Will ‘grand bargain’ work with Taliban?
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The Pentagon appears to be moving in support of engaging leaders of the resurgent Taliban who are prepared to disassociate...
Next president inherits Guantánamo
NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - Leading human rights groups reacted with outrage to media reports that the administration of President George W. Bush has...
Caribbean seeks stronger ties with African nations
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Paula Gopee-Scoon told the United Nations General Assembly Sept. 27 that her nation...
Cuban vice president: The Revolution is alive and well
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The highest level Cuban delegation since former President Fidel Castro was here in 2000 came to the United States to...
West falls short on drive for new Iran sanctions
Ahmadinejad's 'wipe Israel off the map' myth debunked (05-26-2007) Web Video: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad UN Address (09-23-2008) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The 15-member UN Security Council...
West attempts to derail anti-racism conference
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Next year the United Nations Human Rights Council is scheduled to convene a conference on implementing the Durban Declaration and...
U.S. foreign policy fuels blowback in Somalia
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The population of Somalia has become increasingly radicalized and anti-U.S., according to a new report by a major U.S. human...
U.S. Sec. of State makes historic trip to Libya
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice greeted Libyan Leader Muammar Gadhafi in Tripoli on September 5, a three-decade old chapter...
Rwanda accuses France of hand in bloody genocide
Web Video: Democracy Now Reports on Rawanda's Accusation UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Fourteen years after bloody 1994 genocide in Rwanda, a government commission recently issued...
African Union, Arab League oppose Bashir indictment
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Unable to have an amendment adopted by the Security Council to quash an arrest warrant issued by an International Criminal...