Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) harshly criticized Columbia University on Thursday for allowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on its campus.
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McCain joined the rest of the Republican field in attacking the Iranian president for a number of trips he is attempting to make while visiting the United Nations later this month.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Columbia University was urged on Thursday to withdraw a speaking invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be in New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly.
New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn wrote to the university urging them to cancel....
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Iran directly of seeking nuclear weapons Thursday and suggested tougher sanctions against the Mideast nation.
Sarkozy, who has toughened the French position on Iran since taking office in May, called the possibility of an Iranian bomb "unacceptable."
Sarkozy was expected to discuss sanctions with other world leaders at the UN General Assembly next week.
you mean they'll both be at the UN? how 'bout rudy?
A homeland security adviser to Rudy Giuliani came under fire Thursday for claiming there were "too many mosques" in the United States — and defended himself by saying his point was that not enough Muslim leaders cooperate with law enforcement.
Rep. Peter King, R-NY, the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and the top GOP member on the panel, said his comments to the Politico Web site were taken out of context. Democrats said Giuliani should drop him as a campaign adviser.
President Nixon signed a historic agreement with the Soviet Union in 1972 to ban biological weapons yet also expressed grave misgivings to his closest aides about arms control as a key to peace.
In documents released by the State Department, Nixon said the accord to prohibit production of biological and toxic weapons was a "jackass treaty" and that arms control was not an end in itself.
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