Posts Tagged ‘security’

Medicare to exhaust funds sooner, report finds (Reuters)

Reuters – Two of the government’s most popular programs for the elderly, Medicare and Social Security, will run out of money sooner than thought earlier as a slow-growing economy saps revenues, a report Friday said. View full post on All Stories

South offers n-security summit invitation to North Korea with preconditions

AHN News Staff Berlin, Germany (AHN) – South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak has offered North Korea an invitation to attend next year’s nuclear security summit with the precondition that it will abandon its nuclear weapons. Speaking at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, visiting leader Lee said, “This is an [...]

Chinese input there but Afghans prefer Indian assistance: Pentagon

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States in a report on Friday cautioned that although Chinese companies are investing in Afghanistan, security and other allied concerns have stalled the progress. In a report to Congress as mandated under the National Defense Authorization Act 2008, the Pentagon said, [...]

U.S. and Mexican negotiators agree to cooperate against drug cartels

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – U.S. and Mexican negotiators agreed Friday to increase joint intelligence gathering and target more effort at the finances of cartels that smuggle drugs into the United States. The joint intelligence would include wider use of the computerized firearms tracking system called eTrace. [...]

What next for Compaoré?

Ouagadoudou, Burkina Faso (IRIN) – President Blaise Compaoré is increasingly cornered, and must adopt a series of urgent reforms to avoid further waves of unrest in the country, say West African analysts. In the latest uprising, police fired their guns in the air in the capital, Ouagadougou, on 27 and 28 April, and in the [...]

Gates expects turning point in Afghanistan, confirms predator drones for Libya

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The United States on Thursday gave the go-ahead to use armed Predator drones over Libya while the situation in Afghanistan is at a turning point, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Citing President Barack Obama having authorized the use of drones with “precision [...]

We’ll continue fight until Gaddafi goes, vows Obama

US president reverses previously cautious approach to Libyan conflict and signs America up to more muscular intervention President Obama today signals the return of America to the forefront of the international effort in Libya, writing a joint article with David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy in which the three leaders commit their countries to pursue military [...]

Congress Warned About Cutting Foreign Aid

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Members of Congress tried to assess Thursday what will happen if they carry out deep cuts to the State Department’s budget they are considering to reduce the nation’s deficit. In two separate hearings, they were warned by diplomats and advocacy group leaders [...]

Turned back at the Somalia border

X IRIN – IRIN IRIN Staff Nairobi, Kenya (IRIN) – Just when he thought he had found sanctuary in Kenya, Hassan Abdulle, 43, says he was ordered by security officials there to cross the nearby border back into the battle-scarred Somali town of Bulo Hawo. Abdulle, a father of six, was among thousands of Somali [...]

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