By Carol Pearson and Rosanne Skirble Washington, DC 09 March 2006 watch Lung Cancer report Dana and Christopher Reeve Dana Reeve was best known as the widow of actor Christopher Reeve, and as a tirele...
By Michael Drudge London 09 March 2006 Britain and Brazil are calling for a summit of world leaders to break deadlocked world trade talks. The issue came up during a meeting in London between Brazilia...
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 09 March 2006 Benin is awaiting results from presidential elections, as allegations of fraud are mounting. Sunday's vote started in confusion when the outgoing president said the...
By Sonja Pace Washington 09 March 2006 Saudi Arabia's oil minister says his country is stepping up security around its petroleum installations, following last month's foiled terrorist attack. In Washi...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 09 March 2006 In India, the holy Hindu city of Varanasi has bounced back to normal two days after it was hit by deadly bomb blasts. An unknown Muslim militant group in Kas...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 09 March 2006 Israel has reopened the main commercial border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Israeli officials say the crossing was reopened for humanitarian reason...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 09 March 2006 A South Korean man walks by a display of models of North Korea's Scud-B missile, center, and other South Korean missiles at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul (File p...
By Steve Herman Okinawa, Japan 09 March 2006 The United States pledges to move 8,000 of its Marines off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. But U.S., Japanese and Okinawan officials are strugglin...
By Dan Robinson Washington 09 March 2006 Republicans in the House of Representatives have voted to block Dubai Ports World's acquisition of management operations at six key U.S. ports. The move in the...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 09 March 2006 A company based in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai Ports World, says it is transferring management operations at six U.S. ports to a U.S. entity. The surpris...
By Dan Robinson Washington 08 March 2006 A key committee of the U.S. Congress has approved legislation aimed at stepping up pressure on the government of Sudan because the situation in Darfur. A measu...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 08 March 2006 The government of Uzbekistan is cracking down against Western organizations in the country in what some regional analysts see as a backlash against the United...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 08 March 2006 The trafficking of women and girls for forced labor and sexual exploitation is a serious global problem. Ethiopian Alem Teklu is 29 years old. When she was...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 08 March 2006 Russia's foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has indicated Moscow will oppose U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran. The Council could begin discussing...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 08 March 2006 Population growth in most of Africa is expected to rise sharply over the next 50 years. But, in southern Africa, AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through tw...
