In a country built on a system of checks and balances, it’s intriguing to have an award that allows the President to reveal some personal preferences. Since February 1963, when John F
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Zakaria: Clinton says husband’s trip has precedents
Laura Ling and Euna Lee are back in the United States after President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea to negotiate the journalists’ release. NEW YORK (CNN) — Laura Ling and Euna Lee are back in the United States after President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea to negotiate the journalists’ release
Bill Clinton’s Visit to North Korea: A Long Time Coming
In the four-and-a-half months that two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, have been held captive in North Korea, there has been one constant amidst the rumors swirling around the case: the North Koreans wanted a high-powered emissary to come from the U.S. to try to win the release of the prisoners — and, no doubt, listen to whatever else it was that Pyongyang had to say about the current, dismal state of relations between the two countries. For awhile, speculation centered on former vice president Al Gore, who co founded Current TV, the network the two journalists work for, in 2004
Ave Kludze: Ghana’s rocket man
He was not able to fulfill his childhood dream of being a pilot, but Ghanaian scientist Dr. Ave Kludze has arguably gone one better: developing and flying spacecrafts for NASA. The 43-year-old didn’t enter orbit when controlling a NASA rocket to launch the Calipso environmental satellite in 2006, instead piloting it from the control center on the ground
U.S. troops accused of damaging Babylon’s ancient wonder
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France to relax Sunday shopping ban
The French Senate early Thursday narrowly passed a controversial law to allow many more shops across the country to open on Sundays, in what would be a significant cultural shift.
French debate relaxing Sunday shopping ban
The French Senate began debate Tuesday on a law that would mark a significant cultural shift — allowing many more shops across the country to open on Sundays.
France set to relax Sunday shopping ban
The French are in for a significant cultural shift next week if the Senate approves a new law from President Nicolas Sarkozy to allow more shops to open on Sundays. What seems routine in much of the Western world has been fiercely resisted in France, where Sundays have officially been set aside as a day of rest for more than a century and where a 35-hour workweek remains the norm.
U.S. panel demands release of Baha’is facing trial in Iran
Seven Baha’i prisoners face a death-penalty trial Saturday in Iran amid calls for their release from a U.S. panel on religious freedom. Responding to a letter from Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who spent four months in an Iranian jail earlier this year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) demanded the seven prisoners be freed rather than stand trial on charges of espionage and religious violations.
Iran: New Opposition Demonstrations Bring New Violence
The quiet enforced on Tehran’s streets by the postelection crackdown was shattered on July 9 in dramatic clashes between opposition activists and security forces.