WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2012 – The military’s strategic shift to the Pacific region provides an opportunity to improve U.S.-China relations, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
The General Assembly yesterday strongly condemned the continued “widespread and systematic†human rights violations by the Syrian authorities and demanded that the Government immediately cease all violence and protect its people.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2012 – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and German Defense Minister Thomas De Maizière responded to reporters’ questions on Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and Israel following a bilateral Pentagon meeting.
U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Edmunds handed down the mandatory sentence of life in prison to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian born would be bomber of a commercial airliner.