Topic: International News

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Articles: Powell: Terror report was 'wrong'

Posted by admin on Monday, June 14, 2004 - 12:34 AM

	Denying that the Bush administration was trying "to cook the books," Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday called a recently released annual State Department report asserting a decline in terrorism last year "a very big mistake" and "very embarrassing." Read full article: 'Powell: Terror report was 'wrong''

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Articles: Trade deal's 'black mark' on drugs

Posted by admin on Monday, June 14, 2004 - 12:31 AM

	FEDERAL Labor leader Mark Latham said reports drug prices could go up as a result of the free trade agreement with the United States were a black mark against the future of the deal. Read full article: 'Trade deal's 'black mark' on drugs'

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Articles: Inter-faith group to apologize on Arab TV for torture

Posted by admin on Monday, June 14, 2004 - 12:29 AM

	A new arm of the National Council of Churches plans to launch a TV ad on Arabic television Tuesday to apologize for the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by Americans. Read full article: 'Inter-faith group to apologize on Arab TV for torture'

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Articles: As G-8 summit ends, US focuses on gains

Posted by admin on Friday, June 11, 2004 - 01:17 AM

	The White House portrayed the Group of Eight summit that concluded yesterday as a big success, bringing the leaders of the world's industrial nations together on a range of issues like Middle East democratization, anti-poverty efforts, and the need to fight AIDS. Read full article: 'As G-8 summit ends, US focuses on gains'

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Articles: State Department retracts terrorism assertion

Posted by admin on Friday, June 11, 2004 - 01:12 AM

	The U.S. government acknowledged Thursday that a recent report declaring a decline in terrorism in 2003 was wrong. Read full article: 'State Department retracts terrorism assertion'

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Articles: Saudi student not guilty in terrorism trial

Posted by admin on Friday, June 11, 2004 - 01:08 AM

	Handing the government a stinging defeat in its war on terrorism, a jury acquitted a Saudi graduate student yesterday of charges that he used his computer expertise to help Muslim terrorists raise money and recruit followers. Read full article: 'Saudi student not guilty in terrorism trial'

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Articles: Day of ritual ends at nation's Capitol

Posted by admin on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 12:49 AM

	To the strains of solemn music and the slow beat of drums, the body of Ronald Wilson Reagan was carried in a final parade through Washington yesterday to the Capitol Rotunda, where the 40th president of the United States will lie in state until his funeral tomorrow. Read full article: 'Day of ritual ends at nation's Capitol'

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Articles: A Plunge From the Moral Heights

Posted by admin on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 12:43 AM

Come and sit with me for a moment. I am in a room, in a Middle Eastern country, and I am talking to a government official. He mentions the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the U.S.-run prison outside Baghdad, and what this has done to America's image in his region. He smiles at what he says, for he is a man who appreciates irony. Of course, this same thing happens in his country, he says. Inwardly, I smile back, smug in my confidence that Abu Ghraib or no Abu Ghraib, America is a different sort of nation. It now seems I was a bit too smug.

Read full article: 'A Plunge From the Moral Heights'

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Articles: Building a new Iraq

Posted by admin on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 12:40 AM

The UN Security Council resolution approving Iraqi self-rule, passed unanimously on Tuesday, bodes well for Iraq. It is also a significant victory for the United States -- even if the new political structure it heralds is not what the Bush administration envisioned when it invaded in 2003. Significantly, the resolution prevents the United Nations from assuming control of Iraq's transition. It leaves U.S. troops under U.S. command -- and gives American generals discretion on the use of force. More importantly, it gives the Americans a way out: They can make a graceful exit from Iraq at the end of next year when the resolution's mandate expires.

Read full article: 'Building a new Iraq'

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Articles: More young adults 'disconnected'

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 08:13 AM

	Despite marked improvement in the lives of American children, a new study finds rising numbers of "disconnected" young adults -- those who have no job, are not in school and have not progressed beyond a high school diploma. Read full article: 'More young adults 'disconnected''

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