by Kareem Chin | Aug 23, 2013 | Monitor
U.S., Russia at odds on who is blocking U.N. probe of suspected chemical attack in Syria Karen DeYoung / Washington Post The United States and Russia, escalating their disagreement over responsibility for Wednesday’s alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, sharply...
by Kareem Chin | Aug 22, 2013 | Monitor
Yemen Asks U.S. For Drones To Fight Al Qaeda Mohammed Ghobari / Reuters Yemen has asked the United States to supply it with drones, President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said on Thursday, to help it fight an al Qaeda threat that recently forced Western countries to...
by Kareem Chin | Aug 19, 2013 | Monitor
Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News Brian Stelter / New York Times When the cable news channel begins broadcasting on Tuesday, “there will be less opinion, less yelling and fewer celebrity sightings,” its chief says. On Friendly Waters: China’s...
by Kareem Chin | Aug 5, 2013 | Monitor
U.S. Trade Suffers, Envoys Say, for Want of Jet Fare Mark Landler / New York Times For those seeking to dramatize the high cost of across-the-board budget cuts in Washington, the temptation, understandably, is to paint in bold strokes: an aircraft carrier pulled out...
by Kareem Chin | Jul 22, 2013 | Monitor
European Union Adds Hezbollah to Terror List James Kanter & Jodi Rudoren / The New York Times European Union foreign ministers on Monday added the military wing of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group, to a list of terrorist organizations. But questions...