Tag: Standoff
A flawed paradigm
Things have to change
The latest standoff between the United States and Pakistan was explosive. In recent history, hardly have we seen such damage being...
Occupy DC protesters arrested after standoff
Police arrested 31 protesters late Sunday at an anti-Wall Street encampment in Washington and tore down the wooden shelter that activists had illegally erected...
No progress on Siachen standoff
Pakistan and India failed on Tuesday to break ice on how to demilitarise the Siachen glacier, the world’s highest battlefield, in a sign of...
Yemenis protest, Gulf Arabs hope to resolve standoff
SANAA - Tens of thousands of people pressed opposition demands on Wednesday for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign, a standoff Gulf Arab ambassadors hope to help resolve at talks in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
The ambassadors, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, met opposition figures at the Saudi embassy in Sanaa to issue an invitation after Saleh accepted the GCC mediation on Tuesday.
"We only expect something good from our brothers. But it will take time
The ambassadors, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, met opposition figures at the Saudi embassy in Sanaa to issue an invitation after Saleh accepted the GCC mediation on Tuesday.
"We only expect something good from our brothers. But it will take time
Italian parliament standoff adds to Berlusconi’s woes
ROME - One minister tells parliament's speaker to "go screw yourself", another hurls his electronic ID card at opposition benches and a coalition legislator calls a wheelchair-bound colleague "stupid cripple". Even by Italian standards, such angry scenes have raised fresh questions about how long Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government can survive and whether the only solution to a parliamentary paralysis is early elections.
"Parliament is in chaos. The president is
"Parliament is in chaos. The president is
US sees limited progress in spy standoff
WASHINGTON - US national security officials say progress is being made to persuade Pakistan to free a CIA contractor held on murder charges but that Washington could take punitive diplomatic and financial action if the case is not resolved soon.
The officials said they believed private discussions between Islamabad and Washington have cooled anti-American rhetoric that erupted in Pakistan after the arrest of Raymond Davis, a former US Special Forces soldier employed by the CIA
The officials said they believed private discussions between Islamabad and Washington have cooled anti-American rhetoric that erupted in Pakistan after the arrest of Raymond Davis, a former US Special Forces soldier employed by the CIA
North Korea makes nuclear threat in standoff with South
SEOUL - North Korea warned on Thursday of a "sacred war" against the South using its nuclear deterrent as South Korean President Lee Myung-bak vowed a merciless counterattack if southern territory is attacked again.
Both sides raised the rhetoric on a day South Korea launched major land and sea military exercises, prompting North Korea, which has threatened to reduce the South to ashes on many occasions, to denounce its richer neighbour as a warmonger.
"To counter the
Both sides raised the rhetoric on a day South Korea launched major land and sea military exercises, prompting North Korea, which has threatened to reduce the South to ashes on many occasions, to denounce its richer neighbour as a warmonger.
"To counter the
Mbeki to mediate in Ivory Coast election standoff
ABIDJAN: Former South African leader Thabo Mbeki sought on Sunday to mediate an end to a dispute over Ivory Coast's presidential election that has threatened to trigger unrest in the divided West African nation. The Nov. 28 poll, designed to reunite a country split after a 2002-2003 civil war, has raised tensions as both incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and his challenger Alassane Ouattara have claimed victory and taken presidential oaths.
In the northern town of Bouake, the stronghold
In the northern town of Bouake, the stronghold
