Pakistani politicians have rejected U.S. allegations the military was supporting the Haqqani militant network and have thrown their support behind the country's most powerful institution in its destabilizing standoff with Washington. The claims by Adm. Mike Mullen led to a crisis-like atmosphere in Islamabad, with fears of U.S. military action uppermost in many minds. Prime Minister ...
It's not over yet. Health officials say coming weeks may see more illness and death from the outbreak of Listeria traced to contaminated cantaloupes.So far, the outbreak has sickened 72 people and claimed 16 lives in 18 states - making it the country's deadliest outbreak of food-borne illness in more than 10 years. Thomas Frieden, director ...
Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have thrown tomatoes and eggs at US ambassador Robert Ford as he met an opposition figure in Damascus. Veteran politician Hassan Abdul Azim said about 100 protesters tried to get into his office as Mr Ford arrived and then surrounded it. Mr Ford, who has been accused of inciting protests, was ...
In a fiery summons to an important voting block, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.And though he didn't say it directly, for a second term, too. Obama's speech to the annual awards dinner of the ...
The U.S. economy grew slightly more than previously reported in the second quarter, helped by consumer spending and export growth that was stronger than earlier estimated, according to a government report on Thursday that pointed to slow growth rather than a recession. Gross domestic product grew at annual rate of 1.3 percent, the Commerce Department said ...
A top Pakistani official has warned that public anger toward the US is getting beyond the government's control, and blamed the recent spike in tensions on a US administration increasingly anxious to fulfill its mission in Afghanistan ahead of a planned 2014 withdrawal. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani told Reuters yesterday that a top US military ...
President Barack Obama’s jobs plan could help prevent a 2012 recession, economists said in a new survey. Obama’s $447 billion American Jobs Act would create thousands of jobs and would expand the economy, economists surveyed by Bloomberg News found, in a report released Wednesday. The plan, they said, would push down the jobless rate in 2012, ...
Sales of new U.S. homes fell to a six-month low in August. The fourth straight monthly decline during the peak buying season suggests the housing market is years away from a recovery.The Commerce Department said Monday that new-home sales fell 2.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 295,000. That's less than half the roughly ...
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal emerged from 781 days in a 104-square-foot Iranian prison cell leaner, fitter and with Hollywood actor Sean Penn and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez among those to thank for their release. Bauer and Fattal returned home yesterday after the Gulf sultanate of Oman paid a $1 million bail. Both their mothers were ...
Pakistan's powerful army chief has canceled a Monday visit to Britain as US outrage grows over allegations that Pakistani spies helped insurgents attack American targets in Afghanistan. Britain's Ministry of Defense said Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who was expected to meet privately with UK Defense minister Liam Fox, had canceled. It declined to speculate on ...
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