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News Source: Sify News
| 6 months ago
Congressional Democrats are using an approximately $100 billion war funding bill to give recently expanded GI Bill education benefits to the children of military service members who die while on active duty. The provision, pressed by House Speaker...
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News Source: The Advocate
| 6 months ago
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich compared President Barack Obama's administration with the one-term presidency of fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter in a speech Thursday, taking Obama to task for what he called a weak foreign policy. Speaking in Stamford,...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 6 months ago
The Obama administration is considering seeking a change in the special US military trials for Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to allow those who face the death penalty to plead guilty without getting a full trial, The New York Times reported on...
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News Source: Arab News
| 6 months ago
Aiming to forge a new beginning with the Muslim world and change the course set by the former Bush administration, President Barack Obama acknowledged in Cairo this week that the US response to the 9/11 attacks was enormous and led to “grave...
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News Source: National Public Radio
| 6 months ago
NPR.org , June 5, 2009 · President Obama is using his trip to Germany and the Middle East to push for help resettling detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, discussing the issue with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a...
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 6 months ago
The U.S. administration wants Canada to re-settle the Uighurs who are to be released from Guantanamo...Bush who made a similar request of us, is in a real pickle on this issue. Soon after coming to office, the President promised to close the prison...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 6 months ago
Canada has turned down a request from the U.S. government to take in a number of Chinese Muslims currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and deemed by Washington to be members of a terrorist group.
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 6 months ago
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News Source: Press TV
| 6 months ago
The House Appropriations subcommittee, tasked with funding the Justice Department and other agencies, threw out a request for USD 60m to help the department shutter the prison on the US naval base in southern Cuba. It approved a USD 64.4b 2010...
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News Source: The Hill
| 6 months ago
Majority Whip Dick Durbin (R-Ill.) said senior party members are trying to find a way to bend to demands from the Obama administration, which objects to language in the Senate version of the war supplemental. The Senate bill would keep detainees off...