Hilary Clinton : I am Secretary of State, not Bill

They may be hailed as Team Clinton for their international humanitarian efforts, but there was no mistaking who is the official top diplomat in the Clinton household when Hillary reacted angrily to a question about her husband Bill yesterday.
Less than a week after the former US President stole his wife’s thunder by [...]

Muslim states ’silent’ on Uighurs

Kadeer said that silence from Muslim countries contrasted with support from the West [AFP]

A leading Uighur rights activist has criticised Muslim-majority countries for not speaking out against decades of alleged repression and persecution from the Chinese government.
Speaking in Washington on Monday, Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman who was jailed for years in China before being [...]

Pakistan to begin trial of Mumbai attacks suspects next week

An anti-terrorism court will begin trial of five suspects of the Mumbai attacks next week, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday.

Nearly 170 people were killed and over 300 injured when a group of 10 gunmen attacked at least five locations in the Indian commercial capital in November 2008.
India blamed Pakistan-based outlawed groups “Lashkar-e-Taiba” [...]

Afghanistan troops died ‘for future of Britain’

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, acknowledges ‘grievous few days’ but says UK security depends on routing Taliban

Troops in Afghanistan were fighting for “the future of Britain”, David Miliband said today, after eight soldiers were killed in 24 hours.
The foreign secretary said it was essential to stop Afghanistan becoming an “incubator for terrorism” and a launchpad [...]

Obama to Ahmadinejad: “We will not wait indefinitely”

L’Aquila (Italy) – The American President, Barack Obama, Friday warned Iran that the international community would not wait indefinitely

The American President, Barack Obama, Friday warned Iran that the international community would not wait indefinitely for a response to his offer of dialogue on the nuclear issue, and described the post elections events “terrible.”

“We will not [...]

The Mother of the Muslim Uighurs Movement

That was a problem for Rebiya Kadeer, the tiny and fiery matriarch of the Uighur diaspora, who lives in Fairfax County and who was leading a protest march on the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Tuesday.
She was speaking Uighur, the Turkic language of her people. Unlike her younger translators who spelled one another at the [...]

An American soldier captured by Taliban

DUBAI- The Taliban have claimed the capture in Afghanistan of a U.S. soldier, missing since late June, in a statement quoted Monday by the American centre monitoring Islamist sites SITE Intelligence.
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          In this press release posted on Islamist websites on 6 July, the Taliban claim to have “captured” an American soldier “arrested” when he [...]

No compromise on nukes: Pakistan

Islamabad, June 18 (IANS) Pakistan’s nuclear weapons formed the cornerstone of its deterrence doctrine and would be retained at all costs, a top military commander said Thursday.
“No amount of coercion, direct or indirect, can force us to compromise on this core interest,” Online news agency quoted General Tariq Majid, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of [...]

Foreign Office protests after Khamenei singles out ‘evil Britain’

Iran’s ambassador to London was summoned to the Foreign Office this morning after the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, singled out Britain as Iran’s foremost enemy. In his speech during Friday prayers, Khamenei played on the historic suspicions many Iranians have of Britain by hinting at its involvement in the demonstrations and describing it [...]

USD 16 billion of oil revenue for Algeria since January

Algeria exported $ 16 billion of oil during the first five months of 2009, said Wednesday the president of oil and gas group Sonatrach public, Mohamed Meziane.
    “We made between January and May a revenue of approximately $ 16 billion which gives us an average income of over $ 3 billion a [...]