In the trade negotiations that should follow this month's World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting, the United States hopes to complete the Uruguay Round's drive to unify international trade rules and to extend trade liberalization to new service and high-tech...

Guatemala will hold on November 7 its first mayoral, congressional, and presidential elections since the signing of the 1996 Peace Accords that ended a protracted 36-year civil war.

Just as India's prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was being sworn into office in New Delhi after a solid re-election victory, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, General Pervez Musharraf, took power in Islamabad, ousting an increasingly unpopular and dysfunctional...