President Bush’s trip to Africa this week signals a recent strategic decision to increase America’s military presence to bolster what Washington now sees as two important national interests on the continent — the supply of oil and the struggle against terrorism.
The Republican Party has scheduled its 2004 convention unusually late in the year, so that the climactic moment when President George W Bush’s re-election campaign begins will nearly coincide with the third anniversary of the September 11 attack.
The United States and Britain offered conflicting predictions in the second week of March about the chances of winning a majority in the United Nations Security Council for a new resolution on Iraq.
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/ 19 February 2003
The lure of rich natural resources proves too good to resist on the subcontinent. A dramatic improvement has taken place in the investment climate in Southern Africa in the past two years, according to a recent report by the BusinessMap Foundation on investment in the South African Development Community
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/ 4 February 2003
The United States has evidence of an orchestrated Iraqi attempt to spy on United Nations weapons inspectors using hidden microphones and agents, allowing Baghdad to stay one step ahead of the search for banned weapons, US sources said this week.
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/ 21 January 2003
British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Camp David summit with United States President George W Bush at the end of the month could be the last time they look each other in the eye before plunging their alliance into a new war with Iraq. The UN weapons inspectors will just have presented their report.
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/ 2 November 2002
Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned this week that the United States is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare.
Washington this week revealed its intention to use United Nations weapons inspections as a possible first step towards a military occupation of Iraq by sending in troops, sealing off ”exclusion zones” and creating secure corridors throughout the country.
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/ 17 September 2002
April 11 2002. About 10.20am. A coach full of German tourists is bumping down the road that leads to the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Around the corner, in a narrow, cobbled lane that runs alongside, an old Iveco tanker truck is waiting, driver inside.
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/ 5 September 2002
A dossier on Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical warfare capabilities was drawn up in March by the United Kingdom’s joint intelligence committee after intense discussions within the intelligence community about what should be published and how much speculation it should contain.