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Clinton made statements while two senior U.S. envoys were completing a tour of Asia after holding talks with diplomats from South Korea, Japan and China, which along with the U.S. are pushing to resume talks with Pyongyang.

“Ambassador Sung Kim and Ambassador Stephen Bosworth are very encouraged by the steps we have seen in our joint efforts,” Clinton told reporters after meeting with Foreign Minister of South Korea Yu Myung – hwan.

Clinton said the United States would continue pushing for the resumption of nuclear disarmament talks in North Korea abandoned a year ago.

“Finally depend on the North Koreans, but we are encouraged by signs of progress we have been looking to return to negotiations,” he said.

Bosworth, U.S. special representative for Korean North, told reporters Wednesday in Beijing that aeaameeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, both sought ways to boost efforts to return to the negotiating table. Read more »

Twenty current and former senior officers, including five three generals and admirals, have been charged with plotting a coup against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and left under arrest. Eight officers were indicted Thursday. The court in Istanbul freed Orenek Admiral Ozden, former navy commander and former air force chief General Ibrahim Firtina. Both were released hours after the head of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Ilker Basbug, President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan will meet to ease tensions by investigating the alleged plot in 2003. Firtina told reporters to leave him out of the court “clarified some misunderstandings about some issues … I think I”ve done it successfully, and now I”m among you, “said Firtina. unprecedented confrontation between the ruling Islamic political movement in Turkey and the fiercely secular military officers has worried businessmen and investors, shaking the markets between calls from opposition parties for early elections to end the turmoil. Evidence collected through intervention of telephone lines and the discovery of an alleged coup plan, designed in 2003 _ a year after government was elected on Monday actual_ led to the arrest of about 50 military commanders. The court must decide whether to charge formally and are imprisoned. Some are accused of plotting to blow up mosques and kill some non-Muslim figures to promote chaos and trigger a military coup. Read more »

“We are deeply saddened by his death in defense of their rights and to warn of the situation and the oppression of political prisoners in Cuba,” said Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, during a Senate hearing. Earlier in a statement, Washington had called on Cuba to release more than 200 political prisoners after the death of Orlando Zapata, a 42 year old black bricklayer who had started a hunger strike in protest in December poor prison conditions. No Latin American country reacted to the death. Neither the Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva or Venezuela”s Hugo Chavez, who were in Havana on Wednesday, officially referred to the topic. The European Union (EU) said it “regrets deeply “the fact, recalling that he has repeatedly asked the Cuban government to” release unconditionally all political prisoners. ” The Cuban government does not recognize political prisoners in Cuba – about 200 According to the Human Rights Commission illegal (CCDHRN) – and considers them “mercenaries” to U.S. service. Spain stressed that “strongly deplores” the “death of a champion of human rights in Cuba. “There is a human rights deficit in this country,” said the third vice president of government, Manuel Chaves. France regretted that his request for release Zapata had been heeded, a claim which had also been made by Spain and the United States. “France was the situation closely, had called for his release, and the other detainees, whose status health seemed particularly worrying, “said French Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero. Meanwhile, Amnesty International (AI) called for the unconditional release of all political prisoners Cuba and spoke of “continuing repression of dissidents and the lack of independence of justice in Cuba. Read more »

The announcement comes four days after the junta overthrew the country”s president in West Africa, Mamadou Tandja, in a coup d”etat after months of bickering between the president and opposition parties in the exporting of uranium. Danda served as information minister in the transitional government that followed the last coup in Niger in 1999, when the army overthrew the president and elections held shortly thereafter. Since then, the appointed prime minister has worked as an administrator. The junta, calling itself the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy and includes several officers involved in the coup 1999, has said it plans a voler a democracy with a similar speed. The governing council says it will retain legislative and executive powers until the adoption of a new constitution and elections are held. Read more »

On the other hand, in a further sign that the insurgency is still very active despite eight years of international military campaign, a suicide bomber on Monday killed an influential Afghan tribal leader and 13 others in eastern Afghanistan, police said. Four women and a child were among the civilians killed in NATO bombing against three vehicles where people were wrongly taken by Taliban insurgents. In a statement, the International Force Security Assistance Force (ISAF) under NATO command, acknowledged the attack in Oruzgan province, saying it was directed against suspected insurgents and promised an “immediate investigation”. Their commander, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, expressed “extreme sadness at the loss of innocent lives.” Also, the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on Monday Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express deep regret the deaths of 27 Afghan civilians and sent his “heartfelt condolences”. “I regret very much the low of civilians and our soldiers are doing everything they can to avoid the occurrence of such casualties,” he said at a forum in Washington. A statement from the Afghan cabinet, chaired by the head of state Hamid Karzai, described as “unjustifiable” attack. “As the first elements of NATO on Sunday fired on a convoy of three vehicles (…) killing at least 27 civilians, including four women and a child, and wounding 12 others,” the text. This attack comes days after the international forces in Afghanistan in the context of a broad anti-Taliban offensive in southern Lebanon, killing at least nine civilians died after the A rocket into a house. Read more »

KIEV (Reuters) – President-elect of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich on Sunday named three candidates for the post of prime minister and hoped that after a coalition was formed to replace the government of Yulia Tymoshenko.

The Party of Regions Yanukovych”s need to forge a new coalition in parliament to replace Tymoshenko as prime minister and the appointment is key to the match win foreign support.

This could explain why two of the candidates are not party of the president. Yanukovich appointed Sergey Tigipko entrepreneur and former Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and a member of his own party, the former Finance Minister Mykola Azarov, as the most likely candidates. “Today we can say that the talks focus on three figures. Tigipko Son, Yatsenyuk and Azarov,” Yanukovich Ukraina TV Station in an interview. “We expect a result by the end of next week.” Tigipko, 50, and Yatsenyuk, 35, have been presented as pragmatists who will assume major reforms while leaving Ukraine a deep economic crisis. Azarov, 63, born in Russia, is more inclined toward Moscow and traditional state regulation. As president, Yanukovych has no formal involvement in the creation of a coalition, but his party is in talks with other factions in parliament to choose a program and a new prime minister. Read more »

COVENTRY, England (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged on Saturday to heal the battered economy, in an appeal to voters in the forthcoming general election, his Labor Party in danger of losing. When you launch a new boost to his campaign called “Operation Striking, Brown attempted to attract voters by painting central to Labor”s opposition Conservatives as elitist. “If you, like me, is most prevalent in Great Britain of an ordinary family that wants to progress and not just get by, then my message to you today is simple: look at us a second time, and long hard look at them, “Brown said. Conservatives struck back saying voters reject the Labor Party because of his performance during his 13 years in government. “He (Brown) asked Britain to give a second glance to Labor when the public has been watching for 13 years and know they have failed,” said George Osborne, who is expected to become finance minister if the Conservatives win. Labor has won three elections since 1997 under the leadership of Brown”s predecessor Tony Blair. Brown took over as premier when Blair left office in the middle of his term in 2007. But the fate of the Labor Party has waned since the financial crisis swept Britain into recession. The Conservatives, led by the youthful David Cameron, has many advantages in all opinion polls, although the gap has narrowed over the past week. widely expected that the elections are held May 6. In a televised speech on Saturday, her birthday number 59, Brown said his key campaign promises were to ensure economic recovery, support new industries and new jobs, protect essential public services and fight for the majority, not by a few. “I”m not perfect” Focus on the economy is a risky strategy for Brown, who was finance minister for 10 years before taking over as prime minister, and is therefore considered by many responsible voters in part by the crisis that has cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Read more »

Former colonial power France and the African Union condemned the coup on Thursday, when soldiers stormed dead in the national palace and captured President Mamadou Tandja unaccounted next day.

In a statement Friday, the junta, which calls itself the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, said it was headed by Djibo Salou, a platoon commander based near the capital.

The board said he wants to turn the country into “an example of democracy and good governance.” A diplomat in the region said the coup leaders were part of an army faction deeply disappointed with Tandja for violating the limit on presidential terms.

The country has been increasingly isolated from the regional bloc of 15 nations of West Africa Niger suspended, and the U.S. Read more »

The U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers involved in the operation they found better fortified Taliban positions and most skilled shooters on the sixth day of the assault in Marjah, indicating that the resistance of the militant group in the middle of maneuvers logistics and smuggling of opium was far from over. A British general estimated that within a month might be the absolute control of the city. NATO said four soldiers were killed and that the number of allied troops killed in offensive has nine, plus an Afghan soldier. The international coalition would not release their nationalities, but the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain said that two members of its forces from the dead. At the moment, no precise figures have been informed of the Taliban dead, but some commanders say the Marines as intelligence that have killed at least 120 extremists. The official made the remarks in an anonymous form because in principle should not disseminate such information. The commander of the Marines in Marjah Gen. Larry Nicholson, told The Associated Press Allied troops have taken control of roads, bridges and major government facilities in the city, with about 80,000 inhabitants and about 610 kilometers (360 miles) southwest of Kabul. “I I would say that control the backbone of the town, said while inspecting the front line of Marines in the north of the city, which is dusty and has houses built with mud bricks. “We are where we want to be. While Nicholson spoke, several thunderous rattling of machine guns at close range showed that insurgents still dominated areas about a mile (more than half a mile) away. Read more »

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