By Benjamin Sand Kabul 16 March 2006 Fugitive Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has vowed stepped up violence against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. Coalition forces say they are prepared. The rare...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 16 March 2006 UN peackeepers patrol in western Ivory Coast Ivory Coast is one the first countries to benefit from a new United Nations emergency fund. The $1 million allocated to...
By Scott Bobb Bangkok 16 March 2006 The government of Laos is opening the eighth congress its Communist Party, which has led the country since the mid-1970s. Organizers say this congress will enact ma...
By David Gollust Sydney 16 March 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has thanked Australia for its role in Iraq and predicted that democracy-building there will succeed. In Sydney, she encountere...
By Jim Malone Washington, DC 15 March 2006 watch Iraq US Politics President Bush Three years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraq continues to dominate American politics like no other issue. Recent publi...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 15 March 2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during speech to joint meeting of US Congress, March 15, 2006 In an address to the U.S. Congress, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirl...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 15 March 2006 The U.S. Congress has commissioned a bipartisan panel to provide an independent assessment of the situation in Iraq. The panel's leaders say their group will...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 15 March 2006 The U.S. military has temporarily sent about 700 additional troops into Iraq to help provide security for observances of a Muslim holiday that falls next Monday, an...
By Jessica Berman Washington 15 March 2006 A new study says universal access to AIDS drugs in developing countries could increase HIV infection rates if they are not accompanied by prevention measures...
By Bill Rodgers Washington 15 March 2006 The latest sectarian violence in Iraq has raised questions about the future of the U.S. mission to establish a secure and democratic country, three years after...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York, NY 15 March 2006 watch Colors Restaurant report In a city like New York, which has over 15,000 restaurants, it is tough to attract attention. But the new restaurant Colo...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington 15 March 2006 Three years ago, President Bush ordered coalition forces to invade Iraq to free its people and to act on intelligence that indicated its dictator had weapons...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 15 March 2006 The body of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has arrived in Serbia on a commercial flight from the Netherlands for a private burial in his home town of...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 15 March 2006 Chad's security forces are reporting they foiled an overnight coup plot against President Idriss Deby Itno. They say there was an attempt to shoot dwn his plane...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 15 March 2006 Palestinian demonstrators shout slogans as they hold red flags of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, green Islamic flags and Palestinian flags in the...
