United States President George Bush on Saturday challenged ”misimpressions” about the Iraq war as he battled a gloomy intelligence assessment of the conflict and the fallout of a book portraying him as in denial over it. With five weeks to go before midterm elections, Democrats seeking to win control of Congress seized on both revelations to charge that Bush was mishandling the war and Republican lawmakers were failing to hold him accountable.
One year after Hurricane Katrina battered the United States Gulf Coast and his political standing, President George Bush acknowledged on Monday that a complete recovery was still a long way off. ”There is hope down here, there is still a lot of work to be done,” Bush said.
A year after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast and left New Orleans in ruins, United States President George Bush is still grappling with the political fall-out from a federal response widely viewed as inept. As the storm’s August 29 anniversary approaches, memories are being rekindled of corpses and debris piling up in the streets and desperate victims pleading for help from rooftops.
Group of Eight (G8) leaders on Monday launched a fresh bid to pin down an elusive global trade pact, seeking to give a positive outcome to a big-power summit riven by discords over the Middle East. Hopes of progress towards unblocking deadlocked world trade talks raised spirits at the end of the G8 summit in St Petersburg.
The United States and Russia announced on Saturday a plan to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons by setting up international enrichment centres as their leaders sought to give a boost to a big-power summit. US President George Bush and Russia’s Vladimir Putin unveiled the initiative at a news conference after talks ahead of a Group of Eight summit that starts in earnest on Sunday.