US wants UN sanctions resolution on Iran within weeks
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 - 09:07:45PARIS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The United States wants the UN Security Council to approve a resolution within weeks, not months, laying the ground for new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. ...
US wants UN sanctions resolution on Iran within weeks
Ukraine's Tymoshenko bloc to contest election result
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 - 08:56:28Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc has said it will contest in court the conduct of the Ukrainian presidential election she appears to have narrowly lost. Deputy leader Elena Shustik said the bloc would contest results at some polling stations and ask for a ...
Ukraine's Tymoshenko bloc to contest election result
Fatah wants US to clarify Israeli talks
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 - 05:46:46- Tags:
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AP A senior Palestinian official urged the United States on Monday to make clear that the indirect Mideast peace talks it has proposed will deal with key outstanding issues including borders, settlements and the future status of Jerusalem. ...
Fatah wants US to clarify Israeli talks
Sri Lanka's Fonseka treated like 'an animal': wife
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 - 09:16:00COLOMBO — The wife of Sri Lankan ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka accused the government on Tuesday of abducting her husband and treating him "like an animal" following his dramatic arrest. "This is not an arrest. It is an abduction," a tearful Anoma ...
Sri Lanka's Fonseka treated like 'an animal': wife
Unrest in Indian Kashmir enters 2nd week
Monday, 08 February 2010 - 09:54:25Kashmiri Muslim protesters shout pro freedom slogans as they protest the killing of 17-year-old Zahid Farooq Shah, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Shah who died Friday is the second teenager in a week whose death has been ...
Unrest in Indian Kashmir enters 2nd week
Endgame for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran?
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 - 06:13:25- Tags:
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The Iranian president has promised a 'telling blow' against world leaders. But, says Con Coughlin, his recent nuclear posturing is an attempt to shore up his increasingly perilous position at home. By Con Coughlin First came the announcement that Iran ...
Endgame for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran?
US Marines gear up for major Afghan assault
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 - 09:15:59- Tags:
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- Afghanistan
- assault
TOOR GHAR, Afghanistan — US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war. Thousands of Afghan, US and NATO forces are ...
US Marines gear up for major Afghan assault
Man Pulled From Rubble in Haiti Nearly 4 Weeks After Earthquake
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 - 07:27:38By JOEL MILLMAN and DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—A 28-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a market in Port-au-Prince on Monday and has been admitted to the University of Miami's field hospital in the capital, adjacent to the ...
Man Pulled From Rubble in Haiti Nearly 4 Weeks After Earthquake