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Iran Sends Mixed Signals on Nuclear Program
Speaking two days before Iran is scheduled to meet the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in Geneva to...
Europeans Blown Away by Govt-Funded Wind Farms
Between 500 and 1,000 protesters gathered last weekend at Mont-Saint-Michel in France to demonstrate against plans to build a wind farm along the...
Read moreGordon 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...
Read moreIran 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...
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