more than any other basic factor in contemporary global affairs, is most at stake in Tuesday's presidential elections.U.S. ELECTION: The Test for the West
It is the future unity of the ''West'' that, more than any other basic factor in contemporary global affairs, is most at stake in Tuesday's presidential elections.ENVIRONMENT: Global Warming Chills Arctic Hearts
Global warming threatens to devastate the Arctic, which is already facing temperature increases up to 10 times greater than other parts of the world, says a study co-sponsored by eight governments and scheduled to be released one week after Tuesday's U.S. election.ELECTION-U.S.: Halloween Tidings from the ‘War on Terror’
U.S. President George W Bush is fortunate indeed that so much of the electorate has already made up its mind on its vote next Tuesday, because this week's news from the ''war on terrorism'' has been unrelentingly bad.POLITICS-U.S.: Halloween Tidings from the ‘War on Terror’
U.S. President George W Bush is fortunate indeed that so much of the electorate has already made up its mind on its vote next Tuesday, because this week's news from the ''war on terrorism'' has been unrelentingly bad.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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