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Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he sees no reason for President George W. Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. "I don't have any reason to believe that anybody in the agency did anything illegal," he said.
The just concluded elections in Bangladesh can turn out to be the most significant in its history and carry the potential to have a significant impact well beyond its borders on the entire subcontinent.
Washington - A January 1 strike from an unmanned CIA drone in Pakistan killed four top al-Qaeda operatives including a suspect in both last year's Islamabad hotel attack and the 1998 truck bombings against US embassies in Africa, the Washington Post ...
Another step has been taken toward resolving a decades-old boundary line issue between Dickinson and South Middleton townships.
Associated Press CENTRALIA, Wash. — Floods, mudslides and avalanches in the Pacific Northwest kept tens of thousands of people from their homes Thursday, brought freight trains to a standstill and stranded hundreds of trucks along the major highways that link Seattle’s busy ports with markets around the country.
Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel resumed its Gaza offensive Wednesday, bombing heavily around suspected smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt after a three-hour lull to allow in humanitarian aid. Hamas responded with a rocket barrage.
RAFAH, Egypt - It's a 2 1/2-hour journey that should take 30 minutes. A hair-raising sprint on dirt roads through bombed-out cities and military checkpoints, all while coping with the ever-present threat of gunfire or a stray bomb.
Associated Press JERUSALEM - Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with a bloody offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 700 people. Israel responded with mortar shells.
In Chatham House’s new report evaluating Sudan’s prospects under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace agreement (CPA), which brought to an end two decades of war between northern and southern Sudan, Edward Thomas , examines the way in which the accord has marginalized other conflicts of interest in the country, such as those between the central government in Khartoum, controlled by the National Congress ...
Yesterday – up until late afternoon – the terrorists focused their attention on Ashkelon and Ashdod, so Beersheba was quiet, up until about 4:30, anyway, when a Grad missile hit somewhere near Ben Gurion University of the Negev. I only know that because someone who was near there told me.
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