WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama called the commander of the International Security Assistance Force Saturday to offer condolences for the “tragic killing of U.S. troops†in Kabul and to discuss the ongoing violence in Afghanistan.
Energy efficiency experts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are calling for ambitious new targets to reduce energy demand across the European Union.
The top United Nations envoy in Iraq has strongly condemned the series of deadly attacks carried out today across the country and called on authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The United Nations and the League of Arab States announced yesterday evening that they have appointed the former UN chief Kofi Annan as their Joint Special Envoy to deal with the crisis in Syria, where thousands of people have been killed as a result of the Government’s ongoing crackdown against a pro-democracy uprising.