Sir Paul McCartney visits Palestinian site during Israel visit

"Sir Paul McCartney said he was carrying a message of peace for Israel and Palestine as he toured the West Bank town of Bethlehem ahead of his planned concert in Tel Aviv. By Tim Butcher in Bethlehem Last Updated:...

Why Food Costs Are Soaring

"Fatal food riots in Haiti. Violent food-price protests in Egypt and Ivory Coast. Rice so valuable it is transported in armoured convoys. Soldiers guarding fields and warehouses. Export bans to keep local populations...

Afghanistan:Taliban Spy Slows Afghan progress

Certainly tragic when after 8 months to learn your Police co-worker is actually a Taliban spy who kills two of your own unsuspecting men while guarding a Power Plant for thousands of citizens for your region and the...

U.S. Secretly Aids Pakistan in Guarding Nuclear Arms

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — Over the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million on a highly classified program to help Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, secure his country’s nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior...

Russia Eyes Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty As Next Pullout

"As disagreements over NATO's eastward expansion, ballistic missile defense deployments in Eastern Europe, the status of Kosovo and others continue to strain NATO-Russian relations, Russia has shown an increasing willingness to re-examine its arms-control obligations with the...

Iraq by the Numbers

"Iraq by the Numbers By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. Posted June 28, 2007. Americans are waiting for General David Petraeus to report to Congress in September on the "progress" of the President's surge strategy. But there's no reason to wait for September. Here's a look...

World after Saddam's execution

"The US military withdrawal from Iraq should be appropriately done guarding against any further adverse consequences for the Iraqi people. The execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has certainly eliminated a branded dictator of Iraq who had admirers and...

Search is On For Abducted Americans

"U.S. and British forces launch an intense manhunt for Western security men seized at a checkpoint. A massive search and rescue operation is under way in southern Iraq for five Western security contractors taken hostage on Thursday. Four Americans and an Austrian were taken...

They May Say, Tiger Who? but They Like His Sport

"Out on the dewy grass of the Moscow Country Club on a recent morning, a cheery Russian couple, dressed to the nines in golf attire, hacked and sliced their way along the fairway of the second hole, a par 5 with a...

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