If there was ever a classic example of a quagmire, it has got to be Afghanistan. Hey, they’re going on 8 or 9 years of killing the terrorists and just now getting a good start. What began out as a quest to kill or capture Osama bin Laden has morphed into long-term occupation of the country.
"I first met Senator Kennedy on May 4, 1971, when he visited me at St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland. I was then a Cleveland City Councilman recovering from an injury and, somehow, he discovered I was in the hospital and paid a surprise visit to my room.
Attorney General Eric Holder has opened an inquiry into CIA torture. On Monday, Holder appointed veteran federal prosecutor John Durham to look into whether CIA interrogators and contractors should be charged for the torture and abuse of foreign prisoners. Holder says he ordered the probe in response to a Justice Department recommendation to reopen nearly a dozen prisoner abuse cases that the Bush administration had closed. Holder says he was further influenced by the 2004 CIA report on the prisoners’ torture and abuse, which he released on Monday.
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, held talks with Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, amid reports of attempts by Germany to mediate on an Israeli prisoner swap with Hamas.
An Afghan man detained for six-and-a-half years in Guantanamo Bay, the US military detention centre in Cuba, is to sue the US government, his lawyer has said.
At least one person has been killed and 22 others wounded after a string of car bombs exploded in Baghdad as Iraqi forces tightened security ahead of the funeral of a top Shia leader.
Taiwan's president has given the go-ahead for a visit to the island by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, a decision that risks provoking an angry reaction from Beijing.
China is reportedly launching a new national organ donor scheme, aimed at reducing the health system's current dependence on body parts taken from executed prisoners.
German companies are at their most confident over the state of the economy since the spectacular collapse of US banking giant Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and the subsequent global recession, a survey has shown.
Relatives of Brazilian victims of the Air France crash in the mid-Atlantic earlier this year have called for a criminal investigation to be opened into the incident.
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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, held talks with Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, amid reports of attempts by Germany to mediate on an Israeli prisoner swap with Hamas.
Barack Obama has led tributes to the late US senator Edward Kennedy, praising a political figure he said had "touched so many lives."
German companies are at their most confident over the state of the economy since the spectacular collapse of US banking giant Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and the subsequent global recession, a survey has shown.
Relatives of Brazilian victims of the Air France crash in the mid-Atlantic earlier this year have called for a criminal investigation to be opened into the incident.
