Radar problems foil missile defense test
Six minutes later, a second missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, to find the first one and destroy it. Both missiles flew successfully, but missed each other because of a problem in the sea-based X-band radar, ... Read More
Main Opposition Leaders in Iran Call for Rally
The two main opposition leaders in Iran called on their supporters on Saturday to take part in a demonstration on Feb. 11, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the opposition ... Read More
NATO and Kazakhstan Reach Transit Pact for Afghanistan
. MOSCOW — NATO and Kazakhstan finished an agreement Wednesday that will permit NATO allies to ship cargo through Kazakh territory to Afghanistan, if an significant option to vulnerable routes elsewhere. Kazakhstan was the final holdout in ... Read More
Northern Ireland Power-Sharing Talks Go On
HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) — Rival parties in Northern Ireland cast aside a Friday deadline set by the British and Irish prime ministers, negotiating into Saturday in an effort to evade the fall down of their power-sharing ... Read More
Israel Defends Its Inquiry Into Gaza War
JERUSALEM — Israel sent a letter to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, on Friday, defending the credibility of its interior military investigation into the Israeli Army’s behavior during last winter’s Gaza war. The 40-page document ... Read More
Threats Lead Food Agency to Curtail Aid in Somalia
UNITED NATIONS — After weeks of receiving threats and demands that it discharge many female employees and pay a “security fee” to an Islamic extremist group, the United Nations World Food Program announced Tuesday that it was ... Read More
Cleric in Yemen Admits Meeting Airliner Plot Suspect, Journalist Says
SANA, Yemen — Anwar al-Awlaki, the deserter American-born cleric accused of terrorist ties, acknowledged for the first time that he met with the Nigerian suspect in the Dec. 25 airliner bomb plot, though he denied any role ... Read More
U.S. Arms for Taiwan Send Beijing a Message
WASHINGTON — For the past year, China has adopted an ever more muscular position toward the United States, berating American officials for the global profitable crisis, stage-managing President Obama’s visit to China in November, refusing to back ... Read More
Forces Pushing Obama to Act on Gays in Military
WASHINGTON — President Obama and top Pentagon officials met frequently over the past year about repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the law that bans openly gay members of the military. But it was in Oval Office strategy ... Read More
Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law
The Obama administration is proposing a extensive repair of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be following or failing, as well as ... Read More
Political Uncertainty Grips a Russian Republic
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — Last week here in the capital of the southern republic of Dagestan, the storm whipped uncollected garbage in every direction and tens of thousands of citizens lost heat, electricity and water. The traffic police, ... Read More
Russia outraged over attacks in India
New Delhi, India (CNN) -- Russia has uttered outrage over the suspected rape of a nine-year-old girl in an Indian seaside resort, the latest in a series of attacks reported against foreigners in the tropical tourist hotspot. "We are shocked ... Read More
Senate OKs sanctions on Iran
Washington (CNN) -- The Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would allow President Obama to enlarge sanctions against Iran to pressure the Islamic republic to drop its nuclear weapons ambitions. The House passed its own prolonged sanctions bill last ... Read More
Clinton calls for more Haiti aid at Davos
Davos, Switzerland (CNN) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has warned that many Haitians still face a daily resist to find food and water two weeks after the island was decimated by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed an estimated 150,000 ... Read More
Uzbek fighters lose public support in tribal areas
Landi Kotal, Khyber Agency – Uzbeks aligned with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) have acquired a reputation as some of the most savage militants fighting Pakistani forces in the tribal regions and alliance forces in Afghanistan. Reports of their ... Read More
