Gordon Brown Brokered Prisoner-for-oil Deal
The buck (or the pound, in this case) stops at the desk of perpetually embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. According to numerous...
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Iran Tests Long-range Missiles
Iran’s state-sponsored Press TV news channel announced on September 28 that the nation’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) had test-fired two long-range missiles. ...
Read moreIncreased Risk of H1N1 From Seasonal Flu Vaccine?
A Canadian study is making waves across the international press after reportedly finding evidence of an increased risk for swine flu infection among...
Read moreObama Condemns Iran Over Secret Nuclear Plant
Appearing at a press conference at the Pittsburgh Convention Center with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the...
Read moreThere’s Gold in Them There Shires!
To paraphrase an axiom: "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to use a metal detector and...
Read moreZelaya’s Return to Honduras Incites Protests
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was forcibly exiled to Costa Rica on June 28 by military forces acting on the orders of...
Read moreMcChrystal Afghanistan Report Calls for More Troops
What had previously been suspected from reports leaked from private sources is now official: U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S....
Read moreMcChrystal Wants More Troops in Afghanistan
A Fox News report on September 16 cited sources that said U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces...
Read moreKarzai Denies Afghan Vote Fraud, Blames Media
Speaking at his first press conference since Afghanistan's August 20 presidential election, President Hamid Karzai on September 17 denied that massive fraud had...
Read moreJapan May Withdraw Support for Afghan War
Yukio Hatoyama took office on September 16 as Japan's new prime minister, following an August 30 electoral victory in which he led the...
Read moreKarzai Gets 54% of Afghan Vote, Dispute Continues
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission released figures on September 16 showing President Hamid Karzai with 54.6 percent of the vote in the first complete...
Read moreChina Calls for WTO to Settle Trade Dispute
China's Ministry of Commerce on September 14 called for the World Trade Organization to help settle a tariff dispute with the United States...
Read moreWill the U.S. Learn From Japan?
“Imagine a team of doctors who think more poison is the solution to poisoning.” That’s the attention-getting opening sentence leading off an invitation...
Read moreU.S. and UK Eye Post-election Afghanistan
Weeks after Iraq's August 20 presidential election, with disputed returns giving incumbent President Hamid Karzai more than 50 percent of the vote —...
Read moreSave the Planet: Take Off Your Coat and Tie
Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, has ordered male government employees to stop wearing suits, jackets, and ties to save electricity. By...
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