It's as if the deaths on Sunday of nine US soldiers at a remote Afghan outpost were meant to dot the i's on US presidential hopeful Barack Obama's proposal -- now seconded by Republican presidential hopeful Senator John McCain -- to turn the focus from Iraq to Afghanistan, and to send 15,000 more US troops there...

American soldiers who deserted the US army because of their opposition to the war in Iraq are fighting a legal battle to obtain political asylum in Canada, Tamam Ahmed Jama reports from Ottawa

There is a new cold war in South East Asia -- between the US and Pakistan, writes Graham Usher in Peshawar

Norman Paech, international spokesman of the German party Die Linke (The Left) and professor emeritus of law at Hamburg University, is interviewed by Wilhelm Langthaler