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Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan
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| The protests on Saturday became more violent, with the police trying to prevent demonstrators on the German side of the Rhine River from joining the more aggressive ones on the French side.
Photo: Axel Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
| Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan |
| NY Times | Apr 05, 2009 | By STEVEN ERLANGER and HELENE COOPER |
| STRASBOURG, France — With protesters raging outside, NATO leaders on Saturday gave a tepid troop commitment to President Obama’s escalating campaign in Afghanistan, mostly committing soldiers only to a temporary security duty. read more |
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| A French border station was set ablaze by protesters on Friday.
Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images |
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| This year’s summit meeting has been fractious both inside the hall and outside with President Obama’s request for more troops in Afghanistan and the search for a new secretary general.
Photo: Yoan Valat/European Pressphoto Agency |
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Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan
The protests on Saturday became more violent, with the police trying to prevent demonstrators on the German side of the Rhine River from joining the more aggressive ones on the French side. Photo: Axel Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan
NY Times | Apr 05, 2009 | By STEVEN ERLANGER and HELENE COOPER
STRASBOURG, France — With protesters raging outside, NATO leaders on Saturday gave a tepid troop commitment to President Obama’s escalating campaign in Afghanistan, mostly committing soldiers only to a temporary security duty.. . . read more
A French border station was set ablaze by protesters on Friday. Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images
This year’s summit meeting has been fractious both inside the hall and outside with President Obama’s request for more troops in Afghanistan and the search for a new secretary general. Photo: Yoan Valat/European Pressphoto Agency
Israeli Ground Forces Push Into Gaza
Israeli artillery fire lit up the sky above Gaza on Saturday night before the beginning of a ground offensive. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
Israeli Ground Forces Push Into Gaza
New York Times, By ISABEL KERSHNER and LIZ ROBBINS Published: January 3, 2009 JERUSALEM — Israel moved its troops into Gaza starting a ground offensive eight days after launching an airstrike campaign in efforts to end rocket attacks from Hamas militants.
GAZA (Gaza Humanitarian Crisis)
12/29: Gaza humanitarian crisis deepening Israels deliberate targeting of civilian buildings such as mosques and universities in Gaza is deepening the humanitarian crisis in the Hamas-controlled area, says eyewitness Eva Bartlett from the International Solidarity Movement. (Russia Today TV)
Shirin Singing ‘Ave Maria’
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World’s hungry ‘close to one billion’
A fate too horrible to contemplate… yet we must!
World’s hungry ‘close to one billion’
Financial Times, By Javier Blas, Commodities Correspondent Published: December 9 2008 10:04
The food crisis has pushed the number of hungry people in the world to almost 1bn, in what the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation described on Tuesday as a “serious setback” to global efforts to reduce mass starvation.
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Islamists poised to seize Somalia again in setback to U.S.
A destroyed building in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Shashank Bengali / MCT)
Islamists poised to seize Somalia again in setback to U.S.
By Shashank Bengali | McClatchy Newspapers NAIROBI, Kenya — Al Shabaab, a radical Islamist group that U.S. officials say is tied to al Qaida, has methodically seized much of southern Somalia and is poised to take the capital, Mogadishu, as the country’s internationally backed government nears collapse.
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Scottish activist films Israeli navy shooting at Gaza fishermen
Free Gaza Mov: Israeli shooting palestinian fishermen boats
Added: September 03, 2008 by http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com/ Vittorio Arrigoni’s Account of the Israeli Shooting Date : 09-01-2008 ‘When at a distance, estimated by our fishing boat’s captain, of 7 nautical miles from the coast, we dropped our fishing nets and started fishing the Israeli warships rushed to reach our position. One of the warships positioned at a distance less than 200 metres alongside of our fishing boat, opened fire in our direction at least 4 times during the day. It was intimidating fire directed into the water, but some bursts almost touched the hull of our boat. A cannon shot almost reached us. Making attempt of obtaining a radio contact was useless. Soldiers on the Israeli warship ordered, with the use of megaphones, the area evacuation. And after that they were shooting. Sometimes they were shooting before having ordered. Once they shooted to our fishing nets and tried to damaged it sailing directly on them. Unfortunetely our big mistake was not having with us neither cameras nor video cameras that, together with megaphones to be used exactly like they do, I consider essential for our next fishing missions. Despite these intimidations the fishing was rich and profitable, we brought ashore quantity of fish ten times bigger than the usual Palestinians fishers standard.’
Cluster bombs killed 14 in Georgia conflict-group
USA to evacuate disgraced Georgian president in case of national coup
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Russia urges UN to back independence move
August 27, 2008 Russia has officially informed the UN Secretary General about the country’s recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia’s independence. The Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, has called on the Security Council to adopt a resolution, which would go along with the six point peace plan.
S. Ossetia’s president sacks cabinet, Russia Today video updates
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RUSSIA & GEORGIA. THE AFTERMATH aug. 18, 2008. (part 3/4)
Revealed: retirement home ruined by Georgian attackShocked pensioners in a South Ossetian retirement home are trying to recover from shock after it was stormed by Georgian troops. Residents at the Tskhinvali home say they were threatened with death – and spared only after telling soldiers the location of a nearby school.
