Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday he is considering sending personnel to Afghanistan for land-based activities.''We could be involved in land-based activities in Afghanistan if the conditions there enable us to deploy. I'm always considering such a possibility," Fukuda
TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday he is considering sending personnel to Afghanistan for "land-based activities."
Afghanistan supplies virtually all of the world's illegal opium. Last year, the country's drug trade was a $4 billion business, half of which alone was produced in the south where the fighting against the Taliban insurgency is the fiercest.
Getting Afghanistan to rid itself of poppy is a pillar of U.S. policy there, because the Taliban use profits from opium as a source of revenue. For Afghans themselves, however, feelings about poppy are conflicted: It's harmful to their country
Peter Spiege reports in the LA Times, from Singapore:A senior Chinese general insisted Saturday that Beijing's military buildup was solely for self-defense, as he sought to assure a gathering of Asian defense officials that China was not seeking to dominate
From AP, via the LA Times:A military transport helicopter crashed in China's earthquake-devastated south-central region with 14 people aboard, the official news agency said today.The New China News Agency's report gave no word on any survivors or casualties. The report
The United States likely will decide "within days" to move four U.S. Navy ships that have been waiting off the coast of Burma for permission from the country's ruling military junta to provide help to cyclone-stricken residents, Defense Secretary Robert
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There will be no more free parking at Bur Juman as the mall on Sunday imposed parking charges on an hourly basis.It will now cost Dh20 per hour from 6am to 6pm, but shoppers spending Dh 100 or more...Continue to
Naqoura - Israel has released a Lebanese-born man ( to a Jewish Lebanese mother and a Shia father) who had served a six-year jail term on charges of spying for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia organization.
Beirut - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier concluded Sunday his talks in Lebanon by visiting his country's troops who are serving with the UN Maritime Task Force off the coast. "I saw signs of hope" in Lebanon Steinmeier said
Beirut - Lebanese flooded the streets of Beirut on Sunday for the second annual Run for Peace. The marathon consists of a 5-kilometer students' race and a 21-kilometer international half-marathon, and is open to athletes of all nationalities.
Beirut- The focus will continue to be the forming of the government of National Unity . PM designate Fouad Siniora sounded optimistic after completing his consultations and presenting them to the preident. Siniora however did admit that the task is
Beirut - The outspoken Sunni Mufti of Mount Lebanon, Sheikh Mohammed Ali Al-Jouzo said in a statement today, "The legitimacy won, a president of the republic was elected and this is victory for Lebanon,"
Beirut / Abu Dhabi - Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, and Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, have both expressed support for the Doha agreement, which ended Lebanon's 18-month political crisis.
Amid tight security, Telgi was taken to the Parappana Agrahara central jail from the railway station here, police said. His shifting here comes after a court ruling.
A special police team, including Intelligence officials and 'Q' branch of Tamil Nadu police, who visited Melur to enquire about the call, found that the complaint had been lodged due to a 'misunderstanding' of what the caller, a teenager from
