Annan Close to Setting Dates for Cyprus Talks Peter Heinlein U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he is close to announcing a date for a new round of talks on the reunification of Cyprus . Mr. Annan...
Suspicious Powder Discovered on Capitol Hill Deborah Tate Three U.S. Senate office buildings are closed, and congressional business has been disrupted a day after a suspicious powder, believed to be t...
Japanese Ground Troops Leave for Iraq Amy Bickers Japanese ground troops have left for Iraq - marking the country's first full military deployment to a combat zone since World War II. The humanitarian...
N. Korea Nuclear Talks May Start Soon, say US Officials Amy Bickers Diplomatic efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis continue in Tokyo and Seoul, where two top U.S. officials have been me...
2 More Die in Asian Bird Flu Outbreak Katherine Maria The human death toll from the bird flu has risen to 12 and the World Health Organization says China needs to give more information about the disea...
Experts Study Possible Human-to-Human Bird Flu Case in Vietnam Katherine Maria The World Health Organization says experts looking at human cases of bird flu cannot rule out the possibility that it spr...
US Democratic Presidential Candidates Meet With Low Income Voters Jim Teeple Six of the seven Democratic candidates for president met with low-income voters Friday in Columbia, South Carolina where De...
Bush Takes Economic Message to New Hampshire Scott Stearns President Bush is in New Hampshire to talk about the economy, two days after Democrats wrapped-up their presidential primary in the key New E...
Business US Central Bank Holds Interest Rates Steady Barry Wood The United States central bank, the Federal Reserve , Wednesday announced that it is holding short-term interest rates steady. The usual...
Former US Inspector Criticizes Faulty Intelligence in Iraq Weapons Search Deborah Tate Former chief U.S. weapons inspector David Kay is blaming faulty intelligence for the failure to find weapons of m...
Officials, Experts Wind Up Bird Flu Conference in Thailand Scott Bobb Asian ministers and international health experts are ending a meeting in Thailand aimed at halting the spread of the bird flu viru...
India Seeks to Counter Possible Backlash onMigration of High-Tech Jobs Anjana Pasricha India is asking Asian countries to resist a potential backlash in developed nations as Western companies move tec...
Bird Flu Spreads in Several Asian Countries Katherine Maria The United Nations health agency has confirmed a fourth bird flu death in Vietnam, and says an increased number of patients are seeking trea...
France Willing to Train Iraq's Police, Military, says Defense Minister Laurie Kassman French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie says her government is willing to help train Iraq's police and milita...
OSCE Chief Promises Freedom, Tolerance, Democracy Melanie Sully The new head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says messages of freedom, tolerance, and democracy are cr...