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Advocating Peace, Granny D, Pink Ladies Descend on Market Square PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Barbara Hilton said she had not gotten involved with CODEPINK until recently simply because she didn't like the color. But when she went to Washington, D.C. and saw the power the women-led grassroots peace and social justice group yielded she decided to learn more. "I had been on... Read more |
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El Salvador: Spectre of War Looms After 15 Years of Peace SAN SALVADOR - Violent clashes between the police and demonstrators are sounding alarm bells for the peaceful coexistence that was achieved in El Salvador in the 1990s after 12 years of civil war, say human rights lawyers, analysts and activists. The armed conflict that broke out in 1980 came to an... Read more |
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US Threatens Action in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - An ambush of a military convoy that killed 17 troops near the Afghan border Wednesday pushed the death toll in a series of attacks to at least 101 Pakistanis in the past five days - and brought President Pervez Musharraf, according to a local newspaper headline, to a "Moment... Read more |
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Native Peoples Renew Call for U.N. Recognition UNITED NATIONS - Leaders of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples are reiterating their calls for the 192-member U.N. General Assembly to recognise their sovereignty over ancestral lands and resources. "It is now time for the General Assembly to adopt the declaration by vote, if necessary,"... Read more |
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Closed Crossings Pushing Gaza into Disaster, Says UN GAZA CITY - UN officials issued warnings yesterday about the dire collapse of Gaza's economy and called on the international community to open crossing points for trade. At least 68,000 Palestinians have lost their jobs in the past month since Israel closed the crossings out of the narrow, highly... Read more |
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Gore: Human Species in a Race for its Life ASPEN, Colo. - "There's an African proverb that says, 'If you want to go quick, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' We have to go far quickly," former Vice President Al Gore told a packed, rapt house at the Benedict Music Tent Wednesday. With many scientists pointing to a window of less... Read more |
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Lawmakers Decry FDA Plans to Close Labs Importers have learned to evade close federal scrutiny of the food they ship into the United States, putting consumers at increasing risk, congressional investigators said Tuesday. Lawmakers also criticized the Food and Drug Administration's plan to close half of its laboratories. They called that... Read more |
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Bush Middle East Plan Starts to Unravel WASHINGTON - George Bush yesterday encountered the weakest of welcomes for his call for an international peace conference on the Middle East. A day after he unveiled his plan for a conference of Israelis, Palestinians and Arab governments in the autumn, there were few signs of optimism that such a... Read more |
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160 Top US Corporations: Act Now on Global Warming WASHINGTON -- The chief executives of 160 largest United States companies released a new policy statement on climate change here, Tuesday, warning that ''the consequences of global warming for society and ecosystems are potentially serious and far-reaching'' and asserting that ''the time for action... Read more |
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Bush Told Iraq War Has Helped al-Qa'eda WASHINGTON - President George W Bush was facing increasingly blunt criticism of his Iraq policy last night as a US intelligence report suggested that the war has made al-Qa'eda attacks on American soil more likely. Senator George Voinovich, a close ally of Mr Bush, delivered a withering assessment... Read more |
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Nuclear Power No Panacea, Critics Say UNITED NATIONS - The nuclear mishap caused by Monday's earthquake in Japan has unleashed another wave of environmental concerns about the use of nuclear technology to meet the world's energy needs. "Nuclear power is hardly the safe panacea its supporters claim it to be," said Norman Dean of Friends... Read more |
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Mandela and 'The Elders' Aim to Save the World JOHANNESBURG -- The Elders, a new alliance made up of an elite group of senior statesmen dedicated to solving thorny global problems, unveiled itself today in Johannesburg. The rollout coincided with founding member Nelson Mandela's 89th birthday. After a grand entrance, Mandela, the former South... Read more |
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Amid Reports of Progress, a Massacre Shatters Village BAGHDAD - They arrived early yesterday morning in a straight line of official-looking vehicles, about 125 men dressed in Iraqi Army fatigues and carrying standard-issue weapons. Aziza Abdul Jabbar and her relatives ran out of her home, believing the military had arrived to protect their village in... Read more |
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Dust, Waste and Dirty Water: The Deadly Price of China's Miracle Hundreds of millions of people are being made ill every year or dying prematurely from pollution caused by China's breakneck economic growth, a leading economic thinktank has concluded following an 18-month investigation. The OECD study, prepared at China's request, draws on work by the government... Read more |
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Democrats Attack Bush on Women's Health Issues WASHINGTON - In a rousing indictment of the Bush administration and the Supreme Court it created, Senator Barack Obama told a Planned Parenthood convention here on Tuesday that the next election would decide a fundamental question: "What kind of America will our daughters grow up in?" The speech by... Read more |
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Bush Aides See Failure in Fight With Al Qaeda in Pakistan WASHINGTON - President Bush's top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden's leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new intelligence assessment that has forced the administration to consider more... Read more |
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Pat Tillman Investigators Want Rumsfeld House panel hopes to ask him about Ranger's death Read more |
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First Atomic Bomb Test Exposed U.S. Civilians to Radiation The world's first atomic bomb test might have exposed unaware civilians in New Mexico to thousands of times the recommended level of public radiation exposure, according to reconstructed data in a new study. The research, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that... Read more |
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Japan Quake Triggered Dozens of Faults at Nuclear Plant KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Japanese authorities are Tuesday investigating a second nuclear scare and dozens of other problems discovered at a massive power plant following a deadly earthquake. Fires, leakages of water and oil, misplaced duct pipes and broken equipment, have been recorded since the 6.8... Read more |
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DEATH PENALTY-US: Inmate Gets Rare Last-Minute Reprieve SAVANNAH, Georgia - Troy Anthony Davis, a death row inmate in the U.S. state of Georgia whose guilt has been challenged by new evidence, won a 90-day stay of his sentence Monday, just hours before his scheduled execution. "I'm exhausted but elated," Martina Correia, Davis's sister, told IPS. "They... Read more |
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Just Another Day in Iraq: 100 More Fathers, Mothers, Sons and Daughters Killed KHANAQUIN, DIYALA PROVINCE, Iraq - The United States surge, the use of the American troop reinforcements to bring violence in Iraq under control, is bloodily failing across northern Iraq. That was proved again yesterday when a suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives in Kirkuk... Read more |
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CIA Dissenters Aided Secret Prisons Report: Author BRUSSELS - Dissident U.S. intelligence officers angry at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped a European probe uncover details of secret CIA prisons in Europe, the top investigator said on Tuesday. Swiss Senator Dick Marty, author of a Council of Europe report on the jails, said senior... Read more |
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Hundreds of Iraqis Protest Draft Oil Law About 300 oil industry workers gathered in Iraq's main oil port of Basra on Monday to protest a draft law that they said would allow foreigners to pillage the country's wealth." To compensate for the military and political failure of the US administration in Iraq, this administration is trying to... Read more |
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Depleted Uranium Holds Fast In Colonie British Researcher Finds Traces Years After Weapons Plant Closed Read more |
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General Pace: Another Troop Buildup Possible BAGHDAD - The U.S. military's top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup. Making no predictions, Marine Gen. Peter Pace revealed that he and the chiefs... Read more |
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Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq - The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine, able to fly at 300 mph and reach 50,000 feet. It's outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles. The Reaper is loaded, but there's no one on... Read more |
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Bush Administration Accused of Putting Ideology Above Science WASHINGTON - Testimony from President George W. Bush's former surgeon general last week has fueled charges that his administration has trumped science in favor of its political and religious ideologies. The administration has been at loggerheads with scientists since it came to power in 2001 on... Read more |
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Radioactive Water 'Leaked' from Japan Nuke Plant after Quake KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Water containing some radioactive materials leaked from a nuclear power plant in Japan after a strong earthquake Monday, a spokesman for the firm running the facility said. "We have confirmed that water containing a slight amount of radioactive materials leaked out of the... Read more |
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Despite Rhetoric, Obama Pushed Lobbyists' Interests Away from the bright lights and high-minded rhetoric of the campaign trail, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has quietly worked with corporate lobbyists to help pass breaks worth $12 million. In his speeches, Obama has lambasted lobbyists and moneyed interests who "have... Read more |
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Cheney Pushes Bush to Act on Iran WASHINGTON - The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned. The shift follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state... Read more |
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Air Force Quietly Building Iraq Presence BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Away from the headlines and debate over the "surge" in U.S. ground troops, the Air Force has quietly built up its hardware inside Iraq, sharply stepped up bombing and laid a foundation for a sustained air campaign in support of American and Iraqi forces. Squadrons of attack... Read more |
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Hillary Clinton: Why is She Hated by Progressives and Right-Wingers Alike? America's anti-Hillary Clinton alliance is growing by the day Read more |
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Homage To '72 Antiwar Hopeful Veterans of George McGovern's campaign gather and draw parallels to the effort to end the Iraq conflict. Read more |
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Bush's Watchdog For Intelligence Kept Quiet For 5 1/2 years It failed to report any misdeeds in terror war until '06 Read more |
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Parts of Iraq Report Are Grim Where Bush Was Upbeat WASHINGTON - The mixed progress report on Iraq that the White House submitted to Congress this week included several grim assessments of the Iraqi government that contrasted with the more upbeat public statements of President Bush, his top aides and public White House briefing materials in the past... Read more |
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Cuba Lays to Rest Dispute Over Remains of Che Guevara HAVANA -- The remains of Che Guevara brought here from Bolivia 10 years ago provided "conclusive" forensic evidence they belonged to the revolutionary leader, state media said Saturday. In a lengthy article, the official Granma daily newspaper addressed claims made by an ex-CIA agent who earlier... Read more |
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Castro Challenges Bush for Area Hearts and Minds HAVANA -- Cuban President Fidel Castro on Sunday scoffed at Bush administration efforts to ease social problems in Latin America, boasting his poor country could run circles around the United States in health and education aid. "Bush will discover that the empire's political and economic system can... Read more |
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Iraq PM: Country Can Manage Without US 'Any Time They Want' BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that the Iraqi army and police are capable of keeping security in the country when American troops leave "any time they want," though he acknowledged the forces need further weapons and training. The embattled prime minister sought to show... Read more |
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Israel-Lebanon: Groups Call for Action on 'War Crimes' UNITED NATIONS -- Allegations of unpunished war crimes and a general lack of accountability still plague Israeli-Lebanese relations one year after the Israel-Hezbollah war erupted, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch charged in separate statements Thursday. The conflict erupted last July... Read more |
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Public Skeptical of White House in Executive Privilege Claims While there's plenty of partisan skepticism to go around on the latest challenge between Congress and the White House on subpoenas and Executive Privilege, Americans are more skeptical of the White House position than Congress. In fact, a modest plurality believes that Congress has not done enough... Read more |
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Southern Republicans, Utilities Resist Cleaner Renewables WASHINGTON -- Six of the nation's 10 largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions are coal-fired power plants in the South, but year after year Southern lawmakers balk at pushing utilities toward cleaner renewable energy. Last month, Republican senators from the South provided about half the votes... Read more |
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Democrats Block Amendment to Prevent Fairness Doctrine WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats on Friday blocked an amendment that would have prevented the return of the Fairness Doctrine, a federal rule requiring broadcasters to air opposing views on issues.Although no legislation has been offered to bring back the regulation, which was scrapped in 1987, South... Read more |
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Key Vote on the Iraq War Keeps House GOP United House Republican leaders largely kept their party together on the issue of Iraq last night, with only four members breaking with their party to support a withdrawal of troops by April. Reps. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) and John Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.) were the only new defectors though Duncan voted... Read more |
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Anti-War Marchers Raise Controversy in Chanhassen Parade CHANHASSEN, Minn. - Under partly cloudy skies and intense sunshine last Wednesday, much of the crowd fell silent, and peripheral activity seemed to stop as a group carrying placards calling for an end to the war in Iraq and the impeachment of President Bush passed in the street. Some people gave... Read more |
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Sheehan's Alabama Visit Inflames Passions Former Marine Sgt. Philip Mitchell saw something Thursday he wishes he hadn't seen. A group of about 30 protesters gathered that evening in Old Cloverdale across the street from the Capri Theatre in support of a rally led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. "Why (come to) Alabama? It's the reddest... Read more |
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Caught on Tape: Clinton to Edwards 'Our Guys Should Talk' ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Democratic rivals Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., were caught on tape Thursday privately conferring and agreeing to have their campaigns collaborate. "Our guys should talk," Clinton said to Edwards. The former... Read more |
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More Entering Army with Criminal Records WASHINGTON - Nearly 12 percent of Army recruits who entered basic training this year needed a special waiver for those with criminal records, a dramatic increase over last year and 2 1/2 times the percentage four years ago, according to new Army statistics obtained by the Globe. With less than... Read more |
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Bush-Musharraf Alliance Under Growing Attack WASHINGTON - Despite the media's and official Washington's focus on Iraq and Iran as the most urgent challenges to U.S. foreign policy, a growing chorus of voices is calling for a major shift towards what they regard as the "central front in the war on terror" -- Pakistan. In their view, not only... Read more |
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Bush Distorts Qaeda Links, Critics Assert BAGHDAD - In rebuffing calls to bring troops home from Iraq, President Bush on Thursday employed a stark and ominous defense. "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq," he said, "were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th, and that's why what happens in Iraq... Read more |
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Brown Message to US: It's Time to Build, Not Destroy LONDON - The first clear signs that Gordon Brown will reorder Britain's foreign policy emerged last night when one of his closest cabinet allies urged the US to change its priorities and said a country's strength should no longer be measured by its destructive military power. Douglas Alexander, the... Read more |
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Nation's Poor Hit by Housing Crunch WASHINGTON - Growing numbers of the nation's poorest households are using more than half their earnings for rent while waiting years for federal housing assistance that may never come. The phenomenon is largely playing out in urban and suburban locales, but has exploded recently in rural areas as... Read more |
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Nobel Laureate Calls for Removal of Bush Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached. In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and... Read more |
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Politicians Called to Account for Failing the Poor UNITED NATIONS -- Government leaders across the world are being shamed for failing to keep their words on eliminating extreme poverty. As the timetable to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has approached the midway point, criticism is mounting against governments for their failures... Read more |
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Disregard Subpoenas, Justice Dept. Says WASHINGTON -- In a broadly worded legal opinion, the Justice Department has concluded that President Bush's former top lawyer, and possibly other senior White House officials, can ignore subpoenas from Congress to testify about the firings of U.S. attorneys. The three-page opinion raises questions... Read more |
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Italian Farmers Protest Food Labeling BOLOGNA, Italy -- Tens of thousands of Italian farmers protested Wednesday against the lack of clear and detailed labels on agricultural products, saying cheap imports from China were hurting their bottom line. Protesters marched through downtown Bologna demanding the implementation of a law... Read more |
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Code Pink: Those Pesky Peaceniks WASHINGTON -- When a lawmaker's office is stormed, a hearing is disrupted or a protester is handcuffed on Capitol Hill these days, it's a safe bet the activist being hauled away will be female and wearing pink. CodePink , a group spawned by Bay Area peace activists, has become the vibrantly hued... Read more |
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Poll: 92 Percent Want 'Country of Origin' Labels WASHINGTON - U.S. consumers overwhelmingly support stricter food labeling laws, with 92 percent of Americans wanting to know which country produced the food they are buying, a consumer magazine said on Tuesday. Consumer Reports said recent food scares, including worries about peanut butter and... Read more |
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Fear and Fragile Peace: A Long-Suffering People Prepare for a New War In the video diary that Ali Dagher intended as his last testament of the 34-day war between Israel and Hizbullah, there is a scene where he produces two cupped handfuls of metal bomb fragments that landed in his kitchen. "I collected these here in the house," he tells the camera. "I am not telling... Read more |
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Health Group Opposes Bush Surgeon General Pick A leading public health group opposed President George W. Bush's surgeon general nominee on Wednesday, a day before Dr. James Holsinger, already under fire by Democrats and gay rights groups, faces a tough Senate confirmation hearing. The American Public Health Association, founded in 1872 and made... Read more |
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A Dead Iraqi is Just Another Dead Iraqi... You Know, So What?' It is an axiom of American political life that the actions of the US military are beyond criticism. Democrats and Republicans praise the men and women in uniform at every turn. Apart from the odd bad apple at Abu Ghraib, the US military in Iraq is deemed to be doing a heroic job under trying... Read more |
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Pennsylvania Democrats Want Nader to Pay for Bush's Election WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader, the independent presidential candidate Democrats love to hate, is afraid that Pennsylvania authorities trying to dun him for $61,000 are about to freeze his personal bank account. Nader ran into a buzz saw when he tried to get on the Pennsylvania ballot in 2004 as an... Read more |
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World Population Day: Enlightened Men Prescribed for Maternal Health JOHANNESBURG - What is a common factor in ensuring that women do not marry too young, do not have more children than they can cope with, do not die giving birth -- and contract HIV in smaller numbers? Men. That is the message for World Population Day 2007, which is being marked Wednesday under the... Read more |
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On Global Warming, MoveOn Voters Pick Edwards In a recent virtual town hall meeting on climate change with the Democratic presidential candidates sponsored by MoveOn.org, former Senator John Edwards renewed his call to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by 80 percent by 2050 and said that his plan for getting there was the "... Read more |
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Wolfowitz - Return to Sender? OAKLAND, Calif. - Recently forced out as president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, one of the primary architects of U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq war, is heading back to familiar surroundings. And the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of the United States' premier... Read more |
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Bush Again Links Iraq Violence to 9/11 WASHINGTON - Struggling to stem growing opposition to his Iraq policy even among Republicans, President Bush contended anew Tuesday that the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States are the same as al Qaida in Iraq, a violent Iraqi insurgent group that didn't exist until... Read more |
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Sheehan Brings New Campaign Through Houston HOUSTON, Texas - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan spent her 50th birthday in Houston today, attending events aimed at ending the war in Iraq. Sheehan joined other activists who gathered on the Montrose bridge during the afternoon rush hour to hold signs calling for the impeachment of President Bush... Read more |
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Musharraf's Fate Hangs on Knife Edge Bullets are flying, casualties mounting, but whose heads will roll? The siege of the Red Mosque in Islamabad raged on yesterday as government forces battled heavily armed militants who holed up there with dozens of hostages. Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the radical cleric who led the extremists, was killed... Read more |
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New Analysis Counters Claims that Solar Activity is Linked to Global Warming It has been one of the central claims of those who challenge the idea that human activities are to blame for global warming. The planet's climate has long fluctuated, say the climate sceptics, and current warming is just part of that natural cycle - the result of variation in the sun's output and... Read more |
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Panel Says: 14 Million Refugees Worldwide WASHINGTON - The number of refugees worldwide increased by nearly 2 million last year, driving the total to nearly 14 million, the highest level since 2001, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants reported Wednesday. The rise was due in part to a continued exodus from Iraq, where 790,000... Read more |
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Iraq-Afghanistan: Overlooking the Air War WASHINGTON - On Jun. 18, seven children were killed during a U.S.-led air strike against a suspected al Qaeda sanctuary in eastern Afghanistan. Three days later, at least 25 civilians died during a similar "incident" in Helmand province in the south of the country. The same day, a U.S. air strike... Read more |
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Ex-Surgeon General Accuses Bush Officials of Censorship WASHINGTON - President Bush's first surgeon general alleged yesterday that administration officials prevented him from providing the public with accurate scientific and medical information on such issues as stem cell research and teen pregnancy. "The reality is that the 'nation's doctor' has been... Read more |
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Neo-Cons Try to Rally, Bully Republicans WASHINGTON -- In the face of a critical Senate debate on future U.S. strategy in Iraq, neo-conservatives and other hawks are trying to rally increasingly skeptical -- and worried -- Republicans behind continued support for President George W. Bush's five-month-old "surge" strategy. They are arguing... Read more |
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Unpopular Congress Enduring Tough Times WASHINGTON - These are tough times for the Democratic-led U.S. Congress, where partisan battles have led to little progress on big issues and have made lawmakers collectively less popular than President George W. Bush. Congress, typically never all that popular to begin with, starts the second half... Read more |
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US Opposition to Iraq War Hits New High: Poll WASHINGTON - Opposition to the Iraq war has climbed to a record high and President George W. Bush's approval rating dropped to a new low amid growing dissent from members of his own Republican party over his war strategy, according to a new USAToday/Gallup poll. Bush's approval dropped to 29... Read more |
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We spend Far More, but Our Health Care is Falling Behind Filmmaker Michael Moore might be onto something in his new documentary, "Sicko." These days, fewer Americans are buying the claim that the United States has the best medical system in the world. With polls showing that health care is Americans' top domestic concern, politicians are scrambling to... Read more |
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Preaching the Anti-Shopping Gospel NEW YORK - Familiar in his clerical collar, cream-colored suit and dyed-blond pompadour, the Rev. Billy has spent much of the last decade parading through the streets of Manhattan, shouting through a megaphone messages such as: "Mickey Mouse is the anti-Christ!" Accompanied by a robed choir belting... Read more |
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Congress Braces for Fight Over Fairness Doctrine WASHINGTON - After conservative radio talk show hosts helped bury an immigration bill, Republican Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott complained that "talk radio is running America." Lott suggested a remedy that immediately got talk-show hosts talking: He suggested bringing back the Fairness Doctrine,... Read more |
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White House Denies Debating Troop Withdrawal WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy. The New York Times reported on Monday that debate was intensifying inside the White... Read more |
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White House Rebuffs Congress, Nears Legal Showdown WASHINGTON - The White House moved toward a showdown in court with the Democratic-led Congress on Monday by refusing to provide demanded information and testimony in an investigation into the firing of prosecutors. In a letter to congressional leaders, White House counsel Fred Fielding called their... Read more |
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Expert Says Rising Sea Levels Pose Threat to Rice MANILA - Rising sea levels triggered by climate change pose an "ominous" threat to some of the world's most productive rice-growing areas, the International Rice Research Institute has warned. The Philippines-based institution is devoting fresh efforts to mitigating the coming threat, but senior... Read more |
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A Battle Over Expansion of Children's Insurance WASHINGTON, July 8 - The fight over a popular health insurance program for children is intensifying, with President Bush now leading efforts to block a major expansion of the program, which is a top priority for Congressional Democrats. The seemingly uncontroversial goal of insuring more children... Read more |
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Peace Marchers of the Loneliest Kind LOVELAND, Colo. -- Against the majestic backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, in the far eastern corner of Colorado where the land begins to flatten into a vast golden prairie, two teenagers trudge along the weed-bitten edge of an isolated highway. Blistered and sunburned, they endure wind, rain and... Read more |
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Weekend of Death and Destruction Dents Bush's Hopes of Turning the Tide in Iraq WASHINGTON - President George Bush's hopes for making progress with his new Iraq strategy suffered a double blow when there was an upsurge in violence over the weekend and fresh political turmoil in the country. Twenty-three Iraqi army recruits were killed yesterday the day after a truck bomb... Read more |
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Conyers: Libby Might Have Talked WASHINGTON -- The Democrat investigating President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of a former White House aide said yesterday that there is "the suspicion" the aide might have implicated others in the Bush administration if he served time. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John... Read more |
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Sheehan Plans Run Against Pelosi Unless Bush Impeachment Sought CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan, the fallen soldier's mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she moves to oust President Bush in the next two weeks. Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008... Read more |
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Administration Shaving Yardstick for Iraq Gains WASHINGTON - The Iraqi government is unlikely to meet any of the political and security goals or timelines President Bush set for it in January when he announced a major shift in U.S. policy, according to senior administration officials closely involved in the matter. As they prepare an interim... Read more |
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Germany to Stay Nuclear in Merkel U-Turn BERLIN - Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is preparing to perform a major U-turn by scrapping plans to abandon nuclear power. The move would bring Berlin into line with many of its European neighbours, who are investing heavily in new and existing sources of atomic energy, but puts Mrs Merkel... Read more |
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Bush Shielding of Musharraf Policy at Risk WASHINGTON - The growing crisis over Islamic extremism in Pakistan is drawing attention to the complicity of that country's military government in the rise of the biggest haven for Islamic terrorism in the world. The issue, which is also linked to the threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan from... Read more |
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Russia Accuses US of Building 'New Berlin Wall' MOSCOW - A senior Russian government minister accused the United States on Sunday of building a "new Berlin wall" with its plans for a missile defence system in Central Europe that have infuriated Moscow. "They are trying to push us into knocking heads with Europe... in order to create a new... Read more |
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Power to the People: Citizens' Group Rebuts PPL Plan to Expand Susquehanna Nuclear Plant. THREE MILE ISLAND ALERTWhat: A watchdog group based in Harrisburg. It monitors the three nuclear power plants on the Susquehanna River. Founded: 1977 Membership: about 500 Web site: http://www.tmia.com Chairman: Eric Epstein, 47, Harrisburg ''We view our role as making sure that nuclear plants are... Read more |
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White House Expected to Block Aide from Testifying WASHINGTON - The attorney for a former White House aide told Congress on Saturday he expects the Bush administration to try to block the aide from testifying on last year's firings of U.S. prosecutors, as the White House and Congress appeared headed for a court battle. In a letter to the Senate... Read more |
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Republican Revolt: Some Discuss Defying President After a week-long recess, Congressional members will head back to Capitol Hill this week. And some top Republicans openly are discussing defying President George Bush and supporting a bill to bring home overseas troops. Six Republican Senators have signed a bill that calls for implementing the... Read more |
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White House Again to Defy Congress on Attorney Firings WASHINGTON - The White House has decided to defy Congress in its latest demand for information regarding the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys, sources familiar with the decision said Saturday. Such an action would escalate the constitutional struggle and propel it closer to a court showdown. Senate... Read more |
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U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in '05 WASHINGTON - A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas was aborted at the last minute after top Bush administration officials decided it was too risky and could jeopardize relations with Pakistan, according to intelligence and... Read more |
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Global Compact with Business 'Lacks Teeth' - NGOs GENEVA - The U.N.'s Global Compact with international big business "at the moment is so voluntary that it really is a happy-go-lucky club," says Ramesh Singh, chief executive of ActionAid, a non-governmental organisation. The international initiative, proposed by the United Nations to bring... Read more |
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Missouri: Governor Signs Abortion Bill Abortion providers will face new regulations for their clinics and new restrictions on teaching sex education classes under a bill signed into law by Gov. Matt Blunt, a Republican. The measure places more abortion clinics under government oversight by classifying them as ambulatory surgical centers... Read more |
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Lonely and Lame, Bush Agonises Over Legacy President George Bush turned 61 yesterday but he had little to celebrate at the end of a week in which his isolation has been exposed as never before. Laura Bush held an early family party for him on Wednesday, to which a few professional golfers were also invited, and on Thursday the president... Read more |
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Report: Israeli Settlements in Land Grab Nine in 10 Israeli settlements sprawl beyond their official boundaries in an attempt to grab more land in the West Bank, which the Palestinians claim for a future state, a group that tracks Israeli construction in the territory said Friday. Israel's settlements encroach on unallocated land even... Read more |
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Report: Scores Still Jailed in Secret after Fleeing Somali War NAIROBI, Kenya - At least 76 people who were captured while fleeing the war in Somalia in January are still being held in Ethiopia under a program of secret prisoner renditions backed by the United States, Kenya and Somalia, human rights activists said Friday. The Muslim Human Rights Forum, a... Read more |
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US Coal Firm Linked to Colombia Militias BRIMINGHAM, Ala. - The bus had just left Drummond Co. Inc.'s coal mine carrying about 50 workers when gunmen halted it and forced two union leaders off. They shot one on the spot, pumping four bullets into his head, and dragged the other one off to be tortured and killed. In a civil trial set to... Read more |