| You have searched for: troops |
| |
 |
|
Around 30,000 people fleeing battles between United Nations-backed Congolese troops and Tutsi rebels are pouring into refugee camps near the eastern city of Goma, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday as fierce fighting continued.
UN helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles have been supporting Congolese troops north of Goma,...
 |
|
|
Russia's foreign minister added his voice to the controversy over South Ossetia's status hopes on Thursday. Georgia's separatist province, he said, has no intention of joining Russia, news agencies reported.
Sergei Lavrov interrupted a press conference in Poland, where he was discussing US missile defence plans, to clarify Moscow's...
|
|
|
Simmering anger with the Indian government and its security forces over a land row in the Kashmir Valley has sparked a larger movement that has seen thousands of Kashmiri Muslims take to the streets to demand "azadi," or freedom, in non-violent protests over the past two weeks.
Protestor Shakeel Ahmed, a university student,...
|
|
|
Thailand's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday that talks between Bangkok and Phnom Penh over disputed border areas were postponed by mutual agreement for internal procedures and not because of political tension in Thailand, as some media reported.
The "meeting has been postponed, not because of Thailand's domestic...
|
|
|
Baghdad (dpa) - Two suicide bombers were among three terrorists killed Wednesday in a clash with US forces northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the US military said.
One of the bombers was shot dead and the other detonated his explosives as the troops approached, killing himself but causing no other casualties, the military...
|
|
|
A United Nations investigative team has found that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in a US-led coalition air raid in western Afghanistan last week, the top UN envoy in the country said Tuesday.
The team "found convincing evidence, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses and others that some 90 civilians were...
|
|
|
Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.
Police earlier arrested three prominent separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, to foil a major...
|
|
|
China has deported all 10 of the pro-Tibet activists it arrested for protesting or helping to organize protests during the Beijing Olympics, releasing them before the end of their 10-day detention following pressure from the US embassy in Beijing, a US-based Tibet rights group said Monday.
"All 10 have been deported. They were...
|
|
|
Russian combat forces began a slow withdrawal from Georgia on Friday but were still operating road checkpoints deep in the country despite a pledge to leave by the end of the day.
The Russian general staff said that troops were "in the final stage of pulling back," but they would continue to hold buffer zones and maintain...
|
|
|
Russia's army on Wednesday continued its occupation of two enclaves in Georgia as Kremlin officials claimed they would accelerate what they said was an already in-progress withdrawal.
President Dmitry Medvedev promised his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that all but a 500-strong contingent of peace keepers would leave Georgian...
|
|
|
Pakistan's erstwhile strongman Pervez Musharraf resigned as president Monday, succumbing to pressure from the new ruling coalition to quit or face impeachment by parliament.
Born in Delhi on August 11, 1943 to educated parents, Musharraf came to Pakistan with his family after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
He...
|
|
|
The head of NATO is "seriously concerned" by the outbreak of fighting in Georgia and calls on all sides to return to the negotiating table, a statement released in Brussels said Friday.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is "seriously concerned about the events that are taking place in the Georgian region of...
|
|
|
Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh
clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's
troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round
missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing
seven members of the same family, including five children. The house
was completely...
|
|
|
 Tropical storm Dolly, which strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, hit the southern tip of Texas yesterday, shaking houses with violent winds and generating tornado warnings, as well as increasing fears of considerable flooding. Dolly, the first Atlantic hurricane to hammer the U.S. in 2008, reached the land at South Padre Island, in...
|
|
|
 U.S.
and Afghan troops have left an isolated village in eastern Afghanistan where militants murdered nine U.S. soldiers
and injured a dozen more on Sunday, officials said on Wednesday.
According to BBC, a statement informed that the base had
been provisional and that customary patrols in the region would be upheld.
However, local...
|
|
|
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday
efforts to end the ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have been
disappointing as the warring parties have chosen confrontation rather
than dialogue. 'I am deeply disappointed by the lack of
progress that has been made towards resolving the Darfur conflict,' Ban
told the UN...
|
|
|
At least two people were killed and 11 injured
Wednesday by a bomb that hit a police checkpoint in Fallujah, the once
hotbed of Sunni insurgency in west Iraq, according to police.
The bomb struck a police checkpoint in the centre of Fallujah, 45
kilometres west of Baghdad, police sources told the Voices of Iraq news
agency. ...
|
|
|
Pakistani paramilitary troops
threatened the city of Peshawar
and a close tribal area known as the Khyber Agency. The operation started
Friday, when hundreds of troops, soldiers and police crowded the capital of North-West
Frontier Province.
A day later, 400 supplementary
paramilitary troops came in Bara, the most important city...
|
|
|
 The number of victims in north Lebanon has reached eight, after
another person has been killed in the brutal sectarian battles, according to
security sources.
The clashes erupted on Sunday in the port city of Tripoli and, up to this
moment, over 50 people were injured and other 8 were killed. The conflict in
Bab al-Tebbaneh and...
|
|
|
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include economist Adam Smith in 1723; Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John Maynard...
|
|
|
 Australian troops completed combat operations in Iraq, ending a five-year commitment
to the war, CNN reports. The Australian Army lowered its flag at Camp Terendak
in the southern Iraqi city of Talil
on Monday. The 550 forces stationed at the camp will return home in the coming
weeks and another 60 combat forces who worked throughout...
|
|
|
Bollywood film celebrity Tania Zaetta denied the allegations
that she had sex with Australian Special Forces troops during a tour of
war-ravaged Afghanistan.
However, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, mentioned that the claims were being
investigated by defense officials.
Zaetta, who appeared on “Baywatch” and...
|
|
|
the 136th day of 2008 with 230 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include author L. Frank Baum ("The Wizard of Oz") in 1856; French chemist Pierre Curie in 1859; author...
|
|
|
the 132nd day of 2008 with 234 to follow. This is Mother's Day. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, in 1854;...
|
|
|
the 131st day of 2008 with 235 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include British statesman and scholar James Bryce in 1838; Swiss theologian Karl Barth in 1886; Max Steiner, who...
|
|
|
The U.S. administration
criticized Russia on Tuesday
for what it named a series of “provocative actions” in recent weeks in the
conflict between Moscow’s former republic of Georgia and its breakaway region of
Abkhazia, the Associated Press reports.
The White House blamed Russia
of escalating tensions over Abkhazia by...
|
|
|
the 126th day of 2008 with 240 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1813; German political theorist Karl Marx in 1818; hatmaker John...
|
|
|
the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
|
|
|
 U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to meet the three U.S. presidential candidates Thursday before
holding talks with President George W. Bush in Washington. As British newspapers pointed
comparisons between the premier’s three-day visit in the U.S. and the chronicled trip of Pope
Benedict XVI, a British official said that the...
|
|
|
 Two Sri Lankan police were killed in a claymore mine
explosion while escorting a Japanese official on a visit in eastern Sri Lanka, a
region recaptured from Tamil rebels. It had been under the control of
separatist rebels for more that 25 years. The Japanese aid convoy was visiting
an agricultural irrigation project in Vavunathivu...
|
|
|
 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend a meeting with top Israeli officials on Wednesday as a last stop in her Middle East tour. The main issue to be debated at the scheduled meeting will be the Israel-Gaza peace efforts. However, the meeting has been somewhat overshadowed by the latest Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip in...
|
|
|
 Baghdad witnessed Friday the worst bomb
attack in months. Two bombs exploded in two pet bazaars in the center of the
Iraqi capital, killing approximately 50 people, reports say. One bomb exploded in
Ghazil pet market and the other one a few minutes later, in New Baghdad pet
market. This is the most serious explosion since August 1,...
|
|
|
 In recent events, a UN human rights envoy today visited a
prison for political prisoners at the start of an investigation into the number
of people killed and detained when the Burmese junta crushed pro-democracy
protests.
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the UN's independent rights
investigator for Burma,
spent at least two hours at...
|
|
|
 According to witnesses and journalists in Mogadishu, neighborhoods in the Somali
capital were deserted on Sunday, a day after 17 civilians were brutally killed
in the wake of intense fighting between Ethiopian-backed Somali troops and
Islamic insurgents.
Witnesses in Mogadishu's
al-Baraka neighborhood said the dead included women...
|
|
|
 According to the US army, a US Army helicopter crashed in
northern Italy on Thursday, killing at least five people on board
Eleven US service members were on board the UH-60 Army
Blackhawk helicopter, US Army Europe said in a statement released by its
headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany.
Earlier, the Italian fire department said...
|
|
|
 In an attempt to minimize further casualties caused by serious differences over the fight against Iraq-based Kurdish guerrillas, President Bush and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sought Monday to resolve these issues. The two state officials agreed on the need to share intelligence to end their deadly raids.However there...
|
|
|
 According to local media, at least nine Turkish soldiers
were killed in fighting with Kurdish militants after midnight on Sunday, and
more soldiers were reported missing forcing Turkey’s prime minister to call an
emergency security summit The deaths dramatically increase the pressure on the
government to launch a military offensive...
|
|
|
 Although only a fraction of global oil supply could be
immediately threatened by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq,
the result of any conflict might escalate and disrupt the flow from the Middle
East.
The effect of the dispute was magnified in oil markets as it
came against a backdrop of tightening supply, said Paul...
|
|
|
the 258th day of 2007 with 107 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Saturn, Mars and Venus. The evening stars are Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date in history are under the sign of Virgo. They include novelist James Fenimore Cooper in 1789; William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United...
|
|
|
According to Canadian officials, the man that has been
behind terrorist attempts in Austria
and Germany has
been caught. The 35-year-old man will appear in court Friday after he was arrested
by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for alleged conspirative attacks.
Said Namouth from Quebec
was arrested on Thursday in...
|
|
|
 At least 14 people were killed and more than nine were
wounded when US strike
forces raided the west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The attack took place over night; several houses were
destroyed in the attack, which took place at about 03:00 (23:00 GMT) in the
Washash neighborhood of the city's Mansour district.
The...
|
|
|
 Four Palestinians were killed and another twelve were
injured in a clash with the Israeli ground forces while the latter were in a
raid on the Gaza Strip, region controlled by Hamas. One Hamas militant and one
40-year-old bystander were shot during the raid, nearby the Qarara and Abassan
villages, according to hospital...
|
|
|
 A report released by the US-based
group Human Rights Watch holds responsible Ethiopian, Somali, and insurgent
forces for severe violations of the laws of war that have resulted in
heavy civilian casualties.
The 113-page report called "Shell-Shocked:
Civilians under siege in Mogadishu" refers to the fights...
|
|
|
Though accused by a political rival of tacit protection of
Iran-tied militia, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed his optimism on his
government reconciliation on Sunday.
In the same time US military reported an attack that took
place on Saturday, causing the death of five soldiers and the injury of other
four troops. The...
|
|
|
the 191st day of 2007 with 174 to follow.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Protestant theologian John Calvin in 1509; American painter James Whistler in 1834; brewer...
|
|
|
 The International Security Assistance Force wasn’t very pleased when Afghan authorities communicated the death toll from the latest airstrikes, saying “less than a dozen” civilians died during Friday’s air raids. Major John Thomas, ISAF spokesman said “significant” fatalities were recorded among the civilian population, but the figures...
|
|
|
...the 166th day of 2007 with 199 to follow.
The moon is new. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Prince Edward of England, son of Edward III and known as the "Black Prince," in 1330;...
|
|
| |
 |
|
While United Nations peacekeepers are accused of failing their duties in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN General Assembly president said Friday the conflict there has reached an unprecedented scale in brutality against women and girls.
"This makes MONUC's mandate impossible to achieve," said Miguel d'Escoto,...
|
|
|
Syria asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to take action to prevent further attacks by the United States on its territory.
The council should assume its responsibility "with a view to preventing the renewed perpetration of such aggression against Syria and to hold the American administration responsible for such...
|
|
|
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday rejected a break-up of Kosovo after Serbia renewed its threat to seek secession of the former province's minority Serbs.
Gates was the first US cabinet member to visit Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia in February.
He met Kosovo's leaders and was visiting US troops...
|
|
|
Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed 43 suspected Taliban militants in a clash in southern Afghanistan, the military said on Tuesday.
The combined forces were patrolling in Qalat district of the southern province of Zabul on Sunday when it took rebel fire from heavy weapons, assault rifles and snipers, the military said in a...
|
|
|
US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a fast-paced debate Thursday night, in which both reached out to middle-class Americans and touted their own running mate as best able to bring about change for the country.
In a highly anticipated debate...
|
|
|
US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a fast-paced debate Thursday night, in which both reached out to middle-class Americans and touted their own running mate as best able to bring about change for the country.
In a highly anticipated debate...
|
|
|
 Today is the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks that happened on September 11. President Bush is still fighting the rising violence in Afghanistan, the launch site for al-Qaida's assault on America by dispatching more and more U.S. troops to fight against the people who caused the loss of so many innocent lives.Every year since...
|
|
|
A major US aerial attack on Monday killed at least 20 people and wounded 25 others in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border, locals and security officials said.
Missile-armed Predator drones targeted houses and a seminary linked to Afghan Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani in Dandai Darpakhel...
|
|
|
Republican White House hopeful John McCain
made his sharpest divide yet from US President George W Bush, declaring
in a new television advertisement Tuesday that the state of the nation
has worsened over the last four years. 'Washington's broken. John McCain knows it,' a narrator says in the new ad. 'We're worse off than we were...
|
|
|
Residents along the Texas coast on Monday were
bracing for Tropical Storm Edouard, as forecasters predicted the storm
could strengthen before making landfall. Edouard was predicted to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana early Tuesday, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
Monday afternoon it had sustained...
|
|
|
Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
|
|
|
Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
|
|
|
Tropical storm Dolly has formed on Wednesday in the Gulf Coast. It traversed the U.S.-Mexico coastline and weakened as it entered a tropical depression in South Texas on Thursday. Warnings have been made for a flood along the Rio Grande Valley.Flood warnings were available for Texas too. Charles Hoskins, deputy emergency officer for...
|
|
|
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama
on Tuesday said the United States must broaden its foreign policy focus
beyond Iraq, as he pledged to end the war and focus on fighting al-
Qaeda in Afghanistan, while Republican John McCain put forward his
strategy for addressing ongoing violence there.
In a speech on foreign policy in...
|
|
|
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama
on Tuesday said the United States must broaden its foreign policy focus
beyond Iraq, as he pledged to end the war and focus on fighting al-
Qaeda in Afghanistan, while Republican John McCain put forward his
strategy for addressing ongoing violence there.
In a speech on foreign policy in...
|
|
|
Senator Barack Obama said Monday he would
deploy an additional 10,000 troops to Afghanistan to help US and NATO
forces fight off resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.
Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said he would
begin withdrawing troops from Iraq and send an extra two combat
brigades to Afghanistan. ...
|
|
|
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
ordered 2,000 more National Guard troops to the fire lines Friday as
the first fatality of the three weeks of wildfires was discovered.
The remains of the unidentified person were found in a house
destroyed when the Gap Fire swept through the town of Concow Wednesday,
said police in the...
|
|
|
June 21. The fire became the nightmare of thousands of residents in California, as hot and dry summer conditions helped it to spread faster. Firefighters seem to battle an enemy that they cannot defeat. On July 12 the fire goes on, burning Butte County and the town of Paradise.Northern California has been lifted an evacuation order on...
|
|
|
Sgt. Alex Jimenez and Pvt. Byron W. Founty were found in Iraq. Above all hopes of their families for them to come back alive, they ended their life fighting for their country. All that came back from Iraq was both of their remains.Sgt. Alex Jimenez was 25 years old and was on patrol on May 2007, near Yusufiva, Iraq. His Army unit,...
|
|
|
The Senate approved on Thursday the appointment of General
David H. Petraeus of the United States Army as the new leader of the Central
Command, the military headquarters accountable for U.S.
operations across the Middle East, including Iraq
and Afghanistan.
The Senate also endorsed the selection of Lt. Gen. Raymond
T. Odierno to...
|
|
|
Hot weather and swirling winds Wednesday
fanned flames of a huge fire close to the tourist town of Big Sur,
leading authorities to order the evacuation of one of the most scenic
areas on the state's Pacific coastline.
The Basin Complex fire jumped a fire-line that firefighters had
hoped would protect the town, and led to the...
|
|
|
 The burst of a devastating blaze in the Los Padres National Forest has forced authorities to evacuate
the residents who live in the canyon districts north of Goleta,
in Santa Barbara County.
Kathy Good, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman, informed the
press that the massive wildfires reduced to ashes at least 50 acres of bushes
in...
|
|
|
The United States Senate has approved on Thursday
supplementary financial support of $161.8 billion for procedures in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Senate's 92-6 vote represented a success for President
George W. Bush, who has strongly contested any move made by the Congress in
order to inflict schedules for ending the Iraq...
|
|
|
 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired 2
Air Force leaders on Thursday after an inquiry into the mishandling of nuclear weapons
and components found systemic problems in the Air Force.
The Air Force Secretary, Michael W. Wynne,
and the service’s chief of staff, Gen. T. Michael Moseley, were forced to
resign after Gates concluded...
|
|
|
 The number of U.S. Army suicides last year was the highest
since records began, with 115 recorded. According to an army official, 115
troops committed suicide in 2007, which means an increase of almost 13% over
the previous year’s 102. About a quarter of the deaths happened in Iraq.
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama...
|
|
|
 President Bush was made an honorary member
of Rolling Thunder, the Vietnam War POW-MIA group that is holding its 21st
annual gathering. Every year’s ritual of Rolling Thunder’s members starts from
the Pentagon parking lot, going past Arlington
National Cemetery,
across Memorial Bridge and around the Lincoln Memorial,
and finally...
|
|
|
 39,000 soldiers will be sent to Iraq to replace troops which were scheduled to leave the war zone, the Pentagon said on Monday. The Defense Department announced four brigades from the Army National Guard will head to Iraq and Kuwait, including the 72nd Brigade Combat Team of the Texas National Guard.The United States has 155,000 troops...
|
|
|
 A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl at a U.S. military base in the island of Okinawa was sentenced by the martial court to four years in prison on Friday, Reuters reports.38-year-old Tyrone Hadnott was arrested by Japanese police on suspicion of rape following the incident in February, when he was released after...
|
|
|
 Sen. John McCain said Thursday that most American troops
would be home from Iraq
by 2013 and that Osama bin Laden would be captured.
“By January 2013, America
has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly
so that America
might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won,” Mc Cain told...
|
|
|
 Veterans are not surprised to find that George W. Bush and
John McCain oppose Senator Jim Webb’s new G.I. Bill. G.I. Bill S22. The
Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, authored by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va,
will increase founding for educational aid received by veterans, but it will
revise the allocation methods. The bill would...
|
|
|
 Emad al-Janabi sues US military contractors, accusing them
of torture, war crimes and civil conspiracy in a complaint filed in federal
court in Los Angeles. The former detainee in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq claims the employees of CACI
International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc, two companies which
provided services to the...
|
|
|
 It appears that one in five U.S.
troops who served in Iraq
and Afghanistan
suffers from major depression post-traumatic stress (PTSD), according to a Rand
Corp. report released yesterday. That is 300,000 or more men and women, the
Associated Press reports. Meanwhile, about 19 percent of the 1.6 million
service members who were...
|
|
|
 Pope Benedict XVI made his first papal visit to the United States,
on Wednesday, his 81 birthday. He is due to meet U.S. President George W. Bush
at the White House and U.S. Roman Catholic bishops at a Washington basilica on Wednesday, his 81st
birthday, Reuters reports.
According to Bush’s spokeswoman Dana Perino, more than...
|
|
|
 U.S. President George W. Bush awarded the nation’s highest
military tribute to a Navy Seal who dived on a grenade to save his comrades in Iraq. Bush
presented the award to the parents of the Petty Officer Second Class Michael A.
Monsoor. During the ceremony, tears ran down the president’s cheeks.
“The Medal of Honor is awarded...
|
|
|
 Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said in
a statement that the meeting between the U.S. and Iraq representatives which took place last year resembled “something approaching
normal.” His statement contrasts with the reality, where more than 4,000
Americans died on the battle field.
In a speech prepared...
|
|
|
The Marine Corps dropped charges against Lance Cpl. Stephen
Tatum, 26, who was accused of killing two Iraqi children in Haditha in 2005. He
was about to face a court martial on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
Charges were dropped in the day he was supposed to go to trial. The Marine
Corps gave him full immunity based on the...
|
|
|
 Republican presidential candidate John McCain called yesterday
for a more cooperative foreign policy, claiming that the U.S. must be a
“good and reliable” friend and must stop excluding its allies, showing “decent
respect to the opinions of mankind.” His statement is drawing a sharp contrast
to the past years under President’s George...
|
|
|
 Hillary Rodham Clinton continued today to attack Barack Obama, her main rival in the contest for the Democratic Party nomin | | | |
