The first of the up to 300 military advisers President Barack Obama committed to help Iraq counter a Sunni militant surge have begun their assessment mission. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told reporters two special operations teams started their work on Tuesday. “We have begun to deploy initial assessment teams. Two special operations teams […]
The International Monetary Fund says the U.S. economy will grow 2 percent this year.That is slightly faster than last year, but below its earlier prediction of 2.7 percent from the IMF, Reuters reported.Economists said unusually harsh winter weather crimped business activity and made the world’s biggest economy shrink a bit in the first three months of this […]
Russian energy giant Gazprom says it is cutting gas supplies to Ukraine following Kyiv’s failure to meet a Monday deadline to pay nearly $2 billion of its outstanding debt.Gazprom says Ukraine must now pre-pay for any natural gas after missing the deadline.Also Monday, Gazprom filed a lawsuit in a Stockholm arbitration court to try […]
Gunmen opened fire near Karachi’s airport Tuesday, a day after a brazen Taliban attack on Pakistan’s busiest airport that left at least 36 people dead. The deputy general of the Airport Security Force, Colonel Tahir Ali, told reporters that at least two gunmen on a motorbike targeted the ASF’s training academy on Tuesday, but fled […]