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Suspicious Powder Sent to U.N. Missions Is Flour

NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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Envelopes containing suspicious white powder were sent to five separate U.N. Missions.All three offices are on the East Side and include the Uzbekista...

Suspicious White Powder Sent to 3 City U.N. Missions

NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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Envelopes containing suspicious white powder were sent to three separate U.N. Missions.All three offices are on the East Side and include the Uzbekist...

Envelopes Containing White Powder Sent to 3 City U.N. Missions

NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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Envelopes containing suspicious white powder were sent to three separate U.N. Missions.All three offices are on the East Side and include the Uzbekist...

Envelopes Containing White Powder are Sent to 3 City U.N. Missions

NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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Envelopes containing suspicious white powder were sent to three separate U.N. Missions. All three offices are on the East Side and include the Uzbekis...

Bukharian Jews protect their culture in a N.Y. enclave

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home


For two decades, Aron Aronov has transported embroidered garments, oil portraits of rabbis and other examples of traditional Bukharian Jewish culture ...

The Scandal of International Religious Persecution

Doug Bandow | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


Doug Bandow

There is a good argument for treating religious liberty as the first freedom. If a government is unwilling to protect basic freedom when it comes to religious faith, then it is unlikely to tolerate political free-thinking either.

Obama Administration Human Rights Silence In Central Asia Is Called Into Question

GlobalPost | Posted 09.14.2009 | World


As the United States re-fortifies its presence in Central Asia -- planting military bases and extending supply lines to neighboring Afghanistan -- man...

Goodbye/Hello 7 "Human Rights Gone Wrong"

Patt Cottingham | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


Patt Cottingham

Goodbye to seating inhumane governments and regimes at the human rights table. Hello to removing inhumane governments and regimes at the human rights table.

Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World


Andy Worthington

Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 03.30.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: American Economic Leadership Recognized Facts: US President Barack Obama made his first address to Americ...

Uzbekistan Being Considered By US As Backup Air Base

AP | ANNE GEARAN and ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.08.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — The United States is considering resuming military cooperation with authoritarian Uzbekistan as a part of backup planning for the p...

Russia Ready To Cooperate With US On Afghanistan

AP | Posted 02.23.2009 | World


MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Moscow is ready to help stabilize the situation in Afghanistan by allowing the United States...

How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics


Andy Worthington

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home


Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

Senator McCain, Please Define "Free Nation"

Vanessa Edwards Foster | Posted 09.14.2008 | Home


Vanessa Edwards Foster

Iraq used to hold elections -- before the American invasion. Does that mean America was an aggressor on a "free nation"? McCain's simplistic tough talk is just Bush-policy in the making.