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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
President Obama on Saturday touted a new waiver program giving states more flexibility in circumventing the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education reforms. "While the goals behind No Child Left Behind were admirable, experience has taught us that the law has some serious flaws that are hurting our children instead of helping them," Obama said in ...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed on Saturday that Vladimir Putin run in next year's presidential election, signaling they have agreed the prime minister will return to the post he held for eight years until 2008. Medvedev also agreed at a congress of the ruling United Russia party's that he would head its list of candidates in ...
Pakistan lashed out at the U.S. for accusing the country's most powerful intelligence agency of supporting extremist attacks against American troops in Afghanistan — the most serious allegations against Islamabad since the beginning of the Afghan war. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar dismissed the claims as mere allegations. She warned the U.S. that it risked ...
The nation’s top military official said Thursday that Pakistan’s spy agency played a direct role in supporting the insurgents who carried out the deadly attack on the American Embassy in Kabul last week. It was the most serious charge that the United States has leveled against Pakistan in the decade that America has been at ...
Jewish voters, a typically reliable bloc for the Democratic Party, are now the focus of Democrats intent on keeping their support and Republicans who see an opportunity to pull them in after New York's recent special congressional election. Longtime New York Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said the election, in which a Republican won the historically Democratic ...
A group of U.S. Christian and Muslim envoys was returning from Tehran Monday after holding talks with Iran's president over the possible release of a pair of Americans jailed as spies for more than two years. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who appeared to be trying to get them released in time for his arrival at the U.N. ...
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