Haiti: U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation

Feb 12, 2010

Three weeks after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, nearly 100 U.S. lawmakers joined with key civil society groups here Thursday to urge the Group of Seven (G7) leading western nations to commit to cancelling all of the Caribbean country’s multilateral debt.

MEDIA-US: Afghanistan Dominated TV Foreign News in 2009

Jan 7, 2010

Afghanistan and the U.S. military escalation in the civil war there dominated foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks in 2009, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.