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WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. and allied defense and security forces must assimilate and respond to profound shifts in threats to their security.
Heading off a securities market panic
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 26 (UPI) -- As congressional negotiators and U.S. President Barack Obama struggle to obtain a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, securities markets may soon panic at the prospect of those negotiations failing.
LONDON, July 26 (UPI) -- Attacks by Iraqi forces on Camp Ashraf, home to pro-democracy Iranians, have seen 47 residents killed and 1,071 injured leaving the United States guilty of ignoring its responsibility to protect residents and prevent these war crimes.
Commentary: Restoration Doctrine
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- “Bringing our foreign policy home,” says Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who calls it the “Restoration Doctrine.”
PARIS, July 25 (UPI) -- Confronted with an existential crisis for the euro, the European leaders in the early hours of Friday morning in Brussels kicked the can further down the road than usual.
America’s permanent deficit problems
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 22 (UPI) -- The United States' finances are headed for a train wreck.
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- This is the first of a series of columns that examine what the United States can or will do about its massive debt and deficits regarding defense spending.
Commentary: 'Haunting Legacy'
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- “Haunting Legacy” is a post-Vietnam road map for a road that is no longer on the map. But U.S. presidents are still looking for it.
Funding the government after Aug. 2
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 19 (UPI) -- If the debt ceiling talks fail, is Aug. 2 really the drop dead date for a U.S. default?
It looks like 1914 again
PARIS, July 18 (UPI) -- This is how it must have felt in late July, 1914, as Europe careened blindly into a war that would shatter its wealth and its culture and nobody knew how to stop it.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 (UPI) -- Almost exactly a year ago, on July 16, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals ordered the U.S. State Department to re-evaluate the "terrorist" designation of Iran's main dissident movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq.
Pakistan and America: Friends, foes or in free fall?
WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- When it seems U.S.-Pakistan relations cannot get worse, they do.
Republicans need new taxes, Obama doesn't
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 12 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama hardly needs more taxes to slash the federal deficit but congressional Republicans do need new taxes to survive politically.
Double dips and worse
ZURICH, Switzerland, July 11 (UPI) -- China, the locomotive that has been driving the world economy, is slowing. And since the rest of the world is in no shape to compensate, a second recession or a very prolonged slowdown is starting to look inevitable.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. economy added only 18,000 jobs in June after posting a lackluster 25,000 gain in May. Jobs creation remains moribund and inadequate to appreciably dent unemployment because the economic recovery is simply not gaining steam.
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