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  • Palestinian President Accepts Third-Party Observers on Borders

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called for deploying observers as a third party to assure Israel about its border security. Abbas reaffirmed that he rejects the presence of “any Israeli soldier” on the borders of the future Palestinian state and stressed that the third party monitors “should be for a certain period.” “In America, […]

    Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill

    U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed the 2011 defense authorization bill into law, but promised to repeal provisions that would restrict transfer of military detainees from the Guantanamo prison. The bill, which cleared both houses of Congress last month, agreed to 725 billion dollars in defense programs, including 158.7 billion for wars in Iraq […]

    U.S. Team Helping Sources Exposed by Wikileaks

    The U.S. State Department said on Friday that it has set up a team to help the sources in the U.S. diplomat cables exposed by Wikileaks, the whistle-blower website. “We are undertaking mitigation efforts for persons who may have been negatively affected by the release,” State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters at a briefing. […]

    Chilean President to Visit Israel, Palestine in March

    Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is expected to visit Israel and Palestine in March to extend his support for the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine, Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said Friday. Pinera will use the visit to “ratify” his support to the negotiations aiming to achieve as soon as possible an agreement between Israel and […]

    Senior White House Official Meets with Japanese FM

    U.S. President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara Friday held an “in-depth discussion” on regional and bilateral issues, the White House said. They also discussed the goals for Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s planned visit to the United States in the first half of 2011, the White House said […]

    Political Crisis in Pakistani Averted

    Political crisis in Pakistan was averted on Friday as the Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani succeeded in persuading a key political group to withdraw its decision of joining the opposition. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) or United National Movement decided on Sunday to part ways with the government of the Prime Minister Gilani, reducing his […]

    21,000 arrested in Thai drugs crackdown

    Thai police today said more than 21,000 suspected drug users or traffickers had been arrested in the first two weeks of a nationwide crackdown. Police have conducted thousands of searches since December 21, after the government ordered action to tackle the problem. The authorities seized 1.6 million methamphetamine pills, 40.4 kilograms of heroine, 295 kilos […]

    Major Nepali Parties discuss ways to take forward peace process

    Nepal’s major political parties – Unified CPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and the CPN(UML) have discussed ways to take forward the peace process after the departure of UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) in eight days from now without much headway on arriving at a consensus. Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Poudel told newsmen that […]

    380,000 Haitian Children Still Live in Camps: UNICEF

    About 380,000 Haitian children are still living in crowded camps one year after the devastating earthquake struck the country, announced the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday. In a report named “Children in Haiti: One Year After – The long road from relief to recovery”, the UNICEF estimated over one million people remain displaced […]

    Obama Names Gene Sperling As Top Economic Adviser

    U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Friday that Gene Sperling would take the position of National Economic Council (NEC) Director, the top White House economic adviser. Obama made the announcement during his Friday trip to a U.S. manufacturing company in Maryland. Former NEC Director Larry Summers, a Harvard professor, resigned at the end of last […]