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POLITICS-U.S.: Florida’s Cuban-Americans Cooling on Bush
U.S. President George W Bush has lost significant support in Florida's Cuban-American community which, if the 2000 elections are a guide, could play a decisive role in November's voting, according to a poll released here Friday.FINANCE: Only Bravest Whistleblowers Pucker Up at Development Banks
Insiders at the World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) who want to blow the whistle on corruption or other forms of mismanagement are insufficiently protected against retaliation, says a major study released Thursday by a group that specialises in protecting whistleblowers.POLITICS-U.S.: Cheney In the Balance?
Now that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has chosen Senator John Edwards as his vice-presidential running-mate, the capital's attention has shifted to the fate of Vice President Dick Cheney.RIGHTS: U.S.-Backed Tunisia Isolating Political Prisoners – Report
The North African nation of Tunisia is holding in isolation as many as 40 leaders of a moderate Islamist movement, who are among 500 political prisoners in the country chosen by U.S. President George W Bush as the base for his plan to democratise the Middle East, says a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).HEALTH: ‘More Money, Less Ideology’ – AIDS Activists to Bush
As some 15,000 official delegates and representatives of civil society gather in Bangkok this week for an international AIDS meeting, one of the big questions is whether U.S. President George W Bush is prepared to modify his more ideological positions on fighting the disease.POLITICS-U.S.: Presidential Race Looks to Be Dead Heat
Exactly four months before the Nov. 2 presidential elections, the race between the Republican incumbent, George W. Bush, and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, is a statistical dead heat, according to several polls released during the past week.RIGHTS-US: Supreme Court Sets Bush, Corporations Back on Key Law
In a new rebuff to the administration of Pres. George W. Bush, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 215-year-old anti-piracy law can continue to be used by foreign victims of serious human rights abuses access to U.S. courts for redress.RIGHTS-U.S.: Supreme Court Deals Bush Major Defeat on Detainees
In a major defeat for Pres. George W. Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday ruled that detainees captured in Bush's "war on terrorism" and detained at a U.S. base in Cuba or in U.S. territory have the right to challenge their detention in federal court.POLITICS-U.S.: Realism Sprouts More Buds
Two weeks after compromising with its traditional allies on the wording of a key U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq, U.S. foreign policy under George W. Bush appears to be moving further toward the more-realist policies of his father in other areas as well.POLITICS: Iraq War Analysis Paints Grim Picture
Unless you own a lot of stock in Halliburton or other big defence, security, or construction companies, chances are the Iraq war has turned out to be a pretty bad investment, both in human lives and taxpayer dollars, according to a new assessment by a progressive Washington-based think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).POLITICS-AFGHANISTAN: No Fair Elections Without Security
While more than 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq continue trying to impose security in advance of the Jun. 30 handover of limited sovereignty to the new Iraqi administration, the security situation in nearby Afghanistan continues to deteriorate.POLITICS-U.S.: Bush Team Tries to Brazen It Out
''The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda'', U.S. President George W Bush told reporters Thursday, is ''because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda''.U.S.: Retired Top Diplomats, Soldiers Tell Bush to Beat It
In an unprecedented broadside, more than two-dozen top retired U.S. career diplomats and military commanders, many of whom reached their top positions under former President George HW Bush, have called for George W Bush to be defeated in his re-election bid in November.POLITICS-AFRICA: Upbeat on Globalisation, Although Southern Africa Lags
Africans feel relatively positive about globalisation and the United States, although the enthusiasm for both is markedly weaker among Southern Africans and Tanzanians than among people in other parts of the continent, according to a major survey of seven sub-Saharan African nations.POLITICS: Retired Top Diplomats, Soldiers Tell Bush to Beat It
In an unprecedented broadside, more than two-dozen top retired U.S. career diplomats and military commanders, many of whom reached their top positions under former President George HW Bush, have called for George W Bush to be defeated in his re-election bid in November.POLITICS-U.S.: 9/11 Panel Challenges Bush on Al-Qaeda-Iraq Links
In a direct challenge to recent assertions by both President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the special bipartisan commission investigating the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York and the Pentagon has found ''no credible evidence'' of any operational link between Iraq and al-Qaeda.POLITICS-U.S.: 9/11 Panel Challenges Bush on Al-Qaeda-Iraq Links
In a direct challenge to recent assertions by both President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the special bipartisan commission investigating the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York and the Pentagon has found ''no credible evidence'' of any operational link between Iraq and al-Qaeda.RIGHTS: Group Urges U.S. to Lead Troops Into Sudan’s Darfur
Amid increasingly strident calls from United Nations officials for international intervention to stop "ethnic cleansing" in western Sudan, a U.S. group is calling on Washington to declare the situation "genocide" and lead a military force into the region until U.N. troops can be assembled.POLITICS: Stymied in Iraq, Hawks Still Positioning US as Globocop
Although their hopes for transforming Iraq into a pro-U.S. base in the heart of the Arab world have been badly set back, neo-imperial hawks in the Bush administration are proceeding as fast as possible to reinvent U.S. forces worldwide as ''globocop'', capable of pre-empting any possible threat to its interests at a moment's notice.RIGHTS: World Gaining in Fight Against Human Trafficking – U.S.
Many of the world's governments appear to be making progress in fighting the trafficking of humans across international borders, according to the latest of the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, released here Monday.POLITICS-U.S.: Recent Good News No Boost for Bush in Polls
After being battered by seemingly relentless bad news since early April, U.S. President George W Bush has enjoyed two weeks of relatively good news but still finds himself struggling in the polls.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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