The present concern of the current Washington Administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we were to look closely, genuine concern over genocide against the peoples in that poorest of poor part of a forsaken section of Africa.

One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted. Or worse.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Record-high palm oil prices due to voracious global demand for the oil used for food and now increasingly as a biofuel have left many ordinary Indonesians without their usual culinary fare.

This year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued a report concluding that using corn-based ethanol instead of gasoline would have no impact on greenhouse-gas emissions, and would even expand fossil-fuel use because of increased demand for [...]

Officials have conceded that rather than helping to avert climate change, the production of biofuels can contribute to it, especially if forests are destroyed or wetlands drained in the process.

In light of Hamas' seizure of the Gaza Strip, it is worthwhile to understand how this radical Islamist organization came to play such a major role in Palestinian political life and how Israel and the United States contributed to making that possible.

An authoritative US study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war in Iraq is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide.

Israel dropped at least 350 000 cluster bomblets on south Lebanon in its war with Hezbollah guerrillas, mostly when the conflict was all but over, leaving a deadly legacy for civilians, a United Nations official said on Tuesday.

"What's shocking -- and I would say to me completely immoral -- is that 90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution", UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said wednesday.

Israel's action in the Middle East has triggered "unprecedented anti-Americanism" and restiveness on the streets, even of moderate Arab states in the region, South Africa's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad told parliamentarians on Thursday.