By Robert Berger Jerusalem 03 September 2006 Israeli PM Ehud Olmert pauses in front of a painting of a peace dove during a visit to a school, Sunday September 3, 2006 Three weeks after the end of the war in Lebanon, Israel is extending an olive bran...
By Margaret Besheer Tyre, Lebanon 02 September 2006 The first major deployment of international forces to monitor a ceasefire between Hezbollah militants and Israel began arriving in Lebanon Saturday. The Italian contingent will help keep the peace,...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 08 August 2006 Nigeria has begun withdrawing its troops from the disputed Bakassi peninsula ahead of a United Nations-brokered deadline agreed with Cameroon. About 3,000 Nigerian soldiers are to be pulled out of the dispute...
By Bill Rodgers Washington 29 June 2006 Watch Libya Report The United States is expected to officially remove Libya from its list of nations that sponsor terrorism soon. It's the latest step by the Bush administration to foster closer ties with Trip...
By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 20 July 2006 Islamists in Somalia have threatened to wage a holy war against Ethiopian troops, who are believed to have crossed the border into Somalia. Media reports say a large number of Ethiopian troops are in the provinci...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 July 2006 A ministerial summit at the World Trade Organization has failed to make a breakthrough in deadlocked global free trade negotiations. The so-called Doha Development Round, which is supposed to lift millions of peop...
By Scott Stearns White House 14 June 2006 President Bush and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe say they will continue working together to defeat the illegal drug trade. The leaders also discussed a pending free trade agreement. ----------------------...
By Paula Wolfson White House 13 June 2006 President Bush is on his way home after a surprise trip to Baghdad designed to show support for the new Iraqi government. Mr. Bush also met with some of the more than 130,000 US troops serving in Iraq. -----...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 13 April 2006 North Korea's chief delegate to multinational nuclear talks says his country will continue to boost its arsenal as long as the talks are stalled. The top U.S. delegat...
By Doug Levine Washington 08 April 2006 It's been 22 years since the untimely death of singer Marvin Gaye, but there's no forgetting the man who sang such classics as "I Heard It Through The Grapevine...