Jamaica Gleaner International
Published: Monday Friday | March 27, 2009
Obama plans troop surge in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama plans to dispatch additional United States troops plus hundreds of civilian advisers to help turn around a faltering war in Afghanistan, and will recommend making large... Read More...
Czech PM resigns
PRAGUE (AP): The prime minister of the Czech Republic, Mirek Topolanek, formally resigned yesterday, two days after his three-party coalition government lost a parliamentary vote of no confidence.President Vaclav Klaus accepted the resignation... Read More...
Tensions high as The North prepares rocket
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): North Korea's positioning of a rocket on its east coast launch pad ratcheted up tensions yesterday with Washington, which warned that pushing ahead with the April launch would violate a United Nations ban and have serious... Read More...
Twenty killed by car bomb in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP): A car bomb exploded yesterday along a bustling commercial street in a mostly Shi'ite area of north Baghdad, killing at least 20 people in the third major attack in the capital this month. Recent high-profile blasts suggest that Sunni... Read More...
UK probes MI5 in Guantánamo torture
LONDON (AP): The British government ordered police yesterday to investigate allegations by an ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee that United Kingdom intelligence officers were complicit in his torture overseas.Attorney General Patricia Scotland told lawmakers... Read More...