News stories by Jim Lobe, page 5

WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - Anti-Jewish attitudes are found most frequently in Arab countries but persist in much of the rest of the world, especially in Eastern Europe, most of whose Jews were wiped out during the Nazi Holocaust in World War II, according to global survey by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

WASHINGTON, May 09 (IPS) - The fate of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the violent Islamist Boko Haram group from the northern Nigeria town of Chibok in mid-April has become something of a public sensation in the United States since the beginning of the month.

WASHINGTON, May 07 (IPS) - Despite new gestures of support for the Syrian opposition, the administration of President Barack Obama is unlikely to change its longstanding policy of restraining U.S. involvement in the country's more than three-year-old civil war, according to experts here.

WASHINGTON, Apr 29 (IPS) - Five days after approving the transfer of 10 Apache helicopters to aid Egypt's "counter-terrorism" campaign in Sinai, the administration of President Barack Obama denounced as "unconscionable" the latest round of mass death sentences against members of the Muslim Brotherhood handed down by an Egyptian court Monday.

WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (IPS) - Amidst a roiling and mostly partisan debate over Washington's global role, a survey released here Thursday suggests that President Barack Obama's preference for relative restraint and multilateral - over unilateral - action very much reflects the mood of the voting public.

WASHINGTON, Apr 22 (IPS) - As he embarks Tuesday on a major trip through East Asia, U.S. President Barack Obama will be focused on reassuring anxious – albeit sometimes annoying – allies that Washington remains determined to deepen its commitment to the region.

WASHINGTON, Apr 16 (IPS) - In new data certain to fuel the growing public debate over economic inequality, a survey released Tuesday by the biggest U.S. trade-union federation found that the CEOs of top U.S. corporations were paid 331 times more money than the average U.S. worker in 2013.

WASHINGTON, Apr 12 (IPS) - While Republicans complain relentlessly about U.S. President Barack Obama's alleged failure to exert global leadership on geo-political issues like Syria and Ukraine, they are clearly undermining Washington's leadership of the world economy.

WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - Three years after Colombia agreed to U.S. demands to better protect labour rights and activists, a "Labour Plan of Action" (LPA) drawn up by the two nations is showing mixed results at best, according to U.S. officials and union and rights activists from both countries.

WASHINGTON, Apr 05 (IPS) - Last month's annexation by Russia of Crimea and the West's reaction have placed emerging regional powers, which have generally supported Moscow's position on key geopolitical developments, in a difficult position, according to U.S. analysts.