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US Bid To Bypass Karzai's Afghan Government Upsets Allies

guardian.co.uk | Julian Borger | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Richard Holbrooke Envoy, David Miliband, Afghan President Karzai, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Nato, Paddy Ashdown, Us Karzai, Karzai Afghanistan, World News

The US is seeking to extend its control over the day-to-day running of Afghanistan with the appointment of an international "high representative" in K...

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Thomas Friedman -- Hasbara GrandMaster Or Elitist Dupe?

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Jordan, Al Qaeda, Thomas Friedman, David Miliband, Al Jazeera, Nyt, New York Times, Lebanon, Obama, Idf, Cluster Bombs, The Narrative, Gaza War, Muslims, Arabs, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Israel, Hasbara, Politics News
Sharmine Narwani

My mouth is fixed in a gape -- unable to correct itself after Thomas Friedman's pronouncement that for two decades, U.S. foreign policy has been dedicated to rescuing Muslims or freeing them from tyranny. Where does one begin, pray tell?

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Hillary Clinton Talks 'Big Crush' On David Miliband (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post via Vogue | Anya Strzemien | Posted 11.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Slideshow, Hillary Clinton, David Miliband, Hillary Clinton Crush, Style News

Thankfully, Hillary Clinton's new job isn't all work and no play. In a profile on the secretary of state in the December issue of Vogue, writer Jonath...

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Joe Scarborough Needs to Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Gordon Brown, Msnbc, Joe Scarborough, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Stephen Harper, David Miliband, Afghanistan, Nato, United States, China, Barack Obama, Canada, Afghanistan War, World News
Robert Amsterdam

The ungrateful chauvinism of U.S. foreign policy reaches far beyond a rant provided by Joe Scarborough, who at least has the excuse of being in the business of manufacturing polemics.

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David Miliband EU Foreign Minister?

guardian.co.uk | Ian Traynor in Brussels | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, David Miliband Foreign Minister, EU Foreign Minister, Europe, Foreign Minister David Miliband, Eu, World News

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, is the subject of growing talk in Brussels, Paris, Berlin and Scandinavia that he is in line to become Europe's...

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UN Plans First Afghan Summit In Kabul

guardian.co.uk | Jon Boone in Kabul | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, United Nations Afghanistan, David Miliband, Hillary Clinton Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Elections, United Nations, Afghanistan Warlords, Kabul, Afghan Elections, Hillary Clinton, Un, Afghanistan War, World News

The United Nations is planning to host an international summit on the future of Afghanistan for the first time in Kabul as an attempt to bestow credib...

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Britain's New Royalty -- The Oil Potentates

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Lockerbie, Energy, President Hans-Rudolf Merz, David Miliband, World, Switzerland, Kenneth MacAskill, President Obama, Scotland, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Gordon Brown, Col.Muammar El-Qaddafi, Hannibal-Gaddafi, Great Britain, Robert Mueller, Oil, Libya, Royalty, U.S. Justice Department, British Aerospace System, Financial TImes, New York Times, Business, Terrorism, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Kowtowing to moneyed Middle Eastern and African oil interests may not be new, but as the release of the Lockerbie bomber shows, this has become Britain's new norm.

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Obama Asks Tamil Tigers To Surrender, Sri Lanka To Mind Civilians

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka Civil War, Obama Tamil Tigers, Obama Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Civilian Deaths, Sri Lanka Army, David Miliband, Red Cross, United Nations Security Council, Amnesty International, UN Security Council, Susan Rice, Human Rights Watch, Ban Ki-Moon, International Red Cross, Hillary Clinton, World News

President Obama, speaking this afternoon, made a direct statement to both the Tamil Tigers as well as the Sri Lankan government regarding the enduring...

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The New Realism of Arms Control

Joe Cirincione | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, David Miliband, Nonproliferation, Sergei Lavrov, Nuclear Weapons, Brent Scowcroft, William Perry, Barack Obama, Nuclear Policy, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Arms control is back, big time. And it is not just liberals -- conservatives who just a few years ago condemned treaties as "the illusion of security" are now embracing agreements to reduce nuclear arms.

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Obama Mideast Plan Best Since Camp David: David Miliband

Times Online | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: David Miliband, Obama Middle East, Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama Israel, Barack Obama, Obama Israel Policy, Middle East, Miliband Obama, Obama Middle East Policy, Camp David, Obama Israel, Obamas Camp David, Advocacy, World News

David Miliband hailed President Obama's efforts to kick-start the Middle East peace process yesterday as a once in a generation opportunity to resolve...

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Samantha Orobator Likely To Serve Sentence In UK Instead Of Laos

Guardian | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: David Miliband, England, Foreign Affairs, Samantha Orobator Sentence, Asia, Laos, Samantha Orobator, Samantha Orobator Mother, Advocacy, World News

The pregnant British woman accused of drug trafficking in Laos could be allowed back to Britain to serve her sentence if convicted at next week's tria...

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Diplo-Blogosphere: Ranking the French, Germans and Brits

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Zalmay Khalilzad, Cem Oezdemir, David Miliband, Nigel Sheinwald, Loic Le Meur, Petra Roth, John Cleese, Juergen Ruettgers, Un Dispatch, Embassy Blogs, Barack Obama, Ralf Fuecks, Diplomatic Blogs, Boell Foundation, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Klaus Scharioth, Sam Stein, Guido Westerwelle, Mark Goldberg, Michael Von Ungern-Sternberg, The Washington Note, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Huffington Post, Frank Luntz, Pierre Vimont, Diplo-Blogosphere, France, Germany, United Kingdom, World News
Steve Clemons

How are the embassies dealing with new media, and using or ignoring the tools that online video and blogging can provide?

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Miliband Heaps Pressure On Hamid Karzai

Telegraph | Ben Farmer in Kabul and Dean Nelson in Delhi | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan Surge, David Miliband, Uk Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan US Troops, Miliband Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Miliband Karzai, World News

David Miliband, foreign secretary, said on a visit to Kabul that the UK was already paying a high financial and human cost for its role in fighting al...

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NATO Mired In Stalemate With Afghanistan's Taliban

Times Online | Michael Evans, Defence Editor, Tom Coghlan in Kabul and James Bone in New York | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Kabul, David Miliband, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, President Barack Obama, President Karzai, United States, War in Afghanistan, Nato, Britian, Troop Surge, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, World News

Britain and her Nato allies in Afghanistan are stuck in a stalemate with the Taleban, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, admitted yesterday. Hi...

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Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel,' Waterboarding 'Far Down The List Of Things They Did': British Paper

Daily Telegraph | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Material in a CIA dossier on Mr Mohamed that was blacked out by High Court judges contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied info...

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Miliband: No US Threat To Suppress Torture Information

BBC World Service | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

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David Miliband has disputed claims by two judges that the US threatened to stop sharing intelligence with the UK over an alleged torture case. In a...

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Britain: US Threatened To Cut Off Intelligence If Torture Evidence Released

The Raw Story | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

Read More: Us Withhold Intelligence, Europe, David Miliband, Guantanamo, Miliband Torture Evidence, British Torture Evidence, Binyam Mohamed, World News

As if President Obama didn't have enough to worry about with the economy in turmoil and his cabinet nominees under fire. Now the British government...

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Clinton, David Miliband Vow To Renew Special Relationship

Guardian.co.uk | Haroon Siddique | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

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The UK foreign secretary, David Miliband, and the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, today vowed to renew and refresh the special relationship be...

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David Miliband, Hillary Clinton To Discuss Afghanistan In Washington Today

Guardian.co.uk | Ewen MacAskill in Washington | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

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David Miliband is to discuss the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan with Hillary Clinton in Washington today. Miliband will become the first fo...

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Britain's David Miliband Calls War On Terror 'Mistaken'

AP | RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

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MUMBAI, India — Britain's foreign secretary suggested the U.S.-led war on terror may have "done more harm than good" as he issued a sharp rebuke...

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Pentagon Suspends Munitions Delivery To Israel

Guardian.co.uk | David Pallister | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon Suspends Munition Delivery, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, David Miliband, Hamas, Israel, Pentagon Munitions Delivery, Wehr Elbe, World News

The Pentagon has suspended the delivery of a shipload of munitions to Israel after international concern that it could be used by Israeli forces in Ga...

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Syrian Foreign Minister Condemns American Raid As "Criminal And Terrorist Aggression"

Times Online | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Miliband, Special Forces, Terrorism, War Wire, Us Raids, Foreign Affairs, Syria, Politics News

The Syrian Foreign Minister has described a raid by American special forces inside Syrian territory as "criminal and terrorist aggression" in a solo p...

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British Court Rules Against UK and US in Case of Guantanamo Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clive Stafford-Smith, John Bellinger, David Miliband, CIA Secret Prisons, US State Department, UK High Court, Terrorism, American Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, Susan Crawford, Binyam Mohamed, Military Commissions, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In the lawless world of Guantánamo -- and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken si...

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British Foreign Secretary Announces Meeting With Angelina Jolie

AP | David Stringer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, David Miliband, Iraq, Afghanistan, Entertainment News

Foreign Secretary David Miliband will meet Angelina Jolie in New York this week to discuss global diplomacy, British officials said Tuesday. Miliband...

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