The fightback in Afghanistan begins – Financial Times

The fightback in Afghanistan begins – Financial Times
Thursday s operation by 4,000 US marines in southern Helmand marks the start of a critical new phase in America s Afghan strategy. For years, western leaders have feared that Nato is losing the fight against the Taliban, that the US-led operation is under-resourced, that President Hamid Karzai

Russian president hopeful for Obama summit – Boston Globe
MOSCOW — Russia’s president said in a video released Thursday he was hopeful that an upcoming summit with Barack Obama will help Moscow and Washington find new ways to cooperate. Dmitry Medvedev’s comments were the latest in a string of upbeat statements from Moscow ahead of Obama’s first trip to

DEA Joins Michael Jackson Death Investigation – Actressarchives.com
By this point, it would have been naive to think that the investigation into the cause of Michael Jackson ’s death wouldn’t take some bizarre twists and turns – so it comes as little shock to learn that the Drug Enforcement Administration has joined the investigation into the cause of Jackson’s