WASHINGTON — Two senior US lawmakers have struck a deal on a budget blueprint that would restore to the Pentagon’s annual budget more than $30 billion over the next two years set to meet sequestration’s meat ax.
Read MoreCountries around the world are marking International Human Rights Day. U.N. Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay said the fundamentals for protecting and promoting human rights are largely in place, but the key now is in implementing these standards when the political will and financial resources often are lacking on the ground. She also noted the…
Read MoreWASHINGTON — A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers from both houses of Congress has come together to bash out a compromise $607 billion defense funding bill — which includes $527 billion in base funding and $80 billion for the war in Afghanistan — which they will try to pass before current funds run out…
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya This article originally appeared in Operational Environment Watch. Click here to read the article in the original publication, along with the accompanying news excerpts. Russia is gearing up for the February 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, close to the Russian-Georgian border. Preparations include tightening security measures in anticipation of possible terrorist attacks. In…
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya This article originally appeared in Operational Environment Watch. Click here to read the article in the original publication, along with the accompanying news excerpts. In the run-up to the Geneva peace talks on Syria scheduled for early November, mainstream Russian press typically provided brief dry reports on the Syrian conflict, similar to…
Read MoreIN THIS ISSUE: An update on AIC Tunisia’s The Leader competition and the contestants for Round 2, the annual benefit in Boston and its awardees, contests, and more. Click here to read the newsletter.
Read MoreMorale has taken a hit at the National Security Agency in the wake of controversy over the agency’s surveillance activities, according to former officials who say they are dismayed that President Obama has not visited the agency to show his support.
Read MoreAs the United States moves forward with a summit it hopes will end the civil war in Syria, the Obama administration finds itself alienated from the opposition forces it tried and failed to cultivate for the last two years.
Read MoreIf all goes according to plan, the bulk of Syria’s chemical weapons stocks could be destroyed early next year inside the specially modified hold of a U.S. ship somewhere at sea, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
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