Agence France-Presse

France and Germany refused US requests to immediately promise extra combat troops for Afghanistan, frustrating President Barack Obama’s hopes that more allies would bolster his troop surge.
Britain has already offered an extra 500 troops and Italy has said it will send an unspecified number, while Poland is considering deploying several hundred more soldiers.
US officials say [...]

PARIS — A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush.
Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi was in Paris to promote his campaign for the “victims of the US occupation in [...]

WASHINGTON — George W. Bush “turned tail” from the Afghan war to invade Iraq, leaving President Barack Obama a worsening war he must now try to turn around, a senior Democratic White House ally said Tuesday.
In unusually sharp comments, Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he was “angry” about former vice president Dick Cheney’s [...]

New York Governor David Paterson has said he would take executive action to prevent the state running out of money before the end of the year.
Paterson said negotiations at the state assembly in the capital Albany had not solved the problem, forcing him to take emergency executive measures to plug a 3.2-billion-dollar hole in a [...]

George W. Bush first mentioned a link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda to Tony Blair days after 9/11, but the premier advised against pursuing the Iraqi dictator, an aide said Monday.
The then US president spoke to Blair in a telephone conversation on September 14, 2001 and mentioned the possible Iraq link, said David Manning, who [...]