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/ 8 September 2008
The Bush administration will brace itself on Monday morning for a round of adverse publicity with the appearance of a new exposé from Bob Woodward.
Libya and the US have signed a compensation deal for American victims of Libyan attacks and US reprisals, paving the way for normalisation of ties.
The fragile truce between Georgia and Russia faced a new test on Thursday as Moscow pledged to begin handing over a key Georgian town.
The White House said on Tuesday it was looking into Russia’s assertion that it had halted its widely condemned military offensive in Georgia.
A Russian envoy called on Nato to hold an extraordinary Russia-Nato council on Tuesday to discuss the dire situation in Georgia.
US military posturing towards Tehran lacks credibility and, in any case, such action would fail in all its purposes.
Russia has sent forces into Georgia to repel a Georgian assault on the breakaway South Ossetia region, with reports of ”hundreds of dead civilians”.
Pakistan promises to ”weed out” elements sympathetic to the Taliban after claims of link between intelligence service and Afghan bombing.
Tony Snow, who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President George Bush’s press secretary, has died.
Speaking at a Houston fundraiser last week, George Bush aired his considered opinion of the financial crisis facing the nation he leads.
The Indian government on Tuesday night survived a knife-edge parliamentary vote of confidence, clearing the way for a landmark nuclear deal.
The first US war-crimes trial since World War II began on Monday at the US navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
San Francisco voters, never thrilled with George Bush, may give the US president a parting shot in November by naming a sewage plant after him.
US President George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed on ”a general time horizon” for a drawdown of US forces.
The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years as part of a turnaround in policy by President George Bush.
United States President George Bush said on Tuesday the United States was looking at imposing more sanctions against Zimbabwe’s government.
So George Bush walked into a bar in Shreveport, Louisiana, with Colin Powell. It was Saturday morning and the two had spent a hard day on the job.
Barack Obama is overwhelmingly Britain’s choice to be the next US president, five times more popular than his Republican rival, John McCain.
A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission has submitted a petition to officials in a bid to have their proposal placed on the ballot.
The response of the big developing countries showed, however, that the verbal gymnastics were not entirely convincing.
African leaders on Monday urged the G8 nations to tackle spiking oil and food prices, warning the crisis may aggravate an already desperate plight.
The US drive to gain access to the private data of Europeans is the latest episode in a systematic American campaign.
US President George Bush has vowed not to repeat one of his previous mistakes as he heads to his last Group of Eight (G8) summit.
British Airways has criticised Heathrow owner BAA for allowing US President George Bush to fly to the airport, forcing the cancellation of 69 flights.
As Barack Obama moves his presidential campaign into traditionally Republican states, a new poll shows that race remains a potent issue for voters.
Israel carried out a large-scale military exercise earlier this month as a warning to Iran, Pentagon sources confirmed on Friday.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the US and its allies of plotting to assassinate him during a visit to Iraq, radio reported on Friday.
A nuclear deal proposed by the major powers appeared on Sunday to have widened rifts among Iran’s ruling conservatives.
United States President George Bush urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday not to set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Top European Union diplomat Javier Solana will present Iran with a major powers’ offer of trade and other benefits on Saturday.
The White House urged the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to take up immediate consideration of the situation in Zimbabwe.
United States President George Bush and his top policymakers exaggerated Saddam Hussein’s links to terrorism, a Senate committee reported on Thursday.