BEIRUT – Special envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi met
President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Monday to discuss
finding a solution to the country’s 21-month-old conflict.
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KABUL – An Afghan policewoman shot dead on Monday a U.S.
forces member in the chief of police’s compound in Kabul, police
and NATO said, another “insider attack” that is bound to raise
troubling questions about the direction of an unpopular war.
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KABUL – Pakistan is genuine about backing a nascent Afghan
peace process and shares the Kabul government’s goal of
transforming the Taliban insurgency into a political movement, a
senior Afghan government official told Reuters.
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WASHINGTON – Some U.S. lawmakers voiced concern on Sunday
that the country would go over “the fiscal cliff” in nine days,
triggering harsh spending cuts and tax hikes, and some
Republicans charged that was President Barack Obama’s goal.
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NEW DELHI – Indian authorities throttled movement in the
heart of the capital on Monday, shutting roads and railway
stations to try to restore law and order after police fought
pitched battles with protesters enraged by the gang rape of a
young woman.
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MOSCOW – Arms sales will be on the agenda when Russian
President Vladimir Putin visits India on Monday to court a
country that has traditionally been a top client.
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MOSCOW – Russian authorities have opened a third criminal
investigation into opposition leader Alexei Navalny, saying on
Monday that the critic of President Vladimir Putin is suspected
of stealing millions of dollars from a political party in 2007.
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CAIRO – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi will have little
time to savour victory in pushing through a new constitution as
it may have cost the Islamist leader broader support for urgent
austerity measures needed to fix the creaking economy.
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ROME – Two days after stepping down, Mario Monti announced
on Sunday he would consider seeking a second term as Italian
prime minister if approached by allies committed to backing his
austere brand of reforms.
