Obama Presses Israel on West Bank Settlements
U.S. special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell wrapped up three days of talks in the Middle East on July 28, telling...
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Poll: Britons Turn Against Afghan War
A poll carried out by ComRes for the British tabloid newspaper The Independent on July 28 has found that 58 percent of Britons...
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Obama Welcomes “Strong, Prosperous and Successful ” China
On the morning of July 27, President Barack Obama addressed the opening session of the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the...
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Clinton Statements from ASEAN Forum Revealing
While in Thailand to attend the 16th regional forum of the Association of Southeast Nations, or ASEAN, to be held at the nation's...
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Clinton Expresses Concerns About N. Korea-Myanmar Ties
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday for a forum of the Association of Southeast Nations, or ASEAN, which begins...
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Taliban Suicide Bombers Strike in Afghanistan
Groups of Taliban suicide bombers attacked government buildings and a military base in eastern Afghanistan, killing as many as six people, Agence France-Presse...
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Natalya Estemirova Murder: Another Putin Victim?
Human rights campaigner Natalya Estemirova was kidnapped on July 15 outside her home in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. Her bullet-riddled body was...
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Awaiting the Fate of U.S. Soldier Captured in Afghanistan
In an interview taped by ABC's television network in New Delhi, India, and broadcast on Good Morning America on July 20, Secretary of...
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Cleric Rafsanjani Criticizes Iran’s Leadership
Influential cleric Hashemi Rafsanjani, addressing tens of thousands of opposition supporters gathered for the traditional Friday prayers in the hall at Teheran University,...
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U.S. Will Resettle Palestinian Refugees from Iraq
The U.S. State Department acknowledged on July 7 that it would resettle as many as 1,350 Palestinian refugees from Iraq to various locations...
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Non-Aligned Movement Nations Declare Opposition to Terrorism
During the second day of their two-day triennial summit at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheik resort on the Red Sea on July 16, members of...
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Bin Laden Deputy Incites Pakistanis Against U.S.
In an audio message released on radical Islamist Web sites on July 15, Ayman al-Zawahiri (Osama bin Laden's deputy and al Qaeda's second...
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Non-Aligned Movement Nations Discuss World Economy
Representatives of the 118-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) began their 15th triennial summit at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheik resort on the Red Sea on July...
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Two Uighurs Shot Dead by Chinese Police
For the first time since rioting broke out on July 5 in Urumqi, capital of China's northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July...
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China’s Uighur Protests and the Internet
Following violence in China’s Xinjiang region on July 5, Communist Chinese authorities were quick to blame the Internet. Members of the predominantly Muslim...
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