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• NYT > World: 3 Top Obama Advisers Favor Adding Troops in Afghanistan

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The president’s national security team is coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional troops to Afghanistan, officials say.
  2 hours ago

• Short Takes

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 608
  The New York Times reports that Blackwater paid bribes to the Iraqi government to dampen criticism after 17 civilians were killed. John Allen Muhammad , one of the DC snipers, was executed last night. Discussing options: President Obama is looking at four possible strategies for Afghanistan. Secretary of ...
  3 hours ago

• China: Sino-Indian tension and Dalai Lama

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 718
  China Matters has an article looking into the Sino-Indian tension against the background of Dalai Lamas recent visits to Tawang and Nepal.
  5 hours ago

• World Briefing | Middle East: Saudis Impose Naval Blockade Off Yemen Coast

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The Saudi offensive has raised concerns of another proxy war in the Middle East between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
  6 hours ago

• U.S. Tries to Salvage Honduras Accord

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Manuel Zelaya played guitar on the birthday of a supporter, in hat, on Saturday in Tegucigalpa.
  6 hours ago

• Powder Sent to 3 Missions Is Determined to Be Flour

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A similar substance arrived a day later in letters delivered to the United Nations missions of Germany and the United Kingdom.
  6 hours ago

• Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) 2009 – 2014 Strategic Plan

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 153
  Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) 2009 – 2014 Strategic Plan (PDF; 154 KB) Source: Defense Security Cooperation Agency DSCA Core Competencies: Integration of policy and business processes for the sale, lease, grant or transfer of defense articles and services, to include education and training ...
  7 hours ago

• Blackwater Bribes Iraqi Officials for Silence Over Massacre

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 128
  Bribery , a form of pecuniary corruption, is an act implying money or gift given that alters the behavior of the recipient. Bribery constitutes a crime and is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other ...
  7 hours ago

• Memo From Riyadh: Saudi Arabia and Egypt Fret as Influence Fades

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 142
  King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, left, is trying to improve relations with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, right.
  8 hours ago

• Top Obama Advisers Favor Adding Troops in Afghanistan

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 142
  American soldiers in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, shielded their eyes as a helicopter landed nearby to pick them up after a mission last month.
  8 hours ago

• 14:15 - The Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation forum APEC gets underway in Singapore....(audio)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 812
  Shon Walker is speaking with Radio Australias Canberra correspondent Linda Mottram about the up coming meeting.
  10 hours ago

• Mr Obama visits Japan

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 501
  Author: Funabashi Yoichi, Asahi With U.S. President Barack Obama scheduled to arrive Friday for a two-day visit, Tokyo and Washington are still fumbling to get on the same wavelength. Although Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has repeatedly stressed that his government’s diplomacy would be centered on the alliance ...
  11 hours ago

• U.S. Tries to Salvage Honduras Accord

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Craig Kelly went to Honduras to meet with the ousted president and the head of the de facto government.
  12 hours ago

• Comparative Canada-U.S. Juvenile Politics

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 419
  The governing Conservative Party has recently taken some heat for juvenile behavior in Parliament, particularly when it comes to women speaking in the House.  The touchstone for this controversy, was Conservatives heckling and shouting down Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett’s question about how swine flu vaccination ...
  12 hours ago

• Kaplan: Civil Society Requires Perpetual War

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 801
  One of the best things about not working at The Atlantic anymore is not counting Robert Kaplan among my professional colleagues. Here’s his take on modern-day Europe: Europe, having been liberated from nuclear terror at the conclusion of the Cold War, proved unable to muster the gumption to deal with Yugoslavia ...
  18 hours ago

• Commemorating a Historic Day, and Obama’s Lack of Respect For It

  
  Axis of Right — Authority: 426
  When President Reagan issued the challenge “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” on June 10, 1987, no one thought the Berlin Wall would fall anytime in the near future.  Yet just a day short of two years and five months later, the wall was torn down.  Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the ...
  21 hours ago

• Complementary protection for asylum seekers—overview of the international and Australian legal frameworks

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 153
  Complementary protection for asylum seekers—overview of the international and Australian legal frameworks (PDF; 520 KB) Source: Parliamentary Library of Australia + There is no universally accepted definition of the term ‘complementary protection’. However, in general terms, it describes States’ ...
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• NYT > World: Korean Navies Trade Fire in First Incident in Seven Years

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Fighting erupted when a North Korean navy boat ventured across the so-called Northern Limit Line, according to a report.
  1 day ago

• Qatar: Anticipation mounts over England vs Brazil football friendly

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 718
  Qatar has been abuzz with events over the past few months: an international film festival , a nail-biting womans tennis championship , and now, the Brazil-England friendly football match on November 14. Barechestedness and public drinking are not things youll see at the friendly in Doha this weekend (Photo by ...
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• Short Takes

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 608
  North and South Koreas navies exchanged gunfire. Iran accuses three US hikers who wandered across their border of spying. Maj. Hasan is awake and talking, according to doctors attending the Fort Hood shooting suspect. John Allen Muhammad, the D.C. sniper, is to be executed today. Scott Roeder confessed ...
  1 day ago

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