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News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 44
US-PAKISTAN: FATA Aid Programme Largely a Flop, Audit Says
- Inter Press Service
A 45-million-dollar programme funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that has been in place for nearly two years in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has failed to develop local government agencies to ensure delivery of basic services, according to an audit by USAID's inspector general.
U.S.: Obama Faces Increasingly Daunting Picture Overseas
- Inter Press Service
While President Barack Obama's first State of the Union Address Wednesday night will almost certainly focus on the economy, unemployment, and other pressing domestic issues, an increasingly worrisome international situation is likely to be tugging at the back of his mind.
POLITICS: Behind Cautious Signal, a Decision for Afghan Peace Talks
- Inter Press Service
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's very cautiously-worded support for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban leadership in an interview published Monday is only the first public signal of a policy decision by the Barack Obama administration to support a political settlement between the Hamid Karzai regime and the Taliban, an official of McChrystal's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) command has revealed in an interview with IPS.
AFGHANISTAN: In Run-up to Meet, US, Britain Push Reconciliation
- Inter Press Service
On the eve of a major international conference on Afghanistan, senior U.S. and British officials are hinting that they are more open to a political settlement with elements of the Taliban than at any time since Washington helped oust it from power nine years ago.
RIGHTS-US: Indefinite Detention 'Defies Common Sense'
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to detain 47 of the just-under 200 remaining prisoners at Guantánamo without trial indefinitely is drawing scorn from legal experts and human rights advocates, who charge that the government simply does not have enough evidence to convict the detainees it says cannot be tried but are 'too dangerous to release.'
RIGHTS: Whistleblower Challenges Guantanamo 'Suicides'
- Inter Press Service
Is the administration of President Barack Obama concealing evidence suggesting that three suicides at Guantanamo Bay were not suicides at all?
RIGHTS: U.S. Names Bagram Prisoners, Withholds Details
- Inter Press Service
After years of stonewalling, the U.S. Defence Department has released the names of people imprisoned at the notorious Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
RIGHTS: Defenders Under Sustained Attack Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
Abusive governments around the world escalated their attacks against local human rights defenders and other independent monitors during 2009, according to the 2010 edition of Human Rights Watch's annual 'World Report' released here Wednesday.
KENYA: Deportation Protest Leads to Widespread Arrests
- Inter Press Service
Organisers of a protest march against the expulsion of Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah El Faisal say Kenyan police have arrested up to 400 people and are interrogating them to prove their nationality and try to uncover links to terrorism.
RIGHTS: British Govt to Release Documents on Gitmo Case
- Inter Press Service
After months of denial, the British government has agreed to release secret documents that lawyers say could prove that MI5 agents were present during the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's torture of a British resident held by the U.S. government for eight years.
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