Chad - Instablogs
Nov 14 2009
A new diplomatic row has erupted between Peru and Chile after a Peruvian court ordered the arrest of two Chilean military officers over alleged spying. The court accused the officers of paying a Peruvian air force officer to reveal national...
Nov 12 2009
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands...
Nov 9 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The Union and after talking about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev...
Nov 4 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare address to both houses of Congress, has called on the US to join European efforts on global warming. She also said Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and reiterated Germany’s commitment to...
Oct 26 2009
Rescue operations are under way across Afghanistan, after three helicopters crashed in a series of pre-dawn sorties, leaving at least four US troops dead and two others seriously injured. Two helicopters collided in mid-air, in the South of the...
Oct 22 2009
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York’s State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of former investors and seeks unspecified punitive damages and compensation. Beyond that, it offers a look at what the plaintiffs’ attorneys say was once...
Oct 21 2009
Democratic staff for the House oversight committee informed their GOP counterparts today that the majority has changed the locks on the committee’s hearing room. While Republicans previously enjoyed their own key to the room, they will now have to...
Oct 19 2009
Around two dozen comics from the country are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with writers, publishers and agents hopeful of a gradual easing of censorship in one of the world’s last Communist states. “You can publish everything except sex,...
Oct 15 2009
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with his Austrian counterpart in Vienna and said that embracing the Goldstone Report amounts to granting diplomatic immunity to terror. The Austrian foreign minister noted that a debate on the report should only...
Oct 14 2009
If Hillary Clinton was hoping to win Russian support for efforts to use a threat of sanctions to pressure Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions, her first trip to Moscow as secretary of state got off to a rocky start Tuesday. Russia’s...