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The Czech Republic will be responsible for damage arising from the conduct of the planned U.S. radar on Czech soil, the Czech news agency CTK said on Thursday. According to the main treaty on the radar, which has already been completed, in other cases, responsibility for the radar operation will...
The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries.--Stephen J. Hedges
On April 22, the plush dining room at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington is noticeably bare. Aside from a table of tourists and a lone harried diner, most of the overstuffed chairs sit empty. It is the day of the Pennsylvania primary, and there are no politicians to feast on...
Here’s a few Friday links. The US Congress has just approved a US$290 billion Farm Bill that gives lucrative subsidies to farmers and cuts international aid programmes. By diverting subsidies and benefits to powerful agricultural industries such as sugar, dairy, timber and salmon, authors of the...
U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura will visit the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem Friday, together with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and senior members of the White House staff and diplomatic corps. The museum holds a world-renowned collection of antiquities from the places...
Washington (UPI) May 13, 2008 - Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, with an assist from Sen. Joe Lieberman, competed in freshly minted assurances of allegiance to Israel as it embarked on a weeklong 60th birthday party. Neocons have hinted darkly that Obama, whose middle name is Hussein, was...
Will Hillary Clinton fight for the nomination past June 1st? I suggested the answer was, at best, uncertain: Elections in Gaza have led to the creation of a terrorist mini-state ruled by Hamas; freedom in Lebanon is under intense assault by Hezbollah, also a terrorist group; Russia is more...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on Wednesday for more unofficial contacts with Iran, saying this might eventually open a pathway to more substantive dialogue between the governments. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates answers a question during a news conference...
Michael Sneed: Sneed hears ailing U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, who's battling cancer, is being urged to resign so a successor would be in place before the November election. The stunner: Sneed hears rumbles Ald. Sandi Jackson is on the short list and could make history by becoming, along with her...
Sen. Barack Obama (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) - Following are reactions to Bush's comments: Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator "It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false...
