Posts Tagged ‘diplomatic’

US military, diplomatic leaders press Pakistan (AP)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gestures during a speech at the launch of a Global Partnership for Girls' and Women's Education at UNESCO headquarters in Paris May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Thibault Camus/PoolAP – Top U.S. diplomatic and military officials are in Pakistan to repair badly frayed relations after the killing of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden at a comfortable hideout in Pakistan.


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New Predator role fits diplomatic, military bill (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. President Barack Obama's decision to use Predators in Libya widened what had become very limited U.S. participation in the air war. But the deployment is small, just two, and their use only a half-step back into the fight. Bigger U.S. bombers and other firepower remain idle. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)AP – President Barack Obama’s decision to use unmanned Predator drones in Libya widened what had become very limited U.S. participation in the air war, but the aircraft credited with taking out terrorist leaders in western Pakistan probably won’t prove decisive against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.


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Libya rebels see diplomatic victory, loss in fight (AP)

Anti-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi rebels, take shelter behind a wall to protect themselves from shelling during fighting against pro-Moammar Gadhafi fighters, in Sidr town, eastern Libya, on Thursday March 10, 2011. The president of the international Red Cross says doctors in Libya are seeing a dramatic rise in the number of casualties, mostly civilians. Jakob Kellenberger said Thursday that local doctors over the past few days saw 'a sharp increase in the number of casualties arriving at hospitals in Ajdabiya and Misrata' where there has been heavy fighting and air strikes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP – Libya’s opposition battled for military and diplomatic advantage against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime on Thursday, winning official recognition from France but losing ground to government forces outside a strategically vital oil port.


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WikiLeaks: 1 percent of diplomatic docs published (AP)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives for a news conference with former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, not seen, at the Frontline Club in London, Monday Jan. 17, 2011. Rudolf Elmer blew the whistle on the conduct of Julius Baer Bank in the Cayman Islands for which he is set to stand trial in Zurich, Switzerland, on Jan. 19 for breaching Swiss bank secrecy laws. Elmer claims he has evidence of alleged abuses in the world of offshore financial centres and passed the said documents and information to Assange. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP – Nearly two months after WikiLeaks outraged the U.S. government by launching the release of a massive compendium of diplomatic documents, the secret-spilling website has published 2,628 U.S. State Department cables — just over 1 percent of its trove of 251,287 documents.


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Spy swap brings swift end to diplomatic problem (AP)

Russian plane believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap, is seen at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, on Friday, July 9, 2010. The plane carrying the colours of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is thought to have flown from Austria on Friday, following an exchange of spies between Moscow and Washington. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP – With the conclusion of the biggest spy swap since the Cold War, the U.S. has defused a thorny diplomatic problem quickly and cleanly — and avoided damaging recent efforts to improve relations with Russia. And Moscow has escaped further embarrassment over a group of spies that over the years apparently had little if any success in ferreting out any useful secrets.


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White House visitor logs show up famous names

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – Did Barack Obama’s controversial ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright visit the White House? Or did the great Michael Jordan shoot some hoops with the president on his basketball court?

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