Topic: Nato

Obama meets NATO chief, aides laud Libya role

President Barack Obama on Monday met NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as top officials again defended the US role in the western alliance's campaign that helped topple Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.Obama and Rasmussen spoke in the Oval Office in a meeting opened ...

US lawmakers rebuke Obama over Libya

The war-weary US House of Representatives delivered a harsh, symbolic rebuke to President Barack Obama over the conflict in Libya but beat back efforts to cut funds for direct US air strikes.The mixed result showed that lawmakers generally united in criticizing Obama's ...

US lawmakers to vote on curbing Libya operations

The US House of Representatives seemed on track to approve a resolution Friday aimed at limiting the US role in strikes on Libya, amid deep anger at President Barack Obama's handling of the conflict.Republican US House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that ...

Kadhafi hails US Congress on Libya

Libya's embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi appears to have written to the US Congress to praise its criticism of President Barack Obama over NATO raids on Libya, officials said Friday.In the letter seen by AFP, Kadhafi comments on growing debate in Congress over ...

US seeking country to take in Kadhafi: report

The Barack Obama administration has launched an intense search for a country that could provide refuge to Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi, The New York Times reported Saturday.But amid looming indictments against Kadhafi by the International Criminal Court in the Hague for the ...

Obama to address nation on Libya strategy

US President Barack Obama will address the nation about his Libya strategy Monday, the White House announced, as coalition forces launched fresh air strikes against the Libyan regime's forces.The announcement came as allied warplanes carried out raids late Friday on the town ...

Nato and US differ over Afghan exit

Nato nations have formally agreed to start reducing troop levels in Afghanistan next year and hand over control of security to the Afghans in 2014.. But later a senior Obama administration official said the US has not committed to ending its combat ...

Canada to extend Afghan mission until 2014: report

According to the plan detailed by CBC, up to 750 trainers and at least 200 support staff would work outside the combat zone at a training academy or large training facility for Afghan soldiers and police officers.On Sunday, Defense Minister Peter MacKay ...

Liberals mum on extending Afghan mission

But Ignatieff, reacting to Defence Minister Peter MacKay's comments on Sunday that Canada was "considering" keeping troops in the war-ravaged nation beyond its parliamentary-mandated mid-2011 exit, kept mum about the Liberals' position on the matter."I have nothing to say because there isn't ...
With almost all votes counted, the Czech Statistical Office said the left-wing Social Democrats had 22 of the 27 seats up for grabs in the 81-member senate after the first round of the senatorial vote on Friday and Saturday.The first round failed ...
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