Agent Orange Still Haunts Vietnam, US
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More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination
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By Katarina Kratovac, Associated Press  CAIRO, Egypt -- When Iraqi insurgents this week blew up trucks carrying chlorine, the attacks conjured up frightening images of chemical warfare and soldiers choking to death on the battlefields of Belgium in World War I.
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LIMA, Peru  - Wine maker Carlos Rubini still  recounts with a shiver how soldiers burst into Peru's Ocucaje  vineyards one day in 1972, held a gun to his father's head and  told the family the land was no longer theirs.
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An oil spill off Vietnam has spread along 124 miles of coastline and affected popular tourist spots, but the source still remains a mystery, an official said Monday.
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Soviet-era security services are still sending shudders through the region nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The chemical compound, known as TCDD, the world&#39;s most powerful dioxin, was a key part of Agent Orange, used by the United States to clear the Vietnamese jungle, and which left widespread
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The airman's dress blues are faded, the footlocker he carried through three tours in Vietnam has gone to rust. Yet the epitaph he chose to mark his grave is still as fresh as today's headlines: "When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
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By Omar Sinan and Kathy Gannon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  HALABJA, Iraq -- These are bitter times in the town that Saddam Hussein gassed.  It's painful enough that many people still suffer the aftereffects of nerve and mustard gas nearly 20 years ago.
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It's been two years since U.S. forces cleared out this dangerous western city, the bloodiest urban combat of the Iraq war. But Iraqi soldiers still aren't ready to stop Fallujah from becoming an insurgent stronghold again.
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Are games based on the Vietnam conflict making us immune to realities of history?
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Seven prominent Vietnamese and Americans will work together to support humanitarian efforts in cleaning up wartime dioxin, or "agent orange" in Vietnam, a U.S. philanthropy said on Wednesday.
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For the first time since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, a US passenger jet landed in Vietnam today. United Airlines Flight 869 took off from San Francisco yesterday and arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly
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The question of whether presidential candidate John Kerry was a coward or a leader during the Vietnam War might be raging in the United States, but on the streets of Hanoi people hope for just one result from the American election -- the exit of George W. Bush.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- A US passenger jet landed in Vietnam on Friday, the first since the Vietnam War ended nearly 30 years ago.
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The United States Congress is considering voting in funds next year to help Vietnam clean areas heavily contaminated by toxic defoliant Agent Orange, a US official said in Hanoi.
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With the US presidential race taking a decidedly bitter turn over John Kerry&#39;s Vietnam war record, US veterans in Hanoi are selling T-shirts supporting his run for the White House.
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The US agrees for the first time to pay to clean up a site where Agent Orange was kept during the Vietnam war.