Catherine Ashton, the British EU trade commissioner, has been appointed foreign policy chief of the European Council.
Al Jazeera’s Hamish Macdonald spoke to her on the sidelines of a meeting of the leaders of the 27-member European Union, where Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium’s prime minister, was appointed the first president of the European Council.
Barack Obama is preparing to decide on additional troop deployments to Afghanistan as he faces waning US public support for the war that has entered its ninth year.
The rising anti-war sentiment has prompted Robert Gates, the defence secretary, to urge the US president’s advisers on Afghanistan to express their views in private, following last week’s public request by General Stalney McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan, for more troops.
Al Jazeera’s Sebastian Walker reprots.
101 East looks at the stability of the Korean Penisnula and the prospects for peace.
101 East looks at the stability of the Koeran Peninsula and the prospects for peace.
The Badi women of Nepal demand the government recognise thier worth and the everywoman news round up.