President George W. Bush officially replaced the phrase “stay the course†in Iraq with “we will stay in Iraq,†and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told critics of the war to “back off.â€
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Three NATO soldiers and an Afghani policeman died in Afghanistan today.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to spend at least $1 billion to expand the size and accelerate the training and equipping of Iraqi security forces.
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Actor Alec Baldwin wants to be removed as narrator of an Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary called “Running with Arnold,” because of the images of Nazi rallies included in the film. “Schwarzenegger deserves to be treated fairly,” he said.
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President George W. Bush said on Tuesday the United States was looking at new ways to stop the violence in Darfur after getting a “grim” report about the humanitarian crisis from his special envoy.
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The Israeli cabinet approved by a large majority Monday the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman to become deputy prime minister and strategic threats minister. Lieberman is a far-right wing politician who has called for Arabs living in Israel to be transferred to the Palestinian territories.
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A British experts report on climate change warned that failure to curb global warming could trigger worldwide economic devastation, with poor countries hit first and hardest. Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair called for urgent international action.
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White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters that Bush “has, in fact, contrary to stereotype, been actively engaged in trying to fight climate change and will continue to do so.”
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A top United Nations expert on human rights says the new U.S. Military Commissions Act violates international treaties protecting detainees.
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The State Department has indicated it is not going to press the Mexican government over the murder of American journalist Brad Will. He was shot dead on Friday by Mexican gunmen tied to the government.
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At least 81 people died in Iraq on Monday.
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The President said that the terrorists will win if Democrats get elected.
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The Interior Department has dropped claims that the Chevron Corporation systematically underpaid the government for natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, a decision that could allow energy companies to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that the Israeli military might expand operations in the Gaza Strip in an attempt to halt Palestinian rocket fire, but that there was no intention to reoccupy the territory.
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Faced with protests across the country, President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday defended a military strike that killed 80 people at a religious school, and insisted that the dead were militants undergoing terrorist training.
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Chadian Arabs, apparently inspired by the actions of Arab militias in Sudan, are beginning to attack non-Arab villages in the interior of Chad.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki demanded Tuesday that that the United States military remove all of its roadblocks and checkpoints from the streets of Baghdad.
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Divorced women get sick more.
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The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez.
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Jacques Chirac’s approval ratings rose from 16 percent to 24 percent.
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