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Political sleaze is the biggest corruption scourge facing the
world, but most acutely Argentina and Japan, according to a global
survey of public perceptions released yesterday by an international...
Sparks flew at an emergency Islamic summit Wednesday, with Iraq's
number two Ezzat Ibrahim branding Kuwait's junior foreign minister
a "monkey" and vowing to teach the United States a lesson it...
The Pentagon put more big pieces of its US military buildup against
Iraq into play last week: thousands of the army's elite 101st
Airborne Division flew to the region, a sixth aircraft carrier was...
Germany and France remain on a collision course with the United
States and key European allies over Iraq in a high stakes stand-off
which could weaken the United Nations, NATO, the European Union...
As world attention focuses on Friday's report from UN weapons
inspectors, the discovery of an Iraqi missile may be the "smoking
gun" the United States has sought to launch a war on Baghdad.
NATO pressed ahead Wednesday with intense diplomatic wrangling to
resolve a crisis over planning for an Iraq war, although a new
compromise proposal failed to bring any immediate progress.
NATO ambassadors were to resume efforts Tuesday to resolve a
trans-Atlantic crisis over military planning for an Iraq war, after
three European countries vetoed US plans to boost defences for
Turkey.
German Defence Minister Peter Struck o Monday denied reports that a
joint Franco-German proposal for peaceful disarmament of Iraq
envisaged the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers.