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WORLD / NEWS Wed May 9, 2007 @ 11:52pm neoform

New York Times -- President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. The comments were the latest in a series of sh.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 9:49am neoform

SF Gate -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Syria on Tuesday for a visit that is seen as part of an attempt to sway Bush administration policy on Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. The San Francisco Democrat is the most senior American politician to visit.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 24, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

Washington Post -- Global opinion of U.S. foreign policy has sharply deteriorated in the past two years, according to a BBC poll released on the eve of President Bush's annual State of the Union address... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 8:13am neoform

Reuters -- A new survey shows Arab attitudes toward American people, products and culture grew increasingly negative last year, a finding that underscores the need for a change in U.S. Mideast policy, a leading expert on the region said on Thursday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- The EU is renewing efforts to reform its Common Agricultural Policy, the rural payments system that costs more than 40bn euros (�32bn) a year. It is due to announce proposals aimed at making farming more efficient and environmentally friendly. The.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- The Dutch government said Friday that it will ban the sale of hallucinatory mushrooms, rolling back one element of the country's permissive drug policy after a series of high-profile negative incidents. The decision will go into effect within several m.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

BBC News -- China has decided to tone down some of the slogans used to promote its one-child policy, in a bid to make them sound less threatening. Some posters used in rural areas will be banned, such as one which read "One more baby means one more tomb." A lis.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Widespread use of torture is continuing in Turkey despite the government's "zero tolerance" policy, says human rights group Amnesty International. A new report acknowledged improvements in the Turkish criminal justice system in recent years. But Amn.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun May 20, 2007 @ 1:37am neoform

CNN -- Voters went to the polls Sunday to elect new members to Vietnam's National Assembly in a Communist Party-controlled election that is unlikely to have a major impact on the direction of government policy. Eighty-three percent of the candidates are party.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 27, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Fewer people look set to be sent to prison in an overhaul criminal justice policy, due to be unveiled by the government today. The policy review will recommend tougher community sentences and the removal of non-cash assets and driving licences as an al.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:14pm neoform

SF Gate -- With the violence in Iraq flaring dangerously, a national consensus is growing, even among senior Republicans, that the United States must consider a major change in strategy in the coming months... Read More