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Myanmar has agreed to accept more American aid, officials said Tuesday, opening the door for what could be a massive relief operation as the United Nations warned that less than a quarter of victims’ needs are being met 10 days after the devastating cyclone struck. Despite the junta’s...
By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - International fears about the plight of 1.5 million victims in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar deepened on Tuesday as the United Nations and Western powers suggested helpless people could have been robbed of food and other aid. As if fears of shoddy aid distribution...
President Bush heads off to the Middle East today for a five-day tour through a political landscape of false predictions and broken promises. Terence Hunt writes for the Associated Press: "President Bush has a faulty calendar and questionable optimism when it comes to the Middle East. By his...
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has submitted another complaint to the European Commission over Microsoft's lack of interoperability in Office 2007. The Commission says that while it has received the complaint, it is already looking into the issues.Read More...
The United States says Zimbabwe has harassed the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats in the country. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says the treatment is indicative of an atmosphere that makes life difficult for citizens who speak out. Zimbabwean police on Tuesday confronted foreign...
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS and ELIANE ENGELER Next Politics & Policy Article GENEVA (AP) - International aid agencies are standing ready to help China recover from its massive earthquake, but the Chinese appear to have operations well in hand, officials said Tuesday. Equipment is packed at the...
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday called for President George W. Bush to certify that North Korea is not transferring nuclear technology to Iran and Syria before Pyongyang receives its coveted goal of being taken off a U.S. terrorism blacklist. The measure, which was considered by the U.S. House of...
Last week, Al Gore made headlines when he blamed the Burmese cyclone on (what else?) global warming. "And as we're talking today ... the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,"...
TODAY's soaring commodity prices scream a fundamental truth of modern life that many politicians, particularly in the West, don't want us to hear: the world's natural resources are finite, and, as billions of people in Asia and elsewhere escape poverty, Western consumers will have to share them.
Britain's queen praised Turkey's role as a bridge between the West and the Islamic world on Tuesday during her first visit to the predominantly Muslim country in 37 years. "For us, Turkey is as important now as it has ever been," Queen Elizabeth II said in a state banquet in her honor. "Turkey is...
