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So, while the U.S. and its closest allies are pushing this week for the U.N. Security Council to adopt harsher sanctions against Iran, their prospects of winning U.N. agreement for new punitive measures at this stage appear bleak. Key Security Council powers China and Russia, as well as European states...
This dispute is just the latest chapter in a troubled program begun in 1981 to provide a troop transport for all four military services; the Army dropped out two years later for cost reasons, and then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, also citing cost, failed to kill it over objections from...
"If parents are not willing to control their children, should these families be allowed to remain in Switzerland and endanger the population?" asks SVP legislator Ulrich Schluer. "We have the right to live in a safe environment."
Any request for U.N. admission by Taiwan is largely symbolic. As a member of the Security Council, China can veto any application, and Taiwan has tried - and failed - to regain membership more than a dozen times since being expelled in 1971, when the U.N. granted China's seat to Beijing...
Surprisingly, that success owes very little to the development of new cancer drugs. Until 2003, there was no law enabling the Food and Drug Administration to require drug companies to test new medicines in children, in part because of concerns that this would endanger the rights and health of youngsters...