Warrant strains Israel-UK ties – 16 Dec 09

The UK government has denounced an arrest warrant agianst Tzipi Livni, the former Israeli foreign minister.

On Sunday, a UK court issued the warrant against Livni for her role in alleged war crimes during the War on Gaza. The Israeli government has criticised the mvoe.

Britain’s foreign ofifce says it is investigating the incident which is straining relations between the two countries.

Al Jazeera’s Barbara Serra reports.

Bosnia-Serbia railway re-connects former wartorn cities – 13 Dec 09

A rail link between the cities of Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Belgrade in Serbia has re-opened after nearly 18 years.

The train service was stopped after the breakout of conflict in the Balkans in the early 1990s.

While the three-carriage train is no match fro the pre-war express train that once rode this line, the railway’s first 17 passengers hope its retrun marks more than just a symbolic gestrue.

Erica Wood reports.

Argentina ‘Dirty War’ trial begins – 12 Dec 09

Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’, one of Latin America’s most brutal dictatorships left thousands dead and thousands more missing.

When the country embraced democracy more than two decades ago, it quickly moved toward prosecuting hundresd of military personnel involved in the killings.

But the pursuit of jutsice ended shortly after it began. Now the courts are trying some of the most infamous suspects.

Teresa Bo reports from the Argentien capital, Buenos Aires.

Pakistan concern over Obama’s plan – 02 Dec 09

Pakistani government officials have expressed concern about President Barack Obama’s new Afghan strateyg, which calls for Pakistan to step up its co-operation aaginst the Taliban in exchange for a pledge of a long-term partnership.

In an address to unveil a new strategy for the eight-year conflict in Afghanistan, Obama said on Tuesday a cancer had taken root in Pakistan’s border region with Afghanistna and promised US help to end it.

The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a cautious response that stressed the "need for clarity" in the new US policy.

"Pakistan looks forward to engaging closely with [the] US in understanding the full importance of the new strategy and to ensure that there would be no adverse fallout on Pakistan," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Pakistan and the US need to closely co-ordinate their efforts to achieve shared objectives. There is certainly the need for clarity and co-ordination on all aspects of the implementation of the strategy."

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan takes a look at how Obama’s new strategy is being received in Islamabad against the backdrop of violence.

Afghanistan: ‘Graveyard of empires’ – 01 Dec 09

Afghanistan has been called the ‘graveyard of empires’ – a land that has never been conquered by a foreign force.

Russia’s red army spent a decade there and returned to the Soviet Union broken and defeated.

As the US sends moer troops to Afghanistan, it could learn from the former Soviet Union’s experience there.

Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports from Moscwo on the lessons to be learned.

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