The New York Times reported earlier this week that Pascal Couchepin, the president of Switzerland, publicly confirmed that his government had deliberately destroyed computer files and other documentation of dealings of the Tinners, a family of Swiss engineers with suspected ties to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientist responsible for…
Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has had “unauthorized” contact with Asif Ali Zardari, who recently announced his bid to run for president of Pakistan. Pervez Musharraf recently stepped down from the office after Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party agreed with Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim…
In an expected announcement, Russia declared that it recognized the independence of the two separatist regions of Georgia South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Tuesday. The announcement was condemned by some Western nations. The U.S. responded by saying it would block any further effort for greater recognition through the United Nations…
United Nations officials have said that there is “convincing evidence” that a U.S. airstrike in the Herat province of Afghanistan on August 21 killed at least 90 civilians, including 60 children. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack earlier this week. The U.S. dismissed the criticism as “outrageous.” After the statement…
Asif Ali Zardari has announced his bid to run for the presidency of Pakistan a week after Pervez Musharraf stepped down from the office. Zardari is the widower of Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan and took over leadership of her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) after she was assassinated…
U.S. coalition airstrikes in Afghanistan killed up to 95 civilians on Saturday. The airstrikes occurred in the village of Azizabad in Herat Province. A spokesman for the police chief there said that the dead included 40 children, 19 women, and 26 men. He added that there were no Taliban in…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its final report on the collapse of the World Trade Center 7 building on Thursday, 6 years after it began its investigation into the collapses of WTC buildings on September 11, 2001. …
Russian military forces have largely withdrawn from Georgia, but have fortified in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, regions which have sought autonomy and independence. At the same time, Russia is preparing to recognize the regions’ independence, according to the New York Times. As it retreated, Russia destroyed Georgian armories and military…
U.S. intelligence agencies have publicly claimed that intercepted communications show that officers of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s intelligence agency, were responsible for the bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 7. The government of Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, as well as an earlier…
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