Outsourcing defense contracts 

As American forces confront the global terrorist threat on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, an equally serious threat exists here at home with the continuous outsourcing and erosion of our defense industrial base.

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NATO's Middling Agenda

A divided NATO will not extend a blueprint for eventual membership to Ukraine and Georgia at the alliance's summit in Bucharest next week.

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Bush the Multilateralist

John McCain gave a major foreign policy address in Los Angeles Wednesday, and if his intention was to convey a subtle message about what distinguishes him from the current White House occupant, he seems to have succeeded -- at least with the press.

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Walker's World: Bush's personal summitry - UPI.com

WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- There are two serious splits in the alliance ahead of this week's NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, and the Russians are cleverly playing one against the other to exploit the differences between the United States and its European allies.

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Roger Cohen: The baton passes to Asia - International Herald Tribune

screen TVs with images of a suicide bombing in Baghdad flashing, and the latest awful market news coursing along the bottom, and an ad for some stool-loosening wonder drug squeezed into a corner.

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High cost of rice raises fears of unrest - International Herald Tribune

HANOI: Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some of the world's largest rice producers to announce drastic limits on the amount of rice they export.

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Pakistan militants welcome talks with new government - International Herald Tribune

INAYAT KALLAY, Pakistan: The Pakistani Taliban welcomed the new government's readiness to negotiate an end to a spreading conflict in Pakistan on Sunday, but they vowed to carry on fighting U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

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Israel pledges to remove road blocks in the West Bank - International Herald Tribune

JERUSALEM: Israel and the Palestinians on Sunday agreed to a series of "concrete steps" aimed at paving the way for a final peace agreement later this year, beginning with an Israeli pledge to remove some 50 roadblocks in the West Bank, U.S. officials said.

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Syria's role in Lebanon causes bitter rift as Arab leaders gather - International Herald Tribune

DAMASCUS: Saudi Arabia has said that Syria should be punished for blocking a resolution to Lebanon's political crisis, escalating a dispute between U.S. allies and Damascus that has marred an Arab summit meeting.

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Dith Pran, 'Killing Fields' photographer, dies at 65 - International Herald Tribune

Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people's rights, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey on Sunday.

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US to propose sweeping new powers for Fed

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush's administration will propose sweeping new oversight powers for the Federal Reserve in a bid to avoid calamities like the current subprime crisis, The New York Times reported Saturday.

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Islamists gain ground in Somalia - International Herald Tribune

MOGADISHU, Somalia: The trouble started when government soldiers went to the market and, at gunpoint, began helping themselves to sacks of grain.

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Try this headline: Black Hole Eats Earth - International Herald Tribune

More strife in Iraq. U.S. financial system in crisis. Rice prices soar.

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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistani PM vows to fight terror

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A System Overdue for Reform - New York Times

A growing and diverse number of experts agree that the financial system needs an overhaul.

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'Earth Hour' to plunge millions into darkness

SYDNEY (AFP) - Twenty-six major cities around the world are expected to turn off the lights on major landmarks, plunging millions of people into darkness to raise awareness about global warming, organisers said.

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Iraq's Prime Minister Extends Basra Arms Deadline : NPR

Morning Edition, March 28, 2008 · Iraq's prime minister on Friday extended a deadline for Shiite militants in southern Basra to hand over their weapons. Nouri al-Maliki also said the militants would receive a financial reward if they complied.

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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistani secret agents shot dead

Two Pakistani intelligence agents involved in tracking al-Qaeda suspects have been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi, police say. Inspector Mohammad Ibrahim and his deputy, Fazlur Rahman, were employees of Pakistan's main civilian spy agency.

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Poll finds a broad desire to cooperate with Russia - International Herald Tribune

PARIS: As leaders of NATO prepare to gather in Bucharest next week, sentiment is widespread in its six largest countries that the United States should cooperate with Russia over missile defenses in Eastern Europe.

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Pakistan pins hope for border region on moderate tribal party - International Herald Tribune

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Sarkozy pledges troops to Afghanistan, new cooperation with U.K. - International Herald Tribune

LONDON: French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to send more troops to Afghanistan under the right conditions as he arrived in Britain Wednesday for a two-day state visit aimed at creating a new era of trust between the neighboring nations.

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Fatwa Against Terrorism - Council on Foreign Relations

The Fiqh Council of North America, a group of American Muslim scholars, issued this fatwa against terrorism on July 28, 2005.

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran 'behind Green Zone attack'

The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Gen David Petraeus told the BBC he thought Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents who fired the barrage of mortars and roc …

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rival cypriot leaders take step towards peace

NICOSIA (AFP) - Rival Cypriot leaders met on Friday and agreed to begin fully fledged talks on the future of the divided island in three months, with both men saying they aimed to find a solution quickly.

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Quenching a global thirst - International Herald Tribune

At the United Nations, Saturday is World Water Day. We don't expect people to stop what they are doing and observe a moment of silence - though maybe they should. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from diseases associated with a lack of clean water.

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