The US promised to investigate a video on Thursday that appeared to show US forces in Afghanistan urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters. But the insurgent group has said it would not harm efforts to broker peace talks.
Burma's government signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday with ethnic Karen rebels who have been fighting for greater autonomy for more than 60 years.
A video showing what appear to be America, forces in Afghanistan urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters has emerged on the Internet, sparking outrage and prompting the US to promise an investigation into the incident.
The Taliban announced Wednesday that they will open an office in the Gulf state of Qatar to hold peace talks with the USA. French academic Mathieu Guidere says the unprecedented step could be the key to ending the 10-year war in Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has welcomed a possible deal that would allow Taliban insurgents to open an office in the Gulf nation of Qatar with the aim of holding talks with the United States.
The Taliban announced Wednesday they will set up an overseas political office in Qatar in order to hold talks with the US, in their first public gesture towards reconciliation. The location is supposed to partly shield them from Pakistani pressure.
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet for the first time in more than a year on Tuesday to discuss stalled peace talks, this time in neighbouring Jordan. But officials on both sides say an imminent resumption of negotiations is unlikely.
Annette Young sits down with former US Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, five months after he stepped down from the job. He admits he doesn't see any breakthrough soon in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while saying Hamas will be strengthened by the Palestinian prisoner swap.
Tatiana Massad meets Tawakul Karman, co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize 2011. A Yemeni activist and journalist, she is the first Arab woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, which she dedicates to the Yemeni people.
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is split between Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured), her compatriot Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman, for their non-violent struggle for women's rights.
