Year: 2007

Washington, 19 October, 2007— Saying “business as usual” in Burma is “unacceptable,” President Bush announced an expansion of U.S. sanctions against the country’s military rulers and their associates, accusing them of perpetrating “ongoing atrocities” against […]

Washington, 9 October, 2007— Audience members usually do not dance during concerts at Washington’s Kennedy Center, but by the time Ounongo Pamwe — an ensemble of some of Namibia’s finest musicians — played its final […]

Berlin, 11 October, 2007— The effect of State aid on national and international markets as well as the European Commission’s supervision of State aid were at the centre of a speech made by European Commissioner […]

Washington, 10 October, 2007— A resolution recognizing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and expressing the “deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world” was adopted in the U.S. House of […]

Washingtonm, 10 October, 2007— Ahead of hosting an iftar celebration at the White House, President Bush said the Islamic religion “is a great religion that preaches peace,” and that Americans are free “to worship any […]

Beirut, 1 October, 2007— Lebanon’s tussling factions are headed for a stalemate, settlement, or war, and international actors as much as local ones will decide which, analysts say. The presidential vote which was to be […]

Nairobi, 1 October, 2007— “When I arrived home they told me my wife was in the hospital and that she’d been shot while she sat in our bedroom,” said Ricardo Alexandre Santino da Silva, a […]

Washington, 28 September, 2007— The new U.S. regional military command for Africa (AFRICOM) will have a distinctly different mission from its sister commands: it will focus on helping African militaries handle conflict and implement African […]