goals

UN anti-poverty goals get new financial pledges (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - A three-day summit to push global leaders to meet U.N. goals to significantly reduce poverty by 2015 wraps up Wednesday with new financial pledges from countries but no…

Clinton aims to refine goals of Afghan war (AP)

July 18th, 2010

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, is greeted by Pakistani Chief of Protocol Ghalib upon her arrival at Pakistan Airforce Base, Chakala in Islamabad, Sunday, July 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton started a South Asia tour on Sunday aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan and pushing…

40 years later: U.S. drug war has met none of its goals (AP)

May 13th, 2010

FILE - In this April 16, 2009 file photo, a youth watches a crime scene from behind his home's fence after a man was murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.  According to police at the scene, the murder appeared to be related to organized crime. After 40 years of blood and money, both Mexico and the U.S. governments admit that the War on Drugs is a failure.  (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)AP - After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence…

Biden: Talks can meet Israeli, Palestinian goals (AP)

March 11th, 2010

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden gestures as he speaks at Tel Aviv University, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Biden repeatedly voiced Washington's commitment to Israel's security, trying to allay any concerns it might have. But he also said an end to the conflict would restore to the Palestinians 'the fundamental dignity and self-respect that their current predicament denies them.'  (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says “good faith negotiations” can recognize Israeli security needs and the Palestinian goal for a viable state.


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