A Karzai adviser investigating the deaths, said "16 civilians, many of them children and women, were killed" in the operation. "We strongly condemn it and want an end to it (civilian casualties)," he told reporters where the prote
An Iraqi couple was killed in their bed Saturday morning as their daughter slept between them when U.S. forces raided their home. The family described the slayings of a modest farmer, his wife and the wounding of their daughter by U.S. forces as the
Pakistan objects to the strikes on its territory, saying they not only a violation of its sovereignty but are counter-productive to its efforts to tackle the militants in its lawless ethnic Pashtun lands on the Afghan border.
The government of Iceland became the first in the world to be effectively brought down by the credit crunch.
It came after several nights of rioting over the financial crisis.
"The difference between a group of angry hotheads talking in a cafe and a successful attack with blood on the floor is one capable person," Jenkins said. "Any damn fool can blow up a bomb somewhere."
[Known financial genius] Pelosi told ABC's "This Week" that "some increased investment" might be needed beyond the $700 billion approved last year under the Troubled Asset Relief Program to stabilize the nation's banks
It will be years before (the tax roll) recovers because all these people are selling (distressed) homes, banks are selling at deep discounts, values are going down from 50 percent to 75 percent. The people buying them will hold onto them for five, si
According to Obama's Chief of Staff, ALL civilians, ages 18 to 25 will be REQUIRED to serve a minimum of 3 months in his "Civilian National Security Force." Adolf Hitler created the "Hitler Youth" movement prior to starting W
U.S. companies are reducing dividends at the fastest rate in half a century, squeezing investors who depend on the payouts more than ever to boost returns.
Iceland's government could be ousted from power this weekend, becoming Europe's first to fall as a direct result of the global financial crisis, according to a spokesman for the prime minister.
Credible witnesses have claimed that NASA has altered or destroyed its photos containing images of UFOs. So asking for more money to 'look' after they've already destroyed what they 'found' may be hard.
Families must brace themselves for a slump of far greater severity and longevity than the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s, they warned. They said the current crisis will be of a scale to rival the biggest peace-time crisis in modern history — the G
The "Washington Post" reports the three-point-four-billion dollar facility would be one of the largest construction projects in the DC area since the building of the Pentagon back in the 1940s.
Absolutely none of this was an accident, it was an inherent and necessary part of the systematic and organized fraud that Wall Street and Washington DC perpetrated upon the public and now they want us to pay for it.
Phrases like "real food" and "farm-to-table" may sound like elitist jargon tossed around at upscale restaurants. But the country's top chefs, several of whom traveled to Washington for Obama's inauguration this week, hope
But of course that was before, before our tolerance was pulled tighter than the skin on a drum, before our bank balances plummeted as far as our employment rates, before we were declared terrorists by Brown and the anger that accompanies a national c
This is the ADDCO portable sign. Today, you see what is on the inside, and how they are programmed to display important information. If you are in charge of programming one of these, the default password is "DOTS".
The diplomat rejected my argument as simplistic and unrealistic. He argued for a military solution, and, of course, that was the result the Bush administration delivered. The diplomat’s name? Richard Holbrooke.
If you plan to be anywhere from the southern third of Africa, to southern and eastern India, southeastern China, Southeast Asia, and virtually all of Australia on Monday, January 26, you will be treated to a view of a solar eclipse.
California's unemployment rate jumped to 9.3 percent in December, capping a tumultuous year of massive job losses and a housing slump that has struck most of the country.
Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Greece and Iceland have all faced social unrest and rioting as unemployment soars and as many European countries have been forced to impose severe cuts to government spending
Not since John F Kennedy half a century ago has a new administration come into office with such a reservoir of expectations. It is unprecedented that all the principal actors on the world stage are avowing their desire to undertake the transformation
"For too long, international family planning assistance has been used as a political wedge issue, the subject of a back and forth debate that has served only to divide us," Obama said. "I have no desire to continue this stale and fruit
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are bracing for a fresh request from President Obama for another massive round of spending to shore up the nation's faltering financial system, which could send the total price for the bailout soaring toward $1 trillion.