International Relations
In North Korea, young Kim Jong Eun will test age-old reliance on maturity
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 16:03.At 28 or 29, Kim Jong Eun, the new leader of North Korea, will be the youngest person ever to have authority over a nuclear arsenal. read more »
U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:37.A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters. read more »
Japan and South Korea hold first military talks in nearly two years
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 09:21.TOKYO - Defense leaders from Japan and South Korea held talks Monday in Seoul about possible intelligence- and equipment-sharing agreements that would boost military ties between the East Asian neighb read more »
Ireland bailout protest draws 100,000 to Dublin streets
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 11/27/2010 - 19:15.One of the largest demonstrations in the Irish Republic's history brought more than 100,000 people on to Dublin's streets in protest over the international bailout and four years of austerity ahead. read more »
Michelle Obama shakes it up in India with dance moves, big push for girls' education
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:30.NEW DELHI - When President Obama and his wife, Michelle, get into an argument, she makes her husband apologize first, the first lady told a group of low-income Indian schoolgirls, causing them to chee read more »
Nuclear bomb material found for sale on Georgia black market
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 20:01.Exclusive: Georgia trial reveals how sting netted highly enriched uranium that had been smuggled via train inside lead-lined cigarette box. read more »
Mexico's president opposes marijuana legalization
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:57.Prop. 19, the California measure to legalize pot, would undercut Mexico's fight against drug cartels, President Felipe Calderon says. He calls on the Obama administration to oppose the measure. read more »
Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:41.Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday. read more »
Israel to open peace talks with security, water demands
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 20:08.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources. read more »
U.S. and Russia Sign Nuclear Arms Pact
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 08:04.PRAGUE — With flourish and fanfare, President Obama and President Dmitri A. read more »
Nigerian houses swallowed by sand
Submitted by newscaster on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:37.Ciroma Mohammed is standing on the spot he says was once occupied by his house in north-east Nigeria. read more »
Obama tells Karzai to clean up corruption
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:11.United States president Barack Obama has urged Afghan president Hamid Karzai to clean up corruption and rallied troops to defeat the Taliban during a surprise visit to Afghanistan. read more »
Jihad Jane
Submitted by mr. d on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 11:08.After viewing the video clip below:
1) What is your response?
2) Search Fox News, CNN and Msnbc to see what their reactions are. read more »
China Lodges Protest of Dalai Lama's White House Meeting With US Ambassador
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:33.Officials in Beijing have summoned the U.S. ambassador to China to protest President Barack Obama's meeting Thursday with the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. read more »
Haiti Tent City Residents Cope With Shortages
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:49.Residents of makeshift tent cities throughout Port-au-Prince say that conditions have improved since the earthquake three weeks ago, but shortages of food and relief supplies still make life difficult read more »
Obama vows 'much tougher' stance on US-China trade
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:40.President Barack Obama says he will be much tougher with China to make sure it opens its markets to trade with the US. read more »
India loses 'substantial land' in 20-25 years along LAC to China
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 23:16.NEW DELHI: Government officials may have so far denied claims of violations committed by China across its borders with India, but it has been confirmed now that the latter has lost “substantial” a read more »
Do Your Clothes Offend?
Submitted by scottatwall on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 11:22.Read this article at msnbc.com and tell me:
1) Are you surprised?
2) Would you have been guilty of such an offense if you had visited any of the countries featured? read more »
Talks between China & EU
Submitted by scottatwall on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 11:45.Read the article at this address:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125957944561669451.html
Then answer these questions in your post:
1) What are the main issues? read more »
Malawi windmill boy with big fans
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 21:27.The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. read more »
French, German publishers step up campaign against Google Books
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 19:37.The internet giant’s project to digitize millions of books is up and running, but some in Europe’s book industry are still hoping to cut a better deal. read more »
White House distances itself from race controversy
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 20:25.The US president does not want to be diverted by the race controversy, writes LARA MARLOWE in Washington read more »
Alert level raised on North Korea
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 00:33.South Korean and US troops have gone on higher alert after North Korea announced it is scrapping the armistice in force on the peninsula. read more »
Pope Benedict XVI calls for Palestinian state on visit to refugee camp
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 19:35.The Pope gave his most forthright endorsement of a Palestinian state yesterday as his Holy Land pilgrimage took him to a refugee camp in the shadow of Israel’s controversial “separation barrier” read more »
Latest H1N1 developments from officials
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