Bhutto Call for Protest Sets Up Confrontation

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 7 — Dramatically escalating political tensions in Pakistan, the opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, announced today that her party would carry out a mass demonstration on Friday and a protest march next week if the president, Gen.

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The Future is Drying Up

Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities.

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China | China's enigmatic leader

CHINA'S president and Communist Party chief, Hu Jintao, is almost as much of an enigma as he was when he took power five years ago. He shuns the media and rarely makes public speeches.

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Administration Is Leaning on Interim Leadership

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 — For now, the most powerful law-enforcement official in the federal government is a 47-year-old lawyer little known outside Washington. Or inside Washington, for that matter.

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Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize for Climate Work

OSLO, Oct. 12 — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Al Gore, the former vice president, and to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its work to alert the world to the threat of global warming.

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Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 130 Muslim scholars from around the globe called on Thursday for peace and understanding between Islam and Christianity, saying "the very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake." ADVERTISEMENT

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Burma shuts down last communication links

Burma's regime is targeting the last remaining communications links that brought images of the bloody crackdown on the recent pro-democracy protests to the outside world.

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As Mideast realigns, US leans Sunni

WASHINGTON - Americans are hearing much less from the Bush administration about democracy for the Middle East than they did a year ago.

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Shooter dead along with six victims in rampage

(CNN) -- A sheriff's deputy shot and killed six people in Crandon, Wisconsin, early Sunday before dying himself under circumstances that remain under wraps, the town's police chief said. The assailant, Tyler Peterson, also worked part-time as a Crandon police officer.

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Same Old Party - New York Times

There have been a number of articles recently that portray President Bush as someone who strayed from the path of true conservatism. Republicans, these articles say, need to return to their roots.

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Musharraf Wins Vote, but Court Will Have Final Say - New York Times - Mozilla Firefox

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct.

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Envoy to Myanmar Briefs U.N. - New York Times - Mozilla Firefox

UNITED NATIONS, Oct.

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Nuclear Deal Reached With North Korea - New York Times - Mozilla Firefox

North Korea has endorsed an agreement to disable all of its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, according to a joint six-nation statement released by China in Beijing today, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

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New 'pain gun' transmits taser-like effect over large distance

"Where do I put my finger? There ... OK? Nothing's happening ... is it on?" "Yes, it's on. Move your finger a bit closer." "Er ... ow! OW!" Not good. I try again. "OWWW!" I pull my hand away sharpish. My finger is throbbing, but seems undamaged.

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Mali's Farmers Discover a Weed's Potential Power - New York Times - Mozilla Firefox

KOULIKORO, Mali — When Suleiman Diarra Banani's brother said that the poisonous black seeds dropping from the seemingly worthless weed that had grown around his family farm for decades could be used to run a generator, or even a car, Mr. Banani did not believe him.

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Venezuela moves to create single party

Ruling party leader Willian Lara said the Fifth Republic Movement was being dismantled in order to merge with other parties in the new Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela. Before he was re-elected Dec.

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Consortiumnews.com

In a political version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," the country might look the same – people driving their SUVs to the mall or eating at fast-food restaurants – but it will have internally changed. Election 2006 will have been the ratification of George W.

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Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address

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Anger Joins Grief for Family Feeling Misled by Military - New York Times

A mysterious soldier's death in Iraq. Highlights military incompetence in investigating death

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Jonh Kerry's rebuttal

John Kerry rebuts white house allegations of disrespect to troops.

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America ponders cutting Iraq in three - Sunday Times - Times Online

AN independent commission set up by Congress with the approval of President George W Bush may recommend carving up Iraq into three highly autonomous regions, according to well informed sources.

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Only 25% in Poll Approve of the Congress

With barely seven weeks until the midterm elections, Americans have an overwhelmingly negative view of the Republican-controlled Congress, with substantial majorities saying that they disapprove of the job it is doing and that its members do not deserve re-election, according to  …

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Poll Shows a Shift in Opinion on Iraq War

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 — Americans increasingly see the war in Iraq as distinct from the fight against terrorism, and nearly half believe President Bush has focused too much on Iraq to the exclusion of other threats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

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