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Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Gates said that U.S. and British citizens were the targets of the violent siege in Mumbai, although most of those killed in the city, the nation's financial capital, were Indians. He also said Tuesday that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, had gone to the region to meet with official
Iran   Nuclear   Photos   Saudi Arabia   US  
 The New York Times 
Gates in Saudi Arabia to Discuss Iran
| RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on Wednesday for talks with the Saudi royal family that senior defense officials said would be focused on Iran. | His visi... (photo: AP / Lawrence Jackson)
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens to Chinese President Hu Jintao, as they attend a state dinner reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Standing behind them are their translators.
China   Defence   Photos   Politics   US  
 Asia Times 
Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics
| By Willy Lam | China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.  Khaleej Times 
Ahmadinejad criticises NATO troops, mocks Gates
KABUL - Iran's outspoken president on Wednesday criticised Western troops as an obstacle to peace in Afghanistan and mocked the US defence secretary during their overlapping visits to the war-torn cou... (photo: AP / Seth Wenig)
Iran   Nato   Photos   President   US  
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai meet at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 10, 2010.  Al Jazeera 
Ahmadinejad in Kabul for talks
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has arrived in Afghanistan for talks with Hamid Karzai, his Afghan counterpart. | Ahmadinejad's visit to Kabul comes at the tail end of a trip to the coun... (photo: AP / Sorkhabi, Pool)
Afghanistan   Iran   Photos   Taliban   US  
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. WPXI
Gates: Troops May Leave Afghanistan Early
POLE CHAKI TRAINING BASE, Afghanistan -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan sur... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
Afghanistan   Defense   Photos   Troops   US  
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates walks through the village of Now Zad with Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, during a visit to at a forward operating base in Afghanistan, March 9, 2010. San Fransisco Chronicle
Taliban's gone, but Afghan town still deserted
| (03-10) 04:00 PST Now Zad, Afghanistan -- | This southern Afghan city has been touted as a symbol of the progress U.S. troops have made in recent weeks. But when Defens... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
Afghanistan   Photos   Taliban   US  
England national soccer team striker Michael Owen arrives for a squad training session for the World Cup at Mittelbergstadion in Buehlertal, Germany, Saturday June 17, 2006. England face Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden in their Group B games at the World Cup Sky Sports
Pearce - Door open for Owen
| England U21 boss Stuart Pearce insists it is wrong to suggest Michael Owen's international career is over. | Owen's slim hopes of making this summer's World Cup finals ... (photo: AP / Matt Dunham)
Football   Owen   Photos   Soccer   Sport  
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain David Miliband holds a bilateral with Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, not shown, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2009, at the State Department in Washington. Khaleej Times
UK minister urges push for Afghan peace
LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taleban insurgents and said Afghanistan's n... (photo: AP / Lawrence Jackson)
Afghanistan   Peace   Photos   Politics   UK  
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, left, speaks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009. BBC News
David Miliband to seek Afghanistan political drive
| Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to call on the Afghan government to work harder to find a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban. | At a lecture in the... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool, Pool)
Afghanistan   Military   Photos   Taliban   UK  
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks to students at the U.S. Air Force Air War College on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., April 14, 2009.  Secretary Gates is on the start of a four day trip visiting all of the branches war colleges. DOD photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison(RELEASED) The New York Times
Gates Visits Former Taliban Village
| NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban sanctuary in Helmand Province, b... (photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison)
Afghanistan   Pakistan   Photos   Terror   US  
Politics Business
- Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics
- Ahmadinejad in Kabul for talks
- Iran leader: U.S. playing 'double game' in Afghanist
- Tajikistan court jails, fines dozens of members of banned Is
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens to Chinese President Hu Jintao, as they attend a state dinner reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Standing behind them are their translators.
Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics
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- Real Problems Facing Pellegrini
- PREVIEW: Earthquake shifts new president's plans, hopes
- Roma Star David Pizarro Rejects Burn-Out Concerns
- World Bank praise for our economic reform progress
Philippine Presidential candidates, from left, Senator Richard Gordon, Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, former defense chief Gilbert Teodoro and ousted Philippine President Joseph Estrada mingle before the start of a presidentiables forum at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines on Wednesday Dec. 2, 2009. About 17,000 positions are up for grabs, from village chief to president in next year's elections. There are about 45 milllion eligible voters in the country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
SWS: Aquino, Villar slide; Erap gains
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Health Education
- OPT: Uphill battle to supply prosthetics to Gaza war injured
- Somon Air orders 737s
- UBS raises Boeing rating on improving airline news
- SYRIA: Severe food shortages in parched eastern region
Barren dried up land - lack of monsoon - drought - India
SYRIA: Severe food shortages in parched eastern region
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- Somon Air orders 737s
- UBS raises Boeing rating on improving airline news
- Vote Monitors Slam Tajikistan's Parliamentary Vote
- YEMEN: Saada schools reopen
Egyptian students leave their school exam, as they wear surgical masks outside their school in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 13, 2009. A student dorm at the American University in Cairo was placed under quarantine after seven Americans, six students and one faculty member, were diagnosed with swine flu.
EGYPT: H1N1 flu down but not out
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Environment Travel
- Massive Chile earthquake may have clipped fraction of second
- Global crisis of water scarcity
- Paul Craig Roberts: US pushing for nuclear war; "leader
- Tajikistan threatened by climate change, says Oxfam
A mother helps her child to drink water from a public water tanker in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 22, 2007. "Coping with Water Scarcity" is the theme for World Water Day 2007, which is celebrated each year on March 22.
Global crisis of water scarcity
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- Somon Air orders 737s
- UBS raises Boeing rating on improving airline news
- Tajikistan's Islamic Party to Sue Election Board
- Tajikistan's Islamic party to sue election board over cl
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