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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...
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...
Oct 16, 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
Crisis looms in Kabul over Karzai election results
Allegations of electoral fraud may place the United States in a very uncomfortable situation as Hamid Karzai, a strong ally of the U.S....
Oct 16, 20091 min read
UN HRC endorses Goldstone Report
In a twenty-five countries to six vote (including the US and the Netherlands), with eleven countries abstaining and five declining to...
Oct 16, 20091 min read
Women Assume Pivotal New Role in Afghanistan
NPR recently reported on the use of Marine Female Engagement Teams (FETs) to interact with a segment of Afghan society previously...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
US Missile Shield Talks, Non-NATO Members, and Russia
RIA Novosti reports that Russia has expressed concern about the United States’ missile shield talks with non-NATO ally Ukraine. As we...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
Lithuania Yet to Decide on Guantanamo Inmates
Globalsecurity.org links to an article by the RIA Novosti news service, on Lithuania’s delay to accept Guantanamo inmates. Dalia...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
India and Russia agree on $5bn arms deal
India and Russia agreed to two military pacts worth at least $5 billion over ten years. The first contract is for weapons and aircraft,...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
Israel may launch ground attacks on Iran after December
French newspaper Le Canard Enchainé speculates that Israel might launch a small special forces attack on Iran shortly after the new year....
Oct 15, 20091 min read
Explosion in Southern Lebanon
An explosion rocked a Hezbollah member’s house near the southern city of Tyre. Some people are suggesting that this was unexploded...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
Syria transferring medium and long range missiles to Lebanon
The Kuwaiti al Jarida reported Thursday that Syria moved almost a quarter of its medium- and long-range missiles to Hizzbullah control....
Oct 15, 20091 min read
Progress reported in Honduras coup crisis
The L.A. Times reports that backers of the coup against Manuel Zelaya made progress Wednesday in negotiations with representatives of the...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
ICC Prosecutor begins investigation in Guinea
Luis Moreno-Ocampo confirmed yesterday that the Office of the Prosecutor is beginning preliminary investigations on the situation in...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
Coup d’état in Madagascar leads to new deal
Andry Rajoelina was mayor of Antananarivo before he took over in a coup d’état last year. At first, the international community shunned...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
South African President Jacob Zuma aims to rid out corruption
Major trials taking place in Johannesberg have become the center of attention recently with accusations of corruption, embezzlement and...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
UN Human Rights Chief backs report on Gaza war crimes
Navi Pillay, the United Nation’s top human rights official, backed the Goldstone report that detailed war crimes committed in Gaza last...
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