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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
Flow of Terrorist Recruits Increasing
The New York Times reports that Western counterterrorism officials found that an increasing number of recruits from the West have been...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Iran rocked by attacks
As talks about Iran’s nuclear program are set to resume, suicide attacks have rocked the southeast region of Iran, which borders...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Karzai Likely to Face Runoff Election, "Furious" Over Report
BBC is reporting that the Electoral Complaints Commission (EEC) will report that Afghan President Hamid Karzai did not receive enough...
Oct 18, 20091 min read
Troop Increase Decision Will Wait for Fraud Report
BBC is reporting that President Obama will postpone his decision regarding troop increases in Afghanistan until claims of fraud in...
Oct 18, 20091 min read
Ahmadinejad Vows to Avenge Bombing
reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed revenge on those responsible for a suicide bombing that killed 5 senior...
Oct 18, 20091 min read
Military Seeks $1.3 Billion for Projects in Afghanistan
The Washington Post reports that the United States military is requesting $1.3 billion as part of the 2010 defense appropriations bill to...
Oct 18, 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 17, 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
Pakistan’s response
The WSJ reports that the Pakistan military has moved into the mountain strongholds of South Waziristan in response to the attacks on its...
Oct 17, 20091 min read
Pakistan's response
The WSJ reports that the Pakistan military has moved into the mountain strongholds of South Waziristan in response to the attacks on its...
Oct 17, 20091 min read
Senate Considering Extension of Patriot Act Provisions
Following the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 11-8 vote to extend expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, the full Senate now looks toward...
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
Pakistan Launches Taliban Assault
BBC News reports that Pakistan has launched an offensive against Taliban militants in the South Waziristan area that could last for up to...
Oct 16, 20091 min read
CIA’s Continued Resistance to Document Release
Friday, the NYT reported on the CIA’s continued resistance to revealing documents from 1963 related to Lee Harvey Oswald and a Cuban...
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