WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2011 – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and his South Korean counterpart, Minister of Defense Kim Kwan-jin, discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula during a telephone conversation yesterday evening.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 2011 – An Afghan-led, coalition-supported security force captured a Taliban leader in the Ghorak district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province today, military officials reported.
Nicaragua has filed suit against Costa Rica at the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ), citing violations to national sovereignty and major environmental damages to its territory due to the construction of a new road along the banks of the San Juan River.
RICHLAND, Wash. — New research suggests that China's impressive feat of cutting Beijing's pollution up to 50 percent for the 2008 Summer Olympics had some help from Mother Nature. Rain just at the beginning and wind during the Olympics likely contributed about half of the effort needed to clean up the skies, scientists found. The […]