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FACTBOX-How Obama's Afghan strategy is shaping up Nov 30 (Reuters) - The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's revised war strategy in Afghanistan is expected to be the deployment of about 30,000 more U.S. troops to secure population centers, step up the fight against the Taliban and train Afghan security forces to gradually assume control.
Nov 30, 2009 at 23:37 | Reuters
Debut novelist wins UK's John Llewellyn Rhys Prize LONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - London bookseller and first-time novelist Evie Wyld beat top literary award winners Aravind Adiga and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie among others to land the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize on Monday.
Nov 30, 2009 at 23:03 | Reuters
White House: Obama Copenhagen visit to aid climate deal WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hopes his decision to attend the United Nations' climate conference in Copenhagen next month will help to bring participants to the brink of a deal, the White House said on Monday.
Nov 30, 2009 at 22:54 | Reuters
Somali pirates seize Greek tanker near Seychelles ATHENS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Somali pirates have seized a Greek-flagged oil tanker near the Seychelles, more than 700 miles (1,125 km) off the coast of Somalia, Greece's coastguard said on Monday.
Nov 30, 2009 at 22:49 | Reuters
Berlusconi visits Belarus MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has become the first Western leader to visit Belarus in 15 years, as the authoritarian former Soviet state takes small steps toward reform.
Nov 30, 2009 at 22:46
European Parliament president hoping for free, transparent presidential elections in Ukraine President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek hopes that the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine will be free, open and transparent.
Nov 30, 2009 at 22:10 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kosovo confident ahead of UN court hearing PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A day before the world's highest court begins deliberating the legality of Kosovo's split from Serbia last year, their leaders clashed Monday over the Western-backed statehood that has shaken the Balkans.
Nov 30, 2009 at 21:57
Yushchenko accuses government of disrupting work on 2010 budget Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko believes that the process of adopting the state budget for 2010 has been thwarted in Ukraine.
Nov 30, 2009 at 21:51 | Interfax-Ukraine
Obama facing tough selling job on Afghan policy WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama has begun one of the toughest sales jobs of his presidency, launching the much-awaited rollout of his new Afghan war strategy by informing top U.S. military and civilian advisers in Washington and Kabul and telephoning key allies around the globe.
Nov 30, 2009 at 21:45
Bomb hits train in Russian south, no deaths MAKHACHKALA, Russia, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded under a train in Russia's troubled Dagestan on Monday but there were no fatalities, police said, just days after a similar blast killed 26 passengers on a train from Moscow to St Petersburg.
Nov 30, 2009 at 21:42 | Reuters
Barroso, Ferrero-Waldner, Reinfeldt to attend Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv The European Union will be represented at the Ukraine-EU summit 4 in Kyiv on December by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and EU Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, an informed source from the European Commission has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Nov 30, 2009 at 21:37 | Interfax-Ukraine
Iran enrichment plans 'completely unacceptable'-US UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Iran's plans to build 10 nuclear enrichment plants are unacceptable and may lead the international community to ratchet up the pressure on Tehran to halt the program, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Monday.
Nov 30, 2009 at 21:31 | Reuters
Demjanjuk trial on Nazi death camp charges opens MUNICH (AP) — John Demjanjuk sat in a wheelchair wrapped in a light blue blanket, his eyes closed and his face pale as his trial opened on charges he helped kill 27,900 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard.
Nov 30, 2009 at 21:09
Russian train toll hits 26; Police release sketch MOSCOW (AP) — Police released a composite sketch Monday of a man thought to be involved in a train bombing that killed 26 people, and a railway official suggested the attack had the hallmarks of terrorism by saboteurs from the volatile North Caucasus.
Nov 30, 2009 at 20:58
UK to send 500 extra troops to Afghanistan LONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Britain will send 500 more soldiers to Afghanistan in December as part of a broader surge in NATO-led troop levels to tackle worsening violence and train Afghan forces, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday.
Nov 30, 2009 at 20:49 | Reuters