DENVER The 2008 U.S. presidential race pitting Democratic Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) against presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has sparked intense international interest. For instance, a recent survey by the Pew Research Center ...
Last month, a brazen attack on a Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto completely upended that country’s political process and clearly exposed the risks assumed by political leaders around the world. While campaigning in Pakistan is quite ...
After six years, Osama Bin Laden remains at large. ( AP Images/ Site Institute via AP Television News) In discussing the “war on terror” at the Council on Foreign Relations last week, Michael V. Hayden, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), ...
Rice meets with Prince Saud al-Faisal upon her arrival in Saudi Arabia. (AP Images/HO, Saudi News Agency) With U.S. forces in Iraq having recently reached “surge” levels, President Bush has intensified a diplomatic offensive, dispatching Secretary of ...
Onlookers watch as an explosive-laden Jeep smolders outside Glasgow airport. (AP Images/ Alistair Robertson) Gordon Brown faced a trial by fire in his first week as Britain’s prime minister. Two days after ushering in his new administration, Brown ...
The London bomb scare raises the necessity of preventing homegrown terrorism. (AP Imagse/Akira Suemori) British authorities discovered a car bomb (Times of London) Friday morning in London that they say could have caused “significant injury or loss of ...
Nearly two years since London's last tragic experience with terrorism, a new wave of threats raised Britain's national blood pressure anew. (AP Imagse/Akira Suemori) The worst materialized Saturday when, following the near miraculous discovery of two ...
Admiral Michael McConnell, the U.S. director of national intelligence, says there is “overwhelming evidence” that Tehran is supporting insurgents in Iraq and “compelling” evidence that the same is happening in Afghanistan. McConnell cites insurgents’ ...
A Somali girl scavenges the remains from a store hit by a shell. Mogadishu has recently seen some of the heaviest fighting in a decade. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi) Over sixteen anarchic years, the people of Somalia have endured more than their fair share of ...
A man demonstrates passenger use of a security scanner. (AP Images/Elaine Thompson) Eighty years ago this week, Charles Lindberg completed his famed transatlantic flight in just over thirty-three hours. Seeing how far we’ve come offers little comfort ...
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