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Defense Secretary Robert Gates headed to Asia for a final time as Pentagon chief on Tuesday, looking to reassure allies that the United States...

Despite the trust deficit in bilateral ties, Pakistan is a very important state for the US due to its nuclear weapons and the importance...

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned against taking action that could worsen relations and interrupt the flow...

US Defence Chief Robert Gates has said it would be premature to speed up the pace of troops withdrawal from Afghanistan. In an interview...

CAMP LIBERTY - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday hailed the "extraordinary" progress made in Iraq, and said Baghdad set an example for democracy in the region.
Gates, who arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday evening, met with Lieutenant General Lloyd Austin, commander of US military forces in Iraq, before going into talks with Iraqi leaders.
He was due to meet Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani, and expected to travel to northern Iraq for talks

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Microsoft Corporation and Bill Gates Foundation Mr Bill Gates Wednesday telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari.
Spokesperson to the President Mr Farhatullah Babar said that Bill Gates talked about health related issues in Pakistan particularly the progress made on the Polio Eradication campaign which is being undertaken by the government of Pakistan in collaboration with the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation.
The President appreciated and lauded the

ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara said forces under his command were "at the gates" of Abidjan on Thursday and called on the remaining loyalists of his rival Laurent Gbagbo to switch sides to prevent further suffering.
"I call on you to serve your country ... It is time to join your brothers in the Republican Forces," Ouattara said in a statement on his television station, soon after South Africa said Gbagbo's army chief had sought refuge in its embassy in the

RAMALLAH - Robert Gates on Friday became the first US Defense Secretary to visit the West Bank, meeting Palestinian leaders keenly aware of every little nod to their hopes of achieving statehood. Children in Ramallah stared as the long motorcade of US cars wound through the streets of the city north of Jerusalem.
With US diplomacy fully stretched over revolts in the Arab world and the air war with Libya, Gates was looking to revive stalled peace talks between Israel and the

NEW DELHI - Two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, took their charity roadshow to New Delhi on Thursday where they hope to coax their Indian peers to part with some of their wealth. Buffett, 80, and Gates, 55, who are close personal friends, were to meet with leading Indian businessmen at a luxury hotel in India's capital to deliver their pitch and exchange ideas on philanthropy. The philanthropists announced last year that they would seek to persuade fellow

CAIRO - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates assured Egypt's military ruler of sustained American aid on Thursday, as Cairo warned that tourism revenue is nosediving in the wake of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Gates, on his first visit to Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, also discussed Libya with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who heads the ruling military council.
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said Tantawi did not raise

SANGIN - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited the key battleground of southern Afghanistan Tuesday to meet troops ahead of the planned start of foreign force withdrawals from July. Flying into the country on Monday, Gates said that US and coalition forces are "well-positioned" to begin a gradual drawdown in four months' time but he has not given a number for how many US personnel could leave then.
On Tuesday he saw the situation on the ground, visiting the US military base

SEOUL - Fresh nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea are still possible but only if the communist state ends "dangerous provocations" and shows good faith, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. Gates, ending an Asian tour with a brief stopover in Seoul, said the process must start with talks between the two Koreas. Seoul has rejected as insincere Pyongyang's recent dialogue offers, which come less than two months after a deadly bombardment of a South Korean island.