One of the common refrains I heard from progressive people in Pakistan and India during my month there this summer was, "We love the American people -- it's the policies of your government we don't like."
The USA is a huge place. Most of us are aware of the big cities, like New York City, Chicago and San Francisco. But we don't know every little neighborhood in those cities or the small towns and farms in between.
Advisers to Obama, McCain Tied to US Multinationals that Profit from Beijing
President Bush is heading to China this week, where he will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summer Olympics on Friday. The Games' presence in Beijing have helped spotlight opposition to China on a number of policies, including its repression of the Tibetan independence movement, its support for the Sudanese government in Darfur and its crackdown on dissidents and civil liberties at home.
Four foreign pro-Tibet activists have been detained by Chinese police after unfurling banners from huge lampposts outside the Olympic stadium in Beijing.
France's foreign ministry has accused Rwanda of making "unacceptable accusations" in a report alleging that French politicians and military played an active role in the 1994 genocide.
Eleven people, including a US secret service informant, have been charged in connection with the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit card numbers by way of hacking into nine major shopping retailers in the United States, the justice department said.
The US military jury in the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's driver is to continue deliberations despite the possibility of a mistrial being raised.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning Russian dissident, has been laid to rest in a historic Moscow monastery after an ornate church service attended by the president.
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A letter handed to the EU by Iran over its nuclear programme has amounted to "more obfuscation and delays", a US official has said.
The US military jury in the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's driver is to continue deliberations despite the possibility of a mistrial being raised.
The US state of Texas has defied the International Court of Justice and executed a Mexican prisoner convicted of murder.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning Russian dissident, has been laid to rest in a historic Moscow monastery after an ornate church service attended by the president.
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