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We need to deepen our defense and security co-operation, and this is why I have come to India, Panetta said.

Clinton is scheduled to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and attend an energy forum. Azerbaijan is an increasingly important oil producer and a crucial regional Western ally against Iran.

Such precautions were undertaken because communications devices had been hacked during previous ministerial visits to China.

The question of whether gay marriage is legal or heralding the destruction of civilization, is not yet an issue ripe for the court?s final word.

Up until now, India?s military role in Afghanistan has been minimal.

Libi, an Islamic scholar from Libya, was believed to be Al-Qaida's second-in-command

Technically, Armenia and Azerbaijan remain at war since there was a never a comprehensive final peace agreement between the two parties.

South Korea is burdened with the highest suicide rate among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Bernard Thibault, the secretary of the Communist-backed Confédération Générale du Travail, one of France's largest unions, warned that at least 45,000 jobs (and maybe as many as 90,000) will be jettisoned by some 46 companies.

The 1,500-mile-long Reef, off the coast of Queensland, was placed on UNESCO?s World Heritage List in 1981.

Madonna is scheduled to perform in Paris on Bastille Day (July 14) and later in the coastal city of Nice in August.

A group of Buddhists attacked a bus carrying passengers who were accused of committing a gang rape and murder of a Buddhist girl in another part of the province.

Politicians, musicians and peace activists, among others, gathered at the National Park in the center of the capital to demand tougher punishment against rapists.

She will journey to Georgia on Tuesday, travel to Azerbaijan on Wednesday, and then move on to Turkey.

He asserted, there is no need for the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to visit the country and monitor its weapons programs.

The recent discoveries of gas in the eastern Mediterranean creates a whole new energy paradigm for two nations -- Cyprus and Israel -- which formerly were believed to possess no natural resources at all. Their subsequent alliance has further upset the geopolitical balance in the Near East.

India?s caste system is deeply entrenched in Bihar, which not surprisingly is one of the poorest states in the country.

This backdrop of the weakening of the global economy could promote a broad round of coordinated central bank easing.

She urged foreign investors to invest in Myanmar in order to provide jobs for the young and alleviate high rates of poverty.

?Pepper? is not really a Beatles record ? rather it was a Paul McCartney/George Martin extravaganza (with the other three Beatles merely serving as studio musicians).

In 2011, this tiny nation of only 8-million people recorded 86 murders per 100,000 inhabitants (the highest rate on the planet), up from 82 in the prior year, and double the rate from just six years ago

The militants in question belong to The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a militant group that is fighting to free the Muslim-dominated Xinjiang province from Chinese rule.

The emergency was imposed after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981,

Tolley added that at least four of the tunnels go under the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separate North and South Korea.

During the summit, Suu Kyi was protected by a team of bodyguards and did not speak to media

About 6 million Poles died during World War II, more than half of them Jews.

The situation is so dire, Maliki declared, that states could conceivably go to war over the precious substance.

The two men, along with their father, are already facing a litany of other charges, including official corruption, in a separate ongoing trial.

The Burmese in Thailand occupy the lowest strata of society and earn meager wages toiling at menial jobs in construction, fishing and factories, often illegally.