Consider it a sign of the times: A senior Democrat calls for committing American troops to a new theater of conflict, and the news causes only the gentlest of ripples.
The Democrat in question was ...
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Pretoria (dpa) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday
rejected criticism of the announcement by US President George W Bush
on a US-led initiative to cap greenhouse ga...
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Panama City (dpa) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
requested on Monday that the secretary general of the Organization of
American States (OAS) investigate alleged vi...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
FRENCH REVOLUTION (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Unveiling his domestic reform agenda in Paris Tuesday, Nicolas
Sarkozy called for '...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
BLAIR'S SECOND ACT (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
THE TIMES' RECORD in nominating our favorite 1990s political
rock stars for new jobs ...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE 'STRONG' EURO (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Europeans are fighting over exchange rates again, and the rift
is instructive about...
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London (dpa) - Five months after taking over the reins of
government from Tony Blair, Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown
has replaced the concept of old-fashioned con...
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As Michael Rubens Bloomberg frequently points out, he is, at heart, just a middle-class kid who’s guided by the values he learned from his mother and father in Medford, Mass.
But since becomi...
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Washington (dpa) - A debate Wednesday night among presidential
hopefuls in the centre-right Republican Party returned over and over
to the issue of illegal immigration.
...
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Tony Blair is one of the most popular prime ministers of modern times. In Washington, that is.
Sadly for Mr. Blair—who is expected to announce his resignation today or tomorrow, after years o...
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