International Herald Tribune back issues from August 2006:
Handover in Afghanistan NATO takes command from U.S. in south
Aug 01, 2006; ... Carlotta Gall International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 NATO took over command from the United States of international forces in the southern provinces of Afghanistan on Monday, embarking on one of the most challenging tasks in its history, amid a deadly insurgency.As NATO and U.S ....
Bush links fighting to war on terror
Aug 01, 2006; ... David Stout International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Helene Cooper contributed reporting from Jerusalem.* President George W. Bush on Monday described Israel's battle with Hezbollah as part of a much wider struggle against terrorism, insisted again that Israel was ''exercising its ...
Israel vows to press its ground offensive Full cease-fire rejected until peacekeepers are ready
Aug 01, 2006; ... Craig S. Smith and Steven Erlanger International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Israel rejected the possibility of an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon on Monday as it poured soldiers and artillery shells across the border here, vowing to press ahead with its ground war before diplomacy ...
Managing price fears at the ECBCentral bank finds itself in tough spot
Aug 01, 2006; ... Carter Dougherty International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Already vexed by high oil prices, the European Central Bank is preparing to raise interest rates on Thursday because it is starting to worry that expectations of more pervasive inflation will become a self-fulfilling prophecy ....
Japan's carmakers take road to profitMore autos built abroad than at home
Aug 01, 2006; ... Martin Fackler International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The robust Japanese auto industry passed a milestone in its global growth Monday, when an industry group announced that for the first time Japanese automakers had produced more vehicles abroad than at home during a fiscal ...
Charity leads way in push for black fever vaccine
Aug 01, 2006; ... Stephanie Strom International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The drug that could have cured Munia Devi through a series of cheap injections was identified decades ago but then died in the research pipeline because there was no profit in it.So Devi lay limp in a hospital bed here, her ...
It's a trend: Men with no jobs or ambition
Aug 01, 2006; ... Louis Uchitelle and David Leonhardt International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Alan Beggerow has stopped looking for work. Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college. But when that ended, he could not find a job that, in his view, was neither ...
Rice sees possible truce this week Lebanon is braced for attacks despite pause in airstrikes
Aug 01, 2006; ... Steven Erlanger and Hassan M. Fattah International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Steven Erlanger reported from Jerusalem and Hassan M. Fattah from Beirut. Helene Cooper contributed from Jerusalem, Sabrina Tavernise from Qana, Lebanon, and John O'Neil from New York.* Secretary of State ...
In Lebanese village, 'earth was going up'
Aug 01, 2006; ... Sabrina Tavernise International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The dead lay in strange shapes. Several had open mouths filled with dirt. Faces were puffy. A man's arm was extended straight out from his body, his fingers spread. Two tiny children, a girl and boy, lay feet to head in the ...
Kosovo rite binds two villages Muslim custom of circumcision lives on among 'Bosnians'
Aug 01, 2006; ... Nicholas Wood International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 It is hard to place the inhabitants of this unusual village in the web of identities that make up the Balkans.They are neither Serbs nor Albanians, the main ethnic groups vying for control of the internationally administered ...
European leaders face knife's edge in MideastLetter From Europe
Aug 01, 2006; ... Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Before the German cabinet met last Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel took a hard look at the Middle East. Literally. In her methodical way, she looked at maps that showed the border between Israel and Lebanon and the flash points ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1906: Hearst for Governor
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 NEW YORK: The heavily-charged political atmosphere of New York State was cleared somewhat today [July 31] when the State Committee of Mr. W.R. Hearst's Independence League decided to call a convention here on September 11 to nominate the ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1931: Nudist Colony Outrage
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 CASSINO, Italy: Italy's first nudist colony has been stoned from its elysian fields by a mob of outraged peasants. More than 40 angry and indignant field laborers, armed with pitchforks, horsewhips, and similar implements entered the naturist ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1956: Soviets Support Suez
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 MOSCOW: Nikita S. Khrushchev declared today [July 31] that the Soviet government approves of Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal. The First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party told a cheering crowd of more than 100,000 at the ...
Lollygagging seals rule beach and divide locals
Aug 01, 2006; ... Randal C. Archibold International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The beachcombers lie belly down on the sand, enjoying the cool breeze and calm waters of a small beach in La Jolla, a rocky outcropping here flush with mansions and money.But these lollygags have not left in more than a ...
British lesbians lose court fight to have Canadian marriage recognized
Aug 01, 2006; ... From news reports International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 A British lesbian couple lost a legal battle Monday to have their Canadian marriage legally recognized in Britain. Judge Mark Potter, head of Britain's High Court Family Division, dismissed the claim by the couple, Sue ...
Clarification
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 An article Monday on the Europe page on gains made by conservatives in Turkey should have specified that some reporting was conducted in conjunction ...
UN adopts resolution on Iranian atomic work
Aug 01, 2006; ... Warren Hoge International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The Security Council adopted a resolution Monday demanding that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing work by the end of August or face the possibility of sanctions.The vote was 14 to 1, with Qatar, the Arab ...
Lebanon carnage appalls a torn Iraq
Aug 01, 2006; ... Damien Cave International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Reporting for this article was contributed by Ali Adeeb and Qais Mizher in Baghdad and Iraqi employees of The New York Times in Karbala, Kirkuk and Mosul.* Several prominent Iraqi clerics and officials on Monday delivered their ...
Paris beach is all but au naturelNudity ban imposed on city's fake seaside
Aug 01, 2006; ... Elaine Sciolino International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 This city is proud of its spirit of exhibitionism, so the front-page newspaper headline last weekend that the city's man-made beach was banning thongs and bare breasts came as a bit of a shock. Not only that, the article in the ...
Pipe rupture in Russia brings spike in oil price But fears of a 'catastrophe' played down
Aug 01, 2006; ... Andrew E. Kramer International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Several thousand gallons of crude oil leaked from a Russian pipeline into a meadow over the weekend, briefly shutting down a major export route and causing prices to spike upward on panicky world oil markets.The Druzhba ...
Senior Tamil leader says cease-fire is overGovernment and rebels fight over canal
Aug 01, 2006; ... Shimali Senanayake International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 As government and rebel ground troops clashed Monday over control of an irrigation canal in the country's east, a senior rebel leader rang the death knell on Sri Lanka's feeble, four-year-old truce. ''We think the cease-fire ...
Israelis rally to aid displaced Families fleeing south amid rocket attacks
Aug 01, 2006; ... Dina Kraft International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The Arazis finally had enough when a Hezbollah rocket crashed within a few meters of their home last week.The family of five loaded the car with a cooler full of food, a duffel bag stuffed with clothes and sheets, a guitar and their ...
Arab-Americans upset by U.S. handling of Lebanon evacuation
Aug 01, 2006; ... Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 In a borrowed cubicle in the offices of the Arab American Institute, barely back from an exhausting 58-hour evacuation from Beirut, Radney Wood and a friend, John Orak, were working the phones and sending out e-mails to spread ...
Iraqi officials seek financial aid for role in terror war
Aug 01, 2006; ... Paul von Zielbauer International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Two high-ranking Iraqi government officials said that their country was fighting international terrorists on its own soil on behalf of other countries and should, as a result, be compensated with economic and military ...
Leftist challenger turns up heat in Mexico
Aug 01, 2006; ... James C. McKinley Jr. International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Antonio Betancourt contributed reporting for this article.*Four weeks after a very close election plunged this country into a political crisis, the leftist candidate escalated his campaign to undo the official results, ...
America's courts under siege
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 America's courts are the only line of defense against President George W. Bush's assault on the balance of powers in the U.S. government, as Congress not only lacks the spine to stand up to Bush, but is usually eager to accommodate him. So it ...
A collective failure in the Middle East Israel and Lebanon
Aug 01, 2006; ... Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 As recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, we watch with stunned disbelief as the fighting in Lebanon and Israel spins out of control, while the humanitarian crisis in Gaza apparently has slipped from public ...
Israel's bombs make its enemies stronger
Aug 01, 2006; ... Paul Krugman International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 For Americans who care deeply about Israel, one of the truly nightmarish things about the war in Lebanon has been watching Israel repeat the same mistakes the United States made in Iraq. It's as if Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ...
What's left of the Latin left
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Ever since Hugo Chavez won Venezuela's presidency and began presenting himself as a regional leader, the Bush administration has been proclaiming that he would push Latin America back to the left. But the left has been losing ground in recent ...
Voting rights as human rights
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The United States has the worst record in the free world when it comes to stripping convicted felons of the right to vote. In contrast, most European countries hold that right so dear that they bring ballot boxes into prisons.This point was ...
Better use of China's profits
Aug 01, 2006; ... Philip Bowring International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 As the yuan inches up again and China's government talks tougher about restraining credit, the question looms of how to rein in China's galloping economy and reduce international imbalances. The solutions that some have suggested ...
A photographer's nation of gawkers MEANWHILE
Aug 01, 2006; ... Adam Cohen International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Weegee, the great tabloid photographer of the 1940s and '50s, took a remarkable picture of Veronica Lake. The legendary movie star and pinup model is shot from behind, so only her fur-coat-covered back and neatly coiffed hair can be ...
A world gone mad
Aug 01, 2006; ... Bob Herbert International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 As if the war in Iraq and the battles between Israel and its neighbors were not frightening enough, now comes word of a development in Pakistan that may well be the harbinger of a much greater catastrophe.Over the past few years, ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORA new global agenda
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Pascal Lamy asks what are the broader consequences of the suspension of the Doha round of trade talks (''What now, trade ministers,'' Views, July 28).We believe that the indefinite suspension of trade negotiations is another symptom that the ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORThe Middle East
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 America's response to the attacks of Sept. 11 and Israel's bombing of Lebanon, have undoubtedly played into the hands of terrorists, helping Al Qaeda promote its evil ideology and recruit. The Sept. 11 ....
LETTERS TO THE EDITORScience and ethics
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Regarding "Science versus Ethics" by James Carroll (Views, July 27): Science has as one of its primary objectives the discovery of the truth by open and nonviolent methods. Religions have as one of their primary objectives the maintenance of ...
With war, Beirut's cultural life comes to a halt
Aug 01, 2006; ... Jad Mouawad International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The invitations had been sent long ago and the ads paid for and printed. Despite the shells shattering a few kilometers away, Ghazi Abdel Baki, a Lebanese music producer, was determined not to cancel the release of his label's ...
Study finds disparities in granting asylumBRIEFLY: UNITED STATES: WASHINGTON
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 An examination of thousands of immigration cases has found wide disparities in the rate at which judges grant asylum to people seeking haven in the United States, according to a study released by a private research group. One judge in Miami ...
Employers of illegal migrants targeted Agency promises criminal charges and heavy fines in crackdown
Aug 01, 2006; ... Julia Preston International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 U.S. immigration agents had prepared a nasty surprise for Garcia Labor, a temporary-worker-contracting company, when they moved against it on charges of hiring illegal immigrants.They brought a 40-count federal indictment part of ...
PEOPLE
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Red Square in Moscow will not be the scene of an Eric Clapton concert after all, the BBC reported, since Russian officials withdrew permission for the event, scheduled for Thursday. Clapton had planned to end his current tour in ...
Study finds significant variations in granting of asylum by immigration courts
Aug 01, 2006; ... Rachel L. Swarns International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 An examination of thousands of immigration cases has found wide disparities in the rate at which judges grant asylum to people seeking haven in the United States, according to a study released by a private research group.One ...
The Prince of the MarshesBOOKS / Nonfiction
Aug 01, 2006; ... William Grimes International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The Prince of the MarshesAnd Other Occupational Hazardsof a Year in Iraq By Rory Stewart Illustrated. 396 pages. $25. Harcourt.Reviewed by William Grimes*The southern Iraqi provinces of Maysan and Dhi Qar once included vast ...
Japan's inconspicuous artisans
Aug 01, 2006; ... Kaori Shoji International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Unlike Japanese designers, the Japanese artisan virtually lives by a code of stoic inconspicuousness, muting his personality in order to give pride of place to his product. And nowhere is this more evident than in western Japan, ...
Blair has sights on stem cells (folo)U.K. and California: Environmental palsBlair and Schwarzenegger to consider methods to reduce greenhouse gases
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 During his four-day trip, Blair also was to meet executives Monday from Californian biotechnology companies including Genentech, StemCells and Gilead Sciences, seeking to bolster stem-cell research in Britain, Bloomberg News reported from San ...
Carmakers of Japan make globe their home
Aug 01, 2006; ... Martin Fackler International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The robust Japanese auto industry passed a milestone in its global growth Monday, when an industry group announced that for the first time automakers had produced more vehicles abroad than at home during a fiscal year.The Japan ...
Spain to defend E.ON deal's conditions Germany seeks intervention by EU
Aug 01, 2006; ... From news reports International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Spain said Monday that it would defend tough conditions it had imposed on the 26.9 billion bid by the German utility E.ON for the largest Spanish power company, Endesa, even as Germans called for the European Union to ...
Patent investigation is the latest test for Bristol-Myers chief
Aug 01, 2006; ... Stephanie Saul International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 A day after the FBI searched his office, Peter Dolan rode in his company's jet to Houston to meet with 52 pediatricians who will go to Africa to treat AIDS patients through a Bristol-Myers Squibb program. The trip was indicative ...
Corporate loans and investment banking lift HSBC profit
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 HSBC Holdings, Europe's biggest bank by market value, said Monday that its first-half profit rose 15 percent, buoyed by gains in corporate lending and investment banking.Net income climbed to $8.73 billion.Stephen Green, who took over as ...
Data point to slowing in Korea Services output posts lowest gain in a year
Aug 01, 2006; ... Choe Sang-Hun International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 More signs that the South Korean economy is cooling surfaced Monday, as the country's service industries reported the smallest increase in output in a year in June and manufacturer confidence fell to a one-year low. Transport ...
U.S. ads' big black women revisit cultural gulf
Aug 01, 2006; ... Jeremy Peters International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 At 250-pounds plus most of that pure attitude she is hard to miss. Her onscreen presence takes on many variations, but she is easily recognizable by a few defining traits. Other than her size, she is almost always black. She ...
Portrait of a tycoon as driven benefactorPizza magnate's mission draws critics
Aug 01, 2006; ... Susan Hansen International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 It takes a singular sense of purpose to turn a lone Michigan pizza joint into a multibillion-dollar global brand. Yet the founder of Domino's Pizza, Thomas Monaghan, certainly had it more than four decades ago, when he bought his ...
Tokyo firm dreams bigWIRELESS
Aug 01, 2006; ... Eric Sylvers International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Think technology, think Japan, and the big names that come to mind are Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba, dominant makers of electronic hardware, whether it be computers, televisions, cellphones or gaming systems.But Japanese companies ...
A rush to take partners on board Carriers see US Airways rebound as sign that mergers work
Aug 01, 2006; ... Jeff Bailey International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The surprising early success of US Airways Group, after a merger last year, has led to some behind-the-scenes talks among investors and airline executives that could lead to more industry consolidation in the months ahead.As ...
Plant built by Enron shuts down
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The troubled 740-megawatt power plant founded by Enron in the western Indian state of Maharashtra has shut down again after running for nine weeks, a central government minister said Monday.Three turbines at Ratnagiri Gas & Power, formerly ...
In global finance arena, Bernanke is lord of the dance Economic Scene
Aug 01, 2006; ... Hal R. Varian International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Now that the World Cup and the Tour de France are behind us, the most exciting global spectator sport is watching Ben Bernanke: Will he raise interest rates in August or not? And what will his decision mean for world financial ...
South Korea cools offBRIEFING: SEOUL
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 More signs that the South Korean economy is cooling surfaced Monday, as its service industries reported the smallest increase in output in a year and manufacturer confidence fell to a one-year low. Transport companies, insurers, retailers and ...
BRIEFING
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Vinci, the French construction company, will spend 500 million on leasing 70 parking garages from ...
EU praises Bulgaria for anti-crime effortBRIEFING: SOFIA
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 The European Union justice commissioner, Franco Frattini, said Monday that Bulgaria was cracking down on corruption and organized crime, helping its effort to win approval to join the 25-nation bloc in 2007. The EU is to issue a report Sept ....
European confidence reaches 5-year highBRIEFING: BERLIN
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 European consumer confidence unexpectedly rose to the highest level in more than five years in July, the European Commission said Monday, while inflation ran at the fastest clip since October. The data strengthened the argument for the ...
Carmakers spur record industrial production in Japan
Aug 01, 2006; ... From news reports International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Japanese industrial output climbed to a record in June, indicating an economic upturn was intact, as carmakers and machinery manufacturers bet that customers at home and in the United States and China would maintain orders ...
Newspapers extend Web reach with links
Aug 01, 2006; ... Bob Tedeschi International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Want the latest news on Floyd Landis's positive drug test from The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times or USA Today?Soon, it will all be on Washingtonpost.com.The Washington Post, The New York Sun and The Daily Oklahoman, in ...
Telenor bid is winner of Mobi 63
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 Telenor, the largest Norwegian phone company, won the auction Monday for the Serbian mobile phone operator Mobi 63 for 1.51 billion in Serbia's biggest state-owned asset sale. The Nordic company, which beat Telekom Austria and Orascom Telecom ...
MySpace clarifies: It's your music
Aug 01, 2006; ... Robert Levine International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 When he is not writing or performing protest songs, the British folk-rock musician Billy Bragg is apparently reading the fine print.In May, Bragg removed his songs from the MySpace.com Web site, complaining that the terms and ...
SanDisk to pay stock in M-Systems deal Briefing: SAN FRANCISCO
Aug 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2006 SanDisk, the world's largest maker of memory cards for consumer electronics, has agreed to buy M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers for about $1.3 billion in stock to add more products that store songs in mobile phones. Stockholders will receive ...