North Korea Detains U.S. Journalists
Two journalists for the California-based online media outlet Current TV were taken into custody and detained by North Korean soldiers on March 17....
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China Wants Importers to Pay Its Carbon Tax
During a mid-March forum organized by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Washington, China's top climate-change negotiator, Li Gao, said his...
Read moreEl Salvador to Lurch Leftward Under Funes
Tiny, tragic El Salvador became on Sunday the latest Latin American country to lurch leftwards, following the lead of the likes of Venezuela,...
Read moreTaliban Militants Hit NATO Supply Convoy
As many as 50 suspected Taliban militants destroyed 15 trucks at the al-Faisal terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan, early on the morning of March...
Read moreWill China Dump U.S. Debt?
The Chinese government, to which the United States is in debt approximately $1 trillion, is preparing to use its leverage to exact concessions...
Read moreClinton Wants Closer NATO-Russia Ties
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, participating in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on March 5, invited her counterparts to make...
Read moreChavez Wins Referendum, Seizes Rice Processors
After waging a successful campaign to lift term limits in February, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is on a rampage. He recently sent the...
Read moreClinton Meets with Abbas
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) leaders in Ramallah, West Bank, on March 4, including Prime...
Read moreViolence in Mexico
A report released in January by the U.S. Joint Forces Command is warning of the potential for "rapid and sudden collapse" of the...
Read moreU.S. to Send $900 Million to Gaza and PNA
During a Gaza reconstruction conference held at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, on March 2, international donors pledged $4.481...
Read moreEconomics Trumps Human Rights During Clinton China Visit
In her first trip abroad since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton traveled to four Asian countries including China, the world's most populous...
Read moreObama’s Canada Visit Spotlights NAFTA
President Barack Obama made his first visit international trip as president on February 19, as he made a seven-hour visit to Canada’s capital...
Read moreU.S. Commander Predicts Long Afghanistan Stay
Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, predicted on February 18 that the additional 17,000 U.S. troops scheduled to...
Read moreObama’s Afghan Problem
President Barack Obama decided February 16 to send an additional 17,000 U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, as part of his campaign promise to increase...
Read morePakistan Agrees to Taliban Haven in Swat Valley
The government of Pakistan announced on February 16 that it had agreed to accept a system of strict Islamic law, or sharia, in...
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