UPI International Intelligence articles from September 2006

UPI International Intelligence archives from September 2006

Analysis: Merkel - world's new superwoman.
September 1, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been voted the world's most powerful woman by Forbes magazine and she is set to even play a greater role in shaping global policy next year. Merkel, who...

Analysis: Blair defies Labor calls to quit.
September 1, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing a backlash from his own party after he rejected demands that he name his departure date at Labor's annual conference later this month. ...

Outside View: U.S. Mideast setbacks.
September 1, 2006... Byline: ROBERT E. HUNTER WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The United States has suffered its second major setback in the Middle East -- both at least partly self-inflicted and party due to faulty intelligence. The first was the invasion of...

Analysis: Kurds raise flag, fears of war.
September 5, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Verbal sparring between those who believe Iraq is in a state of civil war and the Bush administration, who insists it is not, may find the argument increasingly in favor of those who...

Commentary: Pakistan's schools for scandal.
September 5, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The good news from Afghanistan is the 18,500-strong coalition, now under NATO command, is good at finding and killing Taliban and al-Qaida fighters. The bad news, according to a...

Review of the Arab press.
September 5, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Sept. 5: Jordan's ad-Dustour commented Tuesday on Monday's shooting attack by a gunman at Western tourists in the Jordanian capital, Amman, in which a British man was killed and several...

Analysis: N.Korea facing critical choice.
September 5, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- North Korea's "Great Leader" Kim Jong Il is facing a critical choice over his nuclear card as the international community is set to take stronger measures to further isolate the communist...

Analysis: Labor revolts over Blair future.
September 5, 2006... LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The future of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is hanging in the balance, as senior Labor figures and even members of his own Cabinet tell him it is time to step down from the top job. Blair is now facing an...

Analysis: Geman UNIFIL mission delayed.
September 5, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Germany's contribution to the international peacekeeping force in Lebanon has been stalled by some unexpected opposition from Beirut, an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition...

Atlantic Eye: For whom the bell tolls.
September 5, 2006... Byline: MARC S. ELLENBOGEN TORONTO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Governments worldwide continue to show a lack of courage and creativity. When political leaders appear to be resolute, they are often playing to the public's lowest common denominator....

Analysis: What to expect going to Tibet.
September 5, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY CHENGDU, China, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- It is no surprise to see a lot of change in China over the last 10 years. Some are taken for granted, almost expected, such as infrastructure improvements making the sprawling, but...

Analysis: Bush on 9/11 -- five years later.
September 6, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Five years after the horrific Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania, many Americans are still asking questions, trying to understand what happened on...

Walker's World: Turkey and the EU.
September 6, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER ISTANBUL, Turkey, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Since the end of the Cold War, Democratic and Republican presidents in the White House have firmly agreed that Turkey should be anchored into the West by being brought into the...

Review of the Arab press.
September 6, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Sept. 6: Lebanon's an-Nahar commented Wednesday on the Israeli air, sea and land blockade on Lebanon, describing it as "dirty and criminal, violating the dignity of the world and all...

Analysis: Israelis, Arabs mull peace moves.
September 6, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Israelis and Lebanese emerged from a month of hostilities with no clear victor, many losers, and a lot to think about. It was the longest Israel-Arab war since 1948, and now both...

Analysis: No room for Shangri-la in China.
September 6, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY KANGDING, China, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- What one generally regards as modern China and its pollution-belching factories dotting the landscape hardly seems to have room for the nostalgic notion of a Shangri-la. Do...

Alliance with Bush was Blair's great error.
September 6, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- As British Prime Minister Tony Blair battles to save his job, poll findings that a significant majority of Britons want the country to distance itself from U.S. foreign policy point to the...

Outside View: Arabs must claim their win.
September 6, 2006... Byline: BOUTHAINA SHAABAN DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Two pieces of news reported by the media on August 24, sheds light on many complicated issues related to the reality of the Arab official stands. The first came from Jerusalem and...

Analysis: High hopes for German EU period.
September 6, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Germany takes over the rotating six-month European Union presidency in 2007, a role burdened by outsized expectations from the rest of the continent, experts say. "The expectations for the...

Analysis: S.Korea seeks oil money inflow.
September 7, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- South Korean shipyards and builders have enjoyed growing benefits this year on the back of strong demand from oil-rich Middle Eastern countries with huge currency reserves thanks to high crude...

Analysis: Hezbollah's recovery timetable.
September 7, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Hezbollah needs "at least two years" to rebuild the capabilities it lost in the war with Israel which is why it is holding fire now, according to a leading intelligence expert. In...

Review of the Arab press.
September 7, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Sept. 7: The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi Thursday blasted the Arab foreign ministers' decision to take the Middle East conflict to the U.N. Security Council to issue a new resolution,...

Analysis: No winners in U.K. leader battle.
September 7, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair publicly announced Thursday he would step down as leader by September 2007, in an effort to put an end to a mutiny within his own party. However his...

Analysis: Tibet, tourism and religions.
September 7, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY LHASA, China, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- After nearly a month in China, it became apparent the perception of how Beijing treats both ethnic minorities and religions is on the mind of China's leaders as it prepares for the...

Outside View: How bad can it be?
September 7, 2006... WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Now that fighting in Lebanon is, hopefully, over it is time to take stock. Often, when Jews are trying to answer a question they ask themselves this; is it good for the Jews? Israelis are now asking themselves...

Analysis: To torture or not to torture.
September 8, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush has been on the road promoting his ideas in the ongoing war on terrorism. But the commander in chief has failed to convince some of his top generals over trial...

Analysis: Afghanistan at tipping point.
September 8, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The situation in Afghanistan is at a tipping point, observers say, with violence increasing by the day and international calls for more troops becoming louder in the wake of a major terrorist...

Foreign ministers discuss peace making.
September 8, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- As Israeli troops are gradually withdrawing from Lebanon, the air blockade was lifted and the naval blockade there is about to end, world leaders seem to be turning attention to...

Outside View: Five years later.
September 8, 2006... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- I'm writing this column from Cairo while on an extensive visit to the Middle East. If there's a more appropriate place from where to assess the implications and repercussions of the events...

Analysis: Jordan's dealing with terror.
September 9, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Only eight days after Jordan's parliament endorsed a controversial anti-terrorism law, a lone gunman opened fire at Western tourists in downtown Amman last week, killing one Briton and...

Policy Watch: The GWOT's Long-Term Cost.
September 9, 2006... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Whatever the merits of how America pursues the Global War on Terror, America is also paying dearly for it in terms of human casualties as well as money spent on it and not other priorities....

Analysis: Benefits of new Tibet railway.
September 9, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY ABOARD THE QINGHAI-TIBET RAILWAY, China, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The highest railway in the world is this 1,213-mile long section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, topping off at 16,890 feet at the Tonggu-Lu pass in Tibet, a...

Analysis: Afghan violence creeps to Kabul.
September 9, 2006... Byline: JASON MOTLAGH WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Five years after al-Qaida assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic Afghan mujahedin leader who fought the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's organization, the Islamist insurgency has...

Analysis: Arabs pay price for 9/11 outcome.
September 10, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- As the United States, together with the rest of the world, marks five years since the devastating Sept. 11 airborne terrorist attacks on the United States, Muslims and Arabs in the...

Analysis: September 11 - Five years later.
September 11, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The following article was written on Sept. 11, 2001, a few hours after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. War on America ...

Walker's World: Winning the war on terror.
September 11, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The progress of the war on terrorism into which the United States was so gruesomely plunged five years ago today can be measured on several different levels. There have been striking...

Politics & Policies: Olmert's last cards.
September 11, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- In the aftermath of the Lebanon war fiasco Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert realized he had gambled his political future -- and lost. And in losing his gamble, Prime Minister Olmert...

Review of the Arab press.
September 11, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Sept. 11: Arab newspapers Monday commented on the five years since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and the ensuing U.S. war on terror, with most saying the world is less safe...

Analysis: Terrorism five years after 9/11.
September 11, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the focus of the conflict between radical Islamists and the West has increasingly moved to Europe. The list of terror attacks on U.S. soil...

Analysis: Palestinians to have new govt.
September 11, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the nationalist Fatah Party and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Islamic Hamas have agreed to form a new national unity government in what...

Analysis: N.Korea faces tougher sanctions.
September 12, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The United States is moving to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea after concluding the defiant communist country is unwilling to return to the six-nation talks on its nuclear program,...

Analysis: The EU's anti-terror strategy.
September 12, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The European Union has developed a joint strategy to fight terrorism, and Germany already has a few initiatives in the pipeline for its upcoming presidency to intensify anti-terror...

Analysis: U.N. and counter-terror measures.
September 12, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Despite its inability to define terrorism, the U.N. General Assembly has decided -- by consensus, no less -- on a plan of action to combat terrorism that will be launched at the...

Analysis: Taliban insurgency stalks NATO.
September 12, 2006... Byline: JASON MOTLAGH WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. officials insist resurgent Taliban forces are still not a strategic threat in Afghanistan despite unprecedented troop casualties, a record drug harvest and a claim by one top NATO...

Analysis: Terror policy too late for Blair.
September 12, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting to win back political support by recalibrating his policy in the Middle East, but it is likely to prove too late to save his job. ...

Analysis: Israel's prisoner dilemma.
September 12, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A military court Tuesday ordered the release of Hamas ministers and legislators whom Israel arrested shortly after Palestinian militants kidnapped a soldier and took him to Gaza...

Outside View: Afghan heroin floods Europe.
September 13, 2006... Byline: PYOTR GONCHAROV MOSCOW, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- For the umpteenth time now, Afghanistan is breaking all records in opium production, and is ready to flood Europe with first-grade heroin. According to the United Nations Office on...

Politics & Policies: How safe is safe?
September 13, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush's speech to the nation Monday night on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks was intended to be non-partisan and even-handed, emphasizing the...

Analysis: Germany sends troops to Lebanon.
September 13, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The German Cabinet Wednesday agreed to send troops to aid the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, after weeks of uncertainty how the German contribution would look like. "This is not...

Israeli general quits over war management.
September 13, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT HERZLIYA, Israel, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The head of the army's Northern Command resigned Wednesday becoming the first -- and probably not the only -- senior officer to quit in light of the army's failures during the...

Analysis: U.K. rounds on Guantanamo.
September 13, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Britain's constitutional affairs minister Wednesday delivered the most damning criticism of U.S. detentions at Guantanamo Bay yet to be voiced publicly by the Blair government, describing...

Outside View: A United Nations comeback?
September 13, 2006... Byline: VIOLA HERMS DRATH WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- "The United Nations are back in demand, and back in action," the Berlin-based Atlantic Times informs its readers. Preoccupied with the war in Iraq and its open protectiveness of...

Outside View: Britain without Tony Blair.
September 13, 2006... Byline: VLADIMIR SIMONOV MOSCOW, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- This is not political guesswork, but an official prediction of Britain's near future. Tony Blair announced the other day his decision to step down as prime minister in the next 12...

Commentary: War and Peace -- by Iran.
September 14, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's "As-Salam-u-Alaikum" (Peace be with you) played to record audiences and standing ovations, both before and after his talks, in a...

Walker's World: No Iran strike -- Rumsfeld.
September 14, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The iron triangle may be bending. According to military and former high-level administration sources, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is raising serious objections to what President...

Analysis: S.Korea's Roh under pressure.
September 14, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun is facing mounting pressure at home to give up his push to regain wartime control of the country's military from the United States. A growing number of...

Analysis: No peace for Israel and Syria.
September 14, 2006... Byline: BELAL DAHER HAIFA, Israel, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Will Israel's inconclusive month-long war against Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah clear the way for the revival of the deadlocked Middle East peace process? While Israel appeared to...

Analysis: Use religion to fight terrorism.
September 14, 2006... Byline: HARBAKSH SINGH NANDA ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who as a communist helped Soviet-era Moscow maintain control over his country, is now working toward eradicating the last vestiges of...

Analysis: U.K. rues Lebanon 'mistakes'.
September 14, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The refusal of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to call for a cease-fire in the bloody battle between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah may have been a mistake, says the country's Middle...

Analysis: ETA and Madrid enter talks.
September 14, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The Spanish government and the militant Basque nationalist organization ETA will hold talks to end nearly 40 years of terror and violence in the country, negotiations that look to be as...

Analysis: Inside Pakistan.
September 14, 2006... Byline: ALEXIS DEBAT WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- And the West keeps venturing east, dragging with her fantasies of barbaric splendor. Only now in Pakistan, the West's post-Colonial thrill ride is limited to excited glances from behind...

Analysis: Israel ponders Iran options.
September 14, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT HERZLILYA, Israel, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The conversation at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem last weekend was largely focused on Iran's nuclear program. The guest of honor was British Prime Minister...

Commentary: Unwinnable wars?
September 15, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan sparked an urgent appeal from NATO Supreme Commander James L. Jones. He needs ASAP an additional 2,500 troops from the alliance's European...

Outside View: Bin Laden laughs in his cave.
September 15, 2006... Byline: VLADIMIR SIMONOV MOSCOW, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Now that the world is commemorating five years since 9/11, the media were bound to write about Osama bin Laden, whom the terrorist attacks turned into a live embodiment of evil, or...

Analysis: Israeli Cabinet for war probe.
September 15, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The Israeli Cabinet is Sunday expected to commission a thorough investigation into the Lebanon War and experts say findings might shakeup the government and military. Public...

Analysis: House debates radical Islam.
September 15, 2006... Byline: LAURA HEATON WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Meeting in the shadow of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia convened Thursday to examine the future of U.S....

Analysis: Iran 'may suspend enrichment'.
September 15, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Iran has told the European Union it will consider suspending its uranium enrichment activities to allow for formal negotiations over its nuclear programs, the French government confirmed...

Analysis: Papal cannon misfires.
September 18, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The Pope's temporary lapse of infallibility was a theological cannon/canon shot heard around the world. From Turkey, where the ruling party likened the pontiff to Hitler and...

Walker's World: Iran's grand bargain.
September 18, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Unless Javier Solana, the chief diplomat for the European Union, can magically pull a rabbit out of the hat, the Bush administration is heading for a blunt choice between a military...

Analysis: Darfur - the making of a tragedy.
September 18, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Recent interventions by actor George Clooney and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel have brought renewed focus on Sudan's Darfur region. Yet Darfur's problem is far from being new or exceptional...

Analysis: Pope's remarks spark furor.
September 18, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- What critics say are Islamophobic comments Pope Benedict XVI made on a visit to Germany have unleashed furor in several Arab countries and further fueled the conflict between the West and the...

Analysis: North Korea progress unlikely.
September 18, 2006... Byline: MICHAEL MARSHALL WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- While U.S. President George Bush was meeting President Roh, his South Korean counterpart, last week in Washington, North Korean officials were preparing to attend the summit meeting of...

Politics & Policies: Road to Armageddon.
September 19, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be coming from opposite ends of the social, political and religious spectrum; nevertheless, the two men may have...

Analysis: A second U.S.-Pakistan wedding?:.
September 19, 2006... Byline: NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV NEWYORK, N.Y., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf gave a command performance yesterday at a small group discussion hosted in New York by Time Warner and co-sponsored by The Nixon Center,...

Analysis: U.K. underestimated Taliban.
September 19, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The strength of the Taleban in Afghanistan was seriously underestimated by Britain and its Nato allies, British Defense Secretary Des Browne said Tuesday. Amid mounting domestic pressure...

Analysis: 'Watch out,' U.S.tells Abbas.
September 19, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- If Saturday's meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the senior U.S. representative in the Palestinian territories, Jacob Walles, is any indication, Abbas is in...

Review of the Arab press.
September 19, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Sept. 19: Palestinian al-Hayat al-Jadeeda said in a commentary Tuesday it was not strange for angry Palestinians to protest in front of the Legislative Council in Gaza for not having...

Analysis: Neo-Nazis enter state parliament.
September 19, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Many of the young and poor gave their voices to a neo-Nazi party in this weekend's elections in Chancellor Angela Merkel's home state, a development that has unsettled the German government....

Analysis: Bush's U.N. sundry list.
September 19, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush's address to the United Nations General Assembly annual meeting in New York, Tuesday touched on a sundry list of problems and solutions, as well as heroes and...

Analysis: Yemen's presidential challenge.
September 20, 2006... Byline: DALAL SAOUD SANAA, Yemen, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Faisal Ben Shamlan, a former oil industry executive who was chosen by Yemen's opposition to run against longtime President Ali Abdallah Saleh, believes he has good chances to win the...

Review of the Arab press.
September 20, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Sept. 20: The London-based ash-Sharq al-Awsat said in a commentary Wednesday it was surprising that the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict, could be so "ignorant and tactless"...

Analysis: Hungary in turmoil.
September 20, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Hungary has been rocked by its most violent civil unrest in five decades, with angry demonstrators threatening the stability of the current government after the prime minister admitted lying...

Analysis: Yemen's democratic approach.
September 20, 2006... Byline: DALAL SAOUD SANAA, Yemen, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- "We cut our hair before the others do it for us," said Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh on the eve of the country's presidential and local council elections Wednesday. Saleh's...

Analysis: Middle East tops U.N. debate.
September 20, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Most of the more than two dozen speakers during the first day of general debate in the 61st U.N. General Assembly Tuesday expressed concern over the crisis in the Middle East, as...