The U.S.’ deteriorated reputation abroad has real economic and security costs, and businesses need to become active in improving it.
Americans would prefer that the world like them, but if it doesn’t, so what? Wasn’t it Machiavelli who said it was safer to be feared than loved? For his part, President Bush displayed new depths of [...]

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The Schriever IV Space Wargame is underway at Nellis AFB, Nev., where a 400-member team of space professionals battle in a global environment scenario set in the year 2025. The simulation is designed to verify space capabilities, tactics and techniques used by the 21st century joint warfighter. The five-day wargame began March 25. It brings [...]

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TEHRAN, April 3 (RIA Novosti) — Iran plans to build new nuclear power stations, Iran’s First Vice President Parviz Davudi said Tuesday.
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“In the next three or four months we will announce a tender for the construction of a nuclear power plant with a capacity of 2,000 MW,” Mohammad Saeedi, Iran’s deputy nuclear chief, said Tuesday. [...]

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New Palestinian 12th grade textbooks published in December deny Israel’s existence and teach 11-year-olds that the Palestinian struggle is part of an overall war between Muslims and their enemies, according to a Palestinian Media Watch report entitled “From nationalist battle to religious conflict.”
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A chronology of key events.
1917 - Central Rada (Council) set up in Kiev following collapse of Russian Empire.
1918 - Ukraine declares independence: Ukrainian People’s Republic set up.
1921 - Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic established.
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2007 April - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves parliament and calls a snap election after talks with parliamentary leaders fail to resolve [...]

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s rise as a global power is inevitable and could lead to conflict unless Beijing and Washington can cooperate to create a new global order, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said on Tuesday.
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As March winds blow, there are specific warnings of an imminent catastrophe in the confrontation between America and Iran. There is strong indication of this direction in several recent diplomatic surprises and reversals, and assembled below are four mysteries that illustrate the scale of the threat.
Original on 3/6/2007
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Sadly, mainstream Muslim teaching accepts and promotes violence.
But indeed, there is much that is clearly wrong with the Islamic world. Women are stoned to death and undergo clitorectomies. Gays hang from the gallows under the approving eyes of the proponents of Shariah, the legal code of Islam. Sunni and Shia massacre each other daily in [...]

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ordered parliament to be disbanded in a televised address on Monday.
Ukraine’s simmering internal power struggle has escalated into a dangerous stand-off after pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree to dissolve parliament and called new elections, a decision the assembly said was akin to a coup.
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