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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines aims to pull out 342 soldiers on peacekeeping duties in the Golan Heights, nearly half the number of its U.N. peacekeepers worldwide, after the abduction of four Filipinos near the Syrian border, the foreign minister said on Friday. Albert del Rosario said he had sent a recommendation to President Benigno [...]
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Manila seeks Golan Heights peacekeeper pullout after abductions
Posted by admin on May 10th, 2013
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No Comments »Afghans say total U.S. pullout would trigger disaster
Posted by admin on January 10th, 2013
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan lawmakers said on Wednesday disaster and civil war would follow if Washington pushed ahead with a suggestion to withdraw all its troops from the country after 2014. The White House said a day earlier it was considering the so-called "zero option" of a complete pullout – despite earlier recommendations from the [...]
Karzai welcomes British pullout from Afghanistan
Posted by admin on December 20th, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan president says he welcomes the withdrawal of nearly half of Great Britain's troops from Afghanistan next year. Hamid Karzai says his forces are ready to take on defense of the country. Tweet This Post
Dispute over munitions threatens Congo M23 pullout
Posted by admin on November 30th, 2012
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – A dispute over ammunition and equipment left by Congo government forces in the eastern city of Goma is threatening to hold up a planned withdrawal by M23 rebels who want to take the materiel with them, rebel and U.N. officials said on Friday. M23 rebels, who seized Goma [...]
Figure skating: Japan considers Cup of China pullout
Posted by admin on September 23rd, 2012
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s figure skaters will pull out of next month’s Cup of China in Shanghai unless given cast-iron safety guarantees, the Japan Skating Federation (JSF) said on Sunday. Japan and China are embroiled in an escalating political crisis over a disputed group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. “The safety of [...]
China steps up Afghan role as Western pullout nears
Posted by admin on June 3rd, 2012
KABUL (Reuters) – China and Afghanistan will sign an agreement in the coming days that strategically deepens their ties, Afghan officials say, the strongest signal yet that Beijing wants a role beyond economic partnership as Western forces prepare to leave the country. China has kept a low political profile through much of the decade-long international [...]
Afghan pullout to save 2.4 billion pounds by 2015: Osborne
Posted by admin on March 21st, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s spending on its military mission in Afghanistan will be 2.4 billion pounds ($ 3.8 billion) less than expected in the years leading to 2015, Britain’s finance minister said on Wednesday. “UK forces will cease combat operations by the end of 2014. As a consequence, I can tell the House (parliament), that [...]
Premiere Radio Networks confirms mass advertiser pull-out from right-wing radio
Posted by admin on March 12th, 2012
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Posted by admin on March 12th, 2012
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that 60% of Americans say the war in Afghanistan has not been not worth fighting and just 30% believe the Afghan public supports the U.S. mission there — “marking the sour state of attitudes on the war even before the shooting rampage allegedly by a U.S. soldier this [...]
New York Times reports on Catholic Charities pull-out in Illinois
Posted by admin on December 30th, 2011
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