The Palestinian president says he will not accept a US-backed proposal for resuming peace talks withIsrael unless it halts Israeli housing construction in disputed east Jerusalem. Mahmoud Abbas’ position further complicates American efforts to restart peace talks. The Palestinians say there can’t be peace talks if Israel continues to build homes in captured territories where they want to establish […]
In secret and with remarkable speed, North Korea has built a new, highly sophisticated facility to enrich uranium, according to an American nuclear scientist, raising fears that the North is ramping up its atomic program despite international pressure. The scientist, Siegfried Hecker, said in a report posted yesterday that he was taken during a recent […]
The Taliban on Sunday vowed to keep fighting the US-led coalition and force them to abandon Afghanistan ahead of a 2014 date set by the alliance for the transition of security to Afghan control. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in message e-mailed to the media that NATO will be unable to establish a stable government […]
President Barack Obama won NATO summit agreement to build a missile shield over Europe, an ambitious commitment to protect against possible Iranian attack while demonstrating the alliance’s continuing relevance- but at the risk of further aggravating Russia. On another major issue, Obama and the allies are expected to announce plans on Saturday to begin handing […]
The United States has welcomed the passage of a UN resolution on human rights violations in Iran, a motion in which India had abstained. “We welcome the UN General Assembly Third Committee’s passage today by a wide margin of a resolution noting the ongoing violations of human rights in Iran and calling upon the […]
The death toll in this week’s high-rise apartment building fire in Shanghai has risen to 58, an increase of five, the city government said today. The dead included 36 women and 22 men, according to a brief statement on the government’s website announcing the new toll. A preliminary investigation has blamed Monday’s spectacular blaze in […]
North Korea has agreed to hold talks inside South Korea for the first time in almost three years, Seoul said on Friday, in a gesture that could ease tensions over the sinking of one of the South’s warships. The North has accepted a proposal to hold the next round of Red Cross talks on arranging […]
Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s President for an unprecedented six-year second term on Friday, promising a new economic boom for the island. Rajapaksa, who turned 65 on Thursday, was sworn in at a colourful open air ceremony held at the sea front, by the chief justice Ashoka D Silva. The Sri Lankan […]
The UN has rejected the charge that Nepali peacekeepers in Haiti brought cholera to the Caribbean nation which claimed more than 1,100 lives. “From a medical point of view, there has been no direct connection established between cholera and this contingent of soldiers,” Farhan Haq, UN spokesperson, told journalists on Thursday. “Although the Centre for […]
U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday that it was a “national security imperative” for the Senate to ratify a new nuclear reduction treaty with Russia this year. Obama made the remarks at a meeting at the White House on why the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) he signed in April with Russian President Dmitry […]
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