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The Obama administration's new proposal for strengthening the Afghan government, training more security forces and ending the country's grinding insurgency is a key focus at meetings this week in Europe. But while the plan has broad political suppor
By Katy Migiro Nairobi 18 June 2007 The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is briefing the U.N. Security Council on the court's efforts to prosecute the 90 people indicted for masterminding the Rwandan genocide. Katy Migiro r
By Paula Wolfson White House 12 June 2006 President Bush is holding two days of private talks with his top advisers to discuss - what he calls - the way forward in Iraq. Leaders of the new Iraqi government will join the discussions Tuesday by videoc
By Meredith Buel Washington 23 March 2006 The White House recently released a new national security strategy that reaffirms President Bush's doctrine of preemptive war, but says diplomacy is the stron
By Meredith Buel Washington 09 January 2007 President Bush is scheduled to unveil his new strategy for the war in Iraq Wednesday night in a televised address to the nation. The president is expected to call for an increase of as many as 20,000 U.S.
By Phil Mercer Sydney 29 October 2006 Ambassador Christopher Hill The chief U.S. envoy for North Korean affairs says Australia could play a vital role inenforcing U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang that were imposed following its test of a nuclear wea
By Phil Mercer Sydney 20 November 2006 New Zealand soldiers patrol grounds of Fua'amotu Airport upon their arrival to Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Nov. 18, 2006 Australia and New Zealand have sent troops and police officers to yet another troubled South Pacif
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 September 2006 Student at Benin University walks past a billboard encouraging young women to fight against prostitution, in Benin City, Nigeria The International Organization for Migration says poverty, crime, corruption, a
By David McAlary Washington 24 August 2006 Pluto is no longer a planet. The world's top group of astronomers, the International Astronomical Union, has stripped Pluto of the status it has held since its discovery 76 years ago. The body decided that,
By Phil Mercer Sydney 19 April 2006 Residents watch the smoke rise in Honiara, the Solomon Islands capital, Wednesday, April 19, 2006 after a night of rioting in the aftermath of the election of Snyde
Australia's worst drought in 100 years is showing signs of easing. While much of the continent remains gripped by dry conditions, the Bureau of Meteorology says in 2008 some regions received a much-needed drenching, easing the arid conditions that h
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says development of his country's strategic nuclear forces will be the government's top military procurement priority in 2009. Ivanov's statement was made while Russia faces a budget deficit and its defens
A major independent research institute has issued a report calling for urgent and significant changes in U.S. military strategy toward Afghanistan. The call comes just as President Obama has launched his own strategy review, and as NATO defense mini
The Australian government is facing mounting opposition to its pioneering carbon trading scheme after it unveiled legislation it hopes to pass by the middle of this year. Australia is proposing what could be the most sweeping cap-and-trade system in
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Mumbai at the start of a visit aimed at deepening an emerging strategic partnership between the United States and India. Clinton is urging India to join Washington in supporting Pakistan's efforts against ter
By Phil Mercer Sydney 14 August 2006 Australian Prime Minister John Howard Australia's conservative government has withdrawn a controversial asylum bill before the Senate looked ready to defeat it. Prime Minister John Howard, whose 10 years in offic
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 02 August 2006 watch Castro Health report For the first time in nearly 48 years, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has relinquished absolute power as president of the communist nation. Castro's faltering health forced the
By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 04 September 2006 watch Orion report The U.S. National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) has picked the aerospace company Lockheed Martin to build the next generation spacecraft that will return man to the moo
By Phil Mercer Sydney 05 July 2007 Australian troops aboard an armoured personnel vehicle pass by a checkpoint guarded by an Iraqi policeman at a junction near the Australian embassy in Baghdad (File) Australia has admitted for the first time that se