Afghanistan and the United States have finalized a strategic partnership agreement outlining their relationship following the 2014 withdrawal of Western combat troops in the country. A statement from Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office says the draft agreement was initialed Sunday by Afghan National Security Advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta and the U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker. It […]
Afghanistan, US Agree on Strategic Agreement
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
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Bahrain Tense Ahead of Grand Prix
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC-5)
Bahrain’s Formula One Grand Prix got underway Sunday, despite violent demonstrations denouncing the event as a lavish spectacle by a ruling family that crushed Arab Spring protests last year. Black smoke from burning tires drifted over an area near the capital, Manama, that saw mass demonstrations in the days before Sunday’s race. Security remains tight […]
Bahrain Tense Ahead of Grand Prix
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 7:55 am (UTC-5)
Formula One Grand Prix drivers are set to race in Bahrain despite violent demonstrations denouncing the event as a lavish spectacle by a ruling family that crushed Arab Spring protests last year. Black smoke from burning tires drifted over an area near the capital, Manama, that saw mass demonstrations in the days before Sunday’s race. […]
France Holds Round One of Presidential Election
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 7:20 am (UTC-5)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni voted Sunday in the first round of France’s presidential election. Mr. Sarkozy’s main opponent, Socialist Francois Hollande cast his vote earlier in the day. Opinion polls before the election indicated that Mr. Sarkozy was trailing Mr. Hollande by several points. Pollsters say Marine Le Pen on […]
Syrian Troops Attack Damascus Suburb
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 6:15 am (UTC-5)
Syrian activists say government soldiers backed by tanks have killed three people near Damascus, even as international envoy Kofi Annan called the U.N. Security Council’s decision to deploy 300 cease-fire monitors in Syria a “pivotal moment” for the country. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported shelling and heavy gunfire Sunday as forces loyal […]
Earth Day Prompts ‘Green’ Acts
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 5:10 am (UTC-5)
Sunday is Earth Day, observed every year since 1970. Earth Day organizers have called on people worldwide to pledge “one billion acts of green.” Those pledges range from residents turning off lights in their homes, to using mass transit for travel to work, to eating locally grown food. Earth Day was first celebrated in the […]
China and Russia Launch Military Exercises
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 4:50 am (UTC-5)
China and Russia launched joint naval exercises Sunday in the Yellow Sea between the east coast of mainland China and the Korean peninsula. Sixteen Chinese surface vessels and two submarines as well as four Russian warships will take part in the six days of drills. The exercises will include maritime air defense, anti-submarine tactics, search-and-rescue […]
Iran Says Building Copy of Captured US Drone
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 4:40 am (UTC-5)
A senior Iranian commander says Tehran has reverse-engineered a U.S. spy drone captured by Iran’s armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, was quoted Sunday by Iranian news agencies as saying experts are also recovering data from the […]
France Holds Round One of Presidential Election
Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 4:05 am (UTC-5)
Voting began in France Sunday, in the first round of a presidential election that current President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to lose. The latest opinion polls indicate that Mr. Sarkozy is trailing his main rival, Socialist Francois Hollande, by several points. The polls also indicate that Mr. Sarkozy would lose in an expected runoff May […]
IMF Head Upbeat After Spring Meetings
Posted April 21st, 2012 at 7:05 pm (UTC-5)
The semi-annual International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings in Washington came to a close Saturday after top economies pledged more money to the IMF to help combat future economic troubles around the world, especially in Europe. IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said the big development of the meetings was the combined $430 billion pledge in additional […]
