Posts Tagged ‘foreign’

Foreign monitors energize Syrian protests (AP)

In this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit and accessed Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011 purports to show anti-government forces shooting at a bus convoy in Daraa, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via APTN) TV OUT. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL.AP – The presence of Arab League monitors in Syria has re-energized the anti-government protest movement, with tens of thousands turning out over the past three days in cities and neighborhoods where the observers are expected to visit. The huge rallies have been met by lethal gunfire from security forces apparently worried about multiple mass sit-ins modeled after Cairo’s Tahrir Square.


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GOP presidential rivals to debate foreign policy (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks during an employee town hall event at CCA Global Partners in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)AP – With new trouble appearing in the Middle East and the Pentagon facing possible budget cuts, the Republican White House contenders are debating for the second time in as many weeks how they would do better than President Barack Obama in protecting and extending America’s national security.


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GOP rivals debate foreign policy in South Carolina (AP)

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to the board of The Federation of Young Republicans Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, in Atlanta.  (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP – Republican candidates prepared to challenge President Barack Obama on foreign policy, an issue they have given scant attention in recent weeks, as they gathered Saturday night for their second debate in four days.


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Obama’s foreign successes may help little in 2012 (AP)

Capt. Corey Steiner is welcomed home by his daughter, Lilliana Steiner, during a homecoming ceremony, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 at Ft. Carson, Colo. All U.S. troops 'will definitely be home for the holidays,' President Barack Obama declared Friday, in his statement that the war in Iraq will be over by year's end.  More than 4,400 members of the military have been killed, and more than 32,000 have been wounded in the war that has stretched more than eight years.  (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Jerilee Bennett)AP – By declaring the Iraq war over, President Barack Obama scored what his allies see as a fourth big foreign policy success in six months, starting with Osama bin Laden’s killing. But these events might play a discouragingly small role in his re-election bid, even if they burnish his eventual place in history.


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Foreign governments call for building new Libya (AP)

A Chinese armor car guard reads a local newspaper's front page featuring a photo of Moammar Gadhafi at a newspaper stand in Beijing, China, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. China said Moammar Gadhafi's death marks the turning of a page in Libya's history and called for the rapid launch of an inclusive political process and economic reconstruction. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP – Foreign governments from Britain to China hailed a new day for Libya following Moammar Gadhafi’s death and called on the new government to move swiftly to rebuild a shattered economy and restore order amid chaotic celebrations.


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Romney calls for century of American dominance in first foreign policy speech

Forget isolationism: Mitt Romney wants a muscular, involved U.S. foreign policy.

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Glimmer of hope: Iran may release jailed American hikers, says foreign minister

Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday that two Americans jailed for spying may be released. His comments came as international pressure mounted to secure a bail-for-freedom deal for the pair who were detained along the Iran-Iraq border in 2009.

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