World Feels Bullied by Washington
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To the French, he's an uncouth cowboy &#151; a swaggering statesman in a Stetson who shoots from the hip and asks questions later, if he asks them at all.
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Many Iranian Americans in the Washington area describe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a provocateur, a hypocrite and an embarrassment to Iran. Yet some are disturbed about the hostile reception Ahmadinejad has received this week during his visit to the United States.
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THREE YEARS after 9/11/01, presidential politics is driven by fear of terrorism and war in Iraq. 9/11 represents horrifying failure of America&#39;s defense that happened on George Bush&#39;s watch.
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The nations of the world joined Monday in solemn remembrance of Sept. 11 &#151; but for many, resentment of the United States flowed as readily as tears.
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With the United States suffering its worst day at the Athens Olympics, China took center stage as sporting superpowers on a night to remember on the athletics track.
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U.S. ties with Russia are ominously bad. Longtime diplomat Zbigniew Brzenski warns Washington to tread wisely in the days ahead
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CAIRO -- Even when America is doing something for Muslims -- in this case, helping mostly Muslim Indonesia and other tsunami-battered nations -- it comes in for criticism in the Middle East, where resentment and suspicion color thinking about the United States.
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Whenever a new administration names its environmental brain trust, somebody gets nervous.  Through the 12 years of New York's Pataki administration, it was the greens who were uncomfortable.
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The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second time, fearing the most powerful man on the planet may do more harm than good.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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With the United States suffering its  worst day at the Athens Olympics, China took center stage as  sporting superpowers on a night to remember on the athletics  track.
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Paranoia, frustration, fear and even rage: not the typical emotions Americans experience when exercising their otherwise satisfying civic duty in the voting booth.
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Extending the hand of friendship to a man viewed as a paranoid recluse with extreme views may seem a puzzling move. It becomes even more inexplicable when to do so could earn you the disapproval of the US, a powerful enemy.
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The United States faced rare criticism over human rights from close ally Britain, with an official British government report taking Washington to task over concerns about Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay jail.
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People around the globe largely mistrust  their political leaders and nearly half fear the world will be  less safe for their children, according to a survey issued on  Thursday.
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A row breaks out between the US and Russia as Washington accuses Moscow of bullying its smaller neighbours.
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WASHINGTON -- Political events in bordering countries can be as disturbing as a family from &quot;the other side of the tracks&quot; moving into one&#39;s neighborhood.