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U.N.-backed court criticizes Hezbollah boycott call (Reuters)

October 29th, 2010

Reuters - A call by Shi’ite Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to boycott a U.N.-backed investigation into the 2005 assassination of statesman Rafik al-Hariri is an “attempt to obstruct justice,” the…

Afghan president criticizes anti-terror strategy (AP)

August 30th, 2010

In this Aug. 4, 2010 photo,  during a rescue mission, a team from a U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Rescue Squadron scans for threats out the open door of a helicopter, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. Since the war began, the countryside surrounding Kandahar has been marked as the heartland of the Taliban,  the insurgents' springboard to retake all of Afghanistan. Now, as U.S. and allied forces wrestle with diehard insurgents on booby-trapped fields and roads, the battle for Kandahar is being described as the decisive campaign, a linchpin of American strategy to win the nine-year-old conflict. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - President Hamid Karzai has again criticized coalition strategy in fighting Afghanistan’s stubborn insurgency, saying it has thus far produced nothing but civilian deaths.


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China criticizes Clinton comments on island chains (AP)

July 30th, 2010

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, a Chinese soldier jumps through a fire obstacle during psychological training at an army training field before the upcoming 83rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, which will be celebrated on Aug. 1, in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang) ** NO SALES **AP - China’s military on Friday criticized remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washington had a strong interest in seeing territorial disputes in the South China Sea…

Clinton criticizes Russia for occupying Georgia (AP)

July 5th, 2010

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in the Armenian capital Yerevan, Sunday, July 4, 2010, during her brief visit to the ex-Soviet nation. Clinton on Sunday appealed to Armenia and Azerbaijan for a peaceful resolution of a long-running territorial dispute between the neighboring ex-Soviet states, but there were no outward signs of fresh diplomatic progress. (AP Photo/PanARMENIAN Photo)Hakobyan)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Russia on Monday for failing to live up to the cease-fire agreement it signed nearly two years ago to end…

Rights group criticizes Hamas treatment of Israeli (AP)

June 25th, 2010

A Palestinian youth stands in front of a mural depicting captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit as a young man, left and at old age, right, implying that he will be held captive for many years, on the main road in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 24, 2010. Friday marks four years since Schalit was captured by Hamas-allied militants in Gaza on June 25, 2006. (AP Photo /Adel Hana)AP - Human Rights Watch charged Friday that Hamas militants are violating the rules of war by prohibiting a captive Israeli soldier from having contact with his family and the…

Defense chief criticizes Jerusalem demolition plan (AP)

June 22nd, 2010

U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell, left, meets with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem, Thursday ,June. 17, 2010. Mitchell is in the region for meetings with the Palestinians and the Israelis separately as part of the indirect talks. (AP Photos/Dan Balilty)AP - Israel’s defense minister criticized on Tuesday a plan to raze 22 Palestinian homes to make room for an Israeli tourist center in disputed east Jerusalem after the U.S.…