Tunisia protests: “I’ve been waiting 20 years for today”
Some fled into side-streets or up on to roofs. Others darted under washing lines, into buildings, anywhere to escape the swinging clubs and batons. On the main thoroughfare of a country known more for its package holidays than its propensity for revolt, the air was thick with the soundtrack of insurrection: the crack of gunfire...
South Korea Names General Kim Defense Chief as Tensions With North Worsen
Kim Kwan Jin South Korean President Lee Myung Bak appointed a former top military commander as defense minister as tensions rise before exercises with the U.S. that North Korea said will take the peninsula to the “brink of war.” Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Kim Kwan Jin, 61, replaces Kim Tae Young, who quit amid...
South Korea’s Defense Chief Resigns in Wake of Attack
South Korea — President Lee Myung-bak accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Kim Tae-young on Thursday amid intense criticism over the South’s response to an artillery attack by North Korea two days earlier and the sinking of a warship in March. “There was a need to revamp the military landscape,” a senior government...
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