New York Times:
President Obama is facing vocal criticism from senior Congressional Democrats over the war’s cost, the size of the U.S. commitment and the reliability of allies.
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Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama began a meeting on Monday night with top advisers on Afghanistan as he closes in on a decision about whether to send thousands more U.S. (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama honored a group of women Monday who have confronted Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said they had defied a dictator.
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New York Times:
President Obama is facing increasingly vocal criticism from senior Congressional Democrats over the war’s cost, the size of the U.S. troop commitment and the reliability of America’s allies.
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Huffington Post:
President Barack Obama is expected to announce a "sizeable force" increase in US troops for Afghanistan early next week, tentatively December 1, according to a report from NPR.Obama met with his war council on Monday evening (Read More)
MSNBC.com: South & Central Asia:
The White House said President Barack Obama could use an unusual evening war council session Monday to lock in his long-awaited decision on whether to commit more troops to Afghanistan. Barack Obama - White House - War in (Read More)
CNN:
U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Monday night with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan, the White House announced. (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. acceptance of a treaty banning landmines is "long, long overdue" and President Barack Obama should use a 10-year review this weekend to announce plans to join the accord, anti-landmines campaigners (Read More)
New York Times:
Traian Basescu, the incumbent, led by a slim margin in the first round of Romania’s presidential election, but the close results pointed to tough talks ahead to form a new government.
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New York Times:
President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed a decree calling for early elections, hoping to take advantage of his popularity after ending the country’s 25-year civil war.
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www.ft.com:
Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, offered a strong endorsement of Barack Obama's foreign policy agenda, calling for robust international support for military operations in Afghanistan as well as backing the US president (Read More)
FT.com - World, Asia Pacific:
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stopped short of instructing police to drop a case of alleged corruption against Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto from the powerful anti-corruption agency. (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama assured Americans on Monday that boosting jobs was a top priority, but gave no specifics about how to meet this goal that some economists say warrants more government spending. (Read More)
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
At the end of CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, host Bob Schieffer fretted over massive government spending but avoided blaming current Democratic proposals: “I’m not even talking about the cost of health care....It is now cos (Read More)
www.ft.com:
It is worth stepping outside the hothouse of Middle East politics for a minute to examine whether the US president will be content to see his ambitious strategy of reconciliation with the Arab and Muslim worlds held hostage b (Read More)
CNN:
The Iraqi parliament passed an amended election law Monday, but it failed to address concerns of the country's Sunni Arab vice president. That raised doubts about whether nationwide elections will take place as constitutional (Read More)
www.ft.com:
The identity and stature of the new president and foreign policy chief will hardly matter if the European Union cannot meet the big economic challenges it faces, writes Peter Mandelson. (Read More)