In a new assessment of China’s military power, the Pentagon on Friday told Congress it sees a disturbing emphasis on modernisation moves that threaten Taiwan, say US defence officials.
The US president took a hard line with Iraq on Thursday leaving no doubt about his determination to tackle Saddam Hussein, with or without the United Nations.
Thirty years after the Watergate break-in scandal that led to president Richard Nixon’s 1974 resignation, the tools used by the burglars to break into and wiretap the Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex were exposed to the media.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell declared Yasser Arafat persona non grata and shot down a dramatic appeal from the Palestinian leader for an end to Israel’s three-week-old reoccupation of West Bank cities.
The United States has asked authorities in Zimbabwe for a complete accounting of events that led police there to shoot and kill a US citizen, the US State Department said on Friday.
US companies could miss out on a potential multi-billion dollar market for trading greenhouse gas emission credits unless Washington signs a global treaty to reduce those heat-trapping gases.
Broccoli and broccoli sprouts contain a chemical that kills the bacteria responsible for most stomach cancer.
Faced with Arab demands that he pressure Israel for territorial concessions, President George Bush is focussing his Middle East policy on another front – fighting terror.
The world’s most powerful economic policymakers meet behind a wall of security here Friday to plot a recovery course through turbulent global markets, a threat of war in Iraq and stumbling growth.
The US House of Representatives has voted to expel Representative James Traficant of Ohio, a loud, brash, and often crude legislator convicted earlier in federal court on bribery, tax evasion and fraud charges.
Former US President Bill Clinton earned ,2-million for giving some 60 speeches last year, according to financial data disclosed on Friday by his wife, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Lawmakers say they are waiting for President George Bush to make his case for invading Iraq before they endorse it.
Winning the guilty plea of an important former Enron Corporation insider, the Justice Department set sights on its biggest target yet in the massive fraud investigation: Enron’s former chief financial officer.
A briefing to a Pentagon defence panel has described Saudi Arabia as an enemy of the United States and recommended that it be given an ultimatum to stop backing terrorism.
The president of the Republic of Congo said central African nations are focused on using their oil resources to draw business investment, rather than ”passively waiting” for new aid promised by industrialised countries.
Investigators have identified the al-Qaida operative who recruited Mohammed Atta and other Hamburg-based hijackers who took part in the September 11 terrorist attacks
Cellphones do not seem to cause cancer, according to a US study that exposed rats to strong doses of radiation similar to those emitted by cellphones.
Washington closely followed returns in the unusually close German elections on Sunday, indicating it would not rush to congratulate incumbent German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder if his liberal government returns to power.
Microsoft has announced it will cut off its support for a key product of rival Sun Microsystems.
Satisfaction with the way things are going in South Africa is very low, with 79% saying they were dissatisfied, according to the results from a survey by a Washington based research centre.
Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton have asked the US government to reimburse them for several million dollars in legal fees incurred during an inconclusive probe of a financial scandal.
Desperate for leads to the sniper, police are hoping their voices reach whoever has killed ten people in the Washington area. ”Your children are not safe anywhere at any time,” the purported killer writes in a note.
Police in Maryland have made two arrests at a highway rest stop in connection to the Washington-area sniper case, CNN television said early on Thursday quoting sources listening to police scanners.
Iraq could unleash a biological attack on the West by using unsuspecting people traveling abroad as carriers of deadly germs, a prominent Iraqi defector warned late on Thursday.
The Central Intelligence Agency warned of a ”pretty high” risk of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein using weapons of mass destruction in the event of a US attack, as key UN members edged closer to agreement on a new resolution on Iraq.
The United States, pushing to expand economic ties with sub-Saharan Africa, has held good talks on a proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with southern African countries and hopes to launch formal negotiations early next year, US Commerce Secretary Don Evans said Friday.
A REPUBLICAN-led committee of the House approved -million in aid for Israel on Thursday despite earlier objections by President George Bush’s administration.
THE Defence Department has spent more than -billion on the war against terrorism.
President George Bush’s overall approval rating has slid steadily downward over the summer, largely because of a major withering of support in the way he is conducting foreign policy, a CBS News-New York Times poll found.
A 37-year-old man was shot last night outside a restaurant near Interstate 95, north of Richmond, in a similar attack to the sniper shootings that have killed nine people in the Washington area.
A second US war against Iraq could cost -billion to 200 billion dollars, up to four times the Pentagon estimate, the White House said, according to a news report on Monday.
The sniper shooting drama that has gripped the Washington area appeared no closer to being solved on Monday, as investigators continue to counsel the public that they are just one good tip away from cracking the case.