12/02/2009AFGHANISTAN - USA Obama has decided: 30 thousand more troops in Afghanistan They will be deployed by summer 2010. Withdrawal also set for 2011. NATO requested for 5 thousand soldiers more. The budget for military spending rises to 30 billion dollars. Veiled accusations of corruption for Karzai. AsiaNews sources sceptical about the effectiveness of the increased military presence. West Point (AsiaNews / Agencies) - U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered the dispatch of another 30 thousand troops to Afghanistan by summer 2010 and says that the U.S. will begin withdrawal from the country by 2011. In his speech at the Military Academy at West Point,...
12/02/2009NORTH KOREA The "third Kim" frightens the two Koreas by Joseph Yun Li-sun Sources explain the North Korean leadership: Kim Jong-un is the chosen successor of the Dear Leader. But will be a dictator worse than the father, autocratic and cruel. Denied rumours that had the master of Pyongyang on the brink of death.
12/02/2009PHILIPPINES – UAE Dubai’s collapse puts the job of 250,000 Filipino workers at risk by Santosh Digal Crisis makes debt repayment harder for migrant workers. Some have already gone to jail because of that. Foreign workers represent 80 per cent of Dubai’s workforce.
12/02/2009CHINA AIDS activists ask for government help For years, Chinese authorities denied the presence of the HIV virus in China, and allowed the trade in infected blood products for transfusion to go on. The result has been that AIDS has become the leading killer among infectious diseases in the country.
12/02/2009VATICAN Pope: Only love for God and neighbour gives meaning to our choices General audience, Benedict XVI illustrates the figure of William of St. Thierry, the Monk of the twelfth century called the "poet of love, charity." By the action of the Holy Spirit "man becomes one with God," he will arrive at being God, but "what God is."
12/02/2009RUSSIA - VATICAN The speeches of Benedict XVI on Europe published by Patriarch Kyril Today, the presentation in Rome, awaiting the visit of Medvedev to the pope. A Russian embassy to the Holy See may be on the horizon. But among small signs of cooperation, problems still remain.
12/02/2009CHINA Swine flu death toll three times higher Health Ministry orders more accurate reporting of fatalities. In two weeks, the number of deaths jumps from 53 to 178. There is strong suspicion that Beijing might be trying to hide the real situation.
12/01/2009UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock markets down again Losses reach 6 per cent in early trading to rebound to – 5.6 and 3.57 respectively. Dubai World is trying to restructure part of its debt. The government of Dubai announces it will not guarantee all of Dubai World’s debts. Abu Dhabi announces it will not guarantee all of Dubai’s debts.
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