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Sat, Feb 11 2012 6:18 IST | 30 Views | Add your comment SHARE: Canada has decided to pull out of a NATO project that collects strategic information through unmanned aerial vehicles. "NATO has been informed of these decisions. The details of our withdrawal are still under discussion with NATO," said Kim Tulipan, spokeswoman for the national defence department. The full withdrawal will be effective this spring, she added. The Alliance Ground Surveillance project was...Read Full Story

GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's groundbreaking visit to Myanmar offers its military leaders something that's eluded them during decades of iron-fisted rule — a little respect from the West. The country's nominally civilian — but military-aligned — government may also be seeking self-preservation and avoidance of an Arab Spring-style uprising with its surprising recent political and economic...Read Full Story

MATTHEW LEE Associated Press NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun a historic visit to the long-isolated Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar to test the country's first civilian government in decades on its commitment to reform, including severing military and nuclear ties with North Korea. Clinton arrived Wednesday in the capital of Naypyidaw on the first trip by a U.S. secretary of state to the nation also...Read Full Story

MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press WASHINGTON When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Myanmar this week, she'll see a country that has made some progress on democracy, but has even farther to go to fix the corrupted economy and ethnic conflicts that stem from decades of military rule. After staging elections last November, Myanmar has begun to release political prisoners and work with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. That has...Read Full Story

Trip Page | Interactive Travel Map Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Brussels, Belgium, for ministerial-level meetings of the North Atlantic Council, the NATO-Russia Council, and with ISAF partners to discuss Afghanistan on December 7-8, 2011. During a press availability in Brussels, Secretary Clinton said: "...This year has been one of great change, and we see democratic transitions under way. We see -- for the United States, troops and diplomats deploying. But some...Read Full Story