BANGKOK - Of the many initiatives undertaken to forge lasting peace between South Asia's squabbling neighbors, none can challenge the promise of Iran's proposed natural gas pipeline to India traversing through Pakistan. New Delhi and Tehran first signed a memorandum...
Greenpeace Warns of Iraq Nuclear Contamination
The environmental group Greenpeace has echoed a call by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to permit the UN watchdog to return in force to Iraq to track nuclear-related materials looted after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion there and help protect and treat the...
Solving the ‘Serbian Question’
It was only a matter of time before someone said it: "[A]n old question haunts the continent: Where should the borders of Serbia lie?" So began Roger Cohen's commentary in the International Herald Tribune on Tuesday, titled "The Serbian Question, Still...
Colombian Paramilitaries Extend Their Tentacles
BOGOTA - Local secretariats of finance, roads and health "that's where the money is, that's where the show is run," a member of a paramilitary militia in Colombia can be heard saying in the taped telephone conversation. The wiretapped conversation...
Karzai Favored by Afghans Living Elsewhere
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - As Afghanistan gets ready to start counting votes Wednesday from a historic presidential election, after several key candidates threatened to declare the poll illegal, Afghan refugees living in Pakistan were confident incumbent president Hamid...
Archbishop Romero’s Murder Still Unpunished 25 Years On
MEXICO CITY - As of Oct. 22, an eternal flame will burn continuously outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in the capital of El Salvador, as an everlasting tribute to Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, a leading light in the struggle to bring peace to his country,...
France Gets US Nuclear Treatment
PARIS - Over several days now France has been home to a new consignment of 140 kg of plutonium, enough to build 20 atom bombs. The plutonium from the dismantling of U.S. nuclear weapons has been sent to France for treatment. The freight was kept at the Atlantic port...
Security Scholars Call for Change
NEWARK, Delaware - Over 650 foreign affairs specialists in the United States and allied countries have signed an open letter opposing the Bush administration's foreign policy and calling urgently for a change of course. The letter was released today by Security...
Republicrats Still Linking Iraq to 9/11
On the eve of the third anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of 406-16 passed a resolution linking Iraq to the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This comes despite...
New Flexibility on the Evil Axis?
Word that the administration is holding talks this week with its European allies on their proposal for a deal with Iran on safeguarding its nuclear program is raising new questions about whether President George W. Bush is easing his confrontational approach to the...


