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Washington, 12 June– The war on HIV/AIDS is ”not just a health care issue. It’s a foreign policy issue … every bit as much a crisis as Iraq or any other crisis,” Secretary of State […]

Brussels, Belgium, 12 June– Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that American officials may stop attending NATO meetings in Belgium because of a law that allows ”spurious” suits accusing American leaders of war crimes. […]

Washington, 12 June– A U.S. Air Force F-16CG fighter crashed southwest of Baghdad June 12, while on the same day a U.S. Army Apache AH-64 helicopter apparently was shot down by hostile fire in western […]

Washington, 12 June– Operation Peninsula Strike, a U.S. military effort to eliminate Saddam-regime loyalists remaining in Iraq, has ”bagged” nearly 400 suspects, according to U.S. Central Command press releases. The operation began June 9, according […]

Brussels, Belgium, 12 June– NATO defense ministers approved the most extensive command structure revision in the history of the alliance today. Under the plan, the number of NATO headquarters will drop from 20 to 11 […]

Brussels, Belgium, 12 June– Spain today pledged 1,100 troops to the Polish-led division that will become part of the coalition force in Iraq. At the NATO defense ministerial, Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo-Figueroa y Martínez-Conde […]

Johannesburg, 12 June– In what they called a “stark finding,” two United Nations agencies reported today that Southern Africa still requires substantial food aid despite producing more than during last year’s severe food crisis. As […]

Addis Ababa, 12 June– The world’s oldest human remains, unearthed in Africa, may finally solve the puzzle of the origins of man, scientists said on Wednesday. The 160,000-year-old fossils, the oldest ever Homo sapiens and […]