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US, Italy discuss ending NATO air war in Libya

Breitbart.com 10/17/2011
US, Italy discuss ending NATO air war in Libya

US and Italian defense chiefs on Monday said they examined prospects for ending the allied air campaign over Libya and how to support the country's post-Kadhafi transition in talks at the Pentagon.

U.S. met with Egypt Islamists: U.S. diplomat

Edmund Blair Reuters 10/02/2011

Cuba seeks normalization with US

CLAUDIA TORRENS AP 09/26/2011
U.S. met with Egypt Islamists: U.S. diplomat

U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

Cuba seeks normalization with US

Cuba wants to re-establish relations with the United States with a focus on humanitarian and other issues, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Monday.

U.S. recognizes Libya rebels as legitimate government

Rebel leaders won recognition as the legitimate government of Libya from the United States and other world powers on Friday in a major boost to the rebels' faltering campaign to oust Muammar Gaddafi.

US Defence Secretary in Iraq as another American soldier killed

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to urge Iraqi leaders to act against Iran-backed Shiite militias, as another American soldier was killed in the south of the country.

U.S. Is Deferring Millions in Pakistani Military Aid

ERIC SCHMITT and JANE PERLEZ The New York Times 07/10/2011

Top U.S. Military Officer Accuses Tehran of Arming Iraq Militias

JULIAN E. BARNES The Wall Street Journal 07/07/2011
U.S. Is Deferring Millions in Pakistani Military Aid

The Obama administration is suspending and, in some cases, canceling hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Pakistani military, in a move to chasten Pakistan for expelling American military trainers and to press its army to fight militants more effectively.

Adm. Mike Mullen testifies before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington on March 31.

The top U.S. military officer accused Iran on Thursday of shipping new supplies of deadly weapons to its militia allies in Iraq, in what he described as Tehran's bid to take credit for forcing American troops to go home.

US and Russia stir up political tensions over Arctic

Terry Macalister The Guardian 07/06/2011
China warns U.S. officials not to meet Dalai Lama

China's Foreign Ministry warned U.S. officials on Thursday not to meet with visiting exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it hoped Washington "appropriately dealt" with Tibet-related issues.

US and Russia stir up political tensions over Arctic

The seventh ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in May looked set be a mundane affair, with its focus on signing a new search-and-rescue agreement and handover of the chairmanship to Sweden. But the atmosphere in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, was electrified by the first visit to such a forum by the United States, courtesy of the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, secretary of the interior Ken Salazar, and a host of other heavy-hitters.


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