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Sharif Poised to Form Strong Government after Pakistan Poll
May 13, 2013
ISLAMABAD - Toppled in a 1999 military coup, jailed and exiled, Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and looks set to form a stable government capable of implementing ...
Assad Govt. “Usual Suspects” in Blasts: Turkish Deputy PM
May 12, 2013
ISTANBUL - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government are the “usual suspects” behind car bombs in Turkey on Saturday that killed 40 people and wounded 100 more, Turkish Deputy Prime ...
No New Plan to Sell Air Defense Systems to Syria: Russia
May 11, 2013
WARSAW/MOSCOW - Russia’s foreign minister said on Friday Moscow had no new plans to sell an advanced air defense system to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but left open ...
U.S., Russia Share Common Views over Syria: Kerry
May 09, 2013
MOSCOW - The United States and Russia shared similar positions over the settlement of Syrian crisis, visiting U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry said ...
Russia, China Express Alarm after Israel Hits Syria
May 07, 2013
JERUSALEM/AMMAN - Russia and China expressed alarm on Monday over the regional repercussions of two Israeli air raids on Syria, while Israel played down strikes which its officials said targeted Iranian missiles ...
Israeli Strike on Syria Targeted Weapons Shipment
May 05, 2013
(WASHINGTON) — An Israeli airstrike against Syria was targeting a shipment of advanced missiles believed to be bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Israeli officials confirmed ...
US and Britain Consider Arming Syrian Rebels
May 04, 2013
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel confirmed yesterday that the US was reexamining its consistent opposition to arming the Syrian rebels, though cautioned that considering action was not the same as taking ...
US Congressional Delegation Visit Pakistan
May 02, 2013
ISLAMABAD - A US Congressional delegation led by Senator Joe Donnelly held a meeting with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Wednesday in the Ministry of Foreign ...
Iran, Egypt Discuss Ways to Help End Syrian Crisis
April 30, 2013
TEHRAN – Egypt has sent a high ranking delegation to Tehran to discuss the provisions of an Egyptian-drafted quartet initiative to find a solution to the Syrian ...
Syria's neighbors cautious about U.S.-led intervention
April 29, 2013
ISTANBUL - Syria's neighbors, wary of stirring a conflict that could spill back over their borders, would be reluctant partners in a U.S.-led intervention but are ultimately likely to support limited military ...
Iran Ready to Resume Talks with World Powers: Nuclear Negotiator
April 27, 2013
TEHRAN – Iran is ready to resume talks with world powers on its nuclear program and awaits word from the European Union on timing and details, Iran’s deputy nuclear negotiator said on ...
Syria Slams EU Decision to Lift Oil Embargo for Rebels Benefit
April 25, 2013
AMASCUS -Syria’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the EU’s move to ease an oil embargo on Syria to allow rebels to sell crude oil is tantamount to an act of aggression, according to ...
Ban Meets with Head of Arab League, Special Envoy on Syrian Crisis
April 24, 2013
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on Monday met with the Arab League's Secretary-general Nabil Elaraby and UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi to ...
US Asked Turkey PM to Delay Gaza Trip: Kerry
April 22, 2013
ISTANBUL - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday the United States had told Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan it would be better for him to delay a planned trip to the Palestinian ...
North Korea Reiterates it Will Not Give Up Nuclear Arms
April 21, 2013
SEOUL - North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a U.S. condition for talks although it said it was willing to discuss ...
Pakistani Police Arrest Former President Musharraf
April 20, 2013
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani police arrested former president Pervez Musharraf on Friday to face allegations he overstepped his powers while in office, marking a dramatic break with a political culture ...
Russia Rejects Military Intervention in Syria
April 18, 2013
ISTANBUL - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday said his country rejects military intervention in Syria, adding that Russia hopes to avoid any measure of military intervention in Syria ...
Quake Kills at Least 46 along Iran-Pak Border
April 17, 2013
TEHRAN, Iran - A major earthquake described as the strongest to hit Iran in more than half a century flattened homes and offices Tuesday on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border, killing at least ...
Two Blasts Rock Boston Marathon, at Least two Killed, 23 Injured
April 16, 2013
BOSTON - Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon as runners crossed the finish line on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 23 on a day when tens of thousands of people pack the streets to watch one ...
U.S. Ready to “Reach Out” to North Korea: Kerry
April 15, 2013
TOKYO - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as long as it takes steps to give up nuclear ...
US, China Pledge Efforts for Nuclear-Free N. Korea
April 14, 2013
BEIJING— The United States and China committed Saturday to a process aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons, with the Obama administration gaining at least the rhetorical support ...
U.S. to N. Korea: New Missile Launch Would Be “Huge Mistake”
April 13, 2013
SEOUL – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea on Friday that it would be a "huge mistake" to test launch a medium-range missile and said the United States would never accept ...
Japan Increasingly Nervous About North Korea Nukes
April 09, 2013
TOKYO — It's easy to write off North Korea's threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: it has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile that could reach the ...
China Warns Against “Troublemaking” on Korean Peninsula
April 08, 2013
BEIJING/SEOUL - China warned against "troublemaking" on its doorstep, in an apparent rebuke to North Korea, and the United States said it was postponing a missile test to help calm high ...
Powers, Iran Fail to End Nuclear Stalemate
April 07, 2013
ALMATY - World powers and Iran remained far apart after ending two days of intensive talks on Tehran’s nuclear program on Saturday, the European Union’s foreign policy chief ...
Putin Urges Peace Talks to End Syria ‘Massacre’
April 06, 2013
MOSCOW— President Vladimir Putin said the civil war in Syria has become “a massacre” that must be stopped through peace talks between the government and the opposition, and ...
North Korea to restart nuclear reactor in weapons bid
April 03, 2013
Pyongyang - North Korea said on Tuesday it would revive a mothballed nuclear reactor able to produce bomb-grade plutonium but stressed it was seeking a deterrent capacity and did not repeat recent ...
S. Korea Vows Fast Response to North; U.S. Deploys Stealth Jets
April 02, 2013
SEOUL - South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack, the new president in Seoul warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill ...
It is in A ‘State of War’ with S. Korea: N. Korea
March 31, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last ...
Nations Close to Deal on UN Arms Trade Treaty
March 30, 2013
NEW YORK - United Nations members on Wednesday were close to a deal on the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, though delegates and rights groups ...
Obama Urges Lawmakers’ Vote to Ban on Assault Weapons
March 24, 2013
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says each of his proposed steps to reduce gun violence should get a vote in Congress — even an assault weapons ban that both parties agree ...
Iran’s Nuclear Program, A Pawn in A US-Russian Deal
March 20, 2013
TEHRAN - Iran left the meeting with the P5+1 group (Britain, China, France, Russia, United States, plus Germany) in Kazakhstan—which took place in the country’s former capital Almaty ...
EU Urges Mutually Acceptable Solution
March 18, 2013
BRUSSELS - The European Union said it hoped Italy and India would find a “mutually acceptable” solution to the escalating dispute over Rome’s decision not to return to India two marines for ...
Russia, Iran, Vatican Threaten to Derail UN Women’s Rights Appeal
March 16, 2013
TEHRAN/MOSCOW - An ‘unholy alliance’ of Iran, Russia, the Vatican and others is threatening to derail a UN declaration urging an end to violence against women and girls by objecting to ...
U.S. Threatens Sanctions on Pak over Iran Pipeline
March 13, 2013
WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday threatened sanctions against Pakistan as the South Asian nation pressed ahead with a gas pipeline project with ...