Afghan officials say fighter aircraft battling militants in Afghanistan accidentally killed up to 27 Afghans walking to a wedding ceremony early Sunday. It's the second military attack in three days with reports of civilian deaths.
What Does China Think? Mark Leonard Public Affairs, 2008 164 pp. W hat does China think? Americans aren't known for their international sophistication, especially when it comes to complex foreign issues. And there are few more complicated issues than the
T he city of Amman, Jordan, is awash with numerous colorful signs that proclaim independence, "Istiklal." The word is found on posters and placards in store windows. It names a major thoroughfare, a hospital, and a shopping center. Appreciation for
A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town,sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectatorsand injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in South Korea's capitalSaturday against U.S. beef imports, as a pro-government group staged acounter-rally calling for an end to weeks of sometimes-violent protests.
The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimismpalpable. Young or old, Republican or Democrat, economically stable orstruggling, Americans are questioning where they are and where they aregoing. And they wonder who or what might ride to their
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama toldreporters Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" hisrecent words on Iraq. "I was a little puzzled by the frenzy that I set offby what I thought was a
The Supreme Court rebuffed the strictest gun law in the nation on June 26, striking down Washington's 32-year-old ban onpossessing handguns. TheNational Rifle Association called it "a great moment in Americanhistory." But prospective gun buyers and sellers said they remain
The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military -- Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes -- said intheir first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilledto "return home to the country we love." The men also
Global challenges like soaring oil prices and the Earth's risingtemperature await President Bush at a summit of top industrializednations, but first he set out to soothe emotions on a sensitiveJapanese issue that's entangled in the nuclear standoff with NorthKorea.
Y ou remember the anthrax attacks or do you? It often seems, to me at least, that this important catalyst for the invasion of Iraq and our supremely wrong-headed post-9/11 foreign policy has been flushed down the collective memory hole.
G arold Larson has the misfortune to be the Bush-Cheney Deputy Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, and hence, was required to " celebrate " the 40th anniversary of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons . Misfortune, because
U S journalist Zoriah Miller says he was censored by the US military in the Iraqi city of Fallujah after photographing Marines who died in a suicide bombing. On Jun. 26, a suicide bomber attacked a city council meeting in
