Friday, 25 July 2008 @ 08:48
Rice: Pakistan must do more against Taliban
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory.
Friday, 25 July 2008 @ 07:48
Obama: New walls need tearing down
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama was due to arrive in Paris on Friday, one day after speaking to hundreds of thousands of exuberant people in Berlin.
Friday, 25 July 2008 @ 06:49
Ecuador assembly backs draft charter
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Friday, 25 July 2008 @ 05:40
Obama urges Europeans, Americans to defeat terror (AP)
AP - Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.
Friday, 25 July 2008 @ 04:59
Detainee on trial said boss left Guantanamo (AP)
AP - A Moroccan prisoner released from Guantanamo in 2004 was Osama bin Laden's top bodyguard, according to testimony Thursday in the war crimes trial of another alleged bodyguard.
Friday, 25 July 2008 @ 01:44
SAfrican lawyer nominated as UN human rights chief (AP)
AP - One of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending apartheid opponents was nominated Thursday to serve as the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights.
Thursday, 24 July 2008 @ 23:56
U.S. may shift aid to fix Pakistan fighter jets
The United States plans to shift about $230 million in aid to Pakistan from counterterrorism programs to upgrading the nation's aging F-16 fighter jets.
Thursday, 24 July 2008 @ 23:40
100 female U.S. troops have died in Iraq
The death of an Air Force technical sergeant in Iraq last week quietly ushered in a somber milestone: 100 American female service members now have died in Iraq, according to a CNN count of Pentagon figures.
Thursday, 24 July 2008 @ 22:05
Obama: World has new walls to tear down
U.S. senator and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is on his way to Europe, the next leg in an international trip intended to bolster his foreign-policy credentials.