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The Afghan Presidential Election, Part 2

The candidates in Afghanistan's August 20 presidential election were making their final appeals to voters on Monday, the 17th, the last legal day...

August 17, 2009

India’s Swine Flu Panic

Steven J. DuBord August 17, 2009

More people die every single day in India from tuberculosis and diarrhea-related diseases than the total number who have perished worldwide from the...

Upcoming Afghan Presidential Election

August 14, 2009

With Afghanistan's presidential election to be held on August 20, candidates held campaign rallies across the country. Afghan and foreign troops deployed in...

U.S. Launches Offensive Against Taliban

August 13, 2009

A joint U.S.-Afghan military assault began against Dahaneh, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on August 12. Associated Press journalists traveling...

China Warns Against an Arms Race in Space

James Heiser August 12, 2009

Building on a February 2008 proposal by the governments of China and Russia, the communist regime in the People’s Republic of China is...

U.S. Targets Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban

August 10, 2009

The United States has placed 50 suspected Afghan drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban on a Pentagon target list of 367 insurgents...

Pakistan’s Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud Is Killed

August 7, 2009

Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, told reporters in Islamabad on August 7, "According to my intelligence information, the news [that Taliban leader...

Ahmadinejad Sworn in as Iran’s President Amid Protests

August 5, 2009

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term as Iran's president on August 5, as hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrated against his...

U.S. Journalists Come Home After N. Korean Pardon

August 5, 2009

Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two American journalists arrested by North Korean border guards on March 17 after straying into North Korean...

Communism Still Stands in the “Stans”

Thomas R. Eddlem August 5, 2009

The mass media tells us that communism around the world fell with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It’s almost...

Iran Detains Three American Tourists

August 3, 2009

At least two Iranian state-run TV stations — Press TV and al Alam — reported on August 1 that the nation's border police...

Terrorist Targeting of Police

William F. Jasper August 3, 2009

To the headlines listed below could be added hundreds more cataloging the concerted global attack by terrorist organizations against law enforcement. ...