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EU to create Regional Financial Regulatory Body

European government leaders ended a two-day summit in Brussels on June 19, after agreeing to create a continent-wide financial regulatory body. EU leaders...

June 22, 2009

Pakistani Fight Against Taliban Continues

June 19, 2009

Pakistan continued its military operations against Taliban strongholds in the rugged part of the country bordering Afghanistan on June 19, as the nation's...

Iran Election Aftermath — Part 3

June 18, 2009

In response to mass protests over allegations of voting irregularities that began the day after Iran's June 12 presidential election results were announced,...

North Korea Responds to Obama Warning

June 17, 2009

North Korea's state-controlled media issued a statement on June 17 warning of a "thousand-fold" military retaliation against the United States and its allies...

Iran Election Aftermath — Part 2

June 16, 2009

CNN reported on June 16 that Iran's government had banned foreign media from covering rallies in Tehran being held in the wake of...

Iran Election Aftermath

June 15, 2009

Three days after Iran's June 12 presidential election, in which the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected with a reported two-thirds' majority, protests...

United Nations Flexes Muscles at North Korea

June 12, 2009

The United Nations Security Council on June 12 unanimously approved stringent new sanctions against North Korea, in response to Pyongyang's May 25 nuclear...

Korean Tensions Signal More Power for the UN

June 11, 2009

Voice of America's VOA News reported on June 11 that seven world powers had agreed the day before on a draft UN Security...

U.S. Reporters Sentenced to 12 Years Labor in North Korea

Dennis Behreandt June 8, 2009

North Korea has sentenced two American reporters to 12 years of hard labor for allegedly crossing its border with China. The sentencing has...

OAS Lifts Ban on Cuba

Alex Newman June 8, 2009

The 47-year-old suspension of Cuba from the Organization of American States was lifted last week during a meeting of the hemispheric organization in...

North Korea’s Kim May Have a Successor

Steven J. DuBord June 3, 2009

“North Korea's Kim moves to anoint youngest son as heir,” Reuters announced in the title to a June 2 release. The North’s current...

China and Pelosi Celebrate Anniversary of Tiananmen Square

Ann Shibler June 2, 2009

While the Chinese government is busying itself with further cracking down on censorship of the Internet, television, and the printed word, human rights...