Bush challenges U.N. to promote democracy
President Bush announced new sanctions Tuesday against the military dictatorship in Myanmar, accusing it of imposing “a 19-year reign of fear” that denies basic freedoms of speech, assembly and worship.
President Bush announced new sanctions Tuesday against the military dictatorship in Myanmar, accusing it of imposing “a 19-year reign of fear” that denies basic freedoms of speech, assembly and worship.
Martin Berger, 84, second from left, from Queens, N.Y., and Rabbi Simcha Freedman, second from right, carry signs during a protest rally near the United Nations, against the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York on Monday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his nation’s human rights record on Monday as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the U.N. and Columbia University to protest appearances by the hard-line leader.
In this Sept. 9, 1957, file photo, a crowd of students, reporters and curious onlookers watch the scene as Arkansas National Guard troops, following the orders of Gov. Orval Faubus, are dispatched to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock’s all-white Central High School.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday the shooting deaths of civilians – allegedly at the hands of Blackwater USA guards – and other violence involving the company pose “serious challenges to the sovereignty of Iraq” and cannot be accepted.
Protesters march to Jena High School on Thursday in Jena, La.
Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of this little Louisiana town Thursday in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.
The labor union representing U.S. diplomats called Wednesday for the State Department’s top auditor to step down pending the results of a congressional investigation into whether he blocked fraud probes in Afghanistan and Iraq for political reasons.
The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate for the first time in four years, seeking to prevent a steep housing slump and turbulent financial markets from triggering a recession.
University of Florida police used a Taser to control a student and arrested him after he loudly and repeatedly tried to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.
The Iraqi government said Monday that it was revoking the license of an American security firm accused of involvement in the deaths of eight civilians in a firefight that followed a car bomb explosion near a State Department motorcade.
President Bush, seeking to avoid a possible confirmation fight over a fiercely partisan candidate, chose retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey on Monday to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
A Palestinian boy holds a homemade sparkler firework after breaking his fast at the end of the first day of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.
The most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday by a bomb planted near his home in Anbar province, 10 days after he met with President Bush, police and tribal leaders said.
Humberto, the first hurricane to hit the U.S. in two years, sneaked up on south Texas and Louisiana overnight and crashed ashore Thursday with heavy rains and 80 mph winds, killing at least one person.
Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday rejected the call by the top U.S. general in Iraq for a reduction of up to 30,000 U.S. troops in Iraq by next summer, saying it does not go far enough.
Relatives of Sept. 11 victims bowed their heads in silence Tuesday to mark the moments exactly six years earlier when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
BAGHDAD – Nine American soldiers died in Iraq on Monday – all but one killed in vehicle accidents in and around Baghdad, the military said.
WASHINGTON – Gen. David Petraeus told Congress on Monday he envisions the withdrawal of roughly 30,000 U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next summer.
Dozens of truckers waved signs and American flags at a border crossing Thursday.