AMSTERDAM — The Dutch coalition government collapsed Saturday over irreconcilable differences on whether to extend the Netherlands’ military mission in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende announced that the second largest party in his three-party alliance is quitting, in a breakdown of trust in what had always been an uneasy partnership. Balkenende made no mention [...]
Jerusalem, February 12: Israel has rejected United Nations demands of an independent probe into its last year war on the Gaza Strip which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians. A senior official in the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Friday that the report Israel gave UN…
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran says it will start producing higher-grade nuclear fuel on Tuesday and add 10 uranium enrichment plants over the next year in a nuclear expansion sure to stoke tensions with the West. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, looks on while attending a news conference in Tehran September 29, [...]
China has hit back at the US a day after President Barack Obama promised to take a tougher line with Beijing over trade. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu accused the US of "wrongful accusations and pressure", AFP reports. Mr…
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China hits back at US over trade