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Suspected US drone strike kills 8 in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — A suspected US missile attack targeting Al-Qaeda-linked militants killed eight people in Pakistan's mountains on the Afghan border as CIA chief Leon ...
CIA Secret 'Torture' Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former ...
Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan
On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “We ought ...
Why Pakistan Won't Fight the Afghan Taliban
President Barack Obama is about to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, but the success of whatever option he chooses will depend heavily on Pakistan ...
US concerned about definition of aggression as international crime
THE HAGUE — A United States ambassador said Thursday that Washington was concerned about how aggression will be defined as an international crime. "I would ...
Afghans say President Karzai's five-year handover is not soon enough
"People hate the Americans from the bottom of their hearts," Haji Akhtar Mohammed Shinwari said as he recalled how the US military had brought death ...
Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born: U.N.
GENEVA - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the ...
Two US Soldiers Killed In Afghan Blast As Karzai Sworn In - NATO
KABUL (AFP) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed by a car bomb in southern Afghanistan Thursday, at the same time Afghan President Hamid Karzai was ...
U.S. headed for Vietnam War-like disaster in Afghanistan, two experts warn
TORONTO — The United States is being dragged into a bloody Vietnam War-like morass because of a misguided obsession with establishing a national government in ...
Credit card rate freeze killed
An attempt to freeze credit card rates and fees until more strict regulations take effect in February died Wednesday in the Senate when Republicans blocked ...
Canada shamed on Afghan prisoner torture
OTTAWA–A senior diplomat delivered a series of explosive allegations to a rapt House of Commons committee Wednesday, telling MPs that Afghan prisoners transferred by Canadians ...
Afghan detainees surrendered by Canada were tortured: Envoy
OTTAWA — A senior Canadian diplomat said he was on orders from his Ottawa superiors to leave no paper trail about his allegations that Canada ...
Soviet lessons from Afghanistan
All the most senior ministers were at the Afghan strategy meeting. They knew things were not going well, but from their leader there was a ...
'We may have to sacrifice just two more jobs to get millions back for Americans'
President Barack Obama "is being failed by his economic team" and should replace Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House economic policy director Larry Summers, ...
Suspected U.S. drone kills 4 in Pakistan-officials
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into a northwestern Pakistani militant stronghold on Wednesday killing four people, ...
CA Dems to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan
The California Democratic Party just sent a loud message to President Obama, who is pondering the next U.S. move in Afghanistan: Get out.The state's Dems ...
Bill would stop move of Gitmo detainees to region
An Iowa congressman said today he would introduce legislation to bar the Obama administration from moving detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Thomson Correctional Center ...
Obama admits Guantanamo won't close by Jan. deadline
BEIJING -- President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline ...
U.S. Democrats demand analysis of drug price rises
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 - Congressional Democrats are seeking government investigations into recent price increases of brand-name prescription drugs, as Congress finalizes an overhaul of the ...
Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages
AUSTIN — Texans: Are you really married? Maybe not. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word ...
Obama Says Afghan Strategy Will Include Path to Exit
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he is "very close" to deciding on a new course for the war in Afghanistan that will ...
Army Data Show Constraints on Troop Increase Potential
If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving ...
Top Democrats eye stock trade tax
House Democratic leaders are considering imposing a new tax on stock transactions to fund a jobs bill, leadership sources tell The Hill. Rep. Ed Perlmutter ...
Afghan minister accused of taking bribe
KABUL -- The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, ...
Failed cancer treatment doubly painful for widow
Jose Sanchez was desperate when he visited the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in January. The 49-year-old Waukegan man, diagnosed with gastric carcinoma, had been ...
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