WARSAW — Under growing pressure from industry leaders and stranded passengers, European transport ministers decided Monday to open more of the continent’s airspace to commercial air traffic despite continued concern over a lingering cloud of ash sent up by an erupting volcano in Iceland.
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Netanyahu says East Jerusalem demands ‘prevent peace’.
Secret prison revealed in Baghdad.
Gates says U.S.
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Members of Ecuador’s Army Elite Force inspect a clandestine FARC base camp found while patrolling the border with Colombia in the Amazon province of Sucumbios on January 31, 2009. Posted in World News Tags: Amazon, Colombian Forces, Drug Traffickers, Ecuadorian Government, Elite Force, Farc, Francisco Huerta, Hugo Chavez, Marxist Guerrillas, Narco, President Hugo Chavez, President Rafael Correa, Production Of Cocaine, Rafael Correa, Rebel Force, Safe Haven, Sucumbios, Time Magazine, Venezuelan President Hugo, Whitewash, World News Comments Off
America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend a regional summit in Russia next week, an official said Friday, amid speculation he could meet Pakistan’s president for the first time since the Mumbai attacks.(AFP/Raveendran)
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India’s prime minister will attend a regional summit in Russia next week, an official said Friday, where he is expected to meet Pakistan’s president for the first time since the Mumbai attacks.
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Top candidates both declare victory in Iran vote.
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Opinions, Commentaries, And Editorials — June 24, 2009
Quietly, the Mideast Goes Nuclear — Tom Peter, Global Post
The China-India Border Brawl — Jeff Smith, Wall Street Journal
Amazon Uprising More Urgent Than Iran’s — Johann Hari, The Independent
Burqa Politics in France — Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect
Twitter: Tyranny’s New Nightmare — Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
The Mideast’s New Spring of Freedom — Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wall Street Journal
Iran’s Opposition Weighs Its Options — Tony Karon, Time
Britain and Iran’s Fraught History — Paul Reynolds, BBC
Khamenei Says Iran Will Not Yield — Nazila Fathi & Alan Cowell, NY Times
A Weak American President — Anne Bayefsky, Forbes
Obama is Right to Talk with Ahmadinejad — Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation
Provocation From Iran — Daily Telegraph editorial