The Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, Kofi Annan, yesterday urged Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to embrace change and reforms that will create the foundation for a democratic society in his country.
WASHINGTON– President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta issued statements on Friday marking the upcoming one-year anniversary of the “3/11†earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that devastated Japan.
The bloody attack in Afghanistan by a 38-year-old army staff sergeant has raised the ire of an entire country and the Taliban, who vowed revenge for the massacre.
The 2011 Tohoku tsunami was Japan’s deadliest in more than 100 years. Despite an extraordinary level of preparedness by the Japanese, the tsunami caused more than 90 percent of the almost 20,000 fatalities last March.