U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be in Moscow for two days next week for the so-called “two-plus-two” meetings to discuss several bilateral issues with their Russian counterparts, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.
Daniel Fried, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, […]
At least 28 people were killed and 73 others wounded, with 15 of the injured in critical condition after a bus crash with a train in Eastern Cuba late Saturday.
The collision occurred in a small town in the province of Granma at a railroad crossing, 500 miles east of Havana, CNN reports.
The report said that […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will end her three-nation African tour with a visit to the West African Nation of Liberia where she is due to meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. This follows a visit to South Africa where she used her trip to urge President Thabo Mbeki to persuade Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to end […]
International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda announced a $25-million program to help feed people in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
The money will be used to fund the purchase of grain and cooking oil in areas hard hit by Taliban militants.
Canadian officials say this year alone 8,700 tonnes of food have been distributed to about 400,000 people.
Ms. Oda […]
Typhoon Krosa has weakened to a tropical storm after hitting China’s southeast coast with winds of over 120 km an hour. More than 1 million people had been evacuated within the densely populated provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian. No injuries or damage have been reported. Krosa was travelling in land from Taiwan where it left […]
Hundreds of Russian opposition activists have rallied in central Moscow under heavy security presence to mark the first anniversary of the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya was gunned down outside her home last year and was a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s war in Chechnya. Suspects were arrested but […]
The death toll from clashes between militants and soldiers in Pakistan’s restive tribal areas increased to 50 late Sunday, the military said.
Twenty six people were killed when security forces launched an attack against militant bases and hide-outs in the restive North Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan, military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said.
At least another 24 […]
New York City, with its convoys of cabs, miles of subway track, fleets of fume-belching trucks and hordes of harried commuters, is a long way from Davis, Calif., with a University of California campus and not much else.
But the concrete jungle and the college town were both honored recently by the League of American Bicyclists […]