18 Dec 2009 09:18:29 GMT KENYA: Another Kenya Just a few hundred kilometres north of the glittering skyscrapers of Nairobi and game parks that attract tourists from across the world, a common greeting when strangers meet is, "Habari
ya Kenya?" – What news from Kenya? For although districts such as Moyale, Marsabit, Samburu and Wajir are in the same republic as Nairobi, their residents are resigned to living in what amounts
to another country.
18 Dec 2009 09:15:59 GMT Unit's Experience Offers Glimpse of Next Phase of the Afghan War
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan -- -- The 21 names inscribed on the white concrete memorial in front of the First Battalion, 17th Infantry headquarters here tell a grim story: the soldiers killed in five months of battling the ...
18 Dec 2009 09:15:40 GMT Thousands Lose Rent Vouchers in Cutback
One of the key housing programs that helps low-income and other needy New Yorkers afford their apartments has been effectively cut off for thousands of families.
18 Dec 2009 09:15:40 GMT Officials Say Iraq Fighters Intercepted Drone Video
WASHINGTON -- Insurgents in Iraq have occasionally intercepted video images sent from American military drones to troops in the field, causing the Defense Department to increase its use of encryption over the last year, military and ...
18 Dec 2009 09:15:37 GMT Diplomat to Challenge Dismissal by U.N. After Afghan Vote
Peter W. Galbraith, the American diplomat who was dismissed by the United Nations after exposing voter fraud this fall after the Afghan presidential election, has decided to challenge his dismissal, the United Nations said in a statement on ...
18 Dec 2009 09:15:37 GMT Muslims Say F.B.I. Tactics Sow Anger and Fear
The anxiety and anger have been building all year. In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless the agency stopped infiltrating mosques and using ''agents provocateurs ...
18 Dec 2009 09:15:36 GMT Iraq, the Kurds and the Americans
Four months ago, with little fanfare, the State Department sent a full-time senior diplomat, Alan Misenheimer, to live in Iraq's disputed oil-rich city Kirkuk. For the Obama administration, which had been hoping to back out of its ...
