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Senior Military Leader Assassinated in Islamabad
Pakistani army brigadier Moinudin Ahmed, who helped plan military operations in Swat and Bajaur, was assassinated in Islamabad today. At...
Oct 22, 20091 min read
Israel Wants to Change the Laws of War
The UN Human Rights Counsel endorced the Goldstone report last Friday, which alleges that war crimes were committed in Gaza last...
Oct 21, 20091 min read
The US Cannot Wait for Runoff Elections in Afghanistan
While on his way to Tokyo today, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that NATO/ISAF members should not wait on a runoff election in...
Oct 20, 20091 min read
Gorbachev Critical of Russian Election Fraud
In an interview with Novaya Gazeta, Mikhail Gorbachev said that the pro-Kremlin United Russia party discredited itself and the people’s...
Oct 20, 20091 min read
Iran Might Go Back to France For Uranium Enrichment
Al Jazeera reported that there was a draft document circulating in Vienna today that might allow Iran and France to hammer out a deal to...
Oct 20, 20091 min read
Israel's Response to the Goldstone Report
The reported that Israel’s defense minister convened his security cabinet today to discuss the response to the Goldstone report, which...
Oct 20, 20091 min read
Russia Violates Black Sea Agreement With Ukraine
According to a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty report, Russian naval commanders have objected to Ukrainian searches of ships of the...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Iran Announces it Will Not Export Uranium
Iran had announced, after talks on October 1, that it would export approximately 75% of its estimated 1.5 tons of low-enriched uranium...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Iran Claims West Behind Recent Attacks
While Iran meets in Vienna with western countries to talk about its nuclear program, Tehran claims that it has evidence linking Britain...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
ElBaradi Says Nuclear Talks Start Out Well
Mohamed ElBaradei, the IAEA Chief, said that talks today in Vienna between US, Russian, French and Iranian officials have started out...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Police helicopter shot down in Rio
A police helicopter monitoring fighting between rival gangs in Rio de Janeiro was shot down in fighting Saturday that claimed the lives...
Oct 18, 20091 min read
Pakistani offensive enters its second day.
Hamid Nawaz, a former Pakistani general, said that he believes the operation could be completed before the December snowfall, Al Jazeera...
Oct 18, 20091 min read
US calls for world community to put pressure on Mugabe
Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition party, announced Friday...
Oct 17, 20091 min read
Moscow warns US about missile deals
The Moscow Times reported that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday that the United States should not consider...
Oct 17, 20091 min read
Iraq approves first major post-war foreign oil deal.
BP was thrown out of Iraq in 1972 when Saddam Hussein nationalized Iraq’s oil industry. The BBC reported today that BP will hold a 38%...
Oct 17, 20091 min read
West Africa arms embargo against Guinea.
Responding to what it calls “mass human rights violations” by the ruling Guinean junta, the Economic Community of West Africa announced...
Oct 17, 20091 min read
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis flee Southern Waziristan
Al Jazeera reported today that some 28,000 Pakistani soldiers launched a ground offensive against an estimated 10,000 Taliban, Uzbek and...
Oct 17, 20091 min read
Clinton expresses confidence in Pakistani Nukes
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and British Secretary of State David Miliband said Sunday that they have confidence in the security of...
Oct 16, 20091 min read
Georgia denies al Qaeda links
Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgia’s Security Council Chief, denied a Russian claim made Thursday that Georgia is conspiring with al Qaeda to...
Oct 16, 20091 min read
Possible runoff election in Afghanistan
Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, said in an interview Wednesday that the Karzai government is preparing...
Oct 16, 20091 min read
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