US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley stressed that continuing reforms on the road to EU accession with strengthen Turkey's stability and diplomacy.
PRISTINA, Kosovo -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday (July 17th) that given the new reality in Kosovo, UNMIK can no longer efficient...
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Opposition parties decided on Thursday (July 17th) to launch talks on an impeachment procedure against President Georgi Parvanov f...
ZAGREB, Croatia -- The government signed an agreement Thursday (July 17th) to buy two used naval frigates from the Finnish company Patria. The total...
with Mel Frykberg LONDON - Medical reports seen by IPS appear to confirm the testimony of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer of physical abuse at the hands of Israelis last month. Omer said he was physically and mentally abused at
I t's summer and gassing up your car is like emptying your wallet directly into that fuel pump. So you think you have it bad? You think you're feeling the pain? Well, stop your whining ! Other oil "addicts" have
T he conventional wisdom is that the US government is taking a new tack when it comes to confronting the Iranians. As a recent piece on Breitbart.com and dutifully posted by Matt Drudge put it : "The Bush administration is
T he Bush Regime's "terrorist" protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect, there are now one
A ttempting to disarm Iran's nuclear enrichment program diplomatically has proven futile. Even with the noose tightening around its neck through sanctions, and joint American-Israeli military exercises combined with covert CIA operations being conducted close to its border, Iran still
A ccording to Bush-Cheney sycophantic "reporter" Glenn Kessler , Bush's alleged support for the diplomatic "solution" proposed by Secretary of State Condi Rice "suggests he increasingly is determined to put aside a possible military strike" to "end" Iran's nuclear programs
A fter having begun a series of investigative stories criticizing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in May 2008, CNN reporter Drew Griffin reports being placed with more than a million other names on TSA's swollen terrorism watch list. Although TSA
T he US decision to send the State Department's third-ranking official to sit in on the meeting between European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili Saturday has been hailed as a major diplomatic breakthrough,
T eddy Roosevelt was the first president to leave the continental U.S. It's too bad he wasn't also the last. Politicians and celebrities with an urge to see poverty only need to visit the Mississippi Delta or some of the
In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Iraq's PrimeMinister Nouri al-Maliki said he supported a plan proposed byDemocratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troopsfrom Iraq within 16 months.
A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talksfizzled Saturday, with Tehran stonewalling Washington and five otherworld powers on their call for Iran to freeze uranium enrichment.
