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Syria forces ‘kill 9 deserters’ as NATO rejects action
May 21st
DAMASCUS: Syrian forces ambushed and killed nine army deserters in a north Damascus suburb on Monday, a human rights watchdog said, as NATO ruled out military action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The bloodletting also appeared to spill over into neighbouring Lebanon where two people were killed overnight in street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in Beirut, a security official said
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Loading ...World backs my Afghan exit plan: Obama
May 21st
CHICAGO: US President Barack Obama opened a NATO summit Sunday saying the world backed his plan to end war in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai pledged his bloodied state would no longer be a “burden.” Leaders of more than 50 nations stood in solemn silence as a bugler’s lament recalled the heavy cost of a conflict that has killed over 3,000 coalition soldiers, maimed thousands more and left tens of thousands of Afghans dead. As war weary western publics pine for an exit, the summit was set to endorse a withdrawal strategy and seek firm commitments from alliance states to train and bankroll Afghan forces to ensure a decade of sacrifice is not wasted. Obama, fresh from corralling European leaders to unite behind a plan to save the euro at the G8 summit, switched to commander-in-chief in talks with Karzai ahead of the summit, three weeks after his dramatic flight into Kabul
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Taliban say NATO should leave Afghanistan now
May 21st
KABUL: The Taliban
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NATO officials: No plan to intervene in Syria
May 21st
United States and NATO officials say the North Atlantic alliance has no intention of intervening militarily to quell violence in Syria. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and U.S
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Clinton meets President Zardari over supply line row
May 21st
CHICAGO — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari here on Sunday, as both sides haggled over a deal to reopen NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, a US official said. “Secretary Clinton did meet with President Zardari,” said Ben Rhodes, a deputy US national security advisor, on the sidelines of the NATO summit here, but did not provide further details.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Thousands begin NATO protest march through Chicago
May 20th
Thousands of demonstrators upset with the war in Afghanistan, climate change and the erosion of union rights marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday, taking their discontent on a wide range of issues to world leaders assembled for a NATO summit. The protest, one of the city s largest in years, was to end at the lakeside convention center hosting the two-day meeting. Some are calling for the dissolution of NATO, the 63-year-old military alliance that is holding its 25th formal meeting in Chicago
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NATO chief urges Pakistan to help stabilize Afghanistan
May 20th
CHICAGO: NATO’s chief urged Islamabad to back efforts to stabilize Afghanistan as he prepared for talks Saturday with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, on the eve of a NATO summit.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Syria bomb kills 9, Damascus blames foreign plot
May 20th
BEIRUT: A car bomb killed nine people at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, an attack the government said was the latest proof that an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was a foreign plot. The official SANA news agency said the blast had been the work of a suicide bomber, and had also wounded about 100 people, including guards, at what it called military installations
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chicago braces for largest anti-NATO protest
May 20th
Chicago police trying to keep the peace during the NATO summit may face their biggest test on Sunday when thousands of demonstrators were expected to march near the site where leaders of the military alliance begin a two-day meeting. Previous protests in the runup to the summit Sunday and Monday have been lively but peaceful, resulting in fewer than two dozen arrests over the past six days, according to the Chicago Police Department
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Myanmar workers embrace new power to strike
May 20th
Silenced for decades under military rule, Myanmar s workers are now daring to speak out to demand better pay and conditions after a new law gave them the right to strike. Workers in the country formerly known as Burma are already testing their new-found power with a string of walkouts, emboldened by legislation that is considered among the most progressive in the region. Hundreds of employees from three garment factories at Yangon s Hlaing Thar Yar Industrial Zone went on strike last week demanding improved working conditions, picketing outside the plants.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Krishna to visit Pakistan in July
May 20th
Indian foreign minister S M Krishna would visit Pakistan in July during which he would meet President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to discuss wide range of talks. This was told by Indian Foreign Minister while taking to media that date has not been decided yet but hopefully he would visit Pakistan in the third week of July for bilateral discussion in which both countries would talk on solutions of the various matters. It would be three-day visit, he added
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...President Zardari arrives in Chicago to attend NATO Summit
May 20th
President Asif Ali Zardari arrived Chicago on Saturday to attend the NATO summit and hold meetings with world leaders on bilateral and regional issues, especially peace and security in Afghanistan and the region.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NATO supply lines not reopened yet: Malik
May 19th
Staff Report LAHORE: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Saturday that NATO supply lines had not been restored yet. This he said while speaking to newsmen after meeting Jamaat-e-Islami leader Syed Munawar Hasan in Lahore. The government is implementing the decisions of the Parliament, he said, adding NATO supply has not been restored yet
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...No decision against national aspirations, says Malik
May 19th
The government would follow the guide line of the government. No decision would be taken against the aspirations of the nation. The opposition has right to go on long or short march but such uncertain situation would not happen, said Rehman Malik
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sri Lanka marks anniversary of Tigers’ defeat
May 19th
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday rejected international calls to withdraw troops from the island’s former war zone as he marked the third anniversary of the Tamil rebels’ defeat. In a bullish address to the nation, Rajapakse said he could not dismantle military camps in the north because it would undermine national security in a country slowly emerging from nearly four decades of ethnic bloodshed. “The diaspora has not stopped their activities,” Rajapakse declared, referring to Tamil separatists abroad
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Guantanamo tribunal weighs separate 9/11 trials
May 19th
The men, who are being held at Guantanamo Bay, were formally charged earlier this month with crimes that include murder and terrorism. They face the death penalty if convicted for their roles in the Al-Qaeda attacks that claimed 2,976 lives in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania
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