President Bush is giving a Rose Garden speech on Wednesday on climate change to lay out the way he thinks the U.S. can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's cancer has returned. The Republican says in a statement that he has been diagnosed with an early recurrence of Hodgkin's disease, which is a cancer of the lymph system
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for jobs at the Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces, according to a cable obtained
Yes, some Democrats in Pennsylvania's Rust Belt communities were upset by Barack Obama's suggestion that voters there "cling to guns or religion" because of bitterness about their economic lot. But many more seem to think it was no big deal
A federal jury convicted a woman Tuesday of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington's political elite. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, sighed as the verdict was read. She had repeatedly denied the escort service engaged in prostitution,
Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was. "Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means," 35-year-old Abdel-Riza Hussein, a Mehdi Army member
Fallujah remains a crippled city more than three years after the November 2004 US-led assault. Unemployment and shortages of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 60 kilometers west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement
A donor conference for the reconstruction of the war-ravaged Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp will take place in mid-June, sources told The Daily Star on Tuesday.Estimates from last year pegged the total cost at more than $382 million for rebuilding
As oil income to Arab producers continues to rise, we are witnessing sharper polarization between the wealthy, energy-producing states of the Gulf with their small populations on the one hand, and the more populous, energy-importing Arab countries in the Levant,
Currently, relations between Israel and Syria are very tense. Any deterioration in the situation - or for that matter, any improvement - could have far-reaching ramifications for Israeli-Palestinian relations. But from Israel's standpoint, there is more to the picture than
When it comes to all things "green," common sense seems to have been abandoned. Our failure to think clearly about such matters would be amusing if the potential consequences were not so serious. Consider the recent "lights out" campaign that
Syria is supplying Lebanon's Hizbullah militia with rockets in violation of Resolution 1701, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak charged on Tuesday. "Resolution 1701 is not being applied. The transfer of rockets from Syria to Lebanon is continuing and Hizbullah's military
The head of the Democratic Gathering, MP Walid Jumblatt, on Tuesday called for the reexamination of all the dossiers on events that occurred under the Lebanese- Syrian security regime. Jumblatt's call came in reply to a meeting held in the
Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri criticized Tuesday "attempts to portray the political crisis in Lebanon as one between Lebanon and Syria and not an inter-Lebanese crisis." Berri was referring to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's efforts to hold an Arab foreign ministers'
People do not learn from history, but learn [in the stream of] history - through bitter trials, rather than from what is written and read concerning the past," former President Amin Gemayel said during a conference on Tuesday to mark
Despite renewed US efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement this year, popular views of the United States in the Arab world have actually worsened since 2006, according to a major new survey of public opinion in six Arab states.
