VIDEO: WEB: TYPE: CN )) The Obama administration has rejected a Canadian company’s proposal to build a controversial pipeline from northern Canada to the Texas Gulf coast. The State Department Wednesday recommended that President Barack Obama reject a permit for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, saying the project does not serve the national interest. Officials […]
Obama Administration Rejects Controversial Pipeline Project
Posted January 18th, 2012 at 5:35 pm (UTC-5)
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Israel Says Decision on Iran Attack “Far Off”
Posted January 18th, 2012 at 1:15 pm (UTC-5)
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says any decision about a pre-emptive Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program is “very far off.” Barak was speaking Wednesday a day before U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey visits Israel to discuss security issues including U.S. and Israeli concerns that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. […]
Britain Probes Reports Troops Abused Afghan Children
Posted January 18th, 2012 at 9:55 am (UTC-5)
Britain’s military says it is investigating allegations of inappropriate behavior by British troops in Afghanistan. The Sun newspaper on Wednesday reported that two soldiers had been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing an Afghan boy and girl, both around 10-years-old, and videotaping the incident. The British Defense Ministry says the investigations branch of the Royal Military […]
Eritrea Denies Charges It Backed Afar Attack
Posted January 18th, 2012 at 7:20 am (UTC-5)
Eritrea has called claims it was behind a deadly attack on foreigners in northern Ethiopia “an absolute lie.” Eritrea’s ambassador to the African Union, Girma Asmerom, made the statement Wednesday. He was replying to charges by an Ethiopian government spokesman that the attack was carried out by rebels armed and trained by the Eritrean government. […]
Iran Says UN Nuclear Team to Visit This Month for Talks
Posted January 17th, 2012 at 8:00 pm (UTC-5)
Iran says senior U.N. nuclear officials will travel to the country later this month to discuss their concerns about Tehran’s nuclear program. The Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said Tuesday the U.N. delegation will visit from January 29 to 31 for talks on topics “of interest” to the agency. […]
US, Japan, South Korea Discuss Restarting Six-Party Talks
Posted January 17th, 2012 at 4:55 pm (UTC-5)
Top officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan met Tuesday in Washington for talks focusing on restarting stalled six-party negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear program. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and special North Korea envoy Glyn Davies hosted Lim Sung Nam, South Korea’s top negotiator to the talks, and his Japanese […]
Syrian Violence Spikes; West, Russia Spar Over Intervention
Posted January 17th, 2012 at 4:05 pm (UTC-5)
Violence has surged in Syria, and Western members of the United Nations Security Council have sparred with Russia over how to stop the bloodshed from the 10-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The activist group “Local Coordination Committees” say Syrian security forces killed at least 25 people Tuesday, 17 of them while attacking several areas […]
Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility for Killing VOA Reporter
Posted January 17th, 2012 at 3:35 pm (UTC-5)
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for killing a local reporter working for the Voice of America. The Associated Press quotes the group’s spokesman as saying they killed Mukarram Khan Aatif, who also worked for the private Pakistani Dunya TV, because he ignored multiple warnings to stop anti-Taliban reporting. Pakistani officials said Aatif was shot […]
Report: Captain Refused Orders to Return to Italian Cruise Ship
Posted January 17th, 2012 at 2:35 pm (UTC-5)
An audio recording of an exchange between the Italian Coast Guard and the captain of a capsized Italian cruise ship reveals the captain refused orders to get back on the ship. A leading Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, published a transcript Tuesday of the dramatic exchange. In the conversation, Coast Guard Captain Gregory De Falco […]
Pakistan PM Agrees to Appear in Court
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 5:35 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has agreed to appear before the Supreme Court later this week to face a contempt notice for failing to reopen a graft case against President Asif Ali Zardari. The Supreme Court ordered Gilani to appear on January 19. If convicted of contempt of court, Mr. Gilani could be sent […]
