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Published: Sunday | July 5, 2009 Abraham F. Lowenthal, Contributor Lowenthal The military coup against President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras provides an early test of the Obama administration's commitment to the new United States approach in the Americas, committed to multilateralism and cooperation with Latin American partners. The Obama administration set out very early to improve US relations in the hemisphere by strengthening partnership with Mexico and developing a strategic alliance with Brazil; preferring modest concrete programmes to overblown rhetoric; taking responsibility for the domestic US sources of some regional difficulties; indicating that it would build domestic coalitions to support expanded trade and sustainable immigration reform; pragmatically improving relations on a case-by-case basis with populist... [read full story]
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 ( Reuters ) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is an "unworthy partner" who does not deserve a big boost either in U.S. troops or civilian aid, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. Pelosi, a...
By MIKE SPECTOR And ERIC YEP In a major bid to go global, Reliance Industries Ltd., the giant Indian energy and materials company, made an offer of around $12 billion to take a controlling interest in Lyondell Basell Industries...
The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted...
Brendan Shanahan turned the Red Wings into cham pions, took a group of players that had underachieved through a string of humiliating playoff upsets through the 1990s, none more humiliating that the 1996 defeat to Claude...
