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Pakistani Analysts Respond to Former UN Official's Criticism - Voice of America
March 20, 2010 CBC.ca | Pakistani Analysts Respond to Former UN Official's Criticism Voice of America Photo: AP The former envoy to Afghanistan for the United Nations, Kai Eide, has criticized Pakistan for arresting top Taliban leaders, such as the group's second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar last month. Speaking to the BBC, Eide said the ... Taliban Arrests Have Halted Early Talks, Former Envoy Says Taliban arrests 'disrupt' UN talks Taliban harness power of the web |
Obama renews Iran dialogue offer in Nowruz greeting - BBC News
March 20, 2010 France24 | Obama renews Iran dialogue offer in Nowruz greeting BBC News US President Barack Obama has said that Washington's offer of dialogue with Iran still stands, in his latest New Year message to the Iranian people. He said the Iranian government had "chosen to isolate itself" but that the US still wanted justice and ... Obama Offers Engagement in Video Message to Iranians In Iran 11 killed in Nowruz traffic accidents Obama to Iran: US offer of dialogue still stands |
Obama appeals to Iranian people in Internet video (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - In a fresh appeal directly to the Iranian people, President Barack Obama says in an online video that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.
Strike begins as talks between BA, union collapse (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - A three-day strike by British Airways cabin crew affecting thousands of travelers began Saturday after last-ditch talks between the airline's management and union leaders collapsed.
End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction.
Judge orders renegotiation of 9/11 settlement (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortchanged 10,000 ground zero workers whom he called heroes.
7th anniversary of Iraq War passes, little noticed (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - It was a day like any other day — except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten.
Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholic world (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here — a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.
Letter: Lehman accounting tricks possibly illegal (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - A Lehman Brothers whistleblower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, his lawyer said Friday.
Court: Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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