Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday renewed the mandate of the world body's human rights chief Navi Pillay, but she was given an abbreviated term as part of a compromise deal with the United ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
...that the Pentagon granted Bigelow and Boal access to a "planner, Operator and Commander of SEAL Team Six," the Navy commando unit that carried out the raid during which bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
...ire that broke out aboard a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine docked in Maine and caused extensive damage, a Navy official said on Thursday. Seven people were injured putting out the fire that broke out on Wednesday ni...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
...ortsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine has been extinguished. Seven people were injured but there were no deaths, a Navy spokesman said on Thursday. Damage from the fire, which began shortly before 6 p.m. EDT on the USS Miami...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...Through technology transfer, South Korea will support Peru in areas of joint production of training planes and navy ships," Kim told reporters after meeting Peruvian President Ollanta Humala in Lima.Kim, who is on a tour...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Agence France Presse
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday lashed out at the "selfish" West for denying Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the opportunity to head the World Bank.Okonjo-Iweala, a respected economist, last ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Philadelphia Inquirer
...ACT OF VALOR 1 1/2 stars. This action film's claim to fame is that it stars active-duty Navy SEALs. The problem is that these stoic warriors infect Act of Valor with more wooden acting than you'd see at a ventriloquism s...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...d two crew members suffered minor injuries in a blaze aboard a US attack submarine at a shipyard in Maine, the Navy said Thursday.The fire broke out late Wednesday afternoon in a forward compartment of the USS Miami, a L...
Published on May,24 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...s of antipiracy operations, engaging in hundreds of armed clashes with pirates in the past three years. The US navy patrolling the area have on a number of occasions rescued Iranian ships. The latest incident was in Janu...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
...ortsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine has been extinguished. Seven people were injured but there were no deaths, a Navy spokesman said on Thursday. Damage from the fire, which began shortly before 6 p.m. EDT on the USS Miami...