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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....

March 19, 2009

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China Wants Importers to Pay Its Carbon Tax

March 17, 2009

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...

El Salvador to Lurch Leftward Under Funes

Charles Scaliger March 16, 2009

Tiny, tragic El Salvador became on Sunday the latest Latin American country to lurch leftwards, following the lead of the likes of Venezuela,...

Taliban Militants Hit NATO Supply Convoy

March 16, 2009

As many as 50 suspected Taliban militants destroyed 15 trucks at the al-Faisal terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan, early on the morning of March...

Will China Dump U.S. Debt?

Charles Scaliger March 13, 2009

The Chinese government, to which the United States is in debt approximately $1 trillion, is preparing to use its leverage to exact concessions...

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...