International Relations

In North Korea, young Kim Jong Eun will test age-old reliance on maturity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 »

Obama tells Karzai to clean up corruption

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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1) What are the main issues?  read more »

Malawi windmill boy with big fans

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

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

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

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

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 »

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