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POLITICS-U.S.: Administration Paralysed Over Iran
Does the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush still consider al-Qaeda and its associates the main target in its almost three-year-old ''war on terrorism'', or has its military victory in Iraq whetted its appetite for bigger game?POLITICS-U.S.: Pentagon Office Home to Neo-Con Network
An ad hoc office under U.S. Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have acted as the key base for an informal network of mostly neo-conservative political appointees that circumvented normal inter-agency channels to lead the push for war against Iraq.POLITICS-U.S.: Pentagon Office Home to Neo-Con Network
An ad hoc office under U.S. Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have acted as the key base for an informal network of mostly neo-conservative political appointees that circumvented normal inter-agency channels to lead the push for war against Iraq.ETHIOPIA: Only Long-term Aid Will Solve Immediate Needs – Agencies
Aid to overcome Ethiopia's famine must be delivered along with a commitment to making the African nation strong enough to withstand such challenges in the future, leaders of U.S. aid groups said Wednesday.RIGHTS: Groups Denounce East Timor Verdict
International human rights groups have denounced the three-year prison sentence announced Tuesday against the most senior military officer indicted by Indonesian prosecutors for abuses committed against East Timorese civilians in 1999.POLITICS-U.S.: War Critics Zero In on Pentagon Office
On most days, the Pentagon's 'Early Bird', a daily compilation of news articles on defence-related issues mostly from the U.S. and British press, does not shy from reprinting hard-hitting stories and columns critical of the Defence Department's top leadership.POLITICS: N. Korean Attack on US Diplomat Spotlights Ultra-Hawk
To the North Koreans, he is ''rude human scum'' and a ''bloodthirsty vampire''.POLITICS-U.S.: White House Discipline Breaking Down
If foreign leaders and diplomats appear increasingly confused about where U.S. foreign policy is being made, they are not alone.FINANCE: Bank Delays Vote on Controversial Peru Pipeline
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Wednesday unexpectedly put off until Aug. 6 a vote on whether to provide a 75-million-dollar loan for the controversial 2.6-billion-dollar Camisea gas pipeline project in Peru.POLITICS-U.S.: Congress, Independent Voters Grow Sceptical on Iraq
Independent voters and members of Congress continued to raise doubts about President George W. Bush's war on Iraq on Tuesday.POLITICS: Will the U.N. Bail Out Bush?
Make no mistake: U.S. President George W. Bush is in very big trouble.Whereas a week ago, people here were talking about the dread ”V” word - for Vietnam - this week the dreaded ”W” word - for Watergate - was back in vogue, even as the ”V” word was still in use. Watergate plus Vietnam is about the worst combination for a sitting president that anyone could possibly imagine.
POLITICS: Will the U.N. Bail Out Bush?
Make no mistake: U.S. President George W. Bush is in very big trouble.HEALTH: U.S. Anti-AIDS Funding Dwindles; Bush Blamed
Two efforts by Democratic lawmakers to boost next year's U.S. contribution to the global fight against AIDS were narrowly defeated in a key Congressional committee Wednesday, spurring charges that Pres. George W. Bush, who just returned from a five-day trip to Africa last weekend, had betrayed the expectations he created while there.HEALTH: U.S. Congress Again Punishes U.N. Population Fund
In a close 216 to 211 vote on Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted the Smith Amendment, which blocks the United States from contributing any funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).POLITICS-US: Key Officials Used 9/11 As Pretext for Iraq War
With demands for a full-scale investigation of the manipulation of intelligence by the administration of Pres. George W. Bush mounting steadily, it appears increasingly clear that key officials and their allies outside the administration intended to use the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as a pretext for going to war against Iraq within hours of the attacks themselves.POLITICS: Abuses Ignored in Aid For Anti-Terror Ally, Groups Say
Reports that the George W. Bush administration has decided to release funds that will permit it to train Indonesian military officers, despite a recent vote by a key Senate committee that calls for training to be suspended until the army's role in the killing of two U.S. teachers in West Papua is clarified, has drawn strong expressions of concern on the part of human rights groups here.POLITICS-U.S.: Imperial Dreams Running Aground on Arabian Sands
Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has become distinctly testy, while Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz seems almost to have disappeared from public view, and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney hasn't been heard from in weeks.POLITICS: Bush’s Africa Trip Long on Rhetoric, Short on Specifics
On his first week back from a whirlwind trip across Africa, U.S. President George W. Bush will have a lot of explaining to do - and not just why a controversial allegation about Iraq's efforts to obtain uranium yellowcake from Niger made it into his State of the Union address, either.POLITICS-U.S.: Anatomy of a Quack-Mire
How could such smart people get so much wrong?RIGHTS: Indonesia Piling Up Political Prisoners Again, Groups Say
Two of the world's largest human rights organisations say that the government of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputra is filling the country's jails once again with political prisoners, only five years after all prisoners of conscience were released with the ouster of former President Suharto.RIGHTS: Indonesia Piling Up Political Prisoners Again, Groups Say
Two of the world's largest human rights organisations say that the government of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputra is filling the country's jails once again with political prisoners, only five years after all prisoners of conscience were released with the ouster of former President Suharto.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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