The report also quotes Commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Lt Gen David Barno, as saying that the Taliban's roughly 2,000 insurgents have all but stopped fighting in\nrecent months.
What we are watching is something different: A fog manufactured and maintained by the people who started the war, so that the question of why it was started never has to be answered, observes Prem Panicker in his must read blog on the war in the Middle East.
Outlook will relaunch Newsweek in the country in April this year.
Newsweek magazine on Sunday apologised for and on Tuesday withdrew the report, which claimed that American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay detention centre abused the holy book, saying it might have erred in reporting the incident.
Benita and partner Ruth DeGolia have been chosen for their work among women, especially widows, in Guatemala.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and superstar Shah Rukh Khan have been ranked among the 50 most powerful people in the world by prestigious United States-based magazine 'Newsweek' magazine, in a list topped by President-elect Barack Obama.Pakistan army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who controls the country's nuclear weapons, is placed 20th on the list of the global 'power elite', at the beginning of 2009 in the magazine's January issue.
'He has shown no visible promise, not even symbolic gestures, of [being] a good leader'.
The generals are worried about Washington's warm overtures to India and fear that soon they will be abandoned again, the magazine's international editor Fareed Zakaria said in the article.
'Scuttling 25 years of momentum with the only country that can serve as a counterweight to Chinese dominance in Asia would be a strategic disaster.'
'India is cosying up to Xi Jinping. They don't need the Russian oil. It's a refining profiteering scheme.'
The prime minister should apologise to the 140 crore Indians for deceiving them on national television on June 19th, 2020, with his statement Na Koi Ghusa Hai, Na Hi Koi Ghus Aaya hai
United States current affairs magazine Newsweek, which had ceased publication last year to focus on its website, plans to bring back the print edition early next year.
The Chinese military on Thursday said the situation along the India-China border 'at present' is 'generally stable' and both sides have maintained 'effective' communication to resolve the military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
China and India have made 'positive progress' to resolve the border standoff, with both sides maintaining close communication through diplomatic and military channels, a senior foreign ministry official said in Beijing on Friday.
After Time magazine, internationally acclaimed American magazine Newsweek has selected Super 30, Bihar's free coaching centre which helps economically backward students crack the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) in the list of four most innovative schools in the world.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tops Newsweek magazine's list of 10 world leaders who have won respect across the globe. He is described as 'the leader other leaders love'.
China said that "sound and stable ties" serve the common interests of China and India.
When Benita Singh was told that she was to have a photo shoot with Brad Pitt, she thought it was a joke.
Writing in the magazine, the 51-year-old Bahujan Samaj Party chief, who swept the assembly elections early this year with a rainbow coalition of Dalits, upper castes and Muslims, says her aim is to replicate the victory in the other states and prepare for the bigger struggle to capture power in New Delhi. Apart from Mayawati, others who write their success story include CEO of the French Energy Conglomerate 'Areva' Anne Lauvergeon and WHO Director General Margaret Chan.
In a landmark paper, researchers announced that they had coaxed the human brain into growing new nerve cells, a process that for decades had been thought impossible, simply by putting subjects on a three-month aerobic-workout regimen.
The White House has said that the Quran story published in Newsweek has affected US image abroad.
Top Taliban commander Nasiruddin Haqqani, a key fundraiser of his outfit, has been arrested by Pakistani security agencies apparently in response to United States demands for action against militant networks in the restive North Waziristan tribal region.
Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme is expanding at a rapid pace and the country is expected to soon have a fourth operational reactor to ramp up the production of plutonium, according to a media report.
Soros, dismayed by what he perceives to be the Bush administration's unilateralism abroad and its "authoritarian" politics at home, is on a crusade, the Newsweek magazine says in an article being published in its upcoming issue.
In an interview to Newsweek magazine, Rajaratnam, who will serve 11 years in prison, said the US government wanted him to 'wear a wire' and tape his conversations with Gupta, former chief executive officer of McKinsey.
Jaishankar said diplomacy is a work of patience and India continues to discuss the issues with the Chinese side.
Six companies led by India-origin people including banking behemoth Citigroup and soft drinks major Pepsico have been named among the greenest American companies by Newsweek magazine.
The United States has said that Taliban is not an enemy of America, a move seen as the latest effort of the Obama administration to send an olive branch to the terrorist outfit that ruled Afghanistan before 9/11.
They are no longer boldly advertising their slaughters or leaving bodies in the plain view. About 600 Iraqi civilians were killed this November against 3000 in December 2006 -- a sharp decline.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that he is 'disenchanted' with the way India handled the bilateral relations in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks as he expected New Delhi to 'behave much more maturely'. "This new-age terror has created a phenomenon where a few people can take entire states to war. The fact that these people happen to belong to Pakistan or India or Bangladesh is immaterial. They are non-state actors, and states should behave like states."
'Yes. Definitely, I do not shrug away from that position. Anybody from my soil is my responsibility,' he told Newsweek magazine when asked to comment about US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's statement that 'non-State' actors on Pakistan's soil are still its responsibility.
In its upcoming issue, Newsweek magazine has described the movement as President Vladimir Putin's shock forces and contends that the movement is newest weapon in the drive to reclaim Russia's bygone regional dominance.
Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan has said that despite "saber rattling" between Islamabad and New Delhi, there is no chance of a nuclear war between the two neighbours.
Nisid Hajari, the foreign editor of Newsweek magazine, has some understanding of violence in a South Asian context. Speaking to rediff.com, he described the current attacks in Mumbai as being remarkably better organised than earlier ones. What could the terrorists attempt to gain from such an attack? "Sow chaos," Hajari responded, pointing out that, like 9/11, the visual impact of this attack was tremendous.
Newsweek has carried a report that says Karzai's move may not have been wise.
Among the 100 countries surveyed by Newsweek magazine, India is way behind Singapore (rank 20), Malaysia (37) and Sri Lanka at 66, with a score of 55 on different parameters.
In a revelation, the Newsweek magazine claims in its upcoming issue that the recent suicide attacks in Pakistan following the storming of Lal Masjid by the army to flush out militants were ordered by Zawahiri.
NATO's chief spokes-man in Kabul, Col. Tom Collins, was quoted as saying his force intends to head off the militants' assault with pre-emptive attacks against Taliban strongholds.
The tribal militants call themselves 'Pakistani Taliban,' or members of a newly-coined and loosely knit entity, the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has said that the recent turmoil in Tibet made him "cry" once but the practice of Buddhism helped him deal with the situation. Speaking to Newsweek magazine, the Dalai Lama said looking at the disturbing and graphic images of casualties "he once cried".
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