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• March 29, 2007

  U.S. Senate Passes Iraq Withdrawal Bill

  President Bush meeting with Republican Party leaders in the White House today (epa) WASHINGTON, March 29, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S. Senate today adopted a bill that calls on President George W. Bush to withdraw all combat U.S. troops from Iraq by March 31, 2008.

• March 06, 2007

  U.S. Issues Annual Human Rights Reports

  March 6, 2007 (RFE/RL) --The U.S. State Department released today its "2006 Country Reports On Human Rights Practices."

• February 28, 2007

  Rice Lays Out Regional Approach To Iraq Security

  WASHINGTON, February 28, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States is joining the Iraqi government to launch a regional diplomatic "offensive."

• January 26, 2007

  'Anne Frank Of Sarajevo' Presents Voices Of War

  The author of one of the world's most famous wartime diaries has a new volume presenting similar voices of young people surviving the horrors of war.

• December 28, 2006

  Bush Says Good Progress Made On Revised Iraq Policy

  George W. Bush (file photo) (epa) WASHINGTON, December 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) --  U.S. President George W. Bush met today with his top national security aides at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, to discuss ways to stabilize Iraq. He reported making progress, but offered no details of the emerging plan.

• December 20, 2006

  Iraq War Said To Be Deadliest Ever For Journalists

  (AFP) December 20, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A new report says violence in Iraq claimed the lives of 32 journalists in 2006, the deadliest year for representatives of the media in a single country that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has ever recorded.

• December 04, 2006

  U.S. Ambassador To UN To Resign

  December 4, 2006 -- The White House says the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, will resign.

• September 02, 2006

  Obituary: Hungarian Poet Gyorgy Faludy Dies Aged 95

  Internationally acclaimed Hungarian poet, novelist, and former dissident Gyorgy Faludy, whose books were banned by the Nazis and the communists, has died in Budapest.

• September 23, 2004

  PM Says Iraq Succeeding In Fight For Stability

  Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi (file photo) 23 September 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told a joint session of the U.S. Congress today that his country is making progress in its effort to create a stable Iraq despite obstacles and thanked the United States for its March 2003 intervention to oust Saddam Hussein.

• August 30, 2004

  U.S. Committed To Strengthening Afghan Security

  Washington, 30 August 2004 (RFE/RL) -- The United States says it is committed to help strengthening Afghanistan's security following a bombing of a U.S. firm there that killed at least nine people. Three of the victims were Americans.

• August 19, 2004

  U.S.: Kerry Critical Of Bush Plan To Redeploy Troops

  Senator John Kerry (file photo) Washington, 19 August 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Democratic U.S. Presidential candidate John Kerry has criticized President George W. Bush's proposal to withdraw up to 70,000 U.S. troops from Western Europe, South Korea, and Japan during a 10-year period.

• August 02, 2004

  Bush Backs Creating U.S. Antiterrorism Chief

  The United States is planning to undertake new measures to fight the Al-Qaeda network and its allies.

• July 19, 2004

  Bush Says Probe Continues On Iran's Alleged Terror Ties

  Washington, 19 July 2004 (RFE/RL) - U.S. President George W. Bush said today that the United States will press on with its investigation about whether Iran had a role in the 11 September 2001 attacks on America.

• July 16, 2004

  New Prison-Abuse Allegations Surface In Iraq

  (file photo) Washington, 16 July 2004 (RFE/RL) -- The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee has said that Congress is looking into new cases of alleged mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners.

• July 16, 2004

  North Korea: U.S. Uncertain About Pyonyang's Nuclear Intentions

  Is North Korea ready to deal and give up its nuclear-weapons program for economic aid and some sort of security guarantee from the United States? A top U.S. diplomat who participated in recent talks with North Korea says he cannot say that the communist North has made a decision to do so.

• June 30, 2004

  UN Action In Republika Sprska Backed By U.S.

  High Representative Paddy Ashdown (file photo) Washington, 30 June 2004 (RFE/RL) - The U.S. government says it strongly supports the UN high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, who fired 60 Bosnian Serb officials over the failure to arrest top war-crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic and his associates.

• June 29, 2004

  U.S. Kicks Out Two Iranian Security Guards

  29 June 2004 (RFE/RL) - The State Department announced today that the U.S. government has expelled two Iranian security guards working at Iran's mission at the United Nations in New York.

• June 23, 2004

  U.S.: Washington Says Terror Attacks Actually Rose Last Year, Despite Earlier Claims

  Colin Powell (file photo) Washington, 23 June 2004 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S. State Department has corrected its global terrorism report, saying the original study was wrong to conclude that attacks worldwide dropped last year.

• June 17, 2004

  Bush Says Saddam 'Had Terrorist Connections'

  Washington, 17 June 2004 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. President George W. Bush has reiterated his administration's belief that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States because of what he called the ousted Iraqi leader's ties with terrorist organizations.

• June 15, 2004

  Bush Reaffirms U.S. Support For Afghanistan

  Washington, 15 June 2004 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. President George W. Bush told visiting Afghan leader Hamid Karzai today that the U.S. government is reaffirming its "iron-clad guarantee" to help make Afghanistan a democratic and prosperous country.

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