Costa Ricans are coming to realize that sticking with the status quo might not be such a bad thing. In terms of trade, most Costa Rican produce will continue to enjoy duty-free access to the US market due to the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI).

A typical diesel-powered 18-wheeler can emit as much nitrogen oxide and fine particulates—key elements in the formation of asthma-inducing smog—as about 150 passenger cars.

None of the two dozen or so families who were expecting to be evicted from Bowen Homes public housing community on Thursday, October 04, 2007, were evicted as of yet, and they appear safe for the moment.

The agreement reached between the top leaders of South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) at their summit in Pyongyang will increase cooperation between the two sides.

Most common household air fresheners contain potentially noxious chemicals that degrade the quality of indoor air and may even affect hormones and reproductive development, particularly in babies.

Concern is mounting about the humanitarian situation and human rights in Ethiopia’s Somali region, which threatens to affect 1.8 million people unless remedial action is taken soon.

The U.S. is at a crossroads. Why? Because the right-wing political bloc – a bloc that has dominated political life for a quarter century – is finally losing its momentum and potency.

The Iraqi Communist Party has firmly rejected the non-binding resolution presented by Senator and US presidential candidate Joseph Biden, and adopted by the US Senate on 26 September 2007.

Ernesto Ekaizer, who revealed the minutes of a secret meeting between George W. Bush and ex-president Jose Maria Aznar in which they made a plot to attack Iraq, asserted on Thursday that there is enough criminal evidence to try the Spanish president.

In a shower of sparks, Ricky Robin was repairing hurricane damage to “Lil’ Rick,” his 56-foot steel-hulled shrimp boat, when he spotted an out-of-town reporter snapping photos.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro sharply criticized Washington at the UN General Assembly yesterday for increasing threats against Iran and for its actions in the war on terrorism.

A capital city symbolizes a nation and offers unique political and economic allures over anything one would find in other urban settlements.

The September 30 issue of the Akahata Sunday edition reported that Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo had submitted many altered receipts attached to his office’s funds reports.

President Bush’s despicable veto of the extension and expansion of health care for children (SCHIP) must not be allowed to stand. Congress has the power to override that veto, and must do so.

Wednesday, October 3rd President Bush exercised just his fourth veto to block funding to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), insisting on weakening the program to exclude hundreds of thousands of children from the popular health care program and to prevent another nearly 3 million children from being enrolled.

Gordon Brown suggests that about 1,000 British troops who are bogged down in Basra could return home by Christmas – a familiar refrain from first world war commanders.

At the Democratic presidential candidates' debate on September 26, the three top-polling candidates declined to promise that they would remove U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of their first term in office.

The humanitarian situation in Diyala Province, eastern-central Iraq, is deteriorating because of continuing tension between armed factions and the difficulty of accessing internally displaced persons and the needy.

Security officers struck San Francisco buildings for three days, the first strike by guards in U.S. history.

Shunning the wishes of the majority of the public and snubbing members of his own party who support ensuring that millions of America’s children will have access to health care, President Bush today vetoed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) renewal bill.