BAGHDAD Biden arrived at a time when many question whether the United States policy in Iraq is adrift.They say they worry that with a shift of focus toward America's other war, , and so much attention on the planned drawdown and ultimate withdrawal of U.S troops, the United States is focused only on its exit and not the success of a still very shaky democracy in Iraq.This was Biden's fourth trip
KRAKOW, POLAND We must be wary of the steel vice in which many governments around the world are slowly crushing civil society and the human spirit, Clinton told an international meeting of democratic countries in this southern Polish city.In a blunt speech, Clinton singled out U.S antagonists such as , and for limiting civil-society groups and media.But she also chided and , where the Obama
SRINAGAR, India – Amnesty International Saturday urged India to investigate the recent killing of civilians in Kashmir, as thousands of troops enforced a strict curfew in parts of the revolt-hit region.Muslim-majority Kashmir valley has been hit by strikes, demonstrations and curfews over the killing of 11 civilians during the last month by Indian police and paramilitary forces struggling
LAGOS, Nigeria – Pirates kidnapped 12 foreign sailors off the coast of Nigeria's restive and oil-rich southern delta during an attack that left one crew member injured, a naval spokesman said Saturday.Commodore David Nabaida told The Nabaida said the Nigerian navy escorted the ship to safe waters and transported the wounded Ukrainian sailor to a local hospital.The sailor was in stable cond
KABUL In his first remarks in Kabul before he officially assumes his position on Sunday as the top American commander in Afghanistan, Petraeus said that in this important endeavor, cooperation is not optional. Civilian and military, Afghan and international, we are a part of one team, with one mission, he told a gathering of hundreds of guests at the U.S Embassy in Kabul as part of a Fourth o
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyzstan's provisional leader Roza Otunbayeva was sworn in as president Saturday, ushering in what the turbulent Central Asian nation's government hopes will be a new era of stability and democratic freedoms.Speaking after her inauguration, Otunbayeva, 59, hailed what she described as a momentous new era for Kyrgyzstan, which has endured months of political and ethni
Petraeus arrives amid prospects of shake-upGen.David H.Petraeus arrived in Kabul on Friday evening to take over from Gen.Stanley A.McChrystal as head of U.S and NATO forces in , beginning a new phase in the war there at a time of thriving insurgency and ineffective Afghan governance.Petraeus landed two days after his and is scheduled to officially take command in a ceremony Sunday.One of his ea