http://www.firstpost.com Firstpost Sat, 25 May 2013 03:35:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.firstpost.com/world/barack-obama-learns-the-manmohan-singh-way-of-war-813915.html#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 03:10:14 +0000 Praveen Swami http://www.firstpost.com/?p=813915 The United States president has understood great power is most intense when it is sheathed. He doesn’t know what to do next, though. Held up to the searing light of day, his speech shows up as a patchwork of tired clichés.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/barack-obama-learns-the-manmohan-singh-way-of-war-813915.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/french-niger-troops-kill-islamists-holding-out-at-niger-base-814529.html#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 03:00:15 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/politics/french-niger-troops-kill-islamists-holding-out-at-niger-base-814529.html NIAMEY (Reuters) - French special forces and Niger troops shot dead on Friday the last two Islamists involved in a twin attack on a military base and a French uranium mine in Niger claimed by the mastermind of January's mass hostage-taking in Algeria. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a one-eyed veteran of al Qaeda's North African operations, said in a statement that his Mulathameen brigade organised Thursday's raids with the MUJWA militant group in retaliation for Niger's role in a French-led war on Islamists in Mali. The coordinated dawn attacks killed 24 soldiers and one civilian and damaged machinery at Areva's ( AREVA.PA ) Somair mine in the remote town of Arlit, a key supplier of uranium to France's nuclear power programme]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/french-niger-troops-kill-islamists-holding-out-at-niger-base-814529.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/obama-urges-u-s-military-to-stamp-out-sexual-assault-814283.html#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 21:15:36 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/politics/obama-urges-u-s-military-to-stamp-out-sexual-assault-814283.html ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged the future leaders of the U.S. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/obama-urges-u-s-military-to-stamp-out-sexual-assault-814283.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/obama-limits-use-of-us-drone-strikes-offers-steps-to-close-guantanamo-810859.html#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 19:45:48 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/politics/obama-limits-use-of-us-drone-strikes-offers-steps-to-close-guantanamo-810859.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama outlined plans on Thursday to limit the use of U.S. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/obama-limits-use-of-us-drone-strikes-offers-steps-to-close-guantanamo-810859.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/obama-limits-use-of-u-s-drone-strikes-offers-steps-to-close-guantanamo-810799.html#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 18:45:46 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/politics/obama-limits-use-of-u-s-drone-strikes-offers-steps-to-close-guantanamo-810799.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama outlined plans on Thursday to limit the use of U.S. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/obama-limits-use-of-u-s-drone-strikes-offers-steps-to-close-guantanamo-810799.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/militants-release-seven-egyptians-kidnapped-in-sinai-807519.html#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 22:45:46 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/politics/militants-release-seven-egyptians-kidnapped-in-sinai-807519.html CAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) - Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/militants-release-seven-egyptians-kidnapped-in-sinai-807519.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/india-gets-pat-on-back-while-us-slams-china-iran-for-religious-bigotry-800299.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 02:01:22 +0000 Uttara Choudhury http://www.firstpost.com/?p=800299 The report released on Monday said the respect for religious freedom declined in China and Iran in 2012 and stayed the same in the other six countries. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/india-gets-pat-on-back-while-us-slams-china-iran-for-religious-bigotry-800299.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/libyas-ports-reopen-after-protests-gas-complex-attacked-799711.html#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:45:56 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/politics/libyas-ports-reopen-after-protests-gas-complex-attacked-799711.html TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's oil terminals at Tobruk and Zueitina re-opened over the weekend after protests forced both ports to shut, Libya's deputy oil minister Omar Shakmak said. However, fresh trouble arose at Libya's gas-exporting Mellitah complex, he added, where guards were again attacked overnight after clashes in March forced a halt in flows. This time operations had not been affected, Shakmak said, in the brief assault in which the attackers seized vehicles and weapons from the guards]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/libyas-ports-reopen-after-protests-gas-complex-attacked-799711.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/history-lesson-why-the-best-case-scenario-is-unlikely-with-premier-li-795577.html#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 05:53:06 +0000 Praveen Swami http://www.firstpost.com/?p=795577 Europe on the eve of the First World War looked a lot like Asia does not: competing military modernisation programmes; new geo-strategic alliances; tensions from the East China Sea to the Himalaya and the deserts of Persia; all underpinned by a savage competition for resources.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/history-lesson-why-the-best-case-scenario-is-unlikely-with-premier-li-795577.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/danger-and-separation-from-families-changing-job-of-u-s-diplomats-796327.html#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 17:15:29 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/politics/danger-and-separation-from-families-changing-job-of-u-s-diplomats-796327.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda placed a bounty on her husband's head, Mary Feierstein learned of it from a friend who called and said, "You must be a mess!" U.S. Ambassador Gerald Feierstein was thousands of miles (km) away at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, without his wife and family on what is called an "unaccompanied" posting. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/danger-and-separation-from-families-changing-job-of-u-s-diplomats-796327.html/feed 0