The United States has removed its nuclear arsenal from Greece, but maintains nuclear assets in neighboring Turkey.

A bloody inmate riot three weeks ago at the biggest U.S.-run detention facility in Iraq has exposed an increasingly hard-core prison population that is confronting U.S. forces with a growing risk of prison violence, according to military officers.

President Bush scolded Russia for backsliding on democracy Monday and urged Mideast allies to take difficult steps for peace, appealing for Europe's help in both troubled areas to "set history on a hopeful course."

Fans weren't the only folks watching when the New England Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles this month at the Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.So was U.S. intelligence.Working at an FBI-led command post near the stadium, CIA-trained analysts from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or NGA, created nearly 200 aerial images, interactive maps, digital walk-throughs and other computerized graphics in event of a terrorist attack or other calamity -LA Times

Tens of thousands marched Monday in the biggest anti-Syrian protest in Lebanese history amid signals that Syria will soon withdraw its troops from parts of the country. President Bush renewed demands for Syrian forces to leave Lebanon immediately.The protest marked one week since the Feb. 14 death of Rafik Hariri and began at the bomb-scarred site of the former prime minister's assassination, which turned many Lebanese against Syria and increased international pressure on Damascus to extract its army from Lebanon

Rockefeller says that reality makes situation as volatile as North Korea.

U.S. intelligence agencies are abusing rules on access to classified data to punish employees who upset security officials or who go against prevailing bureaucratic viewpoints, according to three officials who say they were unfairly forced out.The three cases, according to security specialists, are typical of the problems encountered by U.S. intelligence and policy officials who run afoul of intelligence bureaucrats -Bill Gertz/Washington Times

Britain and China agreed on Monday to work together to address the macroeconomic and structural challenges of the global economy.The two countries, which currently hold the presidencies of the G7 and G20 groups of nations, said they would present a policy paper on the global economy at the G20 meeting in October, after a meeting in Beijing of their finance ministers, Gordon Brown and Jin Renqing

When they meet in Slovakia on February 24, Vladimir Putin and George Bush will not be the two leaders they were at their first summit in Slovenia in 2001.In 2001, they were novices at international politics. Mr. Bush looked Mr. Putin in the eye and was "able to get a sense of his soul." Mr. Putin replied by sincerely proposing a strategic partnership in the war on international terrorism -RIA Novosti RU

It’s not enough to question the wisdom of Mr. Greenspan. Americans should question why we have a central bank at all, and whose interests it serves.The laws of supply and demand work better than any central banker to determine both the correct supply of money in the economy and the interest rate at which capital is available- without the political favoritism and secrecy that characterize central banks. Americans should not tolerate the manipulation of our economy and the inflation of our currency by an unaccountable institution -Rep.Ron Paul M.D.

Whether the terrible violence in Iraq will grow even worse depends, in part, on the character of the country’s first democratic government. Its new leaders are already suggesting that Islam, in a rigid or sectarian cast, will not dominate Iraqi politics.Basra, where politics has begun to move fitfully toward a state that might someday be called normal, offers one model for a way out of the logic of civil war -GEORGE PACKER/NewYorker

China is expected to become an "advanced developed country" in the second half of this century, according to a report published on Friday.