| NATO mulls Afghan troops, decision hinges on Obama The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has recommended sending at least 40,000 additional troops and trainers as part of a beefed-up counterinsurgency str ...[more] |
| No more French troops for Afghanistan: Sarkozy The United States is considering sending up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and has urged its NATO allies to bolster their forces to tackle the Taliban. Britain announced t ...[more] |
| Daughter of Ahmadinejad adviser seeks German asylum Narges Kalhor, daughter of Ahmadinejad's media adviser Mehdi Kalhor, came to Germany to present short film "Darkhish" or "the Rake" at the Nuremberg film festival on human rights. Acc ...[more] |
| Karadzic trial to start October 26: Yugoslavia tribunal Karadzic, 64, who has unsuccessfully tried to have the trial delayed and have charges against him dropped, faces life in prison on 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder, de ...[more] |
| U.N court delays trial of Serb security chiefs Lawyers for Franko Simatovic, a commander of elite Serb forces, asked in September if the trial could be postponed to give the new counsel time to get to grips with his case following the dea ...[more] |
| Russia upset at U.S.-Ukraine missile defense talks Russia, which is extremely sensitive to any hint of U.S. cooperation with former Soviet republics, initially welcomed President Barack Obama's scrapping of Bush-era plans for a missile defens ...[more] |
| Russia, allies seek early WTO membership as union They will resume their WTO accession talks as separate states, but coordinate closely, they told a briefing. Harmonizing the customs union's external tariff will require Kazakhstan to ...[more] |
| Russia's Medvedev snubs opposition in election row Kremlin critics say the row over Sunday's regional elections illustrates the gulf between Medvedev's promises of greater pluralism and the reality of the tightly-controlled political system c ...[more] |
| Thai markets tumble on worries over king Despite assurances from the palace that the king's health was improving after 26 days in hospital, the stock market suffered its biggest one-day drop since the start of the global financial c ...[more] |
| Italy denies report it paid off Taliban, warlords Britain's Times newspaper said Italian secret service paid tens of thousand of dollars to insurgents to keep the Sarobi area east of Kabul quiet while Italian forces were stationed there. The ...[more] |
| U.N. rights body considers condemning Israel on Gaza At the opening of a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting on the issue, Navi Pillay said that all sides of the Middle East conflict were continuing to violate international law and voiced concern ...[more] |