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...unapologetic supporter of the United States ... because America is an overwhelming force of good for the world." In an early sign of goodwill, in April Rudd announced that Australia would send an extra 450 soldiers to Afghanistan - where it already had 1,100 troops serving - even as he began fulfilling an election pledge to pull Australian troops from Iraq...
...polite. The end of the visit is unlikely to be marked by grand declarations of friendship or announcements of breakthrough deals. Indeed, experts on both sides say the area where progress is most likely is in negotiations on the reduction of nuclear arsenals - the continuation of a process that began back in the Reagan-Gorbachev...
...Charles Taylor's defeat and exile in 2003 - a wild-eyed group of Western carpetbaggers after a quick buck. It was only when Harvard-educated Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won office as Africa's first elected woman head of state in 2005 and promised wholesale reform that the Mamba Point began to welcome what Bsaibes calls "respectables" - executives from multinationals eyeing Liberia for opportunities and, to Bsaibe's delight, government ministers. "This is the only time we feel that when the government come to use our hotel, they pay their bills, just like everyone else," he says. "We do not feel...
...Investigators began piecing together details in late May, when the owner of a burial plot arrived at the administrative office of the cemetery, in the village of Alsip (pop. 18,803), about a half-hour drive south of Chicago. "Someone else is in my loved one's grave," the plot's owner told the cemetery office's attendant, according to authorities. The burial plot's deed didn't match the headstone. The regular manager had recently been relieved of her duties amid allegations of theft, so the attendant began searching for records, only to find that they were missing. Then...
...Iranian human-rights group said Tajbakhsh joins more than 240 other prominent Iranian lawyers, activists, journalists, professors, human-rights defenders and students detained without warrants and taken to undisclosed locations since the unrest began almost a month ago. "These detainees are being held in incommunicado detention and the authorities have refused to provide any information regarding charges against them or their condition to their families," Ghaemi said in a statement...