World Politics News

  • Russia's War With Georgia May Revive U.S.-Europe Rift Bloomberg - Fri Aug 15, 6:32 AM ET

    Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Russia's attack on Georgia may reopen a U.S. rift with European Union leaders over how the trans-Atlantic alliance should deal with its main Cold War adversary.

  • Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, left, shakes hands with Paraguay's president-elect Fernando Lugo after a meeting in Asuncion, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. Lugo will take office on Friday. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
    Official: Taiwan not bidding for UN seat AP - Fri Aug 15, 1:46 AM ET

    TAIPEI, Taiwan - A senior Taiwanese diplomat says Taiwan is not bidding for United Nations membership this year for the first time since 1992, but is seeking representation in U.N. agencies instead.

  • Irakli Alasania, Ambassador of Georgia to United Nations, appears at a press conference about the confrontation between Georgia and Russia, at U.N. headquarters Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)
    UN chief: South Ossetia and Gori inaccessible AP - Thu Aug 14, 7:15 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - Humanitarian aid groups and U.N. monitors are unable to reach large parts of Georgia due to insecure conditions despite a French-brokered cease-fire, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.

  • Russia's War With Georgia May Reopen U.S. Rift With Europe Bloomberg - Thu Aug 14, 4:54 PM ET

    Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Russia's attack on Georgia may reopen a U.S. rift with European Union leaders over how the trans- Atlantic alliance should deal with its main Cold War adversary.

  • Airport employees unload a US C-17 transport plane on the tarmac at Tbilisi airport. A truce between Russia and Georgia has failed to open up the conflict zone to much-needed emergency supplies, aid agencies and EU officials said Thursday, as UN staff were held up by armed gunmen.(AFP/Vano Shlamov)
    Georgian relief operation hampered as aid workers ambushed AFP - Thu Aug 14, 3:44 PM ET

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he was "extremely concerned" about the situation in Georgia as aid workers struggled to help the growing number of people displaced by the conflict with Russia.

  • The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission for the north-south deal, Ashraf Qazi, is seen in this August 19, 2004 file photo. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)
    Sudan must work hard to have elections on time: U.N. Reuters - Thu Aug 14, 12:02 PM ET

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's north-south foes have a lot of work ahead to meet a July 2009 deadline to hold elections under a landmark peace deal, the head of the United Nations mission charged with monitoring the accord said on Thursday.

  • Storm survivors gather in the rain to collect relief goods from private donors in Mawlattmyinchun in Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta region in July 2008. The United Nations estimates that 1.56 million dollars of international cyclone aid has been lost due to the military regime's complex foreign currency rules, a top official said Thursday.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win)
    UN says 1.5 mln dlrs of cyclone aid lost in Myanmar forex rules AFP - Thu Aug 14, 10:52 AM ET

    YANGON (AFP) - The United Nations estimates that 1.56 million dollars of international cyclone aid has been lost due to the military regime's complex foreign currency rules, a top official said Thursday.

  • Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks to reporters at Meiendorf Castle outside Moscow August 13, 2008. Blocking Russia from joining the World Trade Organization because of the conflict in Georgia would defy common sense and break Western promises, a Russian official said on Thursday in response to U.S. warnings. (Alexander Natruskin/Reuters)
    Russia says no reason to delay WTO membership bid Reuters - Thu Aug 14, 9:58 AM ET

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Blocking Russia from joining the World Trade Organization because of the conflict in Georgia would defy common sense and break Western promises, a Russian official said on Thursday in response to U.S. warnings.

  • Kashmiri Muslims shout pro-freedom slogans during a procession following the funeral of a youth who succumbed to injuries after being shot during a protest Tuesday, in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. Thousands of people rushed to buy essential supplies during a brief relaxation of a curfew in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, a day after troops killed 14 Muslims protesting a trade blockade and the death of a key separatist leader. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
    Thousands demand independence in Indian Kashmir AP - Thu Aug 14, 8:16 AM ET

    SRINAGAR, India - Thousands of Muslims poured into the streets of Kashmir on Thursday, demanding independence from India hours after archival Pakistan called on the United Nations to stop what it characterized as gross human rights violations in the divided Himalayan region.

  • Workers labour in the fields of an organic farm at Dezevci, eastern Croatia, on May 27, 2008. Farm owners hope their organic products will fare well on the markets of the European Union, which Croatia hopes to join around 2011. (Nikola Solic/Reuters)
    Croat farmers seek market niches before EU entry Reuters - Wed Aug 13, 8:38 PM ET

    DEZEVCI, Croatia (Reuters) - Damir Rosipal is proud of his organic tomatoes. The stocky Croat farmer says they taste infinitely better than the perfect-looking produce from the European Union.

  • Indonesian U.N. peacekeepers stage a military parade during a medal award ceremony in Adchit village, in southern Lebanon August 20, 2008. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)
    UN council condemns Lebanon roadside bombing AP - Wed Aug 13, 6:42 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council condemned the perpetrators of a roadside bombing in Lebanon Wednesday that sprayed shrapnel through a bus and onto a nearby sidewalk, killing 18 soldiers and civilians.

  • US President George W. Bush says he is sending US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to France and Georgia in an effort to help end the war between the former Soviet republic and Russia.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
    West warns Russia over military push into Georgia AP - Wed Aug 13, 5:14 PM ET

    LONDON - The West is threatening to revoke Russia's membership in an elite Group of Eight nations club as punishment for the military incursion into the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Three countries have already pulled out of a joint military exercise with Russian forces that began in an era of cooperation after the Cold War.

  • A man gestures as he talks to U.S. army soldiers from Lion Battery, Sabre Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment while they patrol through the southern outskirts of Balad Ruz, in Iraq's Diyala province, some 80 kilometers ( 50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government on Monday had announced a weeklong suspension of military operations in Diyala to give militants a chance to surrender. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
    UN unveils plans to step up efforts in Iraq AP - Wed Aug 13, 4:35 PM ET

    BAGHDAD - Five years after bombings forced the United Nations to pull out of Iraq, the world body is back. It announced plans Wednesday to help Iraq rebuild and create jobs following complaints the government has been unable or unwilling to spend its oil riches.

  • Handout photograph of casket of U.N. Chief Ambassador to Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello being covered with a United Nations flag by U.S. Army Colonel Richard Dillon (L), head of USA Mortuary Affairs, and Air Force Colonel Dennis Ployer, commander of the 447th Air Expeditionary Group, prior to a memorial service at the Baghdad International Airport on August 22, 2003. The United Nations pledged on Wednesday to hasten its cautious steps in helping Iraq rebuild, five years after a devastating bomb pushed it to pull foreign staff out of the country. (Handout/Reuters)
    U.N. pledges to expand in Iraq, 5 years after blast Reuters - Wed Aug 13, 4:04 PM ET

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Nations pledged on Wednesday to hasten its cautious steps in helping Iraq rebuild, five years after a devastating bomb pushed it to pull foreign staff out of the country.

  • French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner gestures as he addresses the media at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday Aug. 13, 2008. France has sought support its European Union partners for an EU monitoring mission in Georgia to firm up the shaky cease-fire between Russia and Georgia. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
    EU wants to step up involvement in Georgia AP - Wed Aug 13, 2:00 PM ET

    BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union foreign ministers agreed to consider sending a mission to monitor a fragile peace deal between Russia and Georgia — but were divided Wednesday over whether to punish Moscow for taking military action against its ex-Soviet neighbor.

  • A local resident takes a picture using his mobile phone of a South Ossetian guard posing in front of a burnt Georgian tank in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, August 12, 2008. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)
    EU backs plan to monitor Georgia truce Reuters - Wed Aug 13, 1:30 PM ET

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers agreed in principle on Wednesday to send monitors to supervise a French-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Georgia in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.

  • Roof falls in on European Parliament building AP - Wed Aug 13, 7:24 AM ET

    BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Parliament says that part of the roof of its Strasbourg chamber has collapsed.

  • Russian soldiers sit in APCs in the centre of Tskhinvali. A fragile ceasefire in the Russia-Georgia conflict appeared to hold, but Georgia's president accused Moscow of moving troops in violation of the truce.(AFP/Dmitry Kostyukov)
    U.S. limited in Georgia crisis The Christian Science Monitor - Wed Aug 13, 4:00 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Russia's blitz into the former Soviet republic of Georgia has exposed starkly the limits of US military power and geopolitical influence in the era following the invasion of Iraq.

  • Residents of Takipan village in Pikit, North Cotabato, southern Philippines, hurry into a truck as they leave their homes due to fighting between government soldiers and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), August 11, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)
    U.N. concerned about crisis in Philippines' south Reuters - Wed Aug 13, 12:30 AM ET

    MANILA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Wednesday it was concerned about a humanitarian crisis in the southern Philippines where a ferocious battle between government forces and Muslim rebels has displaced about 160,000 people.

  • A photograph made avaliable by Albany Associates in July 2008 shows General Martin Luther Agwai, Force Commander of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). The military commander of the UN-African Union mission in Darfur urged the world community to put as much pressure on the fragmented insurgency in the Sudanese region as it does on the Khartoum government.(AFP/HO/File/Stuart Price)
    Darfur rebels are no saints, says UN-AU military chief AFP - Tue Aug 12, 6:35 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The military commander of the UN-African Union mission in Darfur on Tuesday urged the world community to put as much pressure on the fragmented insurgency in the war-torn Sudanese region as it does on the Khartoum government.

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