IMF/WORLD BANK LEADERS SPEAK AT THE SPRING MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON

An oil pipeline running from Chad to Cameroon that generates more than a billion dollars annually for the Chadian government is being touted as an example of World Bank and International Monetary Fund failures to foster "fundamental measures of transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries," according to a joint report by two watchdog groups with a particular eye on the international lenders.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- When President Barack Obama takes the oath of office, he will seek to fulfill his campaign pledge to pull U.S. combat forces out of Iraq. The irony is, this will be an evolution rather than a revolution or U-turn in U.S. policy.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The recommendation of a State Department advisory panel that the United States band together with other existing nuclear powers to build safeguards into the growing market for reactor capacity risks fanning nationalistic hostility in the Third World to global anti-proliferation regimes, say some critics.

WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- The United States should embrace a global expansion of civil nuclear power generation, in order to ensure that it and other supplier nations can build safeguards into the growing market, says a report from a State Department advisory panel.

WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- A report from a State Department advisory panel says a coming large expansion in global nuclear power generation poses proliferation risks, but the United States must embrace it to ensure that nuclear supplier nations build safeguards into the growing market.

WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- A new blue-ribbon commission set up by Congress to offer the next administration advice about keeping nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of rogue states and terrorists held its first meeting in Washington last week.

BAGHDAD, May 27 (UPI) -- Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the former vice president under Saddam Hussein, said the insurgency would continue in Iraq until U.S. forces were driven out.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, May 17, 2008.

WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Global oil prices spiked at nearly $127 a barrel this week, and Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress don't have the faintest idea what to do about it.