Washington eyes compromise at Copenhagen talks
AFP - 47 minutes agoThe United States called Wednesday for a compromise at next month's global climate talks in Copenhagen and urged Asian countries including China to do their part in forging a deal.
The United States called Wednesday for a compromise at next month's global climate talks in Copenhagen and urged Asian countries including China to do their part in forging a deal.
Claims that contact betwen Maj. Nidal Hassan and a radical cleric in Yemen ought to have triggered alarms are overblown, according to officials familiar with the case
Dozens of US military personnel have filed 34 lawsuits against KBR accusing the defense contractor of incinerating and releasing into the atmosphere toxic waste in Iraq and Afghanistan.
President Obama is heading to Fort Hood Army Post for Tuesday's memorial service, to remember the victims of last week's shooting that left 13 dead, 12 of them U.S. soldiers.
The suspect in last week's deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood urged in 2007 that Muslims in the U.S. Army be allowed to claim conscientious objector status when it comes to fighting other Muslims in war, a defense official said Tuesday.
The president’s national security team is coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional troops to Afghanistan, officials say.
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2009. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day in Canada.
Ten of 11 Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee are trying to step up the political pressure on President Obama to make a decision about the war in Afghanistan.
President Obama spoke at a public service and met privately with the families of those killed in the attack.
Now that the U.S. military presence in Iraq looks to be winding down, the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), set up to oversee the $50 billion reconstruction effort, is also due to be phasing out. But that doesn't necessarily mean the SIGIR himself, Stuart W....
The president’s national security team is coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional American troops to Afghanistan, officials say.
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This week's visit comes as the company continues to excel at production of a vehicle designed specifically for use in Afghanistan.
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama says he expects Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to honor an agreement on American troops in Japan as the two countries work to keep the issue from overshadowing this week’s summit.
U.S. Senator John McCain, whose investigation helped derail an earlier $23.5 billion Air Force plan to lease and buy 100 Boeing Co tankers, has raised serious concerns about the Pentagon's latest attempt to replace its aging fleet of KC-135 refueling aircraft.
Officially, the Great Recession is over, at least for the United States. The economy recorded 3.5 percent annual growth for the third quarter of 2009. Fortunately, the administration of then-President George W. Bush recognized the severity of the crisis and provided emergency financing for U.S. banks teetering on the brink of insolvency. Those efforts were followed up by the stimulus measures ...
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union will hold a summit on Nov. 19 to choose its first president and foreign minister, with Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy and ex- Italian leader Massimo D’Alema tipped as possible candidates.
Televised speeches now come larded in so much analysis, before and after, that it becomes almost impossible to connect with them in a genuine, visceral way
No time to ease up in Afghanistan A ‘counterterrorism-lite’ approach is based on three critical fallacies. By Michael Chertoff In September, a Colorado-based Afghan immigrant was arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack in the USA. According to the...
Text of President Barack Obama's remarks Tuesday during a memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas, as transcribed by the White House:
At stricken Fort Hood, President Barack Obama Tuesday shouldered the role of America's national healer, as a country rose above its deep divisions in a moment of shared mourning.