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Pakistan’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal on Friday over contempt charges against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for failing to pursue corruption investigations of President Asif Ali Zardari, escalating a tense standoff between the judiciary and the governing Pakistan People’s Party. The Supreme Court says it will start contempt-of-court proceedings against Mr. Gilani on Feb. […]
NATO has decided to extend an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said Wednesday. Carmen Romero, NATO‘s deputy spokeswoman, said the decision “shows NATO‘s commitment to air policing in the Baltic States as a long-term and sustainable mission.” NATO did not give an end date […]
Greece has reached a tentative agreement on new austerity cuts demanded by creditors to release a 130-billion-euro ($173 billion) bailout, hours before a crucial meeting of finance ministers in Brussels, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos‘ office said Thursday. A spokeswoman for the prime minister said the agreement with the majority Socialists and the conservatives will allow […]
Amid mounting tensions over whether Israel will carry out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program, the United States and Israel remain at odds over a fundamental question: whether Iran’s crucial nuclear facilities are about to become impregnable. Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, coined the phrase “zone of immunity” to define the circumstances under which […]
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, on Monday lashed out at critics of Russia’s decision to veto a United Nations resolution on Syria and reiterated objections to the plan, which was aimed at stopping the violence there. “There are some in the West who have given evaluations of the vote on Syria in the United […]
The United States’ plan to wind down its combat role in Afghanistan a year earlier than expected relies on shifting responsibility to Special Operations forces that hunt insurgent leaders and train local troops, according to senior Pentagon officials and military officers. These forces could remain in the country well after the NATO mission ends in […]
The simmering crisis between Pakistan’s government and judiciary flared dramatically on Thursday when the Supreme Court announced it would pursue contempt charges against the Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, for failing to reopen a corruption investigation into the finances of his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari. The Supreme Court said it would start proceedings for […]
Debt-ridden Greece is close to a deal with private investors to reduce its debt burden by about 100 billion euros ($131.49 billion), and that — plus an agreement to enact deep spending cuts — could pave the way for a 130-billion-euro ($170.94 billion) bailout from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund. But on […]
A spokesman for the NATO-led coalition on Wednesday confirmed the existence of a report that summarizes the views of Taliban detainees who said that they are winning the war thanks to cooperation from some Afghan government officials and soldiers with active support from Pakistan’s intelligence service. But the official, Lt. Col Jimmie E. Cummings of […]
US President Barack Obama has confirmed that unmanned drones regularly strike suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Mr Obama called the strikes a "targeted focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists". The US does not routinely speak publicly about drone operations. Mr Obama made his comments during an hour-long video […]
The Western-Arab drive to adopt a UN resolution on Syria is a "path to civil war", Russian deputy foreign minister Gennady Gatilov has warned. He told Interfax news agency it would "not lead to a search for compromise". The resolution is set to be discussed at a UN Security Council meeting on the deepening Syrian […]
The State Department raised no resistance Friday to France’s announcement to pull its troops from Afghanistan in 2013, a year ahead of schedule. The move was not abrupt and been coordinated with NATO, the Afghan government and the United States, a State Department spokeswoman said. “What we are gratified by is that this was not […]
