Before virus outbreak, a cascade of warnings went unheeded
The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China and was quickly spread around the world by air travelers, who ran high fevers. In the United States, it was first...
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Covert push in Pakistan weighed
President Bush's senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the CIA and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas...
U.S. funneled aid to secure Pakistan’s nuclear arms
Over the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million on a highly classified program to help Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf secure his country's nuclear weapons, according...
U.S. options limited on Pakistan front
The scenes of carnage in Pakistan last week conjured what one senior administration official Friday called the "nightmare scenario" for President Bush's past 15 months in office: Political meltdown in...
U.S. pushes for Asian states to help pressure Myanmar
The Bush administration stepped up its confrontation with the ruling junta in Myanmar on Friday, and officials said they were searching for ways to persuade China and other nations to...
U.S. crafting `surge’ options
Military planners and White House budget analysts have been asked to provide President Bush options for increasing U.S. forces in Iraq by 20,000 or more. The request indicates that the...
Bush aides say ideas in report impractical
Administration officials say their preliminary review of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group's recommendations has concluded that many of its key proposals are impractical. In interviews with officials from the White...
U.S., allies prepare sanctions list
With Iran defying a Thursday deadline to halt production of nuclear fuel, the United States and three European allies are assembling a list of sanctions they would seek in the...
Iran snubs UN overtures
A one-day trip to Iran by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, ended Thursday night with no agreement by the Iranians to halt their production of...
EU says Iran is making enriched uranium
International nuclear inspectors are expected to report next week that Iran has started producing enriched uranium on a very small scale, indicating that it is striving to solve technological problems...