Archive for 'Politics'

Key Countries Object to Iraq Plan

2 May 2007

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt
Some governments key to Iraq’s future are balking at entering into an ambitious contract with the country that commits them to substantial aid in exchange for a promise of unity in Iraq within five years.
The International Compact with Iraq, which is being launched Thursday at a conference […]

Russia’s first President Yeltsin dies at 76 of heart failure -1

23 April 2007

MOSCOW, April 23 - Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first ever democratically elected leader (1991-1999), has died at the age of 76 of long-term heart trouble.
The former president died at 3:45 p.m. Moscow time (11.45 a.m. GMT) in a Moscow hospital of chronic heart problems, which resulted in massive organ failure, Sergei Mironov, the top Kremlin […]

U.S. Defense Secretary visits Moscow for missile shield talks

23 April 2007

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will arrive in Moscow Monday to discuss the placement of elements of the U.S. missile defense system in Central Europe, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
According to sources close to the Pentagon, the U.S. official is planning to convince his Russian counterpart, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, that the U.S. missile shield […]

Stroke Rates: Where Does Your State Fall?

31 March 2007

Each year an estimated 700,000 Americans will have a stroke. That’s one every 45 seconds. Of these, 200,000 are people who have already had a previous stroke. Strokes kill 157,000 Americans at the alarming rate of one every three minutes. This makes stroke the third leading cause of death in the United States. From Alabama […]

Are Iran’s Revolutionary Guards getting dangerously jittery?

30 March 2007

We are in a season of skullduggery in the Middle East, with a strange series of disappearances that all involve the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The murky saga is a reminder that the real power in Iran may lie with this secretive organization, which spawned Iran’s firebrand president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
 The Revolutionary Guards orchestrated the […]