... Sheldon Whitehouse first met Dick in Saigon in 1972 while visiting a Shoeshine Boys house with his father, who was serving there as the deputy U.S. ambassador to Vietnam. DICK HUGHES: It is like a circle. We started off on different sides of it, but now we ended up ...
... worship, according to the report. "Around the world, governments continued to tighten their regulatory grip on religious groups, and particularly on minority religious groups and religions which are viewed as not traditional to that specific country," it said. Angola, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Eritrea, Myanmar, Russia and Vietnam were cited as having ...
... not in our courts, but in these tribunals, and that sometimes the threat or the fines are so significant, that governments water down their own regulations, whether it's environmental regulations, worker protections, and that even foreign companies that work in the United States could do that to us. JOHN ...
WASHINGTON — Widespread global opposition to U.S. electronic surveillance since the revelations by onetime National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has not badly tarnished the overall image of the United States, and it remains far more popular around the world than rising power China, according to a poll released Monday ...
... plus consular offices in Troy, Mich., and Houston, Texas. Syrian diplomats and staff have until the end of the month to leave the country. The U.S. closed its embassy in Damascus in 2012. Iran and six world powers resumed talks today on reining in Iran's nuclear program, but ...
... had to stop those people and the military machines behind them, whereas, in Vietnam, it was a confusing situation. We undertook an impossible situation in Vietnam. JUDY WOODRUFF: McGovern's opposition to the Vietnam War blossomed during the first of his three terms in the U.S. Senate. His anti ...
... Davis shot the two men in a poor area of Lahore while he was driving alone. A third person died when a vehicle coming to his aid ran over a pedestrian. The court is under public pressure to try Davis, but the U.S. has threatened to cut military aid.
Although progress has been made to reconcile differences between Shia and Sunni Iraqis, other non-Muslims there are suffering "severe abuses of religious freedom," a U.S. advisory group recently reported. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended that the State Department designate Iraq as a "country of ...
RAY SUAREZ: When does tough interrogation of U.S. prisoners around the world cross the line into torture and run afoul of international law? And even when there's no disagreement on what constitutes torture, does it work? Widespread abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq sparked worldwide outrage ...
... and European officials have been negotiating with the administration in hopes of avoiding steep tariffs. This week, the president announced a series of tariffs on U.S. allies and adversaries alike, including Canada and Brazil. So far, months of trade negotiations have resulted in only two deals with Great Britain ...
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