Politics

The U.S. asked an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council Monday to approve a resolution urging Israel to stop destroying Palestinian buildings in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrat party and his left-of-center coalition partner, the Greens, barely retained power in Sunday's parliamentary elections, narrowly edging out its conservative rivals.

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Ray Suarez discusses the Israeli siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters with New York Times correspondent Serge Schmemann in Jerusalem.

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Examining German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's tumultuous re-election and why relations between the U.S. and Germany continue to sour.

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Spencer Michels provides some background on U.S.- German relations following the successful German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's successful re-election bid.

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The Bush administration sent a new national security strategy to Congress Friday advocating a policy of preemption in defending the U.S. against hostile states and terrorists.

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Margaret Warner discusses President Bush's new security strategy plan with two former State and Defense Department officials from the Reagan Administration.

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Kwame Holman reports on the President's new national security strategy of preemptive action.

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The Russian defense minister discusses the U.S. stance on Iraq, and his country's concerns about alleged terrorist incursions from neighboring Georgia.

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The following is the entire text of President Bush's proposed congressional resolution.

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