Syrian and Saudi leaders visit Lebanon Friday for a rare meeting aimed at diffusing tensions over a possible Hezbollah indictment for the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah will hold talks with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in Beirut. Security is tight ahead [...]
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke with several key officials in the Middle East this week to press for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks. Mr. Ban spoke separately by telephone with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Secretary-General of the Arab League and the foreign minister of Egypt to underscore his support for proceeding toward meaningful direct talks between [...]
The Mexican government says a top member of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel has been killed. Late Thursday, authorities confirmed reports in the Mexican media that Inacio “Nacho” Coronel, a senior member of the cartel, was killed in a military raid near the western city of Guadalajara. The U.S. State Department previously described Coronel [...]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says he has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, to assist in the probe into the leak and publication of classified military documents. Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen spoke about the issue at a press conference at the Pentagon on [...]
President Barack Obama met on Thursday with his national security team to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan. The 7th such regular meeting on the subject came as the government pressed ahead with an investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan. Taking part in the meeting in the [...]
The United States and South Korean on Sunday began a major naval exercise that North Korea has threatened could lead to a “sacred war” based on “nuclear deterrence”. The drills, code-named “Invincible Spirit,” will run through Wednesday with about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, 20 ships and submarines and 200 aircraft, including the nuclear-powered [...]
The United States and South Korean on Sunday began a major naval exercise that North Korea has threatened could lead to a “sacred war” based on “nuclear deterrence”. The drills, code-named “Invincible Spirit,” will run through Wednesday with about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, 20 ships and submarines and 200 aircraft, including the nuclear-powered [...]
A stampede at a music festival in western Germany has left at least 18 people dead and several dozen more injured, some of them seriously. The incident occurred in the city of Duisburg, located not far from Duesseldorf, when crowds massed near a tunnel leading to the Love Parade festival. The overcrowding triggered panic that [...]
The United States and South Korean on Sunday began a major naval exercise that North Korea has threatened could lead to a “sacred war” based on “nuclear deterrence”. The drills, code-named “Invincible Spirit,” will run through Wednesday with about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, 20 ships and submarines and 200 aircraft, including the nuclear-powered [...]
A stampede at a music festival in western Germany has left at least 18 people dead and several dozen more injured, some of them seriously. The incident occurred in the city of Duisburg, located not far from Duesseldorf, when crowds massed near a tunnel leading to the Love Parade festival. The overcrowding triggered panic that [...]
A stampede at a music festival in western Germany has left at least 18 people dead and several dozen more injured, some of them seriously. The incident occurred in the city of Duisburg, located not far from Duesseldorf, when crowds massed near a tunnel leading to the Love Parade festival. The overcrowding triggered panic that [...]
The top U.S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, spent more than two hours Saturday flying over Northern Pakistan with his counterpart, General Ashfaq Kiyani, to get a bird’s eye view of some of the rough terrain where Pakistani forces are taking on insurgent groups. The aerial tour was part of a 24-hour visit – the [...]
The top U.S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, spent more than two hours Saturday flying over Northern Pakistan with his counterpart, General Ashfaq Kiyani, to get a bird’s eye view of some of the rough terrain where Pakistani forces are taking on insurgent groups. The aerial tour was part of a 24-hour visit – the [...]
The top U.S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, spent more than two hours Saturday flying over Northern Pakistan with his counterpart, General Ashfaq Kiyani, to get a bird’s eye view of some of the rough terrain where Pakistani forces are taking on insurgent groups. The aerial tour was part of a 24-hour visit – the [...]
NATO officials in Afghanistan say they are searching for two American sailors who disappeared from their compound in Kabul City. NATO said Saturday that the U.S. service members left the compound in a vehicle Friday and never returned. Afghan officials said Saturday the two sailors were seen driving an armored vehicle in the country’s [...]
NATO officials in Afghanistan say they are searching for two American sailors who disappeared from their compound in Kabul City. NATO said Saturday that the U.S. service members left the compound in a vehicle Friday and never returned. Afghan officials said Saturday the two sailors were seen driving an armored vehicle in the country’s [...]
NATO officials in Afghanistan say they are searching for two American sailors who disappeared from their compound in Kabul City. NATO said Saturday that the U.S. service members left the compound in a vehicle Friday and never returned. Afghan officials said Saturday the two sailors were seen driving an armored vehicle in the country’s [...]
Energy giant BP is moving ships back to the source of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as Tropical Depression Bonnie dissipates, but the company says work to permanently plug the well may not resume for days. BP called off its evacuation of the Gulf Saturday when the approaching storm lost strength. Weather forecasters say [...]
Energy giant BP is moving ships back to the source of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as Tropical Depression Bonnie dissipates, but the company says work to permanently plug the well may not resume for days. BP called off its evacuation of the Gulf Saturday when the approaching storm lost strength. Weather forecasters say [...]
Energy giant BP is moving ships back to the source of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as Tropical Depression Bonnie dissipates, but the company says work to permanently plug the well may not resume for days. BP called off its evacuation of the Gulf Saturday when the approaching storm lost strength. Weather forecasters say [...]
Concluding a second round of the so-called U.S.-Pakistan strategic dialogue in Islamabad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday announced more than $500 million in several new aid programs for Pakistan. The string of new projects unveiled by Clinton during a joint press conference with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Memood Qureshi are designed to help [...]
In eastern India, at least 61 people have been killed and some 120 others injured after an high speed express train slammed into a stationary train in West Bengal state. Most passengers were sleeping when the accident occured at around 2:00 am Monday morning in Sainthia station, bout 200 kilometers north of the state capital, [...]
Afghanistan is hosting a major international meeting aimed at showing world leaders it is capable of taking control of its own security and development. Security forces were deployed throughout Kabul Monday, as top officials from more than 60 countries and international groups, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, [...]
Six Afghan police officers and two U.S. soldiers have been killed in separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan. Afghan officials say the police officers were killed and four others wounded Monday when a bomb ripped through their vehicle in the Khakrez district of Kandahar province. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Two American soldiers [...]
Russia’s upper house of parliament has approved a controversial bill expanding the powers of the domestic security agency. Opponents say the new law will make the agency more like its Soviet-era predecessor the KGB. A new bill approved by the Russian parliament gives the country’s domestic intelligence agency, known as the FSB, the power to [...]
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