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Washington, Feb.10 (ANI): A high level US security team led by National Security Adviser General (retired) James Jones would be arriving in Islamabad today (Wednesday) to discuss America’s latest strategy for defeating extremists in the Pak-Afghan region. Jones is expected to meet President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the Chief of [...]  

(The Associated Press) Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says that the military-run country's upcoming elections cannot be credible unless the government allows freedom of information, her party said Wednesday.The Nobel Peace Prize laureate - who is serving a new 18-month sentence of house arrest - also said she hasn't decided whether her party will contest this year's planned polls, said Nyan Win, her lawyer and spokesman...  

Turkey's main opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal claimed yesterday that French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not to take his wife to ...  

Nigeria's Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday held his first cabinet meeting since parliament made him acting head of state in place of the ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua.With Africa's most populous country still in political turmoil, top ministers appointed by Yar'Adua have yet to say publicly whether they accept the votes on Tuesday which made Jonathan the interim leader.  

Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was 15 when he allegedly threw a grenade that killed a U.S. Special Forces medic in Afghanistan. Now, more than seven years later, Khadr is drawing the Obama administration into a fierce debate over the propriety of putting a child soldier on trial. More on Terrorism  

On Sunday, Clinton will meet the Qatari ruler, Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, and will speak at the US-Islamic World Forum, a meeting hosted by the Qatari government and the Brookings Institution''s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. The ...  

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has put together about fifty Nobel Prize winners who have signed a full-page ad to appear in major newspapers that denounces Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wiesel has his head on straight. The prolific author has put together a petition denouncing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, signed by some 50 other Nobel prize winners, which will run as a  

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday downplayed environmental concerns about a planned gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, saying it would be a "safe and reliable" energy link for Europe.  

TOKYO, Feb. 10 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japan is mulling the possibility of becoming a party to an international treaty on child custody, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday evening during their talks ...  

President Abdullah Gul who is paying a formal visit to India had talks with Indian President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Turkish and Indian parties confirmed their determination to boost economic relations. Gul said Turkey was ...  

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, leveling harsh criticism against the Obama administration. After Gingrich assailed the administration for reading Miranda Rights to Detroit undie bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Stewart drew a comparison to something that happened under George W. Bush. "Didn't they do the same with Richard Reid, who was the shoe bomber?" he asked the Republican icon. "Richard...  

The leaders of Sudan and Chad said Tuesday they have taken steps to end diplomatic tensions between the two African nations Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said he and Chadian President Idriss Deby "have turned the page of our differences and ...  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan government supporters hurled stones at thousands of opposition activists and police fired tear gas and water cannon as a mass protest over the arrest of defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka sparked unrest.  

New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday demanded the release of Sri Lanka’s former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was arrested for allegedly conspiring to topple the government. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said in a statement: “As the world’s largest democracy we cannot approve of this, particularly when it is happening [...]  

... President Gloria Arroyo and 196 other people were on Tuesday charged with murder over an election-linked massacre that horrified the nation, prosecutors said. Andal Ampatuan Snr, the head of a Muslim clan and the former governor of Maguindanao ...