EU sets meeting on aiding the U.S.
Leaders of the 15-nation European Union will hold an emergency summit Friday in Brussels to reaffirm their support for the United States in its fight against terrorism and to hear...
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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...
BUSH DEFENDS REJECTION OF CLIMATE TREATY
President Bush, facing down harsh criticism Thursday of his environmental policies from European allies, defended his stance against an international treaty to curb global warming, insisting that he would place...
`ABSOLUTE MISERY’ AS ANIMALS DIE
Nearly 200 years ago the poet William Wordsworth, in a letter written at his cottage here to a political leader in London, observed that he wrote poetry "to show that...
BRITAIN ACTS TO AID WOMEN FACING FORCED MARRIAGE
British-born Zara was 14 when, to her horror, her parents arranged her engagement to a Pakistani man more than twice her age whom she had never met. Three years later...
ANOTHER FIRST IN ANIMAL CLONING: PIGS
The British firm that cloned Dolly the sheep said Tuesday that it has taken a further step by breeding the first clones of pigs, in what experts said could be...
IRA ACCUSED OF DOUBLE TALK
Northern Ireland Protestant leader David Trimble said Saturday that the IRA must state whether, when and how it will give up arms before Protestants will consider going back into a...
EU THREATENS AUSTRIA WITH SANCTIONS
In an unprecedented move to influence the internal politics of a member state, Austria's 14 partners in the European Union warned Monday they would refuse all contacts with a Vienna...
PINOCHET RULING: VICTORY IN DEFEAT
Former Gen. Augusto Pinochet probably never will face trial for the murders and disappearances during his 17-year dictatorship in Chile--and that no longer particularly bothers human-rights advocates. The aging ex-dictator,...
PEACE ON EARTH?
NORTHERN IRELAND: 'HOPE FOR A LASTING PEACE' The biggest story in my area is Northern Ireland: For the first time in 30 years, there is hope for a lasting peace....