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IRAQ AFGHANISTAN
♦ Afghan run-off election set for November 7, 2009
♦ 10-19-09 - A panel probing fraud claims in the Afghan election has found Hamid Karzai did not gain enough valid votes for an outright win.
♦ Afghan President Hamid Karzai may not accept the results of a vote recount from the summer's general election, officials from his campaign hinted
♦ 10-18-09 - The White House has said that it will take no decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan until it determines the new government is a "true partner".
♦ 10-15-09 - Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said the Bush administration failed to ask critical questions about the war in Afghanistan, leaving the Obama administration starting from scratch.
♦ 10-14-09 - US President Barack Obama may announce a substantial surge in US troops to Afghanistan, but has said the president had not yet made a decision on troop numbers.
♦ 10-14-09 - UK sends 500 more personnel forces to Afghanistan
♦ US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said whoever wins Afghanistan's recent election will be expected to do more to address the country's problems.
♦ A Taliban suicide bomber has attacked the Indian embassy in Kabul, killing at least 17 people in a second attack on the building in little over a year.
♦ 10-06-09 - US President Barack Obama has said his review of Afghan strategy will not look at pulling out or cutting troop levels.
♦ Hundreds of militants attacked American and Afghan troops in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, but are thwarted by american troops
♦ Iran\'s president says Obama made a big mistake
♦ 10-02-09 - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is leaning toward the view that a significant number of additional combat forces will be needed for the war in Afghanistan
♦ 10-01-09 - Coalition forces in Afghanistan are going to have to adopt a "dramatically different" strategy to ensure success, the top US general there says.
♦ 09-30-09 - The White House says that President Barack Obama will take several more weeks to review United States strategy in Afghanistan.
♦ 09-30-09 - a senior UN envoy was removed from his post in Afghanistan becuase he wanted to present the evidence to the Afghan Election Complaints Commission for further investigation
♦ 09-24-09 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signalled that Moscow might be prepared to soften its opposition to sanctions against Iran over its nuclear plans.
♦ 09-22-09 - Israel is insistent on blocking progress when it comes to peace with the palestinians
♦ 09-22-09 - al-Qaeda threatens germany if troops are not withdrawn from afghanistan
♦ 09-17-09 - Defeat for allied forces in Afghanistan would have an "intoxicating impact" on extremists around the world, the new head of the British Army has warned.
♦ 09-16-09 - Karzai defends election polls
♦ 09-11-09 - despiste lines already in the proposed healthcare bills, which specifically deny healthcare coverage to illegal immigrants, idiot republicans keep trying to act like the healthcare proposals provide coverage to illegal immigrants
♦ The Senate Armed Services chairman Friday added to mounting pressure on the White House to avoid escalating the war in Afghanistan by calling for faster training of Afghan security forces instead of sending more U.S. troops into combat.
♦ 09-11-09 - Lawmakers Brace for Fight Over U.S. Troop Surge for Afghanistan
♦ 09-11-09 - A US foreign policy veteran has warned the West risks replicating the the Soviet Union's failure in Afghanistan without a fundamental change in policy.
♦ 09-10-09 - US urges caution on Afghan vote
♦ 09-09-09 - Nato soldiers have rescued a kidnapped UK journalist from the Taliban in a dramatic pre-dawn helicopter mission in Afghanistan that left four others dead.
♦ 09-08-09 - President Karzai passes the 50% mark needed for victory in the Afghan presidential poll, but the UN-backed election complaints commission ordered a number of recounts and audits of votes.
♦ 09-03-09 - The leader of Kandahar's Bareez tribe told the BBC that nearly 30,000 votes were cast fraudulently for President Hamid Karzai instead of a challenger.
♦ 09-02-09 - Afghanistan's deputy chief of intelligence has been killed in a suicide attack in Laghman province, east of Kabul.
♦ 09-01-09 - The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says poppy cultivation has dropped by 22% in a year and opium production by 10%.
♦ 08-31-09 - A top US general in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, has called for a revised military strategy, suggesting the current one is failing.
♦ 08-28-09 - August has become the deadliest month for the U.S. military in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
♦ 08-27-09 - The US special envoy to Afghanistan has held an "explosive" meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai over the country's election.
♦ 04-20-09 - Diplomats have walked out of a speech by the Iranian president at a UN anti-racism conference after he described Israel as "totally racist".
♦ 04-16-09 - Russia has ended its decade-long "counter-terrorism operation" against separatist rebels in the southern republic of Chechnya.
♦ 04-15-09 - A French warship has captured 11 pirates off the coast of Kenya
♦ 04-15-09 - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has unveiled a four-point plan to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
♦ Taliban executes eloping lovers in southern afghanistan
♦ 04-09-09 - At least 27 suspected insurgents have been killed by international forces battling Taleban rebels in Afghanistan.
♦ 02-28-09 - governors who said they werent going to take federal money from obama's stimulus plan, changed their minds, and took the money.
♦ 03-28-09 - Gun battle in the Fadil district of the city erupted shortly after the leader of the local Awakening group, Adil Mashadani, was arrested.
♦ 03-18-09 - Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami withdraws his candidacy from the country's June presidential election
♦ 02-28-09 - Hamid Karzai has called for elections to be held by 21 April, instead of August 20
♦ 02-27-09 - obama outlines iraq pullout plan - the withdrawal of most US troops in Iraq by the end of August 2010.
♦ 02-12-09 the US lost track of 222,000 weapons that it shipped to afghanistan over the last 4 years
♦ 01-31-09 - thousands of protesters in russia demand putin's resignation
♦ 01-01-09 - raq has taken control of security in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone after a UN mandate for troops expired
♦ 10-01-09 - Taleban ambush kills 20 policemen
♦ 12-24-08 - Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip bombarded southern Israel with mortars and rockets early Wednesday
♦ 12-17-08 - Blackwater could lose its licence to operate in Iraq
♦ 12-08-08 - latest report says taliban control 70% of afghanistan. up from 54% last year.
♦ 11-16-08 - Iraq's Cabinet approves U.S. security pact, which sets June 30, 2009, as the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from all Iraqi cities and towns, and Dec 31, 2011 for all troops to leave Iraq
♦ 10-19-08 - Taliban militants recently kidnapped and killed between 30 and 40 bus passengers in southern Afghanistan
♦ 10-14-08 - Senior Iraqi Official arrested by the US claims Iran is meddling in Iraqi affairs
♦ Source of Iraq WMD intelligence tells his story
♦ 10-06-08 - sources say taliban is severeing ties with al Qaeda, in order to seek peace
♦ 10-05-08 - saudi arabia recently hosted talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant group
♦ taleban angry that the US is attacking them :
♦ 09-28-08 - BBC poll of 23 nations says Al-Qaeda is not weakening
♦ 09-24-08 - Iraq gunmen launch deadly ambush, northeast of baghdad, killing 20
♦ 09-15-08 - US officials say Al-Qaida is unpopular and 'imploding'
♦ 09-12-08 - car bombing in iraq
♦ 09-09-08 - US finally targeting al qaeda beyond the pakistani border
♦ 09-09-08 - after 8 years of failed policyand years of criticising the democrats, bush is now following the policy obama has been preaching for, and shifting troops to the real war on terrorism in afghanistan
♦ 09-01-08 - US hands over the anbar province (in western iraq) to the iraqi government
♦ 08-22-08 - US airstrike in afghanistan, kills 30 militants
♦ 08-22-08 - US and Iraqis have agreed on a timetable to pull all US tropps out by 2012
♦ 08-15-08 - Russia angry at US missile deal
♦ 07-30-08 - bush insists democratics vote to destoy the environment
♦ 07-29-08 - IOC lifts Iraq's Olympic suspension
♦ 07-29-08 - Iraqi and American troops attack an al-Qaeda stronghold, in the north-eastern Iraqi
♦ 07-29-08 - Turkish jets bomb Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq
♦ 07-28-08 - suicide blasts in iraq, kill 53, wound 240
♦ 07-24-08 - Iraq banned from Beijing Olympics
♦ 07-23-08 - despite U.S. commanders asking for more troops in afghanistan, pentagon says it is unlikely to happen before Bush leaves office in January
♦ 07-14-08 -US troops repel hundreds of militants trying to over throw a US military base in eastern afghanistan
♦ 07-14-08 - tasteless, reckless, lies, and proganda: the New Yorker Magazine defies any kind of journalistic ethics and uses a cartoon for its cover, dipicting obama and his wife as muslim terrorists
♦ 07-11-08 - US airstrike kills 47 afghan civilians
♦ 07-08-08 - the iraqi government wants a timetable for the US to pullout of iraq
♦ 07-01-08 - june has been the deadliest for foreign troops in afghanistan since the 2001
♦ 06-27-08 - allied forces death toll in afghanistan reaches 7-year high
♦ 06-26-08 - an increase in attacks by Taliban fighters operating from Pakistan
♦ eastern afghan attacks have increased 40% compared to last year
♦ 06-13-08
♦ 05-08-08 - iraqi defence ministry claims to have arrested the leader of al-qaeda in iraq
♦ 05-08-08 - iraqi defence ministry claims to have arrested the leader of al-qaeda in iraq
♦ 04-29-08 - over 400 people dead, this month in baghdad
♦ 04-22-08 - western forces raid basra to fight shia militiamen
♦ 04-19-08 - moqtada sadr threatens open war with iraq government
♦ 04-14-08 - moqtada sadr wants soldiers allied to his army re-instated into the iraqi military
♦ 04-09-08 - al-qaeda leader al-masri 'dead'
♦ 04-07-08 - US troops clash with the mehdi army again
♦ 04-01-08 - iraqi death toll rose 50% in march
♦ 03-30-08 - Moqtada Sadr calls off his troops
♦ 03-29-08 - clashes in southern iraq not going as well as hoped
♦ 03-27-08 - heavy fighting continues in soutern iraq as Iraqi forces expanded their fight against Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army
♦ 03-25-08 - iraqi forces battle the mehdi army in basra
♦ 03-24-08 - US blames iran for recent insurgent attacks in iraq
♦ 03-24-08 - US death toll in Iraq passes 4,000
♦ 02-14-08 - hezbollah chief threatens israel
♦ 02-08-08 - russia begans an arms race
♦ 02-01-08 - al-queada uses mentally disabled people to carry out suicide bombings
♦ CIA director, Michael Hayden, says Baitullah Mehsud killed Bhutto
♦ 01-14-08 - US will send 3,200 more tropps to afghanistan
♦ 12-20-07 - torture complex found in iraq
♦ 12-20-07 - suicide bomber killed 13 Iraqis and a US soldier, attacking a recruiting centre for local militias
♦ 12-12-07 - democrats agree to fund bush's war again.
♦ 12-12-07 - democrats agree to fund bush's war again.
♦ 12-07-07 - three car bombs explode in southern iraq
♦ 12-11-07 - already there are differing accounts as to what happened at musa qala
♦ 12-10-07 - afghan troops recaptured the taleban-held town of musa qala
♦ 12-07-07 - star of the movie 'the kiterunner'' leaves afghanistan over security concerns
♦ 12-07-07 - afghan and british troops launch a major offensive to retake a southern afghan town from the taleban
♦ 12-05-07 - more car bombs in baghdad
♦ 11-29-07 - australian PM-elect pledges to leave iraq by mid 2008
♦ 11-20-07 - US arrests pulitzer prize winning report for ties to terrorism, but refuses to provide any evidence
♦ 11-19-07 - guards killed Afghan civilians on november 6th
♦ 11-19-07 - afghan suicide attack kills seven people
♦ 11-15-07 - US wants more sanctions on iran
♦ 11-14-07 - roadside bomb kills two, in the baghdad green zone
♦ 11-06-07 - 40 killed in suicide blast in afghanistan
♦ 11-02-07 - top taleban commander killed in afghanistan
♦ 10-31-07 - hundreds of US diplomats refuse to work in iraq
♦ 10-29-07 - US hands control of karbala over to iraqis
♦ 10-23-07 - iraq bans kurdish rebel operations
♦ 09-28-07 - senior al-qaeda leader in iraq killed in US air strike
♦ 09-26-07 - 160 people kills in southern afghan clashes
♦ US army snipers lure Iraqis with bait then kill them
♦ 09-24-07 - bomb kills senior iraqi policeman
♦ 09-21-07 - blackwater resumes operations in iraq
♦ 09-20-07 - kurdish government demanded the release of an Iranian arrested by US forces
♦ 09-20-07 - iranian officer seized in iraq
♦ 09-17-07 - iraq bans blackwater private security firm from operating in iraq
♦ 09-16-07 - at least 22 dead in iraq violence
♦ 09-12-07 - condoleezza rice administration accuses iran over iraq attacks
♦ 09-10-07 - iraqis say that the US surge has failed
♦ 09-10-07 - general petraeus says troop surge is working and say troop levels may be reduced by next summer
♦ 09-09-07 - iraq foreign minister tells iran and syria to stop meddling in iraqi affairs
♦ 09-07-07 - new osama bin laden video released
♦ afghan poppy industry eludes US control
♦ opinion poll from around the world about americas prescene in iraq
♦ 09-06-07 - US security commission recommends US reduce its troop presence in iraq
♦ 09-06-07 - bush on iraq: "we're kicking ass"
♦ 09-06-07 - general james jones says iraqi security forces are ineffective
♦ 09-05-07 - general petraeus hints at reduction of US troops in iraq
♦ 09-05-07 - US report says iraqi police are dsyfunctional
♦ 09-04-07 - taleban fighter who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 south koreans in july has been killed
♦ 08-31-07 - taleban insurgents attack a US base in afghanistan, miss the target, and kill civilians
♦ 08-29-07 - iraq fails to meet key progress benchmarks set by US
♦ 08-29-07 - taleban free remaining 3 south korean hostages
♦ 08-29-07 - cholera outbreak in iraq
♦ 08-29-07 - afghan suicide bomber kills six people at a market
♦ 08-29-07 - taleban releases 12 south korean hostages
♦ 08-29-07 - moqtada sadr says he is freezing the activities of his mehdi srmy militia for up to six months
♦ 08-28-07 - iran protests over US arrests of iranians in iraq
♦ 08-28-07 - seven iranians arrested by US forces in baghdad
♦ 08-28-07 - bush threatens iran over iraq issue
♦ 08-27-07 - opium production in afghanistan is at a record high
♦ august 26, 2007 - maliki critisizes US senators
♦ august 23, 2007 - US intelligence agencies doubts Iraq government
♦ august 23, 2007 - sunni iraqi leader killed by al-qaeda
♦ august 23, 2007 - US rethinks its hopes for iraq
♦ august 20, 2007 - roadside bomb kills shia governor in iraq
♦ an article on the taleban's control in central afghanistan
♦ august 17, 2007 - at least 344 people died from last tuesdays bomb attacks in iraq
♦ august 15, 2007 - new US-led offensive in Tora Bora
♦ august 14, 2007 - 175 people die in in northern iraq suicide bomb attacks
♦ august 13, 2007 - taleban free two south korean hostages
♦ august 13, 2007 - US launches new offensive in iraq
♦ august 10, 2007 - south korea in taleban hostage talks
♦ august 7, 2007 - taleban militants tried to overrun a US base in afghanistan and failed
♦ august 6 2007 - no deal on korean hostages, announces bush
♦ august 6 2007 - Iraqi MPs boycott cabinet meetings
♦ 190,000 assault rifles and pistols given to the iraqi security forces are missing
♦ august 1, 2007 - car bombs kills dozens in baghdad
♦ july 31, 2007 - second south korean hostage killed by the taleban
♦ july 26, 2007 - many taleban killed in clashes in afghanistan
♦ july 25, 2007 - car bomb in baghdad explodes in crowd of football fans
♦ july 25, 2007 - taleban kill south korean hostage
♦ july 23, 2007 - car bombing in baghdad kills 16 people
♦ july 16, 2007 - 45% of insurgents in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia
♦ july 16, 2007 - bomb attacks in kirkuk kill 85
♦ july 09, 2007 - rebel attack kills afgan boy
♦ july 06, 2007 - nato air stikes kill 35 civilians
♦ july 05, 2007 - baghdad killings rise sharply
♦ june 28, 2007 - say what?
♦ june 28, 2007 - car bomb kills 20
♦ june 25, 2007 - sunni leaders killed in blast
♦ june 22, 2007 - 25 civilians die during aerial bombings in southern afghanistan
♦ june 21, 2007 - hamid karzai talking about the future of the war in afghanistan and the taleban
♦ june 21, 2007 - insurgents kill 14 us soldiers
♦ june 19,2007 - us and iraqi assault in diyala
♦ june 19,2007 - car bomb kills 75, injures 190
♦ june 16, 2007 - us forces in new offensive
♦ baghdad violence since 2003, mapped out
♦ iraq violence, in figures
♦ june 15, 2007 - us troop surge now in place
ISRAEL PALESTINE
♦ 10-14-09 - The Palestinians have urged the UN to act to punish Israel for its offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter.
♦ Israeli authorities have demolished two Palestinian-owned structures in East Jerusalem, in defiance of international calls to stop such actions.
♦ 10-02-09 - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has been seen in the first video to be released since his capture in June 2006 by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
♦ 09-25-09 - Three Palestinian militants have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip.
♦ 09-19-09 - Obama to host Netanyahu-Abbas talks
♦ 09-20-09 - Two Palestinian militants have been killed by Israeli tank fire in northern Gaza
♦ 09-15-09 - UN condemns war crimes in gaza
♦ Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says work still needs to be done to narrow differences before peace talks with Palestinians can resume
♦ 09-13-09 - Israeli President Shimon Peres collapsed during a ceremony in Tel Aviv and briefly lost consciousness.
♦ 09-11-09 - Two rockets have been fired into northern Israel from Lebanon.
♦ 09-01-09 - A Palestinian youth, 15, has been shot dead by Israeli forces in an incident outside a settlement near the West Bank town of Ramallah.
♦ 08-31-09 - hamas refuses to teach palestinian kids about the holocaust
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♦ 04-23-09 0 US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned Pakistan that relations with the US will be threatened unless Islamabad combats the rise of the Taleban.
♦ 04-07-09 - Israeli police have shot dead a Palestinian motorist in East Jerusalem who tried to run over officers guarding the demolition of a home.
♦ 04-07-09 - Israel successfully tested an anti-rocket system developed to protect the country from short-range rocket and artillery attack from Lebanon and Gaza.
♦ 04-01-09 - Israel's new ultra-nationalist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, says there is no validity to the US-sponsored 2007 agreement to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.
♦ 03-27-09 - The Israeli Military said Thursday that the "vast majority" of Palestinians killed in the recent Gaza conflict were "terror operatives" and the number of people killed was less than Palestinian sources reported.
♦ 03-27-09 - Israel says it has successfully tested an anti-rocket system developed to protect the country from short-range rocket and artillery attack from Lebanon and Gaza
♦ 03-25-09 - srael's next prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said his incoming government will be a "partner for peace" with the Palestinians, despite consistently being critical of previous talks with the Palestinian Authority.
♦ 03-23-09 - Israeli soldiers routinely and intentionally put children in harm's way during their 22-day offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza, according to a United Nations report made public Monday
♦ 03-22-09 - Hamas chief hails Obama's approach towards the Middle East
♦ 03-15-09 - Two Israeli traffic policemen have been shot dead near the West Bank town of Nablus
♦ 02-28-09 - Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have reportedly fired five rockets over the border into Israeli territory
♦ 02-24-09 - an obama official announces that the US will be donating $900 billion to gaza. the money will go to help the Palestinian Authority, and none of it will go to hamas.
♦ 02-21-09 - rocket fired from lebanon into israel
♦ 02-19-09 - hamas sends letter to barak obama
♦ 02-15-09 - israel says there cannot be peace with gaza, until hamas frees the soldier it kidnapped in 2006
♦ 02-12-09 - The final results of Israel's general election have confirmed that neither of the two main parties can form a government on its own
♦ 02-04-09 - Hamas policemen have seized thousands of blankets and food parcels that were meant to be distributed to Palestinian civilians in Gaza
♦ 02-02-09 - israel continues to bomb gaza
♦ 01-31-09 - gypt says it has begun to install cameras and motion sensors along the border with Gaza to try to stop weapons smuggling by Palestinian militants
♦ 01-27-09 - israel launches new incursions into gaza after hamas sets off a mine, killing an israeli soldier
♦ 01-23-09 - Israel defends use of phosphorus during its war with gaza
♦ 01-23-09 - The UN's humanitarian chief has told the BBC the situation in Gaza after a three-week Israeli offensive against Hamas was worse than he anticipated
♦ 01-20-09 - israel says its troops are now all pulled out of gaza
♦ 01-18-09 - after israel announces a unilateral cease fire and that it will ull troops out of gaza and open up humanitarian aid routes, hamas announces a cease fire.
♦ 01-07-08 - israel accepts a truce plan in 'principle'
♦ 01-03-09 - israeli military steps up its attacks in gaza
♦ 01-02-09 - hamas has warned Israel that it would face a "black destiny" if it launched a ground offensive on Gaza
♦ 01-01-09 - senior hamas leader killed in air strike
♦ 12-31-08 - israeli PM vows israel's air assault on Gaza would not end until Hamas militants quit firing rockets into Israeli territory
♦ 12-29-08 - israel vows war with hamas until no Hamas buildings would be left standing
♦ 12-27-08 - israel prepares for porlonged military action against gaza, if rocket attacks from hamas don't stop
♦ 12-19-08 - hamas declares truce with israel over
♦ 12-18-08 - militant groups in gaza are not planning on renewing a cease fire agreement with israel that expires at the end of this week
♦ 11-03-08 - Israel to end support of outposts
♦ 09-22-08 - man drives car into a group of israeli soldiers
♦ 09-18-08 - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will replace Ehud Olmert as prime minister in 42 days
♦ 08-25-08 - Israel has released nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners
♦ 08-12-08 - israel proposes a west bank deal, but palestinians reject it
♦ 08-01-08 - Gaza battle kills Hamas militants
♦ 07-31-08 - Mahmoud Abbas orders the release of scores of Hamas members
♦ 07-29-08 - Israeli PM Ehud Olmert will resign in 2 months
♦ 07-29-08 - Israeli troops killed a nine-year-old Palestinian boy, in the west bank
♦ 07-15-08 - israel swaps prisoners with hezbollah
♦ 07-10-08 - israel's defence minister says israel is ready to attack iran if it feels threatened
♦ 07-08-08 - israel raids and shuts down shopping mall in west bank town of nablus
♦ 07-07-08 - israel signs prisoner swap deal with hezbollah
♦ 07-02-08 - hezbollah confirms prisoner swap with israel
♦ 07-02-08 - a Palestinian man drives bulldozer into a bus and several cars, in Jerusalem
♦ 06-29-08 - Israel reopens gaza crossings
♦ 06-26-08 - in another violatin of the truce, rockets are fired at israel from gaza
♦ 06-25-08 - hamas refuses to enforce truce in gaza, and israel closes gaza border again
♦ 06-24-08 - islamic jihad fires rockets into israel from gaza, violating the truce in the gaza strip
♦ 06-23-08 - israel kills an islamic jihad member in the west bank
♦ 06-18-08 - israel and hamas agree on a truce
♦ 06-12-08 - video footage shows masked jewish settlers beating up palestinians in the west bank
♦ 06-12-08 - the home of a hamas militant bombmaker is destroyed, hamas in retaliation fires mortars at israel, then realizes the explosion in the house wasn't caused by israel
♦ 05-09-09 - hamas mortar attack kills Israeli
♦ 04-24-08 - hamas offers a 6 month truce in gaza strip
♦ 04-21-08 - jimmy carter meets with hamas, says hamas is willing to accept israel, but hamas denies this accusation
♦ 03-06-08 - eight people killed at jerusalem school by terrorist gunman
♦ 03-02-08 - israel pulls troops out of gaza
♦ 02-28-08 - israel continues to attack gaza
♦ 02-05-08 - Israeli strike kills six hamas security force in Gaza
♦ 02-04-08 - clashes break out between gaza and egypt, as egypt closes border
♦ 02-04-08 - palestinian suicide bombers cross into israel via egypt
♦ 01-23-08 - palestinians cross into egypt, to buy food and other supplies
♦ 01-20-08 - gaza's only power plant shuts down
♦ 01-18-08 - israel closes border with gaza
♦ 01-15-08 - Israeli Gaza City raid kills 18
♦ 12-17-07 - at least $7billion has been pledge for palestinian aid
♦ 12-17-07 - israeli raids kill five militants in gaza
♦ 12-13-07 - red cross calls for immediate political action to contain the crisis in gaza
♦ 12-13-07 - Israeli raid kills three in Gaza
♦ 12-12-07 - israeli mayor of sdreot quits over the government's inability to stop rocket fire from Gaza
♦ 12-11-07 - israeli tanks and troops move deep into southern gaza
♦ 12-05-07 - israeli forces kill a palestinian security force member, in the west bank
♦ 12-2-07 - israel zttacks gaza again
♦ 11-27-07 - gaza demonstrates against peace again
♦ 11-26-07 - israeli and palestinian leaders meet in annapolis to try and work things out
♦ 11-26-07 - hamas ignores middle east peace talks, once again showing that it has no interest in peace
♦ 11-20-07 - israel transfers 25 armoured vehicles to palestinian security forces
♦ 11-15-07 - abbas call for hamas to be brought down
♦ 11-13-07 - hamas rounds up dozens of fatah activists in gaza
♦ 11-12-07 - deadly clashes at arafat rally in gaza
♦ 11-07-07 - west bank settlements are expanding
♦ 10-30-07 - israeli strike in gaza kills four
♦ 10-25-07 - Israel approves Gaza power cuts
♦ 10-17-07 - four die as gaza factions clash
♦ 10-10-07 - hamas ready for talks with fatah
♦ 10-01-07 - israel admits air strike in syria from a month ago
♦ 09-27-07 - two more palestinian militants die in israeli strike
♦ 09-26-07 - four palestinian militants killed by israeli air strike
♦ 09-24-07 - Israeli writers urge Hamas truce
♦ 09-19-07 - UN disagrees with israel over gaza hostilities
♦ 09-19-07 - israel declares gaza strip a hostile entity
♦ 09-18-07 - israeli planes fly over lebanon
♦ 09-17-07 - teenager shot dead in ramallah by israeli troops
♦ 09-14-07 - small israeli force enters gaza
♦ more than 25 israeli soldiers injured by a rocket attack from the gaza strip
♦ 09-07-07 - hamas security forces enforce outdoor prayer ban
♦ 09-06-07 - palestinian militants killed in gaza clashes
♦ 09-04-07 - israel's supreme court orders government to re-route the west bank barrier
♦ 09-04-07 - gazan women stage anti-hamas demonstration
♦ 08-31-07 - anti-hamas rallies staged in gaza
♦ 08-29-07 - two palestinian children die in blast
♦ 08-28-07 olmert hosts talks with abbas
♦ august 20, 2007 - 6 members of hamas die in israeli missle strike
♦ august 19, 2007 - gaza power plant shuts down
♦ august 13, 2007 - gaza bank freezes hamas accounts
♦ august 13, 2007 - hamas forces beat protesters in gaza
♦ august 10, 2007 - gunman dies in jerusalem shootout
♦ august 6 2007 - abbas and olmert hold talks
♦ august 2, 2007 - US signs a $80million palestinian aid deal
♦ july 27, 2007 - israel suspends an army company for shooting a civilian
♦ july 24, 2007 - blair envoy holds talks in west bank
♦ july 24, 2007 - Israeli planes strike gaza strip
♦ july 23, 2007 - israeli textbook states arab view
♦ july 20, 2007 - more than 250 palestinians released from israeli prisons arrive in the west bank
♦ july 18, 2007 - mahmoud abbas calls for ne elections
♦ july 12, 2007 - israeli soldier killed in gaza
♦ july 03, 2007 - bbc correspondent Alan Johnston is released
♦ july 1, 2007 - israel releases palestinian funds
♦ june 27, 2007 - twelve die in gaza during israeli incursions
♦ june 25, 2007 - hamas airs message from shalit
♦ june 20, 2007 - israel lets in stranded gazans
♦ june 19,2007 - gazan refugees trapped at israeli crsossing
♦ june 19,2007 - us and israel vow to support abbas
♦ june 18, 2007 - hamas orders johnston's release
♦ june 17, 2007 - rockets from lebanon hit israel
♦ june 16, 2007 - us unblocks aid to palestine
♦ june 15, 2007 - abbas appoints new pm
♦ june 15, 2007 - hamas controls gaza
PAKISTAN
♦ 10-18-09 - Taliban militants are engaged in street fighting with Pakistani soldiers as the army tries to break the militants' grip on South Waziristan.
♦ 10-17-09 - Fierce fighting has broken out as Pakistan's army launched an air and ground offensive against Taliban militants in the South Waziristan area.
♦ 10-15-09 - A series of attacks on security forces in Pakistan has killed at least 38 people
♦ 10-12-09 - The Taliban says it was responsible for a weekend attack on the military headquarters in northern Pakistan which left at least 19 people dead.
♦ 10-10-09 - militants who earlier attacked Pakistan's military HQ near Islamabad have taken 10-15 security personnel hostage
♦ 09-29-09 - At least nine suspected militants have been killed in two US drone attacks in Pakistan's troubled Waziristan region
♦ 09-18-09 - At least 33 people have been killed and dozens injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a village market in north-west Pakistan.
♦ 09-17-09 -Missiles fired by a US drone are believed to have killed an al-Qaeda chief and a top Uzbek militant in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
♦ 09-11-09 - One of the highest ranking Taliban officials in Pakistan has been arrested with four other senior militants in the country's north-west.
♦ 0422-09 - Pakistan sends troops to area grabbed by Taliban, after Pakistan gave away the Swat Valley in a 'peace deal' between the government and the taliban
♦ 04-21-09 - Taleban militants operating in Pakistan's Swat region who agreed a peace deal with the government have expanded operations into nearby Buner.
♦ 04-13-09 - pakistan implements Islamic law in the swat valley
♦ 04-08-09 - Taleban militants from Pakistan's troubled Swat valley have stormed the nearby district of Buner, killing at least five people
♦ 03-28-09 - Pakistan's army says troops backed by artillery and helicopter gunships have killed 26 militants in an attack near the Afghan border.
♦ 03-13-09 - Missiles fired by an unmanned US drone have killed at least 24 people in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region near the Afghan border
♦ 03-12-09 -A suspected U.S. missile attack killed 11 people Thursday in northwest Pakistan, an official said.
♦ 02-21-09 - The Taliban and the government of North West Frontier Province in Pakistan have agreed to a permanent cease-fire in the nation's volatile Swat Valley
♦ 02-12-09 - pakistan is in peace talks with the taliban
♦ 01-23-09 - Two missile attacks from suspected US drones have killed 14 people in north-western Pakistan
♦ 01-20-09 - More than 60 militants have been killed in fighting between government troops and militants in north-western Pakistan
♦ 12-11-08 - Pakistan has put the founder of an Islamic militant group accused of having links to the Mumbai attacks under house arrest
♦ 12-08-08 - militants in pakistan torch 50 MORE afghan-bound NATO military vehicles
♦ 12-05-08 - At least 20 people have been killed and 70 injured in a suspected car bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar
♦ 11-30-08 - 4 killed in northwestern Pakistan clashes between militants and security forces
♦ 11-19-08 - A missile fired by a suspected US drone has killed at least five people in north-western Pakistan
♦ 11-06-08 - A suicide bomber has killed at least nine people and wounded 40 at a gathering of elders in the Pakistani tribal area of Bajaur
♦ 10-26-08 - A suspected US missile strike has killed 20 people, including a top Taleban commander, in north-west Pakistan
♦ 10-23-08 - 'US missiles' hit Pakistan school
♦ 10-10-08 - Twenty-seven people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack at a meeting of tribal elders in a restive region of Pakistan near the Afghan border
♦ 10-03-08 - 'US strike' hits Pakistan village
♦ 09-30-08 - sources say pakistan's taliban leader is dead
♦ 09-29-08 - Petraeus warns Militants in Pakistan pose a threat to the country's existence
♦ 09-22-08 - US to step up action in Pakistan
♦ 09-22-08 - Pakistan troops 'repel US raid'
♦ 09-21-08 - Pakistan's government has pledged to take targeted action against militants
♦ 09-20-08 - A massive bomb blast has hit the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, killing at least 40 people
♦ 09-17-08 - 'US drone' kills five in Pakistan
♦ 09-15-08 - Pakistani troops have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing the border into pakistan
♦ 09-12-08 - US strikes militants in Pakistan again
♦ 09-11-08 - Pakistani forces killed up to 100 militants on the Afghan border
♦ President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government
♦ 09-10-08 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff has called for a new strategy in Afghanistan which will deny militants bases across the border in Pakistan
♦ 09-10-08 - Pakistan orders end to foreign incursions
♦ 08-18-08 - Pervez Musharraf resigns
♦ 08-07-08 - musharraf faces impeachment bid
♦ 08-01-08 - pakistan is blamed for bombing indian embassy in kabul, but denies accusations
♦ 07-28-08 - Al-Qaeda chemical expert killed in pakistan
♦ 06-29-08 - Pakistan army attacks militants near Peshawar
♦ 06-25-08 - the taleban in pakistan seized control of a town in northwest of the country
♦ 06-11-08 - pakistan condems US strike along the afghan border that killed 11 pakistani troops
♦ 06-06-08 - afghans criticize pakistan for harboring taleban militants
♦ 02-12-08 - two employees of pakistan's atomic energy agency have been abducted
♦ 01-31-08 - top al-qaeda leader reported killed by missile strike in pakistan
♦ 01-22-08 - pakistani forces clash with pro-taleban militants
♦ 12-21-07 - suicide attack kills 50 in north-western pakistan
♦ 12-14-07 - musharraf has assumes control of pakistan's nuclear weapons
♦ 12-06-07 - pakistani army re-capture town from por-taleban cleric maulana fazlullah
♦ 11-28-07 - musharraf gives up army uniform
♦ 11-26-07 - musharaff will quit army in days
♦ 11-17-07 - more political drama between musharraf and bhutto
♦ 11-15-07 - bhutto freed from house arrest
♦ 11-03-07 - president musharraf imposes emergency rule, and suspends the constitution
♦ 11-02-07 - taleban fighters parade captured pakistani troops
♦ 10-30-07 - suicide bomb attack near usharraf's HQ, kills 11
♦ 10-18-07 - blast hits hit bhutto convoy as she returns to pakistan
♦ 10-09-07 - pakistani jets bombard pro-taleban militants' positions
♦ 09-20-07 - al qaeda calls for jihad against musharraf
♦ 09-17-07 - pro-taleban militants kill 18 pakistani troops
♦ 09-10-07 - pakistan deports ex-PM, Nawaz Sharif, on return
♦ 08-30-07 - taleban militants capture 100 pakistani soldiers
♦ august 20, 2007 - pakistan frees al-queda suspect
♦ july 27, 2007 - 11 killed in suicide bombing near red mosque
♦ july 23, 2007 - pakistani troops kill 35 militants
♦ july 19,2007 - scores killed in pakistan attacks
♦ july 18, 2007 - pakistan troops killed in ambush
♦ july 10, 2007 - pakistan troops storm mosque
BUSH
♦ 03-29-09 - A senior Spanish judge has ordered prosecutors to investigate whether key Bush aides should be charged with crimes over the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
♦ 12-12-08 - with only a month left in office, bush relaxes wildlife law limits, making it easier for drilling, mining and major construction projects to go ahead without considering whether or not they harm wildlife
♦ 09-24-08 - Bush final admits "our entire economy is in danger"
♦ 07-15-08 - bush is angry that congress is protecting the environment
♦ 07-14-08 - bush lifts executive ban on offshore oil drilling
♦ 07-11-08 - bush decides to ignore global warming, and leave the issues/ problemsfor the next president to deal with...good to know our president has given up on his job with 6 months left in office
♦ as if this is a surprise to anyone, bush is the most unpopular US president in history
♦ 12-06-07 - another dumb-ass bush remark. . . i mean, mistake
♦ 12-05-07 - bush still rambling on about iran
♦ 12-4-07 - bush is either a liar, or incompetent
♦ 11-20-07 - former white house press secretary implicates bush and his administrationin misinforming the public over the leaking of a CIA agent's identity
♦ and yet US bill on armenia moves forward
♦ 10-10-07 - bush urges against bill regarding the 1915 armenian genocide
♦ 09-28-07 - bush on global warning
♦ 09-19-07 - pope refuses to meet with rice
♦ 08-28-07 - bush threatens iran over iraq issue
♦ august 27, 2007 - alberto gonzales finally resigns
♦ august 13, 2007 - karl rove finally leaves
♦ july 28, 2007 - usa plans huge arms deal with saudi arabia
♦ july 18, 2007 - pres bush tries to eliminate funding for PBS and NPR
RUSSIA
♦ 09-18-09 - Russian president denies Putin has all the power
♦ 09-17-09 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has welcomed the US decision to shelve the european missile defense system, calling it a "responsible move".
♦ 09-09-09 - it turns out, a russian ship that went missing in the Arctic Sea last month, which russia claimed to be hijacked by pirates, was actually illegally transporting missiles to iran, and was intercepted by israel
♦ 02-27-09 - One day before U.S. President Barack Obama's Canadian visit last week, Canadian fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers near Canadian air space, the defense minister said Friday
♦ 01-31-09 - thousands of protesters in russia demand putin's resignation
♦ 01-28-09 - Russia's military has announced it will halt its plans to deploy short-range missiles in its Baltic enclave, because of a change in US attitude
♦ 12-31-08 - russia cuts off gas supply to ukraine
♦ 10-14-08 - Russian human rights lawyer poisoned
♦ 10-05-08 - russian troops leave georgian post
♦ 09-18-08 - Condoleezza Rice says russia is isolated and irrelevant
♦ 09-15-08 - georgia releases evidence that shows russian troops entered south ossetia a full day before georgia attacked
♦ 09-10-08 - Chechen President accuses US of instigating war in georgia
♦ 09-08-08 - russia agrees to remove its troops form georgia (excluding abkhazia and south ossetia) by the end of the month
♦ 09-02-08 - russia refuses to recognize the president of georgia
♦ 08-28-08 - russia blames the US for provoking war in georgia
♦ 08-22-08 - russia says withdrawal from georgia is complete
♦ 08-21-08 - rusiia jalts co-operation with NATO
♦ 08-19-08 - russia dismisses NATO
♦ 08-15-08 - bush condemns and threatens russia over its invasion of georgia
♦ 08-12-08- georgia and russia agree on a EU backed peace plan
♦ 08-12-08 - russia finally orders an end to military operations against georgia
♦ 08-08-08 - russian planes bomb tblisi
♦ 08-08-08 - russian forces invades and attacks georgia
♦ 08-08-08 - russian tanks enter georgia's breakaway region of south ossetia
♦ 07-11-08 - once again russia, speaks out against the US missile shield
♦ 07-08-08 - the US calls russia's bluff
♦ 07-08-08 - russia threatens military action if the US and Czech Republic go ahead with plans for a missile shield
♦ UK government says russia was behind litvinenko's murder
♦ 05-17-08 - russia builds up armed troops near georgian border
♦ 04-29-08 - NATO warns russia over its troop build-up near georgia
♦ 04-21-08 - russia is caught on video shooting down an unmanned aircraft over georgia, and yet still they deny it
♦ 02-28-08 - moscow official admits media bias during election campaign
♦ 02-12-08 - russia threatens to target missiles at ukraine
♦ 01-22-08 - putin tries to silence opposition again, by making them appear as criminals
♦ 12-12-07 - russia blames british council for violating russian tax laws
♦ 12-3-07 - kremlin intimidates voters, blocks opposition from campaigning on tv, arrests political opponents, and yet insists election was fair
♦ 12-3-07 - foreign observers say parliamentary election in russia were not fair
♦ 11-07-07 - georgia declares state of emergency due to opposition protest
♦ 09-20-07 - russia again claims north pole as its own
♦ 08-27-07 - 10 people arrest over the murder of Anna Politkovskaya
♦ august 24, 2007 - georgia fires at russian plane
♦ august 17, 2007 - russia resumes cold war era bomber flights over the north pole
♦ august 2, 2007 - russia plants flag underneath the north pole
♦ august 1, 2007 - russia claims ownership of the north pole
ECONOMY
♦ 10-16-09 - Global Stocks Fall And Dollar Rises
♦ 10-15-09 - US banks' profits beat forecasts
♦ 10-14-09 - Stocks rallied Wednesday morning, with the Dow industrials nearly hitting the 10,000 level for the first time in a year, following better-than-expected quarterly profit reports from Intel and JPMorgan Chase.
♦ US banking giant JP Morgan Chase saw profits between July and September 2009 that were much better than expected.
♦ 10-10-09 - Obama urges creation of agency to regulate financial industry
♦ 10-08-09 - The US budget deficit reaches $1.4trillion for the year. . . that's 0.2 trillion less than what was predicted
♦ 10-01-09 - Dow plunges 200 points
♦ 10-01-09 - Ken Lewis, BofA chief executive who lied to shareholders regarding its purchase of brokerage Merrill Lync, will recieve a $53 million retirement package
♦ 09-28-09 - dow has triple digit rally, after a week of decline
♦ 09-16-09 - Five current and former directors of Bank of America have been subpoenaed by the office of New York Attorney General
♦ 09-16-09 - http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/16/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?postversion=2009091616
♦ 09-15-09 - The US recession is probably over but the economy will remain weak for some time due to unemployment, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has said.
♦ 09-14-09 - A year after Lehman Brothers collapsed, a think-tank has warned the lessons of the crisis have not been learned.
♦ 09-14-09 - obama pushes for financial regulatory reform
♦ 09-14-09 - President Barack Obama will try Monday to revive a stalled push for stricter oversight of Wall Street, using the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse to argue for sweeping regulatory changes.
♦ a chart of US national debt since the great Depression
♦ charating the trends of the global recession
♦ 09-10-09 - US President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package has created up to 1.1m jobs, according to the White House.
♦ 09-08-09 - United Nations conference calls for new global currency.
♦ 04-21-09 - the IMF has warned credit crunch losses could reach $4 trillion, and damage the financial system for years to come.
♦ 04-20-09 - Chrysler refuses to accept government aid because it means that they will have to enforce limits on executive pay
♦ 04-17-09 - Citigroup has reported its first quarterly net profit in nearly two years
♦ 04-13-09 - Goldmans Sachs reports a $1.8 billion profit in first quarter
♦ 04-03-09 - The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published its blacklist of non-cooperative tax havens.
♦ 04-02-09 - G20 leaders seal $1.1tn global deal
♦ 03-31-09 - Wall Street ended up in March, after 6 of down months
♦ 02-28-09 - governors who said they werent going to take federal money from obama's stimulus plan, changed their minds, and took the money.
♦ 03-25-09 - an AIG top executive resigns over bonus fiasco,citing "betrayal" by AIG and "unfair persecution" by elected US officials
♦ 03-23-09 - $50million of AIG's bonuses have been returned
♦ 03-23-09 - Stocks continued their rally on Monday afternoon as investors hailed Treasury's plan to buy up billions in bad bank assets, seeing it as a critical move in stabilizing the financial system
♦ 03-20-09 - stocks post gains for second week in a row.
♦ 03-19-09 - House passes bill taxing Wall Street bonuses
♦ 03-19-09 - The US Federal Reserve says it will buy $1.2 trillion worth of debt to help boost lending and promote economic recovery.
♦ 03-18-09 - AIG chief Edward Liddy told lawmakers today that he has asked every AIG employee who received a bonus of $100,000 or more to return at least 50 percent of the bonus. Some of the recipients have already returned the entire bonus, he added.
♦ 03-19-09 - In a letter to congressmen, Timothy Geithner said $165m (£116m) would be taken from $30bn the firm is due to get as part of its government bail-out.
♦ 03-10-09 - The Dow gains 379 points, Nasdaq surges 7% and S&P 500 rallies 6.4% on news that Citigroup made a profit in the first two months of the year, and possible limit on short selling
♦ 03-04-09 - do finally gains a little after dropping for 5 days stratight
♦ Rec
♦ 02-23-09 - The Dow and S&P 500 tumbled to levels not seen in nearly 12 years Monday, as investors continue to worry that the government's efforts to slow the recession won't be sufficient
♦ 02-23-09 - Citi shares up on expanded US stake talk
♦ 02-21-09 - CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Saturday that if fellow Republican governors threatening to turn down stimulus funds follow through on their pledge, he'd be happy to have their share.
♦ 02-21-09 - Obama seeks to cut the deficit in half by 2013. that means cutting it from $1.3 trillion/year that he in herited to $533 billion/year
♦ 02-17-09 - a day after obama signed a $787bn economic stimulus package, he proposes a $75bn housing plan to help lower millions of american's mortgage payments to less than 31% of their income
♦ 02-10-09 - Geithner unveils new bank rescue plan
♦ 02-10-09 - US Senate approves stimulus plan by a vote of 61-37
♦ 02-04-09 - obama announced Wednesday that executives of companies receiving federal bailout money will have their pay capped at $500,000 under a revised financial compensation plan.
♦ 02-02-09 - a list of the reasons the republicans are blocking the stimulus package from passing
♦ 02-02-09 - republicans are trying to block obama's stimulus plan
♦ 01-28-09 - house of rep. passes $825bn economic stimulus package by 244 votes to 188. no Republicans backed the plan
♦ 01-28-09 - the house of representatives will vote on obama's stimulus package later today, republicans say it won't work.
♦ 01-14-18 - senate will vote on whether or not to give obama the 2nd half of the TARP money
♦ 12-12-08 congress refuses to bailout automakers because the union workers refuses to accept a pay cut, now the bush administration might try to bail them out
♦ 12-11-08 - The US trade deficit unexpectedly grew in October 2008
♦ US job losses surge in November 2008
♦ 12-02-08 - Automakers return to washington to beg for cash, and announce cost cutting plans
♦ 12-01-08 - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a fiscal emergency
♦ 12-02-08 - america is officially in a recession
♦ 12-02-8 - Dow plunges 680 points, fourth-biggest single-session decline on a point basis ever
♦ 11-25-08 - Home prices post record drop
♦ 11-24-08 - Citigroup rescue and Obama economic team picks propel stocks
♦ 11-19-08 - Dow plunges below 8,000 - 1st time since '03
♦ 11-12-08 - Paulson says Treasury will broaden reach to include non-bank financial firms
♦ 11-06-08 - dow drops 443 points today, a 2-day loss of 929 points
♦ 10-28-08 - Dow closes up 889.35 points today
♦ 10-22-08 - dow drops another 500 points today
♦ 10-15-08 - Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) fell as much as 515 points
♦ 10-13-08 - dow gains 976 points today, the largest gain ever
♦ 10-10-08 - Finance ministers from leading industrialised nations have pledged action to tackle the financial crisis after a torrid week on stock markets.
♦ 10-09-08 - Dow drops 679 points, and falls below 8,700 for first time since 2003 - on the 1-year anniversary of all-time high.
♦ 10-08-08 - Three weeks after an $85 billion bailout, AIG is asking the New York Federal Reserve for an additional $37.8 billion
♦ 10-08-08 - feds cut interest rates, dow drops 190 points
♦ 10-07-08 - dow drops another 500 points
♦ 10-06-08 - 9:30am PST - Dow drops over 400 points today, and falls below 10,000
♦ 10-05-08 - Germany's finance ministry has agreed a 50bn euro ($70bn) plan to save one of the country's biggest banks.
♦ 10-03-08 - final roll call for house vote on bailout
♦ 10-03-08 - description of earmarks attached to the bill in order to gain republican support
♦ 10-03-08 - 12:00pm PST - Bush signs bailout bill
♦ 10-03-08 - 10:30am PST - House passes $700bn bail-out plan
♦ 10-02-08 - Bailout fears sink stocks
♦ 10-02-08 - bailout deal heads back to house for approval
♦ 10-01-08 - Senate passes $700billion bailout plan
♦ 10-01-08 - warren buffet will invest in GE
♦ 10-01-08 - new revised bailout deal has add-ons to make it more attractive to house republicans. among them: energy tax breaks. oh, and guess who now supports it, with its new earmarks? john mccain.
♦ 09-30-08- dow comes back 485 points
♦ 09-29-08 - Dow suffers worst point drop ever
♦ 09-29-08 - Dow closes down 600 points
♦ 09-29-08 - Citigroup buys Wachovia bank assets for $2.2B
♦ 09-29-08 11:30am PST - house republicans reject bailout dea; Bailout bill fails; Dow plunges
♦ 09-29-08 - 2nd source: House votes down bail-out package
♦ 09-28-08 - bush backs new bailout proposal
♦ 09-28-08 1:49pm PST - Congress expected to pass rescue package
♦ 09-28-08 - a Republican negotiator says US politicians have agreed on the details of $700bn bailout deal
♦ 09-28-08 - latest baliout rescue bill revealed
♦ 09-25-08 - republicans stall the economic bail-out
♦ 09-25-08 - JPMorgan will buy WaMu
♦ 09-25-08 - arguements for and against the economic bail-out
♦ 09-25-08 - rebublicans saying they will reject the bipartisan version of the bailout plan
♦ 09-25-08 - more on congress's agreement of wall street bailout
♦ 09-25-08 11:25amPST Congress agree on bailout principles to protect taxpayers and ensure oversight
♦ 09-23-08 - FBI probing bailout firms
♦ 09-23-08 - stocks continue to tumble
♦ 09-22-08 - Dow slides 373 points on spiking oil and unease about bank bailout plan
♦ 09-22-08 - the value of the dollar drops as a result of bush's proposed bailout, and so gas prices skyrocket
♦ 09-22-08 - more info on the government bailout plan progress
♦ 09-21-08 - democats want oversight, and limits on bailouts
♦ 09-21-08 - Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley change their status to become bank holding companies
♦ 09-21-08 - democrats standing up to protect taxpayers from bush's economic bail out
♦ 09-21-08 - tax payers furious at bush's economic bail out plan
♦ 09-20-08 - Bush's $700billion bail-out: how does it work? inflating the market. who's gonna pay for it? taxpayers. will it work? "experts are cautiously optimistic"..."The problem is that the bailout will not automatically make banks profitable, nor will it stop the slide in home values that is wreaking havoc on the economy."
♦ 09-19-08 - the cost of bush's market bail out plan, $700 BILLION
♦ 09-19-08 - Shares surge on US bail-out plan
♦ 09-19-08 - bush, after 8 years of preaching for lower taxes for the rich, and less government intervention into the markets, is now proposing a federal government economic policy that will cost the taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars
♦ CNN's Commentary: How to prevent the next Wall Street crisis
♦ CNN's Commentary: How to prevent the next Wall Street crisis
♦ 09-17-08 - 10am PST - Dow plunges over 300 points only 2 hours into the session
♦ 09-16-08 - Federal Reserve was close to a deal to take a 80% stake in AIG in exchange for an $85 billion loan
♦ 09-16-08 - AIG falls 42% in cash scramble
♦ 09-16-08 - global markets suffer great losses following the collapse of Lehman Brothers
♦ 09-15-08 - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the U.S. financial system remained sound
♦ 09-15-08 - Dow Jones drops 500 points today
♦ 09-15-08 - Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy
♦ 09-11-08 - US trade deficit widened as oil prices rose
♦ 09-09-08 - estimates say federal budget deficit nearing $407B
♦ US home sales decline in July
♦ 09-07-08 - US government seizes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
♦ 09-05-08 - US jobless unemployment rate soars to 6.1%
♦ 08-01-08 - US jobless rate at four-year high
♦ chart graphing the US federal deficit from 1990-2007
♦ July 2008 - white house reports a record $490 billion deficit for 2009
♦ july 2008 - US home foreclosures on the rise
♦ 07-24-08 - housing market plunges stocks
♦ 07-23-08 - bush just acting like the idiot he is
♦ US inflation rate is at a 26-year high
♦ 07-15-08 - the US economy seems to just keep getting worse
♦ 06-26-08 - Dow Jones drops 350 points today
♦ 03-13-08 - another US hedge fund on verge of collapse
♦ 01-22-08 - feds cut interest rates to 3.5%
♦ fears of a global recession
♦ Fed boss says outlook for the US economy in 2008 has worsen
♦ 11-16-07 - the dollar has become so weak that the taj mahal won't even accept it
♦ 11-08-07 - federal reserve chairman predicts US economy will slow down
♦ 09-18-07 - feds cut US interest rates by .5%
♦ 08-29-07 - bush moves to ease lending crisis
♦ timeline of world's economic sub-prime problems
♦ 08-23-07 another drop in wallstreet
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
♦ 10-18-09 Obama adminstration will not prosecute medical marijuana users
♦ 10-16-09 - A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
♦ 10-15-09 -President Barack Obama has proposed spending $13 billion to give Social Security recipients $250 apiece as the Labor Department announced that they may not get a cost-of-living increase this year for the first time since 1975.
♦ There will be no cost-of-living increase for 57 million Social Security beneficiaries next year because consumer prices have fallen, the Social Security Administration announced on Thursday.
♦ California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a bill that establishes a day recognising US gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
♦ 10-11-09 - Thousands of gay and lesbian activists have marched through Washington to demand greater civil rights.
♦ mother who carried a gun to her kids soccer game, was shot and killed by her husband.
♦ 09-27-09 - obama administration now saying they may not have guantanamo bay closed by january 22, 2010
♦ 09-20-09 - Three suspects arrested in U.S. terrorism probe
♦ 09-19-09 - Three suspects arrested in U.S. terrorism probe
♦ 09-18-09 - Seven former heads of the CIA on Friday urged President Barack Obama to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners held by the agency, (??could it be because they were ones ultimately responsible for some of the torturing and breaking international laws??)
♦ 09-16-09 - President Barack Obama's decision to refocus U.S. missile defenses in Europe on Iran's short- to medium-range missile threat was based on a revised intelligence assessment that officials said hinged on factors that could easily change.
♦ 09-17-09 - The US will abandon its plan to develop a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, according to the Wall Street Journal.
♦ Democratic leaders are planning a House vote early next week to admonish Republican Rep. Joe Wilson if he does not apologize on the House floor for yelling "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's health care address to Congress.
♦ 08-25-09 - The US budget deficit will soar to almost $1.6 trillion this year, the highest on record, both the White House and Congress have warned. Despite the fact that throughout this entire year, this figure was the projected deficit for 2009, people still seem shocked
♦ 08-24-09 - A special US prosecutor has been appointed to investigate allegations of abuse of terror suspects.
♦ The CIA's use of waterboarding to interrogate terrorism suspects was approved by Condoleezza Rice as early as 2002
♦ 04-21-09 - US President Barack Obama has left open the possibility of prosecuting officials who wrote CIA memos allowing harsh interrogation methods.
♦ 04-17-09 - The US government is to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, having decided that it and five other greenhouse gases may endanger human health and well-being.
♦ 04-16-09 - Gov. David Paterson announced Thursday he will introduce a bill in the state legislature to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.
♦ 04-14-09 - New York governor to propose legalizing same-sex marriage
♦ 04-09-09 - CIA shuts down its secret prisons
♦ 04-07-09 - Washington DC City Council voted 12-0 Tuesday in favor of allowing same-sex marriages performed in other states to be recognized in the nation's capital.
♦ 04-07-09 - Vermont's House and Senate voted Tuesday to override the governor's veto of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, making Vermont the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriages.
♦ 04-03-09 - Iowa court rules a ban on same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional
♦ 03-30-09 - General Motors CEO resigns as part of bailout deal
♦ 03-29-09 - The chief executive of struggling US car company General Motors has been ordered to step down by President Barack Obama.
♦ 03-25-09 - vermont governor says he will veto same-sex marriage bill
♦ 03-23-09 - Vermont Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to legalize same-sex marriage
♦ 03-18-09 - US military will phase out its "stop-loss" program, the contentious practice of holding troops beyond the end of their enlistments, for all but extraordinary situations.
♦ 03-20-09 - the czech government backs out of the US missile defence treaty
♦ 03-13-09 - US drops the use of the term 'enemy combatant'
♦ 03-10-09 - The US Congress has voted to lift restrictions on relations with Cuba imposed by the Bush administration
♦ 02-10-09 - The National Republican Trust PAC theatens to blacklist any republican that votes for the economic stimulus package
♦ 01-21-09 - hillary clinton is sworn in as secretary of state
♦ 01-21-09 - recap of obama's 1st day as president, calls mideast leaders, stop guantanamo trials, bans his aides from lobbying, and more
♦ 01-20-09 - In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days
♦ 01-20-08 barack obama is the 44th president of the USA
♦ 01-19-09 - Obama may quickly reverse abortion policy
♦ 01-12-08 - sources say obama will act swiftly to close guantanamo bay prison
♦ 01-09-09 - illinois governor is impeached
♦ 12-17-08 - obama said he'll close guantanamo within 2 years
♦ 12-05-08 - US conducted a successful test of a missile shield system designed to protect the United States against long range missle attacks
♦ picture from obama's 1st press conference as president elect
♦ 11-12-08 - he US Supreme Court has removed restrictions on the navy's use of sonar in training exercises near California
♦ 11-12-08 - First Connecticut Same-Sex Couple Marries
♦ 11-08-09 - Californians are on the march against a ban on same sex marraiges
♦ 10-15-08 - Cheney's abnormal heart rhythm returns
♦ 10-10-08 - Connecticut's Supreme Court has overturned a ban on same-sex marriages, making it the third US state to legalise such unions
♦ 09-22-08 - EPA won't limit rocket fuel in drinking water
♦ 09-09-08 - US army suicide rate could the rate of suicide in the general U.S. population for the first time since the Vietnam war
♦ 09-09-08 - US remains 'dangerously vulnerable' to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after 9/11
♦ 09-08-08 - bush cancels civilian nuclear deal with russia
♦ 09-02-08 - jack abramoff found guilty of corruption
♦ 09-02-08 - commentary on sarah palin after her acceptance speech
♦ 09-02-08 - sarah palin wants to remove the investigation into her 'violation of the ethics act' from legislative hands
♦ 09-02-08 - Mccain angry that america is scrutinizing his idiotic vie-presidential pick
♦ 08-29-08 - mccain announces sarah palin as his vice-presidential canidate
♦ 08-28-08 - 7pmPST - Barak Obama's nomination acceptance speech at the DNC in denver
♦ 08-27-08 - barak obama is officially the democratic nominee for president
♦ 08-26-08 - hillary clinton urges democrats to back barak obama for president
♦ 08-24-08 - Sen. HillaryClinton will release her delegates to Sen. Barack Obama
♦ 08-23-08 - Obama announces his vice-presidential choice, Joe Biden
♦ 08-14-08 - US and Poland sign defence deal
♦ 07-29-08 - House committee recommends holding Karl Rove for Contempt of Congress
♦ next US president will inherit a record federal budget deficit of 5 billion dollars
♦ 07-24-08 - video: barack obama's speech in berlin germany
♦ 07-17-08 - ashcroft defends the use of torture
♦ 07-16-08 - bush finally waking up to world politics, adn sends an envoy to iran
♦ 07-15-08 - video of interrogation at guantanamo bay is released
♦ 07-01-08 - McCain campaign pulls ads from anti-Obama websites
♦ 06-26-08 - US Supreme Court overturns Washington DC ban on handguns
♦ 06-24-08 - evangelical christians have began attacking obama
♦ 06-23-08 - a US court rejected the classification of a prisoner held in Guantanamo Bay as an "enemy combatant" for the first time
♦ 06-12-08 - US Supreme Court rules that foreign suspects held in Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts
♦ 06-04-08 - hillary clinton announce her intent to concede the democratic presidental nomination to obama
♦ 04-29-08 - the federal reserve cuts interest rate to 2%
♦ 03-25-08 - US supreme court disavows international treaties the US signed
♦ 03-24-08 - hillary clinton caught, blatantly lying to the american people, and tries to ignore it
♦ 03-11-08 - the commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan quits over differences with the bush administration
♦ 02-20-08 - US successfully carries out an anti-missile defence test
♦ 02-11-08 - a pentagon-commissioned study says US military is seriously deficient in meeting the threat of Islamist insurgencies
♦ 12-21-07 - girl dies after insurance company refused to pay for liver transplant which could have saved her life
♦ 12-07-07 - senate will launch probe into CIA's destruction of tapes
♦ 11-19-07 - dollar continues to drop
♦ 11-16-07 - US house of representatives passes bill to regulate mortgage brokers
♦ 10-26-07 - US dollar reaches new low, again
♦ 09-24-07 - ahmadinejad speaks at columbia university in new york
♦ 09-21-07 - 2 people arrested in Jena, after nooses were seen hanging from the back of a red pickup
♦ 09-20-07 - thousands march for justice in jena
♦ 09-19-07 - senate republicans have blocked a bid by democrats to give US troops in Iraq more home leave
♦ 08-31-07 - court allows navy to use sonar, despite it's effects on whales
IRAN
♦ Iran mps demand action against mousavi
♦ Russia, France and the US are to hold talks with Iran to try to finalise an agreement on sending Iranian uranium abroad for enrichment.
♦ 10-18-09 - Iran now accuses Pakistani agents of involvement in a suicide bombing in south-east Iran targeting a group of elite Revolutionary Guards.
♦ 10-18-09 - A Sunni resistance group, Jundullah, carry out a suicide terrorist attack in iran, and iran's government tries to blame it on the US
♦ 10-10-09 - Three people who were accused (for their role) in the post-election incidents have been sentenced to death. . . and no it was not the militant who murdered neda soltan
♦ Iran's president says Obama made a big mistake
♦ Iran intel marked by differences, not disarray
♦ 10-01-09 - Iran agreed to transfer the bulk of its known nuclear fuel to other countries to enrich it, Western officials said.
♦ 10-01-09 - Iran has agreed to co-operate with the UN's nuclear watchdog on inspections of its second uranium-enrichment facility
♦ 09-29-09 - Iran has said it is not willing to discuss its "nuclear rights" during an upcoming meeting with the five permanent UN Security Council members.
♦ 09-28-09 - Iran tested missiles which Tehran says are capable of striking targets in Israel, and yet once again, wetern powers do nothing but issue a statement of condemnation to iran
♦ 09-27-09 - Iran has tested two short-range missiles and announced plans for a controversial long-range missile test.
♦ 09-26-09 - iran will allow inspectors into ium enrichment plant.
♦ 09-25-09 - iran defiant about nuclear issue
♦ 09-25-09 - President Obama said Friday that "Iran is on notice" regarding its nuclear efforts, and that the international community is united in its opposition to Tehran's nuclear program.
♦ 09-25-09 - US, UK, French heads demand Iran nuke site opened
♦ 09-25-09 - even china is now urging iran to come clean and cooperate over nuclear issue
♦ 09-25-09 - iran is hiding a secret underground second facility for enriching uranium
♦ 09-25-09
♦ 090-22-09 - iran test new neclear technology
♦ 09-20-09 - Iran's supreme leader on Sunday blasted U.S. plans to overhaul the setup for a missile defense shield in Europe, calling the Obama administration's intentions "anti-Iranian"
♦ 09-20-09 - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied Western claims that Iran intends to develop nuclear arms.
♦ 09-18-09 - Thousands of opposition supporters have clashed with security forces during a government-sponsored rally in Tehran.
♦ 09-15-09 - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said Iran must dicusss the nuclear issue "cannot be ignored" and was the key reason why the US agreed to take part in the talks.
♦ 09-14-09 - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iran is ready to discuss global issues with world powers, but that its nuclear programme is non-negotiable
♦ 09-06-09 - Venezuela has agreed to export petrol to Iran, in a sign of closer ties between two of America's most vocal adversaries.
♦ 09-01-09 - Iran has "prepared an updated nuclear package" and is ready to hold talks with world powers, the country's state-run Press TV reported Tuesday.
♦ 08-31-09 - Iran prisoner beaten to death, coroner says
♦ 08-28-09 - The UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has slowed its enriched uranium production, but continues to install the centrifuge machines needed for the process.
♦ 08-28-09 - The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship illegally carrying embargoed North Korean weapons bound for Iran
♦ 08-28-09 - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for leaders of the protests that followed his disputed re-election in June to be dealt with decisively.
♦ 08-27-09 - the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has warned Iran it could face sanctions if it does not show a willingness to negotiate on its nuclear programme.
♦ 08-26-09 - Iran's supreme leader has said he does not believe opposition leaders blamed for the country's post-election unrest were knowing agents of foreign powers.
♦ 04-09-09 - iran opens nuclear fuel facility
♦ 03-31-09 - The US envoy to Afghanistan has held "a cordial exchange" with Iran's deputy foreign minister, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
♦ 03-21-09 - iran rejects obama's offer for a new beginning in relations
♦ 03-19-09 - obama offers iran a new beginning
♦ 03-18-09 - US forces shot down an Iranian drone 60 miles (100km) north-east of Baghdad last month.
♦ 03-10-09 - National Intelligence director Dennis Blair told US senators that iran has no weapons-grade uranium
♦ 02-21-09 - Iran offered to stop attacking coalition troops in Iraq nearly four years ago in an attempt to get the West to accept Tehran's nuclear program, a British diplomat told the BBC in an interview aired Saturday.
♦ 02-02-09 - Iran makes first satellite launch
♦ 09-15-08 - the IAEA can't resolve questions over a possible military dimension to Iran's nuclear programme
♦ 09-10-08 - US sanctions target Iranian shipping company and affiliates
♦ 09-09-08 - israel suggested it could kidnap iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad
♦ 07-10-08 - images of iran's missile tests is photoshoped to seem more impressive
♦ 07-09-08 - iran test fires long range missile
♦ 07-02-08 - America's top military officer has said opening up a third front in the Middle East through a strike on Iran would be "extremely stressful" for US forces
♦ 06-24-08 - iran condemns new sanctions imposed by the EU
♦ 06-06-08 - israel threatens to attack iran, if iran continues to develop nuclear technology
♦ 03-03-08 - UN approves new sanctions on Iran
♦ 01-12-08 - more on the iran-US naval stand-off
♦ 01-07-08 - iran tries to provoke US into attacking its boats
♦ 12-3-07 - US now says Iran is not as determined to develop nuclear weapons, as previously thought
♦ 11-29-07 - iranian government wants to ban rap music
♦ iran sanctions decision delayed until november
♦ 09-25-07 -ahmadinejad defiant in UN speech
♦ 09-20-07 - iran frees US-Iranian from prison
♦ 09-19-07 - ahmadinejad is denied permission to visit ground zero
♦ 09-19-07 - iran issues another threat to attack israel
♦ 09-18-07 - retired US general says US can live with a nuclear Iran
♦ 09-17-07 - iran angry at french threat of war over iran's nuclear programme
♦ 09-12-07 - iran says it won't stop uranium enrichment
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
♦ 10-10-09 - US President Barack Obama has said in a key speech to America's largest gay group that he will end the "don't ask, don't tell" military policy. BUT still did not give a timetable for repeal of the policy
♦ Obama will donate $1.4 million Nobel cash award to charity.
♦ 10-09-09 (2:54am PST) - for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples, Barak Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
♦ 09-24-09 - during the first time a US president had chaired a Security Council summit., the UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for nuclear disarmament, in a session chaired by US President Barack Obama.
♦ 09-17-09 - US President Barack Obama has shelved plans for controversial bases in Poland and the Czech Republic in a major overhaul of missile defence in Europe, saying there would be a "proven, cost-effective" system using land- and sea-based interceptors against Iran's short- and medium-range missile threat.
♦ 09-14-09 - obama pushes for financial regulatory reform
♦ 09-14-09 - President Barack Obama will try Monday to revive a stalled push for stricter oversight of Wall Street, using the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse to argue for sweeping regulatory changes.
♦ 09-09-09 - cspan video of obama's healthcare speech to a joint session of congress
♦ 09-09-09 - text of obama's healthcare speech
♦ 09-09-09 - obama goes before congress and urges action on health care
♦ 09-09-09 - European support for Barack Obama's foreign policy is four times greater than that given to his predecessor George W Bush, according to the annual Transatlantic Trends survey
♦ 09-08-09 - Obama vows action on healthcare
♦ 04-17-09 - Obama offers Cuba 'new beginning'
♦ 04-16-09 - US President Barack Obama says CIA agents who used harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects during the Bush era will not be prosecuted, and He has now released four memos detailing techniques the CIA was able to use under the Bush administration.
♦ 04-13-09 - Obama eases curbs on travel to Cuba
♦ 04-05-09 - Barack Obama has outlined his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons in a major speech in Europe.
♦ 03-09-09 - obama overturns bush's policy on stem cell research
♦ 02-29-09 - US Republicans have broadly welcomed President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw most troops from Iraq by 2010
♦ recovery.gov - track the money in obama's economic stimulus plan
♦ 02-12-09 - republican judd gregg withdraws his nomination as obama's commerce secretary
♦ 02-09-09 - obama warns congress that delaying the stimulus package could have disasterous effects
♦ 01-24-09 - obama outlines his energy plans
♦ 01-23-09 - President Barack Obama has lifted a US funding ban for groups providing abortion services abroad, reversing a policy of his predecessor, George Bush
♦ 01-22-09 - obama orders the closure f guantanamo bay prison
♦ 01-21-09 - what obama plans to do in his 2nd full day in office
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