"We will not win the battle against global extremism unless we win it at the level of values as much as force, unless we show we are even-handed, fair and just in our application of those values to the world," he said.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shi'as thronged the streets of Baghdad chanting "Death to Israel" and "Resistance" on Friday in a massive and noisy demonstration of support for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.
United States is trying to "help channel China's growing influence in a positive direction" while maintaining "strong U.S. regional capabilities in case China does not eventually move down a path consistent with our interests
Together with Google and Real Networks, Firefox is now part of an alliance whose first consequence is the fact that the browser can be downloaded by anyone who gets Real Player, along with the Google Toolbar.
And satellite and terrestrial radio broadcasters, already in fierce competitive battles, will surely see the number of listeners erode once millions of vehicles are equipped for iPod ease.
Economic lifeline thrown to Cuba by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, who is using his country's tremendous oil reserves to prop up the Castro government and counter Bush administration policy in Latin America.
"...years for the land to recover from damage inflicted by the pot growers. The damage that's being done here should offend people." (Be an Environmentalist, grow pot in your back yard)
In touch with "a national security official with direct knowledge of the operation" to supply Israel with signals intelligence from American assets to help it monitor armament transfers from Syria and Iran to Hezbollah. President Bush has a
The head of the U.S. Marine Corps briefed Rep. John Murtha on the Haditha case after the vocal war critic publicly said Marines had killed innocent civilians in that Iraqi city, the Corps said on Thursday.
President Bush argued for combining tougher border enforcement with a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants as he clung to a position at odds with conservative Republicans. Bush stopped on the way to his ranch for 10 days of vacation mixed wit
[In search of a mission.] The top US fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor, will operate frequently from the Pacific island of Guam in coming years, a top general said, as Washington counters China's military build-up with enhanced US firepower
A federal judge rejected arguments that the retrial of a Jordanian accused of lying about whether he knew one of the September 11 hijackers should be moved because jurors in New York were biased.
Lawyers for Osama Awadallah, 26, had argued for a c
The decision whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should approve wider access to a morning-after contraceptive drug was made well before agency scientists finished their final review, two FDA officials said in court documents released on Thu
In a voice vote, the Senate approved a Democrat-sponsored provision directing U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte to prepare by October 1 a national intelligence estimate assessing Iraq's stability amid ethnic, religious and tribal divisions.
The U.S. military is increasingly using air lifts instead of ground convoys to resupply troops to avoid the deadly roadside bombs that remain a major killer of American soldiers after more than three years of war.
Later in the hearing, when shown a photograph of the prisoner, Bevins was asked how he could be sure that the victims brains had been blown out. “I don’t think anybody brought cottage cheese,” he told the hearing.
Members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government, are being "in effect, murdered for their organs," which are being sold to buyers from China and abroad, says a former member of Canadian Parliament and coauthor o
Six Marines have been charged with assaulting an Iraqi civilian in Hamdaniya in April, the U.S. military said. The allegations are separate from those surrounding the alleged killing of an Iraqi man in the same city later in the month.
A Republican election-year effort to fuse a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates with the first minimum wage increase in nearly a decade was rejected by the Senate late Thursday.
In order to make a dent in underfunding now estimated at $450 billion, the bill requires plans to be 100 percent funded, up from the current 90 percent level, giving companies seven years to reach that goal.
Marine Corps officials are reviewing findings of investigations into the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, and those results should be delivered to Congress in September, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair signaled that he did not object to the US using British airports to dispatch weapons to Israel, provided procedures were obeyed.
Britain complained last week about the US failing to follow proper procedures after
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the fall elections, confronted members of a firefighting team at the Billings airport telling them they had done a "piss-poor job," according to an official state report and
2 top US generals said that the sectarian violence in Iraq is much worse than they had ever anticipated and could lead to civil war, arguing that improving the situation is now more a matter of Iraqi political will than of US military strategy.
Posting proclamations in mosques and schools, the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq vowed to take back Fallujah, declaring that it had united local armed factions into a cohesive force to fight the US and Iraqi troops who now control its streets.
[It ain't bragging if you can do it.] Global oil prices could hit $200 per barrel if the United States pursues international sanctions against Iran, an Iranian official said, although analysts passed the comment off as saber rattling.
[Why do we need troops stationed around the world?] "If we left the Middle East, they'd order us and all those who don't share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines,"