Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/world/mcclatchy world World - McClatchy Newspapers en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/world/mcclatchy http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100210/wl_mcclatchy/3422683 mcclatchy/20100210/3422683 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100210/wl_mcclatchy/3422683"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2402206939.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=p24M_Eip_G_4LE2tghNKSw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your View" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; At first blush, it seems like a godsend for U.S. foreign policy: a tenacious Iranian opposition, democratic in name at least, is challenging a regime that has caused the U.S. no end of headaches over the last 30 years.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100210/wl_mcclatchy/3422683"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2402206939.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=p24M_Eip_G_4LE2tghNKSw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your View" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100209/wl_mcclatchy/3422595 mcclatchy/20100209/3422595 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:55:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100209/wl_mcclatchy/3422595"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265739433519-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vIh.rrR4PI2HP9EeEhWFkg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A US marine dog handler with 1/3 Marines Alpha company waits with his dog at a company operation base (COB) in Toor Ghar in the Helmand province on February 8. US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; As U.S.-led coalition troops prepare for a long-awaited offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, few civilians have managed to escape the town at the center of the operation, raising the risk of civilian casualties that could undermine the Obama administration's military strategy for the country.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100209/wl_mcclatchy/3422595"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265739433519-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vIh.rrR4PI2HP9EeEhWFkg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A US marine dog handler with 1/3 Marines Alpha company waits with his dog at a company operation base (COB) in Toor Ghar in the Helmand province on February 8. US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/wl_mcclatchy/3421786 mcclatchy/20100208/3421786 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:55:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/wl_mcclatchy/3421786"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265615256274-14-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=MUVysDJrgEPuFPqQAP.nlw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours an exhibition on laser technology in Tehran. Iran said it has formally notified the UN nuclear watchdog of its plan to produce higher enriched uranium, sparking fresh warnings by world powers of sanctions against the defiant Islamic republic.(AFP/Atta Kenare)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Iran told the United Nations' nuclear watchdog Monday that it will begin producing purer uranium, a step that experts said could bring Tehran significantly closer to having the fuel for a nuclear weapon.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/wl_mcclatchy/3421786"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265615256274-14-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=MUVysDJrgEPuFPqQAP.nlw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours an exhibition on laser technology in Tehran. Iran said it has formally notified the UN nuclear watchdog of its plan to produce higher enriched uranium, sparking fresh warnings by world powers of sanctions against the defiant Islamic republic.(AFP/Atta Kenare)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/wl_mcclatchy/3421718 mcclatchy/20100208/3421718 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:52:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; The U.S.-led offensive that's expected to start soon in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province will be a battle not only against the Taliban but also against an insurgent-backed narcotics trade that provides a livelihood for thousands of residents. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/wl_mcclatchy/3421567 mcclatchy/20100208/3421567 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:58:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Stock trading was volatile on Wall Street and across the globe Monday from fear that a debt crisis is gathering steam in parts of Europe and the Mediterranean. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100206/wl_mcclatchy/3419944 mcclatchy/20100206/3419944 McClatchy Newspapers world Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:40:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; Thousands of U.S., British and Afghan troops are poised to launch the biggest offensive of the war in Afghanistan in a test of the Obama administration's new counterinsurgency strategy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/wl_mcclatchy/3419749 mcclatchy/20100205/3419749 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:55:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/wl_mcclatchy/3419749"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100123/capt.photo_1264279793683-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=o7Ky2s9LxVsZ_AN5eJxT9w--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Canada's former ambassador to Iran, Kenneth Taylor, revealed Saturday that he worked as a CIA spy during the 1979 hostage crisis in wake of the Islamic revolution.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama told hundreds of CIA employees Friday that the deaths of seven of their colleagues in a suicide bombing Dec. 30 in Afghanistan amounted to a "summons . . . to carry on their work, to complete this mission, to win this war and to keep our country safe."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/wl_mcclatchy/3419749"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100123/capt.photo_1264279793683-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=o7Ky2s9LxVsZ_AN5eJxT9w--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Canada's former ambassador to Iran, Kenneth Taylor, revealed Saturday that he worked as a CIA spy during the 1979 hostage crisis in wake of the Islamic revolution.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/wl_mcclatchy/3419639 mcclatchy/20100205/3419639 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:40:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; A U.S. military investigation into a battle last October in eastern Afghanistan that cost eight American soldiers their lives has concluded that the small outpost was worthless, the troops there didn't understand their mission, and intelligence and air support were tied up elsewhere in the province. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/wl_mcclatchy/3418516 mcclatchy/20100204/3418516 McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:49:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan &mdash; U.S. officials put a lot of hope last year in Haji Rashid, an up-and-coming community leader in the Zormat district of Afghanistan's Paktia province. They considered Rashid a unifying figure who was capable of bringing together about a dozen tribes in the area to work in support of the American-backed Afghan government. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100203/wl_mcclatchy/3417555 mcclatchy/20100203/3417555 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:35:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - Three American soldiers were killed and two were wounded Wednesday in a roadside bombing in troubled northwestern Pakistan that killed 10 people, including a Pakistani soldier and three children. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100202/wl_mcclatchy/3416418 mcclatchy/20100202/3416418 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:17:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - MIAMI &mdash; The chance of another big earthquake in Haiti in the near future is great enough that people in Port-au-Prince should sleep in tents &mdash; not even in buildings that survived the Jan. 12 quake apparently unscathed, geologists said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100202/wl_mcclatchy/3415834 mcclatchy/20100202/3415834 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:46:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; U.S. and Russian negotiators Monday began finalizing a new 10-year nuclear arms reduction treaty after President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev resolved the last major differences over a pact to cut both nations' deployed strategic nuclear warheads by about a third. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100201/wl_mcclatchy/3415500 mcclatchy/20100201/3415500 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:58:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100201/wl_mcclatchy/3415500"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100131/capt.ce16aa3dfe7e47dc98cb5a5d7ccf44e5.afghanistan_kab102.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=K_s85ODNnljkACEm9olL8g--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Karzai appealed to Taliban fighters Sunday to put down their weapons and accept Afghan laws as the country and its international allies push a program to entice militants away from the insurgency. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; Despite U.S. misgivings, Afghan President Hamid Karzai will push his initiative for talks with Taliban leaders during a visit to Saudi Arabia this week, and his top adviser on the reconciliation process with the insurgents said in an interview Monday that the country must learn to forgive the extremist group.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100201/wl_mcclatchy/3415500"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100131/capt.ce16aa3dfe7e47dc98cb5a5d7ccf44e5.afghanistan_kab102.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=K_s85ODNnljkACEm9olL8g--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Karzai appealed to Taliban fighters Sunday to put down their weapons and accept Afghan laws as the country and its international allies push a program to entice militants away from the insurgency. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100131/wl_mcclatchy/3414825 mcclatchy/20100131/3414825 McClatchy Newspapers world Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; The Pakistani Taliban leader tied to the Dec. 30 bombing of a CIA encampment in Afghanistan has died from injuries sustained in a U.S. missile strike in mid-January, Western military officials said Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100131/wl_mcclatchy/3413760 mcclatchy/20100131/3413760 McClatchy Newspapers world Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:01:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Samuel Rhodes keeps pictures of the dead in his pockets. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100130/wl_mcclatchy/3414353 mcclatchy/20100130/3414353 McClatchy Newspapers world Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:13:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; China curtailed military exchanges with the United States on Saturday and threatened to sanction U.S. firms in retaliation for proposed American weapon sales to Taiwan http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100130/wl_mcclatchy/3414344 mcclatchy/20100130/3414344 McClatchy Newspapers world Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:56:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100130/wl_mcclatchy/3414344"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100130/capt.photo_1264847087377-7-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=tygmlMQoIG4GlLxVAHzhFA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand on a hillside in Wardak province in this 2008 photo. The Taliban have denied that leaders of the group fighting to overthrow the Afghan government had met UN representatives to discuss bringing peace to Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Str)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; Despite a flurry of proposals to launch talks on ending the war in Afghanistan, leaders of the Taliban insurgency have yet to show any serious interest and instead are pressing their demands to oust all U.S. forces and establish an Islamist state.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100130/wl_mcclatchy/3414344"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100130/capt.photo_1264847087377-7-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=tygmlMQoIG4GlLxVAHzhFA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand on a hillside in Wardak province in this 2008 photo. The Taliban have denied that leaders of the group fighting to overthrow the Afghan government had met UN representatives to discuss bringing peace to Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Str)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100130/wl_mcclatchy/3413894 mcclatchy/20100130/3413894 McClatchy Newspapers world Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100129/wl_mcclatchy/3413834 mcclatchy/20100129/3413834 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:32:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; The Obama administration announced plans Friday to sell $6.4 billion in weapons to Taiwan, including helicopters and missile defense systems, a move that's certain to anger China, which considers the island nation a renegade province. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100129/wl_mcclatchy/3413750 mcclatchy/20100129/3413750 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:23:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - NANGAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan &mdash; As his commander greeted a local leader in a district government building one day recently, Air Force Technical Sgt. Tyler Woodson, 20, scurried past them and ran up three flights of stairs to the roof.