Laurie Kassman The latest World Refugee Survey issued by the U.S. Committee for Refugees estimates the global total of refugees and asylum seekers now reaches nearly 12 million. The survey this year h...
Paula Wolfson President Bush delivers a speech Monday on plans for the transfer of power in Iraq. It will be an unusual evening address delivered from an Army facility in Pennsylvania. It will be the...
Paula Wolfson Two key Senate members predict more American soldiers will face military courts in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Senator Lindsey Graham says those who are responsible for the abuse w...
Greg LaMotte The Arab League concluded its annual summit with calls for increased democracy. The League also adopted resolutions calling for greater international participation in the Israeli-Palestin...
Lisa McAdams Russia clinched deal Friday with the European Union on the terms of its entry into the World Trade Organization. President Putin agreed in return to the EU's backing of Russia's membershi...
Greg LaMotte Arab League officials are promising that this year's summit, beginning Saturday in Tunis, will address issues never before discussed during Arab League summits: social and economic reform...
Cathy Majtenyi Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are in southern Sudan investigating 15 cases of an Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever that has so far claimed at least four lives. There are f...
Sonja Pace Israeli troops have begun a partial withdrawal from parts of the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, where their operations this week have left at least 41 Palestinians dead, sco...
Meredith Buel President Bush on Monday will outline what the White House is calling a clear strategy for Iraq, in a speech less than six weeks before the scheduled handover of sovereignty to an interi...
Paula Wolfson The outlook for the summer Olympic games in Athens was high on the agenda when President Bush met at the White House with the new Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Both men vowed t...
Sonja Pace Israeli troops are continuing their controversial military operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, despite both international condemnation and domestic criticism. The Gaza operation...
Sonja Pace Israeli troops are continuing their controversial military operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, despite both international condemnation and domestic criticism. The Gaza operation...
Mike O'Sullivan and Bela Skopal With the New York commodity market price for oil at more than $40 a barrel, gasoline has reached record prices throughout the United States. The pain is being felt most...
Greg Flakus The U.S. Border Patrol is implementing a new initiative on the Mexico border with the state of Arizona called simply "Arizona Border Control." This is in response to the massive human smug...
Lisa McAdams Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to host the first summit between Russia and the member states of the newly enlarged European Union in Moscow on Friday. On the eve of the sum...
