Bush to Send Military Experts to Africa Over Liberia Peace
President Bush will dispatch military experts to Africa to evaluate a potential U.S. role in enforcing a fragile Liberia cease-fire. Officials discuss a regional peacekeeping force with ECOWAS as Charles Taylor hints at stepping down if a force is deployed.
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Ohio
Bush
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U.S
Liberia
Economic Community of
White House
Ari Fleischer
Charles Taylor
Taylor
Monrovia
Liberia awaits U S forces as civil war looms
In Monrovia the capital is besieged and over a million residents face hunger while factions clash. President Taylor proposes stepping down only after peacekeepers arrive as Bush weighs a U.S. intervention with international pressure mounting.
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Monrovia
Liberia
U.S
Bush Africa tour tests democracy stance amid autocracies
As Bush plans a five country swing through Africa he will meet leaders with mixed records on democracy. Kenya is cited as a growing autocracy while Senegal South Africa and Botswana are praised as democratic success stories. Nigeria alternates between civilian rule and military government, Uganda remains non democratic despite cooperation with Washington.
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Liberia
Zimbabwe
Kenya
Bush
Senegal
South Africa
Botswana
Africa
Nigeria
Britain
Fatal mosque blast and sectarian clashes hit Quetta
A passing by own action blast at a packed mosque in Quetta killed up to 47 worshippers and injured many more. Shiite Muslims protested with fires while the government imposed an indefinite curfew and deployed troops. Authorities blamed sectarian elements for prior violence amid disputed tolls and attacker details.
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Quetta
Pakistan
Rashid Ahmed
Ahmed
Baluchistan
World Food Program feeds Iraq at unheard scale in June
The United Nations World Food Program says it sent one truck of aid into Iraq every minute in June as part of the largest food relief operation ever. About 838,000 tons fed nearly all of Iraq’s 27 million people, with shipments from Turkey and other neighbors using 9,000 trucks. The effort, costing about 1.7 billion dollars, will continue for four more months under a mix of oil for food funds and donor support.
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U.N. Food Agency
Iraq
U.N. World Food Program
Saddam Hussein
WFP
Jean-Jacques Graisse
Turkey
Jordan
Syria
Kuwait
Iran
Umm Qasr
United Nations
United States
Graisse
Saddam
Six terror suspects to face U S military tribunal
Two Britons Moazzam Begg and Feroz Abbasi and Australian David Hicks are among six detainees at Guantanamo Bay tapped for possible U S military trials. Tribunals will involve 3 to 7 officers with possible majority convictions and unanimous death sentences. Amnesty International denounces the move.
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U.S
London
Moazzam Begg
Feroz Abbasi
David Hicks
Australia
Daryl Williams
Iraq
Japanese leaders draw fire with antiwoman remarks
In the past week former prime minister Yoshiro Mori and other senior figures sparked outrage with comments on women and children. Mori argued women who do not have children should not receive pensions while others called rape violence normal and provocatively dressed women inviting assault. The remarks exposed lingering gender bias in Japanese politics and drew criticism from Prime Minister Koizumi who has promoted women to top roles.
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Junichiro Koizumi
Japan
Yoshiro Mori
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