The cowards killed Benazir Bhutto. They finally succeeded in getting rid of her. Those murderers hated her so much and wanted her dead from the get-go. She had enemies everywhere. A lot of people inside the Pakistani army and in the Pakistani Intelligence services didn’t like her. The Islamic radicals and Al Qaeda hated to [...]

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
WASHINGTON, May 7 — A committee of World Bank directors has formally notified Paul D. Wolfowitz that they found him to be guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and promotion for Shaha Ali Riza, his companion, in 2005. The findings stepped up the pressure on Mr. [...]

15 Apr 2007 20:24:09 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Sunday he intends to continue his “important work” while leaving the controversy surrounding the promotion of his girlfriend to deliberations by the bank’s board of directors.
“This is important work and I intend to continue it,” Wolfowitz told [...]

15 Apr 2007 20:39:29 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – Development ministers from around the globe on Sunday voiced “great concern” over World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz’s handling of his girlfriend’s promotion, but Wolfowitz said he intends to stay in his job.
“The current situation is of great concern to all of us,” [...]

By VOA News
15 April 2007
The African Union says gunmen in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region have killed another A.U. peacekeeper.
An A.U. spokesman says the unidentified attackers shot the peacekeeper and stole his vehicle late Saturday near the entrance of an A.U. compound in Al-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state. The nationality of the dead peacekeeper [...]

(Adds quotes from Chad foreign minister, background)
By Michael Georgy
KHARTOUM, April 14 (Reuters) – Chad’s foreign minister said on Saturday his country wanted a peaceful resolution to border conflict with Sudan but would use military force against rebels and Sudanese militias it accuses of entering its territory.
Ahmat Allam-Mi was in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on [...]

City leaders approved a ban on plastic grocery bags after weeks of lobbying on both sides from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group. If Mayor Gavin Newsom signs the ban as expected, San Francisco would be the first U.S. city to adopt such a rule.
The law, approved 10-1, requires large markets and drug stores to [...]

As the search for the missing mother of four dead children entered a third day Wednesday, a portrait began to emerge of an immigrant family struggling to live the American dream.
Pedro Rodriguez and Deysi Benitez had faced language hurdles when they arrived in the far suburbs of Washington seven years ago. They worked menial jobs [...]

On March 6, the U.S. State Department released the 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The reports, presented to Congress, address internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
To read the portion of the report on the situation of Human Rights in Chad, click [...]

This Saturday, January 27, 2007, a massive anti-war took place in here in the nation’s capital at the National Mall. Thousands of war protesters coming from all over the United States poured out to the Mall to express their strong rejection of President Bush’s ‘escalation’ plans for the war in Iraq. Being an outsider, it [...]