By Ravi Khanna Washington 08 October 2009 For decades, India mostly depended on, first, the Soviet Union and then Russia for its military supplies. But as the Cold War ended and India's relations with the United States began improving during Bill Cl...
By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 08 October 2009 U.S. special envoy for Middle East Peace, George Mitchell is calling for an early re-launch of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The envoy has begun meetings with officials in Israel and the Palestinian terr...
By Meredith Buel Washington 08 October 2009 Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, said Wednesday terrorists are in retreat in his country and the Taliban are in disarray. The foreign minist...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 08 October 2009 U.N. Security Council (file photo) The U.N. Security Council has extended the mandate of the NATO-led military forces in Afghanistan for another year. The 15-member council also urged the protection...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 08 October 2009 India's government says no embassy personnel were killed or severely injured in a car bombing outside its diplomatic compound Thursday morning in Kabul. But Indian officials contend the attack, indeed, targe...
By Scott Stearns Dakar 08 October 2009 Cameroon President Paul Biya (file photo) Authorities in Cameroon have closed a private FM radio station that has been broadcasting illegally from the capital for several months. The station was highly critical...
By Tom Rivers London 07 October 2009 Ada Yonath (file photo) Two Americans and one Israeli share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work showing how the DNA code is translated into life itself. Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thom...
By Paige Kollock New York 07 October 2009 In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent allied war in Afghanistan, a registered nurse from California wanted to help innocent people in the Muslim worl...
By David Axe Aboard the USS Donald Cook 07 October 2009 In 2008, Somali pirates captured more than 100 large commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, provoking a massive international response. Today, some 40 warships patrol Soma...
By Elizabeth Arrott Cairo, Egypt 07 October 2009 An Egyptian woman, right, wears a niqab a veil which shows only the eyes, as she walks with another, wearing the hijab, or headscarf, left, in downtown Cairo, Egypt (file) Egypt has long valued its ro...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 07 October 2009 The Visegrad Group of European Union Foreign Ministers have agreed to support Serbia and other western Balkans countries to become full fledged members of the EU and North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The deci...
By Sean Maroney Islamabad 07 October 2009 Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) worker takes photograph after looking for patterns of irregularities in Kabul, 13 Sep 2009 U.N. officials have confirmed that data on Afghanistan's disputed election was...
By Akiko Fujita Tokyo 07 October 2009 Japan Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (file photo) Japan's new foreign minister has laid out his plan for his first 100 days in office, elaborating on discussions to build an East Asian Community and to alter the...
By Jeff Swicord Minneapolis, Minnesota 07 October 2009 In the past 18 months, 20 young Somali men have disappeared from Minneapolis, Minnesota -- only to re-emerge in Somalia as part of an al-Qaida-backed militia. Some claimed they didn't know they...
By Mike O'Sullivan American Samoa 07 October 2009 In the villages of American Samoa struck by last week's earthquake and tsunami, residents are salvaging their belongings. Aid workers are fanning out through coastal villages and some people are taki...
