Modest ‘Progress’ In Iran Nuclear Talks
November 22nd, 2013Geneva (AFP) – Iran and world powers appeared to make modest progress in nuclear talks Friday, with Tehran saying foreign ministers could fly in to Geneva in a fresh bid to clinch a deal. “Last night we were a long way from foreign ministers coming. Today it has got closer,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
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Kerry Urges North Korea To Free U.S. Veteran
November 21st, 2013Washington (United States) (AFP) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday called for North Korea to release an 85-year-old pensioner and Korea War veteran who has been detained in the isolated country for more than three weeks. Without mentioning Merrill Newman by name, Kerry told MSNBC television that his detention was one of many
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Nuclear Deal Will Not Just Buy Iran Time: Kerry
November 21st, 2013Washington (AFP) – Secretary of State John Kerry vowed Wednesday that the United States would not let any deal with Iran become a ploy by the Islamic republic to buy time to increase nuclear capability. As talks between western powers and Iran resumed in Geneva, Kerry said the negotiations were the “best chance in a
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Up To 15,000 Foreign Troops Could Stay In Afghanistan: Karzai
November 21st, 2013Kabul (AFP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave his backing Thursday to a proposed security pact with the United States that will see up to 15,000 foreign troops stay in the war-torn country. But he said it would not be signed until after next year’s election. A grand assembly of tribal chieftains, community elders and
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Kerry Says Two Century U.S. Latin-American Policy Over
November 18th, 2013Washington (AFP) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday declared that a nearly 200-year-old policy which had governed Washington’s relations with Latin America was finally dead. Known as the Monroe Doctrine after it was adopted in 1823 by former U.S. president James Monroe, the policy had stated that any efforts by European countries
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