Washington Post June 11, 2009 Afghanistan’s defense minister urged European governments Thursday to step up their military and other efforts for his country to share the burden equally with the United States. more
AFP June 10, 2009 Thousands of US reinforcements for southern Afghanistan should be in place in time for presidential elections in August, a NATO commander said on Wednesday. more
Associated Press June 9, 2009 For almost half a century, the United States has dominated the exploration of Mars from the first grainy black-and-white pictures of the craggy surface to the more recent discovery of ice. more
International Herald Tribune June 8, 2009 The European Union is an extraordinary experiment in shared sovereignty, creating a zone of peace that now stretches from Britain to the Balkans. The union of 27 countries is the world’s most formidable economic bloc, incorporating 491 million people in an integrated market that produces nearly a third more […]
Washington Post June 8, 2009 NATO plans to scale down its 15,000-strong KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo to 10,000 by January because security and political conditions have improved, a U.S. official said on Monday. more