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Provisional president Raul Castro called for more discipline and openness in Cuba's communist government, telling lawmakers there is no excuse for the island's severe transportation and food production problems.
Bush is being urged to give up to $10 billion to Iraq as part of a “New Deal” that would create work for unemployed Iraqis, following the model of President Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s depression. At the Pentagon, the joint chiefs of staff
[Christians safe under Saddam.] Baghdad's vicious sectarian war has claimed another victim; a Christmas tradition that used to bond the city's Christian community closer to their Muslim neighbours is dying.
In all the brouhaha stirred up by over the first Muslim ever elected to Congress using a Koran in his private swearing-in ceremony little attention has been paid to the fact that the first 2 Buddhists to ever serve in Congress were also elected.
The world's oldest ice hockey stick, a hickory shaft carved in the 1850s, sold for 1.9 million dollars and will be displayed at the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, increasing international pressure on the government to prove that it is not trying to make nuclear weapons. Iran immediately rejected
Freedom In Peril: Guarding the 2nd Amendment in the 21st Century, is a spectacularly beautiful graphic novel. Here, for example, is one of the biggest threats to the white suburban hunter: dirty hippies and their evil sidekicks: the dynamite-c
Laws passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, deny admission to anyone who has provided "material support" — money, food, clothing, advice — to terrorist groups. In the last few years, these provisions have been expanded to the point tha
As the US debates what to do in Iraq, this country’s Shiite majority has been moving toward its own solution: making the capital its own. Large portions of Baghdad have become Shiite as militias displacing thousands of Sunni residents.
The smallest form of life known to science just got smaller. Scientists found the microbes living in a remarkably inhospitable environment, drainage water as caustic as battery acid from a mine in Northern California. The microbes, members of an anci
“Iran has become more dangerous than Israel itself,” said Sheik Musa bin Abdulaziz, editor of the magazine Al Salafi, who describes himself as a moderate Salafi, a fundamentalist Muslim movement. “The Iranian revolution has come to renew the Persian
5 years since the start of the Bush administration's Afghan war, the "ousted" Taliban is back in full flower, and so is the notorious Afghan poppy. There's no doubt the two are intimately connected. The Taliban, which briefly banned
George W. Bush has a problem, and it's called Iraq, the country that just won't go away. There's no satisfying way to solve this problem either. Withdraw? No good: too humiliating. Stay the course? More dead Americans and more dead Iraqis
"Iraq is generating an exodus of terrorists," says ABC News consultant Tony Cordesman. "It is creating a training center, in effect, the worst kind of training center, because people learn through practice, not theory."
The Bush administration's obsession with domination and control keeps cropping up – most recently in its new [outer] space policy, the first new statement of U.S. objectives in outer space to be issued in 10 years.
Could spreading his most spectacular failure to Iran and Syria make Iraq seem merely a "catastrophic success"? Are even Bush and Cheney stupid enough to think an air war against Iran will accomplish anything other than forcing their withdra
There was nothing new in the warnings Russia's top general made against U.S. plans to deploy anti-ballistic missile defense systems in Central Europe. The news was that he was repeating what he had said before.
A top former State Department expert explained to the Iraq Study Group's members why their preferred plan would most likely fail. They ignored his warning.
The Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said 1,400 mines were available for the extraction of uranium. The organization said the mines were located in central Iran and would be used to produce yellowcake for the nation's uranium enrichment program
A U.S. government surveillance tape, obtained by ABC News, reveals in graphic detail the attack on the American embassy in Damascus, Syria, this September and raises new questions about the role of the Syrian government.
Flynt Leverett, a former top White House official and CIA analyst, asserts "the White House does not want the public to know that in May 2003, the Iranian Foreign Ministry floated the prospect of a wide-ranging dialogue with America on everythin
The idea that we may one day give sentient machines the kind of rights traditionally reserved for humans is raised in a British government-commissioned report which claims to be an extensive look into the future.
Al-Jazeera hosted a televised discussion recently following the windup of the Istanbul Conference, including Adnan al-Dulaimi (head of one of the biggest Sunni political parties), Harith al-Dhari (head of the Muslim Scholars Association) and others.
Over the past 20 years, the U.S. Christian right has evolved into one of the most powerful grassroots organizing forces within the Republican Party, and a host of Christian Zionists have taken a well-earned seat at the foreign policy table.
As the Pentagon takes on roles collecting intelligence, initiating information operations and conducting other “self-assigned missions,” embassies have effectively become command posts, with military personnel supplanting ambassadors in conducting A
Meet the anti-war movement's newest folk hero: 69-year-old Rosemarie Jackowski, whose arrest during an anti-war protest has made her a cause celebre. A prosecutor's plan to retry her for blocking traffic while protesting the Iraq war is tu
Sgt. Vic Blazier and his wife, Capt. Carla Blazier, were sent to war in 2003, leaving an infant and a toddler with a grandfather who died while the couple served in Iraq. The ex-Army reservists from Marion, Ohio, had become civilian soldiers out o
The Pentagon wants the White House to seek an additional $99.7 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military's request, if embraced by President Bush and approved by Congress, would boost this year's budget for those wars
People with higher levels of vitamin D have a markedly reduced risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published that may point to a promising way to protect against the disease.
[yawn] President Bush signed into law the first major changes in postal operations in decades, offering hope for reducing or delaying future rate increases. For now, people will not notice anything different at the post office.
