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Civil Protest & Disorder

Thai troops patrol Bangkok after deadly clashes

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military deployed troops on the streets of Bangkok on Tuesday to keep order after a day of battles between police and anti-government protesters in which two people died and more than 380 were...

Gates accuses UK of being 'defeatist' on Afghanistan

Published Date: 08 October 2008 By Jonathon Burch and Kristin Roberts THE United States defence secretary, Robert Gates, has accused Britain's military commander in Afghanistan and its ambassador to the country of being...

Bomb blast amid riots deepens Thai unrest

A young woman, aged about 20, is believed to have died and many others were were hurt in a suspected car bomb explosion during rioting on the streets of Bangkok. The device went off near to where anti-government protestors were...

Curfew continues in Dhule; no fresh violence

MUMBAI: Dhule continues to be under curfew for the third day, though no fresh incident of violence was reported after 3.30 p.m. In the morning, trouble spread to Sakhri taluk. Collector Prajakta Lavangare told The ...

Palin slams Obama's 'left-wing agenda'

Palin also accused Obama of campaigning with "a left-wing agenda packaged to look mainstream.'' "One of Barack Obama's supporters is Bill Ayers, an unreprentant domestic terrorist,'' Palin said at a campaign rally this morning...

U.S.: Pakistan "Greatest Single Challenge" to Next President

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (IPS) - Calling Pakistan the "greatest single challenge" to the next U.S. administration, a bipartisan group of South Asia experts recommends cutting aid to the Pakistani army unless it commits itself to the...

Canada says Afghan mission can't last indefinitely (Reuters)

Reuters - The history of Afghanistan demonstrates that foreign troops cannot stay there indefinitely in an attempt to completely suppress all insurgency, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.

Petraeus sees increasingly durable gains in Iraq (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said on Tuesday that security gains in Iraq are increasingly durable but warned that that methods which helped reduce violence there may not work in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan to dominate agenda of NATO defense ministers' meeting

BRUSSELS, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- NATO defense ministers will meet in the Hungarian capital of Budapest on Thursday and Friday to discuss primarily the NATO-led operations in Afghanistan amid doubts over the alliance's...

The Weather Underground

On Oct. 6, Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists." She was referring to Obama's occasional association with Bill Ayers, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor who...

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