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Republican Candidates Make Final Push in Iowa Republican voters in Iowa will kick off the 2012 U.S. presidential election campaign Tuesday with caucus voting, the first step in choosing a candidate to run against President Barack Obama next November.
By Lisa Bryant Paris 28 April 2006 French President Jacques Chirac looks on during a joint address with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, unseen, at the Elysee Palace French President Jacques Chirac c
2014 Year of Space Technology Benchmarks, Setbacks 2014年,太空标准检查技术遭遇挫折 WASHINGTON Space technology this year reached some important goals, culminating with the spectacular landing of a space probe on a comet, millions of kilo
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 29 April 2006 Israel says it is facing a new strategic threat from the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip, because of the smuggling of improved weapons across the Egyptian border.
The UN refugee agency says it is worried about the security of people living in isolated villages near the former conflict zones of Georgia. It says some 2,300 people from villages in the buffer zone between the Georgian town of Gori and the breakaw
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 22 December 2006 New U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he is preparing to give President Bush an assessment of the situation in Iraq based on his meetings with U.S. military and Iraqi leaders in Baghdad. Gates wrap
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 November 2006 Ron Redmond (file photo) The U.N. refugee agency is appealing to the international community to send troops to help protect civilians and refugees in Chad from attacks by armed Arab gunmen. The UNHCR says new
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 14 October 2006 Hundreds of soldiers are on the streets of the central Nigerian city of Jos following clashes Friday between riot police and demonstrators protesting the attempted impeachment of the state governor. Witnesse
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 06 April 2007 Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has detonated a truck filled with explosives and chlorine gas near the western Iraqi city of Ramadi. At least 27 people were killed and dozens more injured and sickened. F
By Margaret Besheer Irbil 26 November 2006 Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki speaks after meeting with top Iraqi officials in Baghdad, 26 Nov 2006 The streets of the Iraqi capital remained mostly quiet Sunday, as a traffic ban remained in effect for a third
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 July 2006 A new report says the economies of the world's 50 poorest countries grew by nearly six percent in 2004, the highest rate in two decades. But the report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development says this posit
Afghanistan By Barry Wood Tirana 27 September 2006 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says he expects NATO countries to supply enough troops for peacekeeping duties in Afghanistan, where attacks by Taleban rebels have risen sharply. ---- Donald Ru
Pro-Taliban extremists in northwestern Pakistan have killed 22 members of a pro-government tribe. The remote violence-plagued area borders the volatile tribal region of South Waziristan on the Afghan border, which is believed to be a safe haven for
World shares tumbled Monday as the recession worsened in the U.S. and more bad international corporate news was released. In London, banking giant HSBC Holdings announced it was seeking to raise nearly $18 billion from investors and British Prime Mi
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 17 May 2006 The Pacific Tsunami Warning System has been tested for the first time with a two-phase, region-wide drill, sending alerts about imaginary earthquakes and tsunami
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 June 2006 A delegation from the United Nations Security Council is in Sudan Tuesday to persuade the Sudanese government to accept U.N. peacekeepers into the volatile Darfu
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 17 January 2006 Israeli security forces are cracking down on Jewish settlers in the volatile West Bank town of Hebron after days of unrest. The settlers and government appea
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 20 July 2006 NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has urged the international community to continue supporting Afghanistan's development. The secretary-general and the o
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 10 April 2007 Iraqi police say a female suicide bomber attacked a police recruitment center north of Baghdad, killing at least 16 recruits and injuring more than 33 others. Meanwhile, on a visit to Japan, Iraq's prime mini
By Noel King Khartoum 02 September 2006 In Sudan's Darfur region, African Union officials and human rights observers say the government has begun shelling villages in volatile northern Darfur. The renewed violence follows reports of a government tro