Qatar trade talks face new hurdles
For the first time since their 1999 meeting in Seattle collapsed in violence and discord, officials from the 142 World Trade Organization nations gather Friday in a Persian Gulf emirate...
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Despite security concerns, Qatar to host WTO
Led by Vice President Dick Cheney, the United States has committed the World Trade Organization and its 142 nations to meeting as scheduled next week in a place where most...
Storied `clash’ not yet upon us, scholar contends
The American scholar who predicted the division of the world into a "clash of civilizations" says the current crisis does not fit that description. "What's happened is not a clash...
Expert: U.S. must address root of hate
The Bush administration's war on terrorism won't work unless its two-pronged approach, based on internal security and military retaliation, is linked to long-term measures to "drain the swamps in which...
In face of terrorism, pressure is on Bush to build alliances
When the world changed on Tuesday morning, American foreign policy changed with it. In the aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington, George W. Bush was recast from...
World financial organizations consider canceling meetings
The next two big global meetings, already threatened by protesters and besieged by controversy, have probably been torpedoed by the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, officials say. The...
Outraged nations back retaliation
America's friends and foes around the world condemned the terrorist assaults Tuesday on New York and Washington with words of horror and outrage, and many called for an international counterattack...
U.S. attacks shock leaders; many gloat in Mideast
From Russia to China to the Middle East, world leaders reacted Tuesday in a single voice of outrage and horror to the terrorist attacks on the United States, and they...
WITH A FEW REGRETS, ALBRIGHT SAYS FAREWELL
In a valedictory on American foreign policy in the Clinton years, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Wednesday that she will end her tenure with major disappointments, especially the failure...
DOING THE EURO SLIDE
Bert Saile acknowledges he probably is being a little piggish in wishing Europe's currency problems would get worse. "We anticipated that travel to Europe this summer would be strong because...