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In the wake of revelations that Iran had concealed a secret uranium-enrichment facility near the holy city of Qum, the U.S. began working international back channels to gauge support among its allies for a fresh round of sanctions against Tehran. While the U.S. and U.N. have sanctions in place...
In a muscle-flexing response, Tehran announced that its Revolutionary Guards had conducted new tests of medium- and short-range missiles - a sign that the threat of further sanctions didn't seem to have made much impact. For one thing, Iran has been dealing with such restrictions since the Islamic...
The practice has had some successes: President Dwight D. Eisenhower defused a row over the Suez Canal with economic sanctions against Britain; Swiss banks were forced to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors when faced with a boycott, led by some U.S. states, for harboring pilfered assets; and stiff sanctions helped...
Every year on the first Tuesday in November, Australia pauses at three in the afternoon to watch it's most famous equestrian event - the Melbourne Cup. This year the excitement began prematurely when, on Sept. 18, part of the international lineup of horses was revealed in the daily Sydney Morning...
For today, as international aid pours in from organizations like the Red Cross and the World Food Program, Manila residents are slowly retrieving their homes and livelihoods from the mud. Thousands of volunteers have donated food and rushed to help those who were worse affected. "Filipinos are used to crisis...