MUMBAI, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has appealed to India not to punish his country for last week's attacks in Mumbai, saying militants have the power to precipitate a war in the region, the Financial Times reported on Monday. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi mosque on Friday while thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad after parliament passed a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain through 2011. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — U.S.-led coalition troops and Afghan security forces killed 32 militants in a series of raids against Taliban commanders in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Wednesday. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali gunmen kidnapped two Western journalists in the northern province of Puntland on Wednesday, police said, in the latest attack on foreigners working in the lawless Horn of Africa nation. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday he would bring down U.S. planes bombing villages if he could, in a sign of growing tension between Afghanistan and its Western backers as the Taliban insurgency grows in strength. ... > full story
BRUSSELS, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — China, angry at plans for Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit Europe, has called off a summit with the European Union next Monday which may have forged a joint response to the global economic crisis. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Iraq's parliament will vote on Wednesday on a pact that sets a deadline for the withdrawal of the U.S. military forces that ousted former dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, but which is opposed by some political groups. ... > full story
KUWAIT, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — Kuwait's ruler decided to put on hold the resignation of the OPEC country's cabinet on Tuesday, leaving his options open for intervention to end a crippling crisis between the government and parliament. ... > full story
KUWAIT, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — Kuwait's ruler will not dissolve the Gulf state's parliament, its speaker said on Tuesday after meeting with the head of state amid tensions with the house that pushed the cabinet to tender its resignation. ... > full story
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — Afghan authorities have arrested 10 Taliban insurgents who threw acid in the faces of schoolgirls in southern Afghanistan, an official said on Tuesday. ... > full story
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Macedonian Army ends Iraq Coalition Mission Nov. 27, 2008 (GlobalSecurity.org) — Multi-National Force-Iraq. . Thursday, 27 November 2008. . Multi-National Corps - Iraq Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory APO AE 09342. . Warriors ...
Man who starved girl will be released from prison Nov. 26, 2008 (Deseret News, Utah) — A man convicted of nearly starving his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter while she was deployed to Iraq will be released from prison next year.. The ...
Kuwait government pulls out of parliament in crisis Nov. 25, 2008 (Washington Post) — Kuwait's parliament speaker adjourned a session of parliament after 15 minutes on Tuesday following a walkout by the government in a bid to avert ...
Kuwait MPs attempt to defuse political crisis Nov. 24, 2008 (The Irish Times) — KUWAIT - Kuwaiti MPs tried to defuse a political crisis yesterday by moving to delay the questioning of prime minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad ...
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