07Mar

News Analysis: U.S. Reaches Out to Tokyo’s Real Power

Posted by ADMiN as International Relations, Japan, New York Times, News, Ozawa, Ichiro, United States International Relations

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Diplomats have been negotiating a visit to Washington by Ichiro Ozawa, who is seen as really running the country.

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01Mar

White House Is Rethinking Nuclear Policy

Posted by ADMiN as Arms Control and Limitation and Disarmament, International Relations, New York Times, News, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Barack, United States, United States Defense and Military Forces

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Aides to President Obama say he will permanently reduce America’s arsenal by thousands of weapons.

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25Feb

In ‘First Step,’ India and Pakistan Resume Talks

Posted by ADMiN as India, International Relations, New York Times, News, Pakistan

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At a critical moment across the region, senior officials from the two countries on Thursday held their first official talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

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24Feb

India and Pakistan to Resume Diplomatic Talks

Posted by ADMiN as India, International Relations, New York Times, News, Pakistan

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The United States is hoping improvement in relations between the two neighbors could help the broader American military effort in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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23Feb

Architecture Review: A New Fort, er, Embassy, for London

Posted by ADMiN as Architecture, Art, International Relations, KieranTimberlake, Morphosis, New York Times, News, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, State Department

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The design for the new embassy in London has all the glamour of a corporate office block.

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22Feb

Iran to Build More Enrichment Plants

Posted by ADMiN as International Relations, Iran, New York Times, News, Nuclear Weapons

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A senior Iranian official said on Monday that his country planned to build 10 more nuclear enrichment plants, two of them within the next year.

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09Feb

Iran Moving to Silence Dissent With Arrests, Analysts Say

Posted by ADMiN as International Relations, Iran, New York Times, News, Nuclear Weapons, Uranium

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Iranian security officials were believed to have arrested as many as 1,000 people in the past two months, a rights group said.

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09Feb

Japanese Split on Exposing Secret Pacts With U.S.

Posted by ADMiN as International Relations, Japan, New York Times, News, Politics and Government, Treaties, United States

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Agreements on U.S. bases and allowing nuclear-armed ships in Japanese ports date from the 1960s and 1970s.

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06Feb

Iran May Be Near Uranium Deal

Posted by ADMiN as International Relations, Iran, New York Times, News, Uranium

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The West may balk at Tehran’s condition: that it set the amounts of uranium to be enriched.

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05Feb

Memo From Hanoi: Vietnam Enlists Allies to Stave Off China’s Reach

Posted by ADMiN as China, International Relations, New York Times, News, Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline, Vietnam

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Vietnam seeks to bring more players into talks so that China will have to bargain in a multilateral setting with all nations that have claims in the South China Sea.

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04Feb

A Year After Mumbai, India Offers to Talk With Pakistan

Posted by ADMiN as India, International Relations, New York Times, News, Pakistan

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Pakistan has not responded yet to an invitation by India for the first high-level talks since the Mumbai attack.

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03Feb

China’s Defiance Stirs Fears for Missing Dissident

Posted by ADMiN as China, Freedom and Human Rights, Gao Zhisheng, International Relations, Law and Legislation, New York Times, News, Political Prisoners, Politics and Government

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Experts say the disappearance of a human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, with no official accounting or legal explanation, is a disturbing milestone.

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31Jan

Haiti Is Again a Canvas for Approaches to Aid

Posted by ADMiN as Earthquakes, Foreign Aid, Haiti, Humanitarian Aid, International Relations, New York Times, News

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After decades of plans and aid, the quake has renewed a debate on whether to blanket Haiti in cash or step back.

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28Jan

Karzai Sees Taliban Pact as Central to Ending War

Posted by ADMiN as Afghanistan, Afghanistan War (2001- ), Defense and Military Forces, International Relations, Karzai, Hamid, New York Times, News

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At an international conference, Afghanistan’s president began a delicate diplomatic process that will carry great risks for both Afghanistan and the U.S.

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27Jan

U.S. Wrestling With Olive Branch for Taliban

Posted by ADMiN as Afghanistan, Afghanistan War (2001- ), International Relations, New York Times, News, Taliban

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The U.S. has begun grappling with whether to reconcile with those who sheltered Osama bin Laden.

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20Jan

Copenhagen’s Climate Deal Is at Risk, a U.N. Official Says

Posted by ADMiN as Global Warming, International Relations, New York Times, News, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Facing a Jan. 31 deadline, major countries have yet to submit their plans for reducing emissions of climate-altering gases.

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20Jan

Aid Urged for Groups Fighting Internet Censors

Posted by ADMiN as Brownback, Sam, Censorship, China, Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Computers and the Internet, Freedom and Human Rights, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Freedom of the Press, International Relations, Iran, New York Times, News, Social Networking (Internet), State Department, United States, United States International Relations

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Five United States senators want the government to move ahead with plans to provide $45 million to help people in other countries evade Web restrictions.