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“Quartet” Meets For Middle East Talks PDF  | Print |
Written by Warren Mass   
Friday, 19 March 2010 15:30

The quartet — a group comprised of the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations that focuses on Middle East peace — met in Moscow on March 19. At the meeting, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the proposals offered by the Israeli government to reduce diplomatic tensions with the United States were “useful and productive,” and that the Obama administration would continue talks with Israel in Jerusalem and Washington.

 
Pakistan Indicts Five Americans for Terrorism | Print |  E-mail
Written by Warren Mass   
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:45

Major news sources reported on March 17 that five U.S. men who were arrested in Pakistan in December were charged this day with plotting terrorist attacks in Pakistan, charges that could lead to possible life sentences. The Los Angles Times reported that the men, ages 18 to 24, are U.S. citizens of Pakistani, African, and Egyptian descent who lived within blocks of each other in Alexandria, Virginia.

 
India-Pakistan 'Proxy War' Complicates Afghanistan | Print |  E-mail
Written by Alex Newman   
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 08:45

After several attacks on Indian targets by militants in Afghanistan, officials and analysts claim that the governments of Pakistan and India are waging a proxy war there.

 
U.S. Steps Up Military Aid to Yemen | Print |  E-mail
Written by Alex Newman   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:00

The Pentagon has approved more than $150 million in military assistance to the government of Yemen, more than doubling last year’s budget of $67 million, international news sources reported Tuesday.

 
Japan Offers to Enrich Uranium for Iran | Print |  E-mail
Written by Warren Mass   

Citing a February 24 report from the the Nikkei Business Daily, AFP news reported that Japan has offered to enrich uranium for Iran to allow it to have access to nuclear power, while relieving international fears that the Islamic nation might be trying to build atomic weapons.

 
U.S. to Spend $600 million on Afghan Police Stations, but How? | Print |  E-mail
Written by Raven Clabough   
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:01

In an attempt to increase the size of the Afghan police force to 160,000, the United State military intends to invest more than $600 million to build approximately 200 police stations for the Afghan National Police by 2013. This was announced only days after President Obama signed an executive order establishing a new, bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

 
Obama “Wouldn't Rule Out” War Against Iran, Spokesman Says | Print |  E-mail
Written by Thomas R. Eddlem   
Thursday, 18 February 2010 08:30

Americans received yet another confirmation on February 16 that President Obama has taken on the mantle of his war-mongering predecessor with a statement by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs saying he “wouldn't rule out” war against Iran.

 
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