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A group of rice farmers in the small village of Daechuri near the city of Pyongtaek attempt to defend themselves against invasion by the US military. The farmers' struggle against expansion of a nearby US military base has become a rallying point
It happens once every few months. Like a periodic visit by an especially annoying relative from overseas, Condoleezza Rice was here again. The same declarations, the same texts devoid of content, the same sycophancy, the same official aircraft headin
Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in support of the main opposition candidate, Manuel Rosales. Mr Rosales will face President Hugo Chavez in December's presidential poll.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has opened an investigation into the conduct of the Anti-Terrorist Branch detectives who arrested Mr Raissi in 2001 and prepared the evidence against him. In a separate move, Mr Raissi will go to the Hi
On Nov. 29, 2001, a dozen policy makers, Middle East experts and members of influential policy research organizations gathered at the request of Paul Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense. Presence of journalists at the meeting
The most prized item, judging by its sales price, was a 78-inch-long model of the U.S.S. Enterprise captained by Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It sold for $576,000--the most ever for an auctioned-off piece of Trek memorabilia, C
Among likely voters, 58 percent say they plan to vote for Democrats in November, versus 37 percent who say they will vote Republican, according to the CNN-Gallup poll.
The deal combines two of the most popular internet brands: Google, synonymous with web search and rapid innovation, and YouTube, a Silicon Valley upstart that has spearheaded the video-sharing craze.
For the past 5 years, Sen. George Allen, has failed to tell Congress about stock options he got for his work as a director of a high-tech company. The Virginia Republican also asked the Army to help another business that gave him similar options.
The Navy lawyer who took the Guantánamo case of Osama bin Laden's driver to the U.S. Supreme Court — and won — has been passed over for promotion by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military.
[see his e-mail for yourself] The yellow highlighting is mine. This is from page 26 of the Abramoff documents [pdf] I stumbled onto the same story when I was reading Newsweek where the remark "upcoming war in Iraq" is mentioned in passing i
North Korea claimed it has performed a successful nuclear test, according to that country's official Korean Central News Agency. South Korean government officials also said North Korea performed its first nuclear test, the South's Yonhap news
The CIA used a military base in Germany to interrogate the man accused of masterminding the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a fellow al-Qaeda leader, according to testimony from terrorism suspects.
The Bush administration made secret overtures to former Iran president Mohammed Khatami during his visit to the US last month in an attempt to establish a back channel via the ex-leader. As part of a strategy to isolate Ahmadinejad,
But U.S. officials tell TIME that many in the U.S. government are now convinced that Castro, 80, has terminal cancer and will never return to power. "Certainly we have heard this, that this guy has terminal cancer," said one U.S. official.
On the 30th anniversary of the first midair bombing of a civilian airliner in the Americas, the plot's suspected mastermind is hoping that a US judge will release him from a jail where he has been held on immigration-related charges.
Like the other too-clever-by-half stratagems of the Bush people in Iraq, the installation of Maliki created more problems than it solved, and it now looks like Maliki has utterly lost the confidence of the White House. Given up on democracy in Iraq
[well duh] An independent commission set up by Congress with the approval of President Bush may recommend carving up Iraq into three highly autonomous regions, according to well informed sources.
Despite countless hours of TV coverage and reams of newspaper reporting on the House's handling of the Mark Foley page scandal, numerous fundamental questions remain unanswered as the FBI and the House ethics committee begin their first full week
Scientists in England are developing new dressings for wounds designed to mimic maggots to clean away dead tissue and promote healing. The ancient use of living maggots in non-healing wounds—to eat away only the dead tissue and encourage regenerat
Unearthed the 250-year-old site of a merchant's establishment that sold goods to the thousands of soldiers who passed through this region during the French and Indian War, when Fort Edward was the largest British military post in North America.
A gigantic sonic boom and a periodic deep cacophony of sound emanated from a supermassive black hole, according to observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The black hole, one of the biggest in the universe, lies at the center of M87,
Astronomers have looked under the hoods of quasars, the brightest objects in the universe, and found some of the best evidence yet for the black holes that are thought to power them.
President Bush's sweeping new space policy responds to a post 9/11 world of terrorist actions, like the need for intelligence-gathering internal and external to the US. “Freedom of action in space is as important to the US as air and sea power.”
NASA’s newest Mars orbiter has spied the plucky rover Opportunity perched at the rim of the red planet’s massive Victoria Crater as both vehicles explore the fourth planet from the Sun.
Cardin's comments came the day that state elections Administrator Linda Lamone announced that Maryland would continue using an electronic voter check-in system that repeatedly froze and rebooted without warning on primary day
The staff member's account buttresses the position of Foley's onetime chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, who said he had appealed to Palmer in 2003 or earlier to intervene, after Fordham's own efforts to stop Foley's behavior had failed.
India's booming economy drew a record $2.9 billion dollars in foreign direct investment in the first four months of the fiscal year, nearly double last year's amount.
[so hand them guns and ammo] Five years after U.S. forces launched their offensive to oust Afghanistan's Taliban, Shakeela Jan says she is happy to have the freedom to work but that she travels to her job every day in fear.
Super-lightweight laptops from Japan, feature-packed smartphones from Europe, and shiny, gotta-get-it devices designed in South Korea are but a few items on the cutting edge. Chances are you will never see these on store shelves in the US.
