Death Toll in Chinese Landslide Reaches 36, 48 Still Missing
Chinese authorities have reported that a landslide has swept through a village in southern China Friday at 8:20 am, killing at least 32 people.
Panetta: Fiscal Crisis Poses Biggest Immediate Threat to DOD
WASHINGTON – The “perfect storm of budget uncertainty†howling around his department is the biggest immediate threat facing the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told reporters in Washington yesterday.
Pentagon Officials Welcome Afghan President for Talks
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2013 – The Pentagon pulled out all the stops in welcoming Afghan President Hamid Karzai to meetings with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta here today.
3 Kurdish Activists Shot Dead in Paris
French police say three Kurdish activists, including a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party militant group, have been shot to death in Paris in what the French interior minister has termed an "assassination."