NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the alliance would consider a request from Turkey to deploy Patriot anti-missile batteries along its border with Syria. Rasmussen said Monday the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had received no formal request from member-state Turkey so far but added that if one was made, “we will consider that as a […]
NATO Considers Turkish Missile Request for Syria Border
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 9:30 am (UTC-5)
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China Hopes Obama’s Burma Visit is Beneficial
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 7:50 am (UTC-5)
China said on Monday that it hopes U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Burma will encourage “peace, stability and development” in East Asia. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the visit was a bilateral affair between the U.S. and Burma, but China hopes that the historic event would benefit the region as a whole. Mr. […]
Obama Tells Burma Reforms Have Much Further to Go
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 7:15 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in Cambodia, where he will meet with leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations – ASEAN. Mr. Obama is scheduled to meet Monday evening with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. The White House says the president will raise U.S. concerns about Cambodia’s human rights record. The U.S. […]
Prominent Chinese Dissident Sentenced for Fraud
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 6:25 am (UTC-5)
A lawyer for a prominent Chinese dissident says his client has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for contract fraud. The lawyer said Li Befeng was sentenced Monday at a court in southwestern Sichuan province. Li was formerly imprisoned for five years for involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. Li is a […]
Female Bomber Attacks Pakistan Politician
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 5:25 am (UTC-5)
Officials in northwest Pakistan say a female suicide bomber has detonated her explosives near the convoy of a former leader of the country’s largest Islamist political party. Authorities say the target of the blast was Qazi Hussain Ahmad, the former head of Jamaat-e-Islami, who was unharmed in the explosion. However, at least three of the […]
Obama Tells Burma Reforms Have Much Further to Go
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 5:05 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has told Burma that government reforms have just begun and have much further to go, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. In a speech Monday at the University of Rangoon, Mr. Obama said he had come to keep his promise and extend “the hand of […]
Obama Meets with Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 3:30 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has met with Burmese President Thein Sein and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in the country’s main city of Rangoon, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. After an hour-long meeting Monday, Mr. Obama, with President Thein Sein at his side, told reporters that the […]
Obama Meets with Burma President in Rangoon
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 2:15 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has met with Burmese President Thein Sein in the country’s main city, Rangoon, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. After the hour-long meeting Monday, Mr. Obama, with President Thein Sein at his side, told reporters that the process of democratic and economic reform in the […]
Bieber Wins Artist of the Year at American Music Awards
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 1:05 am (UTC-5)
An 18-year-old has won the top prize at the American Music Awards. Canadian Justin Bieber won artist of the year Sunday in Los Angeles at the 40th anniversary show, beating out Rihanna, Maroon 5, Drake, and Katy Perry. The teenager said when he accepted his award that it was “hard growing up with everyone watching […]
