U.S. President Barrack Obama will order a U.S Troop drawdown from Afganistan whereby 10,000 soldiers would be back in America by this year. After a bloody and inconsistently waged decade-long war and nation building effort, the White House addresses may also come to be seen as the moment when the United States began to disengage from Afganistan.
To fight drugs cartels in Central America, U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged more foreign aid.
In the deaths of three participants in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony, self help guru James Ray has been convicted of negligent homicide, but he was not found guilty of manslaughter charges.
The Indian consul General in New York, Prabhu Dayal, has dismissed as complete “mischievous” and “complete nonsense” charges by a former housekeeper that she was treated like a slave while working for him and his family.
The US Supreme Court in Wal-Mart v. Dukes ruled that a group of women seeking to recover damages from Wal-Mart failed to meet the requirements for class certification. The case, a Title VII gender discrimination class action lawsuit estimated to include more than 1.5 million women, was filed in 2001 by female Wal-Mart employees who contend that Wal-Mart’s nationwide policies result in lower pay for women than men in comparable positions and longer waits for management promotions than men.
A State Government spokesman stated that, three men who were trapped in a Central Kentucky coal mine were rescued on Monday, 20th of June 2011, night.
Sri Lanka’s justice ministry has received a summons issued by a US federal court for President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The summons filed is linked to three civil cases under the Hague Convention by relatives of Tamil victims of alleged extra-judicial killings. The alleged killings took place during the Sri Lankan civil war. The petitioners are claiming financial damages under the US Torture Victims Protection Act.
An American Eagle Airlines employee allegedly used another man’s identity to get a job as a flight attendant and the Federal and local authorities are making investigation in the same.