World News Archives

Will 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...

Charles Scaliger March 13, 2009

Clinton Wants Closer NATO-Russia Ties

March 6, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, participating in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on March 5, invited her counterparts to make...

Chavez Wins Referendum, Seizes Rice Processors

Alex Newman March 5, 2009

After waging a successful campaign to lift term limits in February, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is on a rampage. He recently sent the...

Clinton Meets with Abbas

March 4, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) leaders in Ramallah, West Bank, on March 4, including Prime...

Violence in Mexico

Alex Newman March 4, 2009

A report released in January by the U.S. Joint Forces Command is warning of the potential for "rapid and sudden collapse" of the...

U.S. to Send $900 Million to Gaza and PNA

March 3, 2009

During a Gaza reconstruction conference held at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, on March 2, international donors pledged $4.481...

Economics Trumps Human Rights During Clinton China Visit

February 24, 2009

In her first trip abroad since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton traveled to four Asian countries including China, the world's most populous...

Obama’s Canada Visit Spotlights NAFTA

February 20, 2009

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...

U.S. Commander Predicts Long Afghanistan Stay

February 20, 2009

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...

Obama’s Afghan Problem

Thomas R. Eddlem February 18, 2009

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...

Pakistan Agrees to Taliban Haven in Swat Valley

February 17, 2009

The government of Pakistan announced on February 16 that it had agreed to accept a system of strict Islamic law, or sharia, in...

Talking With Iran’s Terror Regime

William F. Jasper February 15, 2009

As Iran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Khomeini Revolution and the American hostage crisis, U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud...

Baghdad-Tehran Axis Grows

William F. Jasper February 14, 2009

Less than two weeks after Iraq’s provincial elections, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki welcomed a large high-level delegation from Iran....

Iraq Elections No Victory for U.S.

William F. Jasper February 13, 2009

Provincial council elections in 14 of Iraq’s 18 provinces on January 31 strengthened Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Dawa Party, a militant Shia Islamic...