London: British leaders are forced to court powerful press barons such as Rupert Murdoch or risk savage media attacks which render them unable to govern effectively, former Prime Minister Tony Blair told an inquiry on Monday. Interrupted by a heckler who accused him of being a war criminal for supporting the US invasion of Iraq, Blair paused briefly before continuing to justify his ties to Murdoch with whom he said...
06:50 PM, May 29, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle will host a dinner at the White House on February 29 to honour members of the armed services who served in Iraq. "This dinner is an expression of the nation's gratitude for the achievements and enormous sacrifices of the brave Americans who served in the Iraq war, and of the families who supported them," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told...
09:46 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Baghdad: Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, US officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict in Baghdad on Thursday, but the debate over whether it was worth the cost in money and lives is yet unanswered. While many of the speeches painted a picture of victory - for both the troops and the Iraqi people now...
08:58 AM, Dec 16, 2011
Washington: As Iraq moves forward on the path of reconstruction and economic revival with the end of war and withdrawal of American forces from the country, it is expected to grow much faster than the two Asian giants, India and China, US President Barack Obama said on Monday. "In the coming years, it's estimated that Iraq's economy will grow even faster than China's or India's. With oil production rising, Iraq...
08:28 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Jaipur: On a cold night in a quiet town, 71-year-old Jeff Knaebel crept into the ruins of an ancient Buddhist meditation center in northern India, doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself alight to protest what he called cruelty in the United States and India. It was a political ending for a political man: an admirer of pacifist freedom fighter Mohandas K Gandhi and a retired mining engineer...
12:07 PM, Jan 29, 2011
New York: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is living a "haunted life" fearing arrest and has been on the run following the release of nearly 4 lakh secret US military documents related to Iraq war on his whistle-blowing website. 39-year-old Assange checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends, said 'The New York Times',...
11:13 AM, Oct 25, 2010
Washington: WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 classified US files on the Iraq war on Friday, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the US military knew about but failed to investigate. The Pentagon decried the website's publication of the secret reports, the largest security breach of its kind in US military history, far surpassing the group's dump of more than 70,000 Afghan war files in July. US...
08:01 AM, Oct 23, 2010
Washington: The Pentagon is bracing itself for a second grand disclosure by Wikileaks on Monday, touted to be the largest security breach of its kind in US military history. The online whistle blower website is expected to release a whopping 40 thousand documents on the Iraq war — five times the size of the Afghan document dump. This disclosure happens to be four times the number of classified documents released...
10:24 AM, Oct 18, 2010
Washington: Formally declaring that combat mission in Iraq is over US President Barack Obama has said that this milestone should serve as a message to the world that it intends to sustain and strengthen our leadership in the 21st century. "This milestone should serve as a reminder to all Americans that our future is ours to shape if we move forward with confidence and commitment. It should also serve as...
07:38 AM, Sep 01, 2010
Did Tony Blair lie to his country and the world to launch a war on Iraq? ...
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He says world must act to to prevent WMD falling into the wrong hands. ...
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Obama had spent some four hours in Baghdad, meeting with US forces. ...
08:11 AM, Apr 08, 2009
The 500 remaining British soldiers will train Iraqi forces. ...
08:56 AM, Apr 01, 2009
Nic Robertson had visited a Baghdad cafe and interviewed Iraqi citizens. ...
08:20 AM, Mar 20, 2009
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