US propped up Suharto despite rights abuses: documents
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The United States declassified documents Monday detailing how Washington propped up ex-Indonesian leader Suharto, who died at the weekend, at the expense of democracy and human rights.
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President George W. Bush joined a chorus of US-allied leaders in defending the Iraq war from UN chief Kofi Annan's charge that it was illegal.
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WASHINGTON - The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld demanding accountability in Washington for crimes allegedly committed by US troops in Afghanistan.
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Washington - President George W Bush has for the first time raised questions about documents used to bolster a report that he received preferential treatment during his Vietnam era military service.
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JAKARTA - Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday defended her government&#39;s record on tackling terrorism and pledged to step up security as she laid out her policies ahead of next week&#39;s presidential elections.
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Forced labor in the US, background checks for guns, and Turkey's human rights record.
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Indonesia's minister of defense called on the United States Sunday to ease its restrictions on military relations between the two nations and to help train the South Asian country's military leaders.
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The United States has stepped up its diplomatic response to Indonesia&#39;s arrest of five executives of the American mining company Newmont for alleged pollution in the province of Sulawesi.
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The United States has advised its citizens in Indonesia to take additional security precautions against possible terrorist attacks in the run up to Islam's biggest festival of Eid al-Fitr next month.
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WASHINGTON -- At the United Nations lectern this week, President Bush hailed the spread of democracy. ``From Beirut to Baghdad," he said, ``people are making the choice for freedom." Yet even as he spoke, tanks were rolling through the streets of Bangkok as a military coup toppled the elected leader of Thailand, who at that moment was in New York ...
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The rule of Suharto, who was driven from office in 1998, was one of the 20th centuryâs most brutal and corrupt.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday it has given the Bush administration a confidential report critical of US treatment of terror suspects detained
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Fledgling U.S.-backed democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq are failing to protect human rights, the State Department said Tuesday, despite huge flows of American aid to improve conditions after the ousters of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.
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Former Indonesian president Suharto was able to raise his arm on request and even tried to speak, doctors said on Sunday, as the ailing 86-year-old showed further signs of recovery after more than two weeks in hospital.
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WASHINGTON -- Fledgling US-backed democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq are failing to protect human rights, despite huge flows of American aid to improve conditions after the ousters of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, the State Department said yesterday,
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Indonesia&#039;s former dictator Suharto&#039;s condition appeared to be worsening, with renewed bleeding in his stomach, doctors said Tuesday.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - The United States Monday  announced $468 million in aid to Indonesia, the world's most  populous Muslim nation, earmarking part of it to improve  Islamic schools, which have been blamed for encouraging  fundamentalism.