Dec 04 Watch Background: Steel Tariffs Ended President Bush lifted tariffs on foreign steel Thursday, less than a month after the World Trade Organization's highest court ruled that they violated global trade laws. Continue watching
Nov 26 U.S. Accuses Two Popular Arab Networks of Working With Iraqi Insurgents Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday alleged that two leading Arab-language TV networks, Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera, were cooperating with insurgents in Iraq by videotaping attacks against coalition troops. Continue reading
Nov 25 Watch Difficult Mission in Afghanistan The struggle to increase security and prosperity in Afghanistan continues two years after the U.S. toppled the Taliban. Following a brief background report, Ray Suarez talks with the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, about the progress of reconstruction efforts… Continue watching
Nov 21 International Consortium Suspends North Korea Nuclear Power Project The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization announced Friday that it is suspending a North Korean nuclear power project for one year. Continue reading
Nov 21 FTAA Talks on Track After Meeting in Miami Trade ministers from across the Americas papered over differences and concluded their meeting one day early after drafting an outline for future talks aimed at creating the world's largest free trade bloc. Continue reading
Nov 20 Watch Terror Attack in Turkey A second round of terror attacks killed at least 27 people in Turkey Thursday and wounded more than 400 others. Terence Smith discusses the impact with Lehigh University professor Henri Barkey and Bruce Hoffman, editor-in-chief of the journal "Studies in… Continue watching
Nov 19 Blasts in Turkey Kill At Least 27 Two truck bombs exploded in Turkey on Thursday, one at a London-based bank and the other at the British consulate, killing at least 27 people and wounding almost 450 others. Continue reading
Nov 11 Iran Had Secret Nuclear Program but No Weapons, U.N. Agency Finds An International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran's nuclear capabilities released says the country had been secretly experimenting on materials that could be made into nuclear weapons though there is no evidence a bomb was the ultimate goal. Continue reading
Nov 10 Supreme Court to Hear Guantanamo Detainees' Challenge By Admin The Supreme Court said Monday it would hear appeals by Afghan war detainees challenging their imprisonment at a U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Continue reading
Nov 10 Al-Qaida Blamed for Suicide Bombing That Killed 17 in Saudi Arabia Saudi and U.S. officials blamed al-Qaida for a suicide attack Saturday night on a residential compound housing expatriates living in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 17 people and wounded some 120 others. Continue reading