G8 Calls for Political Solution in Syria

Hispanic Business Magazine - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Group of Eight leaders emphasized the need for a political settlement in Syria in a statement issued Tuesday as the summit in Northern Ireland ended. The communique referred to the Syrian civil war as "an appalling human tragedy" and pledged more aid to refugees and to the countries giving them shelter. It also condemned human rights violations and called for a U.N. investigation ...

Syria fighting for strategic air bases in countrys north

Global Post - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The bombings occured near the Kweiras and Mang air bases near the Turkish border, which rebels have been fighting for over the last two ...

U.N. recommends bringing Iraq closer to ending 1990s sanctions

The Star - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday recommended bringing Iraq one step closer to ending all U.N. sanctions imposed on Baghdad more than two decades ago after former leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait In 1990. Despite the toppling of Saddam in 2003 after a U.S.-led invasion, the United Nations has not fully lifted the sanctions. U.S.-led troops drove Iraq ...

Cameron claims credit for seven-point plan on Syria

Irish Times - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Vladimir Putin denied he was isolated at the summit on the violence in Syria and stood by his claim that supplying weapons for any one side in the civil war would only lead to more violence. He defended Moscow's role in the conflict to date and did not rule out further military contacts with the Assad ...

G-8 leaders condemn any use of chemical weapons in Syria

News on Japan - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Leaders of the Group of Eight nations on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest terms" any use of chemical weapons in Syria and called on all sides to allow U.N. investigators to look into their alleged use, as they wrapped up their two-day summit in Northern ...

Daniel Kawczynski MP Refocusing UKTI on the Middle East and North Africa

Yahoo - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Daniel Kawczynski has tabled a Westminster Hall debate on UKTI support to enable British small and medium enterprises to export to the Middle East and North Africa and shift the focus away from ...

Isolated Putin won’t budge on Syria

Tribune Review - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland -- Russia's Vladimir Putin derailed President Obama's efforts to win backing to bring down Syrian leader Bashar Assad at a G-8 summit on Tuesday, warning the West that arms supplied to the rebels could be used for attacks on European ...

Video President Obama defends decisions on surveillance and Syria

CBS News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

In an interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose, President Barack Obama defended the NSA surveillance programs and his recent decision to provide military support to the Syrian opposition in that country's civil ...

Iran and U.S. New hope on nukes

CNN - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

>Editor's note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.(CNN) -- It would be easy to dismiss Friday's election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran as little more than a sham -- a rigged election that ...

India snubs US backs Iran

Times of India - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Iran took over the presidency on May 27. Declaring it "an honour to speak during the presidency of Iran", foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai said in a statement in Geneva, "Questioning the relevance and authority of established multilateral disarmament frameworks is misplaced when in fact the current impasse is more due to the obstacles placed in its path rather than any inherent ...

U.S. to give Syria rebels military aid after chemical attacks

SINA - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

In a sharp escalation of the U.S. role in Syria's bloody civil war, the White House announced late Thursday that it will provide military aid to rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad after confirming that his government used chemical weapons against the opposition. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes told reporters on a conference call ...

Armed groups formed by Zionist organizations such as Irgun Stern and Haganah were responsible for collective killings to force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and residential areas during and after the 1948 war unleashed by the pr

Pravda - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Prensa Latina The finding of the remains of dozens of people in a collective tomb in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv could witness today, 65 years later, Israeli militia ...

Video John McCain Peter MacKay outline differing Syria strategies

The Globe and Mail - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

U.S. Sen. John McCain says military intervention in the Syrian conflict is necessary, despite Canada's reluctance. McCain says he respects Canada's history of defending freedom around the ...

A Look Ahead To The Future Of Afghanistan

NPR - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. JOHN DONVAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm John Donvan in Washington. Neal Conan is away. Of course somebody needed to mark the occasion today by setting off a bomb. It was Afghanistan, where what is hoped will be a turning point was reached today when a ...

Australia v Iraq what we learned from the World Cup qualifier

The Guardian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

For 48 hours before the game, a major Sydney road was rechristened as the Tim Cahill Expressway. This was a man who had scored his country's first ever World Cup goal and at times had dragged the team through qualification. For years, he has been the source of goals when all others had run dry. Yet with 13 minutes remaining ...

UPDATE 2-Egypt tourism minister protests over Islamist governor

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:30pm EDT * Tourism minister sees "dire consequences" * New Luxor governor is member of ex-militant group * Says proud of pharaonic temples, will protect them * Pledges to welcome and protect tourists (Rewrites with tourism minister resignation) By Tom Perry and Asma Alsharif CAIRO, June 18 (Reuters) - Egypt's tourism minister tendered his resignation on Tuesday ...

CAPTIVE IN KUWAITContract Dispute Leaves 100 Americans Stranded

Fox News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

More than 100 American citizens have been trapped on two U.S. Army bases in Kuwait for months because of a contract dispute. (Wikipedia/public ...

Senators U.S. must take more decisive military action in Syria

CBS News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

WASHINGTON A bipartisan trio of key senators is demanding that President Obama take "more decisive" action to stem the military advance by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.; and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wrote in a joint letter to Mr. Obama ...

Time to Leave Conflict Behind Panellists Say as International Meeting on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Considers Viability of Two-State Solution

United Nations - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

BEIJING, 18 June ‑ The United Nations Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace this afternoon heard appeals to leave perpetual conflict behind, as experts grappled with ways to revitalize the two-State solution and re-engage the international community in that effort, amid regional turmoil and, by some accounts, societal and political indifference within ...

As Syria crisis roils Middle East Ban says Israeli-Palestinian peace remains urgent priority

UN News Centre - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said ';we must not lose sight of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,'; whose resolution was no less urgent. Calling for a ';clear political horizon'; to break the impasse and maximize present momentum, Mr. Ban told the UN Asia and Pacific International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, in ...

US to talk to Taliban as they open Qatar office

West Australian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US envoys will launch talks this week with the Taliban, officials announced Tuesday, in a tentative first step towards finding a negotiated escape from the decade-long Afghan war.The chance to start a dialogue came as the Islamist insurgent group opened a political office in the Qatari capital Doha to act as an embassy to its foes in Washington and President Hamid ...

Video Obama seeks G8 support on Syria

The Globe and Mail - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement, yet couldn't publicly agree on what this ...