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Security Issues in Afghanistan Prevent Foreign Investment, Cause Local Businesses to Flee
Security issues, monopolies, corruption and political misconduct are all working to drive business investment in Afghanistan out of the...
Nov 20, 20091 min read
IAEA Presses Iran to Accept Most Recent Nuclear Deal
The International Atomic Energy Agency strongly encouraged Iran to adopt a more cooperative position with regard to the latest uranium...
Nov 20, 20091 min read
Tough choices for Administration on Afghanistan
The Obama administration’s deliberations over how to proceed with the war in Afghanistan has transformed into a battle of between...
Nov 13, 20091 min read
North Korea Issues Warnings to the South After Naval Skirmish
North Korea threatened to take what it termed “merciless military measures” after its warships clashed with the South Korean navy along a...
Nov 13, 20091 min read
Blast Kills Seven, Injures 35 in Peshawar
A suicide car-bomber hit Pakistan’s intelligence agency in the northwestern province of Peshawar, killing at least seven people and...
Nov 13, 20091 min read
9/11 Suspect To Be Tried in New York City
The accused mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be moved from Guantanamo Bay to New York for trial in civilian court,...
Nov 13, 20091 min read


Afghan community provides guidance for new counterinsurgency strategy
A new development model in Jurm has raised hopes for Afghan villagers. Via NYTimes. Small grants given to villagers in the small valley...
Nov 13, 20091 min read
Problems in U.S.-Russian Nuclear Talks
The Salt II treaty, an agreement between Russian and the United States that limits the number and types of nuclear weapons and delivery...
Nov 12, 20091 min read
Israeli Military Police Start Investigating Alligations of War Crime
B’tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, said that members of the military police asked for help in securing interviews with...
Nov 12, 20091 min read
Nuclear Security in Pakistan
Pakistan developed its first nuclear weapon over 20 years ago, and now has an estimated 80-100 nukes scattered throughout the country....
Nov 10, 20092 min read
Japan Pledges $5 Billion in Aid for Afghanistan
Japan announced a pledge of at least $1 billion per year over the next five years just ahead of a visit by president Obama. Defense...
Nov 10, 20091 min read
Saudi Arabia Denies Fighting Across the Yemeni Border
Saudi Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz, the assistant minister for defense and aviation, admitted that four Saudi soldiers were...
Nov 8, 20091 min read
Fighting on the Saudi-Yemen Border
For the fifth strait day, Saudi security forces have been shelling Houthi positions across the Yemen border. Mohammed Abdel-Salam, a...
Nov 7, 20091 min read
British PM Warns Karzai that Afghanistan May Lose UK Support
In an address to the Royal College of Defense Studies in London today, British prime minister Gordon Brown said that Afghan president...
Nov 6, 20091 min read
ICC Prosecutor Asks for Formal Investigation in Kenya
After completing preliminary investigations into violence that shook Kenya after elections in early 2008, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief...
Nov 5, 20091 min read
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Ends Boycott
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s prime minister, boycotted the unity government three weeks ago, but has gone back to work in the country’s...
Nov 5, 20091 min read
UN General Assembly Votes to Back the Goldstone Report
In a 114 to 18 vote, with 44 member-states abstaining, the UN General Assembly voted today to endorse the Goldstone report. The report,...
Nov 5, 20091 min read
Chief of Russia's Spy Agency Warns of New Georgian War
In a very rare public interview commemorating the 91st anniversary of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), Aleksandr...
Nov 5, 20091 min read
The Pentagon Is "Decades Behind" Tracking Satellites
After a defunct Russian satellite collided with a Iridium-owned US satellite, which SatCom commander Gen. Kevin Chilton called a “seminal...
Nov 4, 20091 min read
India Sells 6.7 Billion U.S. Dollars For Gold
India sent a very clear signal today when it announced it had bought 200 tons of gold from the IMF for $6.7 billion. India, with the...
Nov 4, 20091 min read
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