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'Trade is critical to Africa's economic development and poverty alleviation' and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a vital tool to those ends and for institutionalizing free-market economies, a U.S. trade official said in a June 2
02:46 Jun 3, 2006
The United Nations says 'irregular armed groups' challenging the Colombian government are suspected of killing a number of civilians in the southwestern Colombian department (province) of Nariño, which the United Nations says recently has seen a m
02:46 Jun 3, 2006
U.S. requirements for the transport of infectious substances were aligned with updated international standards in a Department of Transportation (DOT) rule adopted June 2.
02:39 Jun 3, 2006
Coordinated U.S.-Mexican efforts against the manufacture and distribution of methamphetamines (meth) are critical to the success of President Bush's newly released Synthetic Drug Control Strategy, says John Walters, director of the White House Offi
02:39 Jun 3, 2006
Two large, politically charged assemblies Friday in Nepal's capital couldn't have been more different.
21:27 Jun 2, 2006
Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman, delivered a statement on the Coalition raid that took place near Ishaqi on March 15.
20:30 Jun 2, 2006
Residents of the International Space Station ventured outside their orbital home June 1 to conduct a six-hour, 31-minute spacewalk to repair, retrieve and replace hardware on the U.S. and Russian segments of the complex.
18:09 Jun 2, 2006
The U.S. State Department released an initial report June 1 that details a strategy for providing affordable and equitable access to safe water and sanitation in developing countries.
18:06 Jun 2, 2006
The United States welcomes a commitment by trade ministers of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to take action on critical issues that have created an impasse in the current round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiat
18:06 Jun 2, 2006
Iran has weeks, not months, to respond to the proposals from the international community to resolve the diplomatic impasse over Iran's nuclear activities, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
18:06 Jun 2, 2006
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United Nations refugee agency have agreed on the closure of three refugee camps in Pakistan while pledging to step up their efforts to find solutions for 2.6 million Afghan refugees still left there.
17:51 Jun 2, 2006
The United States stands 'squarely behind the government' of Sri Lanka in its struggle against Tamil terrorists who bear 'the major responsibility for the upsurge of violence,' said Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affair
17:50 Jun 2, 2006
An international array of musicians, actors and other performers joined senior diplomats, activists and business leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York on Thursday evening under the theme 'Uniting the World Against AIDS: An Evening of R
17:48 Jun 2, 2006
A medical oddity was reported in the June 5, 1981, edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a widely read chronicle published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
17:46 Jun 2, 2006
A violent South American heroin kingpin has been sentenced to 40 years in a U.S. federal prison for smuggling an estimated $200 million worth of heroin from Colombia and Venezuela into the United States, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA
17:46 Jun 2, 2006
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