The Australian Japanese Yukiya Amano to head up International Atomic Energy Agency | TOKYO: Japan, the only nation to suffer an atomic bombing, has welcomed the appointment of one of its own to lead the world's top nuclear watchdog. | The Mayor of Hiroshima, the southwestern city th... (photo: AP / Hans Punz)
The Australian Turmoil could thwart Iranian ambitions | THE long-term strategic consequences of the roiling revolt of the Iranian street against the mullahs is impossible to know. | But it certainly weakens the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)
Asia Times A UN crapshoot in Pakistan | By Sreeram Chaulia | More than 18 months after the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the United Nations has begun a formal international inquiry into the "facts and ci... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed) AssassinationBhuttoPakistanPhotosUN
Asia Times A moment of truth for Obama in Moscow | By M K Bhadrakumar | In the annals of Russian-American summitry, Moscow has never before choreographed a welcoming ceremony for the visiting United States president in this fashion. The dramatic run... (photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel) DefensePhotosPoliticsRussiaUS
Philadelphia Daily News Russia to allow US weapon shipments to Afghanistan | The Associated Press | MOSCOW - A Kremlin aide says Russia will allow the U.S. to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan. | President Dmitry Medvedev's foreig... (photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service) AfghanistanMinisterMoscowPhotosRussia
Review Journal Movies | OPENING THIS WEEK | CHERI | Michelle Pfeiffer reunites with her "Dangerous Liaisons" director, Stephen Frears for another period tale, this time playing an older woman ... (photo: APphoto ) CinemaDirectorMoviePhotosWoman
Middle East Online Biden on surprise visit to Iraq | US Vice President Joe Biden flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's t... (photo: AP / Ted S. Warren) BaghdadDemocraticIraqPhotosPresident
The News Tribune Obama to talk Cold War tactics with Putin | WASHINGTON - Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a lot of sway" in his n... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak) ObamaPhotosPoliticsPresidentUS
Al Jazeera Japan welcomes new IAEA chief | Japan has welcomed the appointment of one of its diplomats as head of the UN nuclear watchdog. | Yukiya Amano will take over as director-general of the International At... (photo: AP / Hans Punz) BusinessEnergyIaeaJapanPhotos
