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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...

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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...

Oct 15, 20091 min read

Italy accused of bribing Taliban for safety in Afghanistan

The Times of London accused Italy of issuing secret payments to Taliban fighters in the Sarobi region of Afghanistan. The Times claims...

Oct 15, 20091 min read

500 more British troops to be sent to Afghanistan

President Obama met with his national security team several times this week and spoke with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Prime...