Manning Defers Plea as Arraignment Begins | Prosecutors push to delay court martial until August
Manning Defers Plea as Arraignment Begins
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About 400 Afghans Displaced Every Day
An average of four hundred people are displaced in every day in Afghanistan, bringing the total displaced population to approximately 500,000, according to Amnesty International. The worsening humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, and specifically the displacement of...
US Rice Farmers Livid as Iraqis Not Forced to Buy From Them
US Rice Farmers Livid as Iraqis Not Forced to Buy From Them | Iraqis developing a taste for Basmati rice
Likud Members Push Plan to Annex 60% of West Bank
Some members of Israel's right-wing Likud party are pushing a bill in the Knesset that would annex more than 60 percent of the occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank. The plan, introduced by former Yesha Council Director Naftali Bennett, would unilaterally...
Obama Lawyer: No Court Can Challenge Extrajudicial Execution at President’s Whim
The Obama administration’s top Pentagon lawyer on Wednesday said that courts have no business questioning executive branch decisions about whom to target for extra-judicial execution in the war on terror, even if that target is an American citizen. "Belligerents who...
Afghan Soldier Kills 2 US Troops at Quran-Burning Protest
Two U.S. troops have been shot to death and four others wounded by an Afghan Army solider who turned his gun on his American trainers apparently in response to the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. An Afghan official told CBS News that the...
No Deal: US Restarted Pakistan Drone Strikes Despite Objections
No Deal: US Restarted Pakistan Drone Strikes Despite Objections | Called Pakistan to tell them attacks would resume
US, European Officials Dismiss Claims of Iran-Qaeda Connection
U.S. and European officials have quietly rejected recent reports of some sort of tactical cooperation between the Iranian government and al-Qaeda. For years, propaganda reports have randomly cropped up alleging an Iran-Qaeda connection, although very little evidence...
Syrian National Council Demands Foreign Invasion
Syrian National Council Demands Foreign Invasion | Insists invasion ‘the only solution’
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei: We Will Never Seek Nuclear Weapons
Iran will never seek nuclear weapons, declared Iran's Supreme Leader in Tehran on Wednesday in a meeting with the director and officials of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. "The Iranian nation has never pursued and will never pursue nuclear weapons," said...
