WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush tried to make the right call by attending the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, but he failed by trying to satisfy two conflicting forces at the same time.

DUBLIN, Ireland, May 8 (UPI) -- New Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen sounded optimistic about his impending meeting Thursday with his British counterpart, Gordon Brown.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Libya's foreign minister met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss a bilateral science and technology deal.

BERLIN, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The world's fight against climate change was almost dead this past weekend but the U.S. agreed to negotiate a new climate accord over the next two years.

BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The United States reluctantly has agreed to join a global effort to negotiate a new climate change treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- All is not well in the sphere of Russian-Chinese arms sales and cooperation: Call it Lebed's ghost.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department says the United States is willing to accept 25,000 Iraqi refugees this year. Speaking in Geneva after a U.N.-sponsored summit on the Iraqi refugee crisis, Ellen Sauerbrey, assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The top U.S. health official, referring to the possibility of an avian flu crisis, says the world is "woefully unprepared" to respond to a pandemic.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The world's top health experts met in Washington Thursday and said the world is "woefully unprepared" to respond to a pandemic.