NEW DELHI – Ahead of its first democratic elections in early October, Afghanistan is facing an acute food and malnutrition crisis and continues to suffer from the highest number of maternal and child deaths in Asia. According to a study by the UN World Food...
BANGKOK – A major shakeup of Burma's cabinet over the weekend sends a signal to the outside world that military hardliners have strengthened their control over the country. Over the weekend, Burma's military leaders axed Foreign Minister Win Aung and his deputy...
The other day I happened to notice a little piece from the Washington Times headlined, "Pentagon seeks ideas to fight 'urban' wars." Journalist Jennifer Harper had come across a "solicitation" from the Pentagon's futuristic research arm, DARPA (the Defense...
NAIROBI - The killing remains vivid in their minds. And the deep scars on their bodies will for a long time remind them of the slaughter of their compatriots at a refugee camp in the tiny central African nation of Burundi. These are the survivors of the Aug. 13...
Bob Novak's column Monday isn't quite conclusive, but you can bet he is ahead of the pack in sniffing out the Bush team's recognition that it will have to pull all the U.S. troops out of Iraq next year. All of them: "Inside the Bush administration policymaking...
LONDON - The first visit by an Amnesty International team to Darfur over the last several days showed that the U.S. human rights record has weakened its case to intervene in a human rights crisis elsewhere. "It has made it much harder for the U.S. to take on its...
Tariq Ramadan, a world-renowned Islamic scholar, sits in an empty apartment in Switzerland, unable to take up his new post at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind., due to the last minute revocation of his work visa by the U.S. State Department. His visa was...
Christmas is coming early this year, with a gift from Robert Novak, the cantankerous and fearless conservative columnist and veteran reporter, whose connections inside the Bush administration and the GOP are as myriad and various as his many enemies: "Inside the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the Freedom of Information and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the Freedom of Information and...
