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As War Crimes Trial Nears End, Many Liberians Hope for President's Return

MONROVIA, Liberia -- With President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial in The Hague nearing an end after three years, many Liberians hope he will be brought home -- to a hero's welcome. Take Fasu Donzo, a lanky motorbike taxi driver. Now 31, he fought as a child soldier in Taylor's army and was known as General Mosquito...

Israeli Companies Will Help Build Palestinian City

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- About 20 Israeli suppliers will help build the first modern Palestinian city in the West Bank but only after promising they will not use products or services from Israeli settlements, the project's developer said today. The announcement angered the Jewish settlers, who accused the suppliers of...

China Awards Own Peace Prize Before Nobel Boycott

(Dec. 9) -- China awarded its own peace prize today to a Taiwanese politician who couldn't attend the event, just a day before it boycotts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo where winner Liu Xiaobo will be absent because he's stuck behind bars in China. The first-ever Confucius Peace Prize was bestowed on Lien Chan,...

Target Apologizes for Donation to Conservative Candidate

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Aug. 6) -- The head of Target Corp. apologized Thursday over a political donation to a business group backing a conservative Republican for Minnesota governor, which angered some employees and sparked talk of a customer boycott. Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel wrote employees to say the discount retailer was...

LAPD Cancels Ariz. Trip Over Immigration Law Boycott

(June 18) -- The Los Angeles Police Department will not send its officers to a training session in Arizona this year out of respect, its chief says, for the city's boycott against a tough new immigration law in that state. Four officers were supposed to attend next month's annual Airborne Law Enforcement Association...

Background on boycott

A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.

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