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ENVIRONMENT: Groups Try to Plug Peruvian Pipeline Loan
Environmental and human-rights groups here and in Peru have launched a last-ditch effort to delay final approval, expected as early as this week, of a controversial pipeline project in Peru they say endangers some of the world's most unique rainforests and Latin America's isolated indigenous populations.ELECTIONS-U.S.: Hegemony Yes, Empire No in a Kerry Foreign Policy
If one were to reduce U.S. foreign policy under John Kerry - should he defeat President George W Bush in the November elections - to a four-word motto, it would probably be, ''Hegemony Yes, Empire No''.POLITICS-U.S.: Hegemony Yes, Empire No in a Kerry Foreign Policy
If one were to reduce U.S. foreign policy under John Kerry - should he defeat President George W Bush in the November elections - to a four-word motto, it would probably be, ''Hegemony Yes, Empire No''.POLITICS: Iraq War Straining U.S.-Turkey Ties
While the image of the United States has sunk to an all-time low in the Arab world, the Iraq war has also had a devastating impact on U.S. ties to another predominantly Muslim power and one of Washington's closest and most strategically situated Cold War allies, Turkey, say experts just returned from the region.RIGHTS-SUDAN: Pressure Builds Slowly Over Darfur
The Bush administration continues to refrain from calling a campaign of ethnic cleansing against black Africans in Sudan's western Darfur province "genocide," although both houses of the U.S. Congress approved non-binding resolutions last week that used the term to describe the situation.POLITICS-U.S.: Losing Arab Hearts and Minds – It’s the Policy, Stupid
If U.S. President George W Bush thinks his ''war on terror'' is winning Arab hearts and minds, he should think about conducting it much differently than he has over the past two years...POLITICS-US: Losing Arab Hearts and Minds – It’s the Policy, Stupid
If U.S. President George W Bush thinks his ''war on terror'' is winning Arab hearts and minds, he should think about conducting it much differently than he has over the past two years...RIGHTS: U.S. Public Rejects Torture
Two-thirds of U.S. citizens believe their government should "never use physical torture" against detainees, and 90 percent reject sexually humiliating prisoners, as was done by U.S. soldiers at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail, according to a major survey of attitudes here.POLITICS-U.S.: 9/11 Probe Calls for National Security Overhaul
Capping 18 months of work, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission released its 567-page report here Thursday, and challenged President George W Bush and Congress to urgently make sweeping changes to the structure of the U.S. intelligence community.POLITICS-U.S.: 9/11 Probe Calls for National Security Overhaul
Capping 18 months of work, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission released its 567-page report here Thursday, and challenged President George W Bush and Congress to urgently make sweeping changes to the structure of the U.S. intelligence community.HAITI: Donors Exceed Aid Target, Debt Relief Next Goal, Group Says
Donors have pledged 1.1 billion dollars - 160 million dollars more than requested - in new aid over the next two years to cover yawning gaps in Haiti's budget, begin restoring basic services, and hopefully jumpstart the Americas' poorest country after years of stagnation.POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Cons Target Terrorism By Reviving Communism Foe
A bipartisan group of 41 mainly neo-conservative foreign-policy hawks has launched the third Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) whose previous two incarnations mobilised public support for rolling back Soviet-led communism but whose new enemy will be ''global terrorism''.RIGHTS: U.S. Public Backs Force Against Sudan ‘Genocide’
Amid reports that senior officials in Sudan have directed recruitment, arming and other support to Arab militias waging a "scorched-earth" campaign against African tribes in the province of Darfur, a new poll shows U.S. citizens feel Washington should back a future United Nations declaration of "genocide" with armed force.RIGHTS: U.S. Public Backs Force Against Sudan ‘Genocide’
Amid reports that senior officials in Sudan have directed recruitment, arming and other support to Arab militias waging a "scorched-earth" campaign against African tribes in the province of Darfur, a new poll shows U.S. citizens feel Washington should back a future United Nations declaration of "genocide" with armed force.POLITICS-U.S.: Realists and Neo-Cons Renew Battle on Iran
A new round in the ongoing battle between realists and neo-conservative and other hawks over Iran policy got underway here Monday as a task force of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published a new report urging Washington to engage Tehran on a selected range of issues of mutual concern.POPULATION-U.S.: Bush Extends Jihad Against UNFPA
In what critics are calling its latest slap at women and multilateralism, the administration of U.S. President George W Bush announced Friday that the 34 million dollars Congress had earmarked for the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) will be used for other purposes.POPULATION-U.S.: Bush Extends Jihad Against UNFPA
In what critics are calling its latest slap at women and multilateralism, the administration of U.S. President George W Bush announced Friday that the 34 million dollars Congress had earmarked for the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) will be used for other purposes.RIGHTS-UZBEKISTAN: U.S. Aid Cut Heartens Groups
This week's decision by the U.S. State Department to cut up to 18 million dollars in aid to its staunchest anti-terrorism ally in Central Asia is being welcomed by human rights activists, who called the move long overdue.SAUDI ARABIA: Asian Workers Face ‘Slave-Like’ Conditions – Report
Asian workers in Saudi Arabia sometimes toil in slave-like conditions, while those who end up in the kingdom's legal system are often held in prolonged incommunicado detention and tortured in order to extract confessions, says a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).TRADE: US, West European Publics Like the Idea Not the Practice
Most U.S. and West European citizens strongly back the concept of more international trade, but show a lot less support for specific trade agreements and mechanisms, according to a major new survey on aid and trade released Tuesday by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.POLITICS-U.S.: CIA Becomes Political Football
The imminent choice by U.S. President George W Bush of a new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), blasted Friday for ''groupthink'' and incompetence by a key Congressional committee, is fast becoming the major new battleground between the administration's hawks and realists.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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