NEW DELHI - Before Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met last Friday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations, no one could have forecast how their first-ever talks would turn out. As it happened, their scheduled...
When asked for their solution to the mess in Iraq, both of America's presidential candidates – Tweedledumb and Tweedlephony – advance the same line: "train more Iraqi security forces." Once enough Iraqis have been trained, they suggest, American...
DUBAI - While the influential U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan predicts terrorist attacks before the presidential elections next week, he urged investors not to shy away from the war-ravaged country. "Enemies of Afghanistan's success have initiated an effort...
Several high-profile FBI investigations, in which substantial progress has been made, may well have been put on hold by the Bush administration for political reasons. That is, it has been alleged to me that the White House may have leaned on the FBI – not to...
ROME - "Shukran, shukran gesilan, ma salama (Thank you, many thanks, see you later)," Italian aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta said after being freed this week in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The women, who work for the Italian non-governmental...
"I was at a rap concert the other night," said a 17-year-old neighbor last night. "And they were saying all kinds of crazy things, like 'Bush is a baby-killer.'" He rolled his eyes and laughed. I asked him, "Well the truth is that children and infants have been killed...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the most powerful architects of the world economy and controlled by the planet's wealthiest nations, marked its return to U.S.-occupied Iraq with a new loan worth $436 million. The IMF Executive Board approved the loan...
Fortunately for my own peace of mind, I didn't expect much in the way of positive developments from last night's debate, although I have cheered and continue to cheer John Kerry's decision to make George Bush's incredible mismanagement of the war on Iraq and fumbling...
George W. Bush took a terrible pummeling in Thursday night's debate, as John Kerry took off the gloves and let him have it on the issue of the war. But was it a knockout punch? Kerry only fumbled around for a few minutes as he got his bearings after Jim Lehrer's...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australia's John Howard may have a reputation in their respective countries for being the lapdogs of the American president – in Blair's case, two of them so far. But no national leader in the world has demonstrated such...
