CARACAS - For the past two and a half years, political polls in Venezuela showed that a majority of respondents were opposed to President Hugo Chávez. But that has now changed. Most of the latest polls have indicated that he is likely to win next Sunday's recall...
Against the backdrop of ongoing death and destruction in Iraq as a result of the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation, the Democratic Party formally adopted their 2004 platform on July 28 at their convention in Boston. The platform focused more on foreign policy...
"Pre-election period … pre-election plot … pre-election threats": these rolled off National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's lips no less than seven times Sunday on CNN's Late Edition as she discussed the likely timing of a terrorist attack. She...
The Bush administration could be forced to slow plans to resume relations with the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) after a Jakarta appeals court Saturday dismissed all pending cases against Indonesians indicted for crimes against humanity committed in East Timor five...
Last week's announcement that the terrorist threat warning level has been raised in parts of New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., has led to dramatic and unprecedented restrictions on the movements of citizens. Americans wishing to visit the U.S. Capitol must,...
International media watchdogs say Iraq's U.S.-installed interim government is seriously undermining the prospects for press freedom in the war-torn country. Citing both the shutdown of al-Jazeera's Baghdad office last weekend and a series of recent policies enacted by...
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IMPHAL (Manipur) - As turmoil rages in India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur, with most government offices shutting down Monday, and employees boycotting work to support a public rebellion against a federal law giving the army unlimited powers, experts fear...
One of the greatest coups in Washington's nearly three-year war against al-Qaeda has suddenly turned sour with reports the White House prematurely exposed the identity of a key source whose contacts and communication with the terrorist group's operational masterminds...
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which is supposed to prepare the groundwork for nationwide elections in Iraq next January, is unlikely to send an electoral team to supervise the polls unless its workers are heavily protected in the violence-prone country,...
