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submitted by grandie4 5 months ago, from google.com
China sought Sunday to deflate rising pressure from the U.S. and other powers over Chinese economic policies and growing assertiveness in world affairs, with its prime minister promising cooperation to bolster the global recovery. Premier Wen Jiabao took on critics in the West who say Chinese... More
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submitted by rodeox 8 months ago, from nytimes.com
As he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, President Obama defended the necessity of some wars, aligned his decision to escalate the combat in Afghanistan with the rationale for other conflicts where the United States has led the fight against oppression and appealed for greater... More
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submitted by bafficio 14 months ago, from latimes.com
Presidents Obama and Dmitry Medvedev's summit yields agreements on building closer cooperation on military and health issues. Russia will let the U.S. use its airspace in the Afghanistan war. Stepping cautiously in their first summit meeting, President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev... More
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submitted by rodeox 14 months ago, from news.bbc.co.uk
Iran's top legislative body has begun a partial recount of last month's disputed presidential elections. The Guardian Council has offered to recount a random 10% of the votes from the 12 June election. More
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submitted by trippie48 14 months ago, from bloomberg.com
Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Tehran to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, as the nation’s supreme leader said opposition allegations of vote-rigging should be investigated. More
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submitted by bafficio 15 months ago, from nytimes.com
North Korea announced on Monday that it had successfully conducted its second nuclear test, defying international warnings and dramatically raising the stakes in a global effort to persuade the recalcitrant Communist state to give up its weapons program. More
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submitted by rodeox 15 months ago, from latimes.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Obama at a White House meeting Monday that he wanted to resume peace negotiations with the Palestinians, but he stopped short of embracing the U.S. view of a fully sovereign Palestinian state. More
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submitted by eooties 15 months ago, from latimes.com
The U.S. military has begun flying armed Predator drones inside Pakistan and has given Pakistani officers significant control over targets, flight routes and decisions to launch attacks under a new joint operation, according to U.S. officials familiar with the program. More
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submitted by trippie48 16 months ago, from nytimes.com
As the insurgency of the Taliban and Al Qaeda spreads in Pakistan, senior American officials say they are increasingly concerned about new vulnerabilities for Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, including the potential for militants to snatch a weapon in transport or to insert sympathizers into... More
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submitted by chiasma 16 months ago, from google.com
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday told Marines being deployed to Afghanistan that a U.S. victory there would look similar to progress in Iraq, but he cautioned that more civilians with skills beyond the battlefield will be needed. The Obama administration has called up 17,000 more troops... More
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submitted by riverdrops 16 months ago, from google.com
Taliban militants on Thursday assumed control of a district in Pakistan about 100 kilometres from the capital, patrolling streets and markets, officials and witnesses said. Hundreds of armed fighters have set up checkpoints and occupied mosques in Buner district northwest of Islamabad, sparking... More
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submitted by agabriel 16 months ago, from reuters.com
North Korea said on Tuesday it was no longer bound by an international nuclear disarmament deal and would re-start its plant that makes arms-grade plutonium after the U.N. chastised it for launching a long-range rocket. More
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submitted by riverdrops 16 months ago, from nytimes.com
Despite a recent spate of attacks, the United States will leave Iraq on schedule, the top American commander in Iraq said on Sunday. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said that he would continue to monitor the situation on the ground, but that overall violence in... More
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submitted by chiasma 17 months ago, from nytimes.com
President Obama made an unannounced trip to Iraq on Tuesday, his first visit as commander in chief to the site of one of the two wars he inherited and must now see through to an end. More
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submitted by riverdrops 17 months ago, from abcnews.go.com
Media witnessed a Sunday night ceremony for the arrival of a Virginia airman killed in Afghanistan, marking the end of an 18-year ban on news coverage of returning U.S. war dead. More
