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Monday, February 1, 2016 - 05:14
The body set up to investigate human rights violations of the military regime says the militarization of daily life and forced removals of residents are practices of the past that are being repeated today.
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 05:11
Those who are pushing for Ms Rousseff’s impeachment concede privately that they are unlikely to muster the two-thirds majority needed in the lower house to send the motion to the Senate. But they plan to drag out the proceeding as long as the (vague) legal deadlines permit. That will accomplish their goal of undermining the president.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 07:27
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave a lengthy press conference on January 26, in which he reflected on the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2015. Among a number of issues, he addressed Moscow’s obligations under the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum on security assurances for Ukraine.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 07:24
An Uzbek delegation led by the authoritarian Central Asia nation's foreign minister met with senior U.S. officials in Washington on January 19 for consultations on a range of issues, including human rights and security.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 07:20
The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) published an audit of the Afghan National Engineer Brigade (NEB) that found despite U.S. training efforts and the expense of millions of dollars, the brigade is incapable of operating independently.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 07:11
Kazakhstan isn’t particularly known for its defense industry — the infrastructure for which it largely inherited from the Soviet Union — but with a deal to sell tanks to Jordan the Central Asian country continues pushing into a new industry.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 07:05
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has said his troops will remain in Somalia following an attack by Al-Shabab militants that killed an undisclosed number of soldiers. Fighters from the Somali militant group attacked the African Union base at El Adde, in the Gedo region of Somalia and near the Kenyan border, on January 15.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 06:53
Four Senators from the United States of America (USA) have petitioned the Senate Appropriations Committee to cut off foreign aid to Ghana should the small West African country fail to keep the two ex-detainees from Guantanamo Bay from escaping to “re-engage in terrorism against the United States”. Senators James Lankford of Oklahoma, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Roy Blunt of Missouri, and Steve Daines of Montana penned down the request and also pleaded with State and Foreign Operations and Related Programmes Chairman Lindsay Graham to carry out its implementation.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 06:52
American involvement in the long Afghan war was supposed to come to a close by the end of the year, but an array of top Pentagon officials spent Thursday making clear that U.S. troops will be fighting — and potentially dying — there for years to come.
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 06:26
The United States is considering "decisive" military action against Islamic State fighters entrenched in Libya, but delivering a fatal blow to the militant group will likely require more than airstrikes, experts say.