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Europe's Leaders Fear Libya Could Become Next Afghanistan

March 21, 2011
European nations and the US smoothed relations with Libya and were content to sell weapons to Muammar Gaddafi, who now uses them without restraint against his own people. The West squirms as carnage unfolds. Western officials privately wish for a quick end to the conflict with Gaddafi’s...

Forest Clearances Sealed Ancient Civilisation's Downfall

November 17, 2009
New evidence involving plant remains and pollen samples from areas in Peru formerly inhabited by the Nasca civilization has led a team of archaeologists to conclude that the fall of the Nasca society was triggered by human intervention in the delicate ecosystem on which it depended. The evidence...

累范特地区的基督教徒正濒临绝迹

December 10, 2010
基督教大约在两千年前诞生于中东，并沿地中海迅速传遍累范特地区的各个国家（Levant countries），随后又跨越地中海传到世界其它地区，成为一股遍布全球的宗教势力。然而，2010年“耶鲁大学世界学者”、黎巴嫩国会议员发言人梅•阿克勒（May Akl）分析道，自从2003年美国及其盟国入侵伊拉克以来，累范特地区的基督徒的权利不断遭到侵犯，致使中东地区基督徒的数量日益减少。美国以及其它西方民主国家将它们同威权政体的结盟作为首要考虑事项，而忽视宗教少数群体的权利，从而导致了一系列针对基督徒的绑架、虐待和暴力事件，包括今年十月在巴格达一所基督教堂发生的爆炸事件，有46人在该起事故中遇难，...

Leading Iraqi Scientist Says He Lied to U.N. Inspectors

April 27, 2003
Since the earliest days of fighting, the US-led coalition in Iraq has been searching for the scientists, documents and biological and chemical toxins that would validate Washington’s charges that Iraq had developed a sophisticated program for creating weapons of mass destruction. While there have...

European Foreign Envoys Discuss Iraq and Use of Force

May 4, 2003
At a recent meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Greece, the discussions focused on the resumption of diplomatic missions to Iraq and the design of a European security strategy. The proposed European Security Strategy document will be "a common threat assessment on issues ranging...

Taliban Officials Tell of Plans to Grind Down the Americans

September 12, 2003
Taliban fighters still alive in Afghanistan plan to wage a grinding guerilla war against US troops, similar to the strategy waged against the Soviets during their occupation in the 1980s. Such fighters claim that Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar still resides in Afghanistan, hidden and directing...

Taking Root

March 8, 2010
Crops made from genetically modified organisms (GMO) are thriving in the developing world. Whereas European criticism and multinational encouragement once framed the debate surrounding GMOs, it is now being driven by domestic political pressure for greater crop yields and corresponding local...

Iraq: Now What? (Q&A)

Richard Betts, John R. MacArthur, William Nordhaus, and Ernesto Zedillo
February 21, 2003
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