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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates speaks to the audience during the command activation ceremony of U.S. Africa Command Unified Command Activation ceremony in the Pentagon Conference Center Oct. 1, 2008.

US rejects Afghanistan defeatism
BBC News

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has rejected as defeatist a comment by a top British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Mr Gates said despite challenges, there was no reason to think success could not be achieved in the long run. But he endorsed the recommendation by Brig Mark Carleton-Smith that a resolution to the...

photo: US DoD / PO2 Molly A. Burgess

Opinion Worldwide

Leading article: The day Britain and Europe shared each other's pain
The Independent

As the world's major stock markets fell through the floor yesterday afternoon, the Chancellor...

Is Damascus planning a return to Lebanon?
Daily Star Lebanon

Most analysts believe Syria wants to come back - but not just now By Michael Bluhm Daily Star...

Iraq's next big test looms this month
Daily Star Lebanon

By Rayyan al-Shawaf Commentary by Tuesday, October 07, 2008...

Tutu slates Malema for hurting Mandela

Bishop Desmond Tutu from South Africa talks at the conference "Challenge Future" in Bochum, Germany,

Independent online (SA)

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has become the latest prominent South African leader to slam statements made...

photo: AP Photo

Obama, McCain get down, dirty on eve of debate

Sen. John McCain addresses the audience at the 129th National Guard Association of the United States General Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug. 25, 2007. (sl1)

Canada Dot Com

NASHVILLE - The U.S. election campaign took a sharply negative turn yesterday, with Barack Obama and John McCain exchanging attacks on each other's character ahead of a presidential debate designed to showcase the potential for civility in American...

photo: creativecommons /

EU talks on global financial crisis

London Evening Standard

Chancellor Alistair Darling is to join fellow European Union finance ministers for talks on the global financial crisis as traders were braced for another turbulent day on the markets. The meeting in Luxembourg follows Monday's huge losses in markets...

photo: AP Photo/ / Patrick Kovarik, Pool

Twin quakes hit Tibet

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, usable belongings were carried out by residents from the damaged building in Gedar Township of Damxung County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.

Al Jazeera

Two earthquakes have struck Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, and surrounding areas, leaving at least nine people dead, according to Chinese state media reports. The figure was revised down after the Xinhua news agency, citing local rescue officials,...

photo: AP / Xinhua, Purbu Zhaxi

Thai protesters, police clash outside parliament

Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, June 25, 2008.

Gulf News

Bangkok: Thai riot police fired teargas at protesters outside parliament on Tuesday, injuring 69 people, as campaigners opened a new front in their four-month bid to unseat the government. Some protesters were badly hurt, including two men who had...

photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong

McCain link to private group in Iran-Contra case

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., participates in a rally with his wife Cindy in Albuquerque, N.M. Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.

Kansas City Star

John McCain's campaign is criticizing Barack Obama for his ties to a former radical who engaged in violent acts four decades ago, but McCain himself was closely connected to a private group that supplied aid to rebels trying to overthrow the leftist...

photo: AP / Gerald Herbert