He refuses a new air conditioner, yet his office is Internet-wired. He wants women to take political office, but not to shake the hands of men outside their families. He is easily the most powerful man in Iraq. Yet he's an Iranian.

Medical care was at times so scarce and shabby that it became another kind of abuse. An inside look.—TIME

The U.S. military "is clearly stressed," and recruitment of new troops is falling short of plans, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday.

Jerry Golden heard Condoleezza Rice say it on TV but it just didn’t register, thinking at the time that she surely didn’t mean what she said. She said "we’re going to have to recognize that there was going to have to be land for - contiguous land for the Palestinian state to exist on."

Members of an Iranian group known for its support of the U.S. Embassy takeover in 1979 may now be sought by the Bush administration as operatives for use against Tehran, Newsweek reports in the current issue.

Vice President Dick Cheney said the U.S. government can borrow $754 billion in the next decade to help finance private accounts for Social Security without hurting the U.S. economy with higher budget deficits.

More than half of UK companies predict that radio frequency identification will be an accepted part of the business landscape in just five years, according to research by the Management Consultancies Association.

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National Guard General Felipe Rodriguez, known as “the Crow,” who was wanted in connection with terrorist bombings and murder, was arrested yesterday.Felipe Rodriguez had been said to be in Miami for much of the time since he was charged -Venezuelanalysis VE

The most important legal aspect of using RFID technology relates to the infringement of individual privacy rights. RFID systems have the potential to track individuals in an unprecedented manner.

Can the War Powers Act ever prevent a President from starting a war? Not if the Supreme Court continues to abdicate its constitutional role.

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A senior aide to Mexican President Vicente Fox has been arrested on suspicion of leaking information to drug traffickers.

Unidentified assailants took over the Spanish consulate in Switzerland's capital on Monday, and were believed to have seized at least one hostage, police said.

Worried that the nation's aging nuclear arsenal is increasingly fragile, American scientists have begun designing a new generation of nuclear arms meant to be sturdier and more reliable and to have longer lives, federal officials and private experts say.

Five of Adolph Eichmann's Nazi assistants were recruited and employed by the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II, according to recently declassified intelligence documents -Haaretz IL

The CIA, under pressure from Congress, has agreed in principle to release new documents detailing its ties to former Nazis who aided U.S. Cold War espionage against the Soviet Union, officials said on Sunday

Until last weekend's Group of Seven summit in London, gold was universally viewed as being driven by the U.S. dollar.But after G7 finance ministers asked the International Monetary Fund to explore the possibility of selling a portion of its gold reserves to write off debt owed by poor countries, the gold market seems to have found a co-driver

Last summer, 5 whistleblowers, who were past employees of Halliburton, came forward to tell tax payers what was really going on in Iraq. They specifically described how the company was robbing tax payers blind with apparently not a care in the world about discovery or punishment -Evelyn Pringle/Scoop NZ

A senior aide to Mexican President Vicente Fox has been arrested on suspicion of leaking information to drug traffickers -BBC

We’ve all heard the words democracy and freedom used countless times, especially in the context of our invasion of Iraq.They are used interchangeably in modern political discourse, yet their true meanings are very different.The problem is that democracy is not freedom.Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom -Rep.Ron Paul M.D.

The FBI is dramatically expanding its intelligence role in the United States and is seeking control over the CIA's domestic activities, according to current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials.In the past year, the CIA and FBI have sought to vastly expand the use of multinational corporations to recruit Americans willing to share information from their trips abroad -Dana Priest/Washington Post

Public opinion toward partial privatization of Social Security is very much a mixed bag in opinion polls.Indeed, surveys show that views are still fluid, and poll results often depend on how questions are asked. In a Newsweek survey taken in the two days after Bush's State of the Union speech, 56 percent of Americans said they are wary of putting retirement money into the stock market -Christian Science Monitor

During a whirlwind visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Dr Rice called for an effective fight against terrorism.She also urged Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to continue to take the hard decisions that will lead to peace in the Middle East -ABC News AU