Yahoo! News: World - McClatchy Newspapers Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2985 world World - McClatchy Newspapers en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:59:00 GMT 5 Yahoo! News 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2985 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif Will talk of Afghan 'off-ramps' prompt Taliban to hang tough? (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091125/wl_mcclatchy/3365242 mcclatchy/20091125/3365242 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:59:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091125/wl_mcclatchy/3365242"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259115346759-4-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CqfPhvZOeBqDzT_r61debw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US Marines fire mortar rounds from their forward operating base in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province. President Barack Obama, vowing to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, promised he would soon announce his decision on sending tens of thousands more US troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban(AFP/Manpreet Romana)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama will unveil his long-awaited Afghanistan strategy in a prime-time address from West Point, N.Y., on Dec. 1, the White House said Wednesday, but the administration's advance remarks have sparked concern that talk of an eventual U.S. withdrawal will encourage Islamist insurgents to persevere.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091125/wl_mcclatchy/3365242"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259115346759-4-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CqfPhvZOeBqDzT_r61debw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="US Marines fire mortar rounds from their forward operating base in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province. President Barack Obama, vowing to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, promised he would soon announce his decision on sending tens of thousands more US troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban(AFP/Manpreet Romana)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) Should we pay higher taxes to cover the cost of Afghan war? (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091125/wl_mcclatchy/3365161 mcclatchy/20091125/3365161 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:50:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Abraham Lincoln levied the country's first income tax to help pay soldiers and buy rifles for the Civil War. On eve of Mumbai anniversary, Pakistan charges conspirators (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091125/wl_mcclatchy/3365151 mcclatchy/20091125/3365151 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:34:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan &mdash; On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, Pakistan Wednesday charged seven men with masterminding and overseeing the assaults. In Kabul, U.N. workers cope by cooking (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091125/wl_mcclatchy/3365106 mcclatchy/20091125/3365106 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:55:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; When Susan Marx was awoken before dawn last month with word that United Nations colleagues across town were under attack, the 32-year-old human rights researcher did the only thing she could think of to calm her nerves: Bake. Marines' Thanksgiving dinner in Helmand nearly flames out (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091125/wl_mcclatchy/3365099 mcclatchy/20091125/3365099 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:48:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - FORWARD OPERATING BASE HASSANABAD, Afghanistan &mdash; Just getting the ingredients for Golf Company's one-day-early Thanksgiving dinner was a military operation. Obama vows to 'get the job done' in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091125/wl_mcclatchy/3364506 mcclatchy/20091125/3364506 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:50:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; In a preview of his speech next week announcing his plan to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama Tuesday vowed that he'll "finish the job" of stabilizing the country and destroying the al Qaida terror network. Taliban fighters escape Pakistani offensive, but to where? (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091124/wl_mcclatchy/3364464 mcclatchy/20091124/3364464 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:41:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091124/wl_mcclatchy/3364464"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258651120966-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=2qOPEObFV7P7pwJFlYdSpw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Pakistani army troops patrol at the site following a suicide bomb blast in Peshawar. A suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar on Thursday, killing 19 people in the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistani troops press on with a major anti-Taliban offensive.(AFP/A Majeed)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan &mdash; Most of the Taliban fighters and all of their leaders apparently have escaped Pakistan's widely publicized six-week-old offensive in South Waziristan, forcing the army to begin pounding other parts of the country's lawless tribal area.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091124/wl_mcclatchy/3364464"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258651120966-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=2qOPEObFV7P7pwJFlYdSpw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Pakistani army troops patrol at the site following a suicide bomb blast in Peshawar. A suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar on Thursday, killing 19 people in the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistani troops press on with a major anti-Taliban offensive.(AFP/A Majeed)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) Afghanistan's James Bond: suave killer who drives a Toyota Camry (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091124/wl_mcclatchy/3364339 mcclatchy/20091124/3364339 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:59:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; The television set crackles with breaking news: Terrorists have smuggled a nuclear bomb into Kabul and are preparing to take out the Afghan capital. No smoke, just a sandstorm as Lt. Dan plays Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091124/wl_mcclatchy/3364304 mcclatchy/20091124/3364304 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:02:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan &mdash; There was no rock star, just an actor who likes to play the bass guitar. Opening roads or saving lives, Afghanistan's a helicopter war (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091124/wl_mcclatchy/3364291 mcclatchy/20091124/3364291 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:55:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan &mdash; In one of the worst chapters of their casualty-marred deployment in Afghanistan, Canadian forces earlier this year lost 10 soldiers in 90 days to improvised bombs on one stretch of highway in Kandahar province. Pakistani army officer arrested for alleged link to U.S. terror plot (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091124/wl_mcclatchy/3364282 mcclatchy/20091124/3364282 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:46:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan &mdash; Pakistani officials have arrested a retired Pakistani army major for his suspected role in an alleged plot that was hatched in the U.S. to assassinate the creator of controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, the Pakistani army said Tuesday. Obama will send 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091124/wl_mcclatchy/3363833 mcclatchy/20091124/3363833 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:35:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy. Will Karzai allow Afghan prosecutors to charge ministers? (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091123/wl_mcclatchy/3363611 mcclatchy/20091123/3363611 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:03:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; President Hamid Karzai's pledge to root out political corruption in his second term faces a quick test from government attorneys, who've asked for new powers to pursue some of the country's top leaders. U.S. goals on menu as Obama dines with India's leader (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091123/wl_mcclatchy/3363565 mcclatchy/20091123/3363565 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:26:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091123/wl_mcclatchy/3363565"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091124/i/r872797703.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=9wyIeWHS5VydPD19rFEO3A--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="U.S. President Barack Obama listens while India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during a welcome ceremony at the White House in Washington November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES POLITICS)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama rolls out the red carpet Tuesday for India in the first official state visit of his presidency, but the stresses of a key relationship in a tinderbox part of the world will lie just beneath the glitz and glamour of a state dinner.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091123/wl_mcclatchy/3363565"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091124/i/r872797703.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=9wyIeWHS5VydPD19rFEO3A--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. President Barack Obama listens while India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during a welcome ceremony at the White House in Washington November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES POLITICS)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) Dispute over law means delay likely for Iraq elections (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091123/wl_mcclatchy/3363506 mcclatchy/20091123/3363506 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:18:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD &mdash; Iraq's pivotal national elections, originally scheduled for January, faced a likely delay of weeks or even longer after wrangling over a law setting terms for the polls broke down Monday. Winning hearts and minds with raisins and prayer rugs (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091122/wl_mcclatchy/3362780 mcclatchy/20091122/3362780 McClatchy Newspapers world Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:12:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - More than 200 Afghanis waited in line for several hours, enduring a harsh, cool wind and blowing sand. Is imam a terror recruiter or just an incendiary preacher? (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091120/wl_mcclatchy/3361917 mcclatchy/20091120/3361917 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:12:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - CAIRO, Egypt &mdash; The Yemeni-American imam who's been under renewed scrutiny after the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, preaches against alcohol, birthday parties, black magic and extramarital sex. He also supports armed struggle &mdash; jihad &mdash; against the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has encouraged extremist insurgents in Pakistan and Somalia. Despite U.S. pressures, Pakistan continues to follow its own road (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091120/wl_mcclatchy/3361840 mcclatchy/20091120/3361840 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan &mdash; The Pakistani government has some advice the Obama administration may not want to hear as it contemplates sending additional U.S. troops to neighboring Afghanistan: Negotiate with Taliban leaders and restrain India. Couple plead guilty to Cuba spying, will go to prison (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091120/wl_mcclatchy/3361723 mcclatchy/20091120/3361723 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:42:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; A retired State Department employee will spend life in prison without parole after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to serving as covert agents for Cuba for three decades. Clinton, warlord Dostum are honored guests at Karzai fete (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091119/wl_mcclatchy/3361030 mcclatchy/20091119/3361030 McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:15:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; President Hamid Karzai began his second term Thursday under international pressure to select a Cabinet that can regain the trust of disillusioned Afghans, quash widespread government corruption and build a reliable military that can take charge of his country's defense.