May 7

Japan, US 'to drop deadline for moving Okinawa base' (AFP)

AFP – Japan and the United States are to abandon a deadline of 2014 for relocating a US military base on the Japanese island of Okinawa, a report said Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »

May 7

Pelosi, US lawmakers in Iraq for talks with PM (AFP)

AFP – Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for greater cooperation with Washington after a US army pullout from Iraq at the end of 2011, in talks Saturday with US Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Read the rest of this entry »