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Idleness in the Ukrainian Rada acquired a political meaning

The deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, returning from leave, ... Read more »

BRUSSELS -- The European Commission Thursday opened an in-depth antitrust investigation into U.S. software maker Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion purchase of  ... Read more »

A year ago, Barack Obama, through an impressive new-school grassroots campaign, mobilizing young people via the Internet and text messaging, was able to stir up a democratic base of people who were eager for change. All utopian slogans and rhetoric aside, he ignited citizens who really did want to see reform on a number of core issues. Seven months into his presidency, what has happened to that fervor he helped create?

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In his first six months, President Obama has made more of an effort to improve relations with the Muslim world than any other American president before him.

He began with his inauguration speech, stressing the importance of relaxing defensive postures so that the demonization process can stop. He followed with his speech at the Turkish Parliament, offering the r ... Read more »

It was a moment that promised to define a new era in U.S.-Latin American relations: Obama greeted Hugo Chávez at the Summit of the Americas with a smile and a handshake, and Chávez responded with a gift and a heavily accented "I wanna be your friend." The Cold War-style chasm between Washington and the leftist leaders of the Andes that had widened during the Bush administration finally seemed to be narrowing a bit.

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in his relentless yet ineffective crusade against drug traffickers, deployed around 2,500 troops into his native state of Michoacán on July 20. The obvious objective was to fight the growing "narco insurgency" which is spreading throughout what was until recently a relatively tranquil part of the country. This serious challenge to the central authority in Mexico City is spreading faster than the H1N1 swine flu virus, which still plagues parts of Mexico. There seems to be no cure for either the drug wars or the influenza so far; both ... Read more »

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenkohas refused to sign the law on presidential elections and returned it to the Verkhovna Rada. In the case of the law comes into force on Yushchenko vowed to appeal to the Constitutional Court, informs  ... Read more »

The recent conflict in the Peruvian Amazon is only the most violent symptom of an ongoing cold war being waged by President Alan García and his ruling Aprista party against indigenous groups. Besides a racist propaganda campaign and violent repression, the government has tried highly suspect legal mechanisms to disarticulate indigenous power.

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When a patient shows up at a doctor's office with a bruise after falling and bumping his head, the physician might order a CT scan even if she believes the injury is superficial.

Worries about a malpractice lawsuit might prompt her to take steps that aren't medically necessary. "If I don't get a CAT scan, this is that one case where I'll end up in court," the doctor might thin ... Read more »

With housing prices still in the dumps, many Americans are finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of landlord.

Some have been forced to relocate for a job and can't ... Read more »

By STEPHANIE SIMON

Marijuana growers, ma ... Read more »

It was a typical day in the jungle, though more overcast than the usual island diet of blue skies and fluffy white clouds—drizzling rain misting up the sticky, humid air, a breeze stirring through breadfruit and banana leaves. I arrived at the family home of Navy Hospital Corpsman Second Class Anthony Carbullido, Jr., whom the Department of Defense (D.O.D.) had recently listed among the dead to be routed back from Afghanistan to Guam through Dover, Delaware—the victim of an improvised explosive device.

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Argentina - Buenos Aires Herald (July 5): Venezuela, Brazil and others had sought to include language [in the resolution passed on Saturday to suspend Honduras from the Organization of American States] that would have mandated a cutoff in bilateral cooperation with Honduras—wording that was opposed by the United States, Canada, Mexico and Colombia among others, diplomats said. Zelaya said he wanted to try to return to Honduras later on Sunday. But several countries at the O.A.S ... Read more »

WASHINGTON -- A group called the Herndon Alliance -- a coalition of liberal health-care groups, unions and patient-advocacy groups created in late 2005 -- was only a few months into its work planning a health-insurance overhaul by the time it asked focus groups what they thought of the idea of a government-run plan to compete with private ones.

The public-option was an article ... Read more »

India and Pakistan celebrated their 62nd Independence Day (National Day) in August, but it is the partition of the Indian sub-continent by the British colonial rulers in 1947 that has come to haunt the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), which ironically was not even in existence when the two nations were born.

A book on Mohmmad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pa ... Read more »