Ben Affleck upsets Spielberg at Golden Globes; Day-Lewis wins Best Actor
Written by Gitanjali Roy | Monday January 14, 2013
Ben Affleck emerged as the giant-killer at the Golden Globes this year, winning Best Director and Best Picture - Drama for Argo, beating Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.
Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Christoph Waltz win acting awards at Golden Globe 2013
Associated Press | Monday January 14, 2013
Jennifer Lawrence has won a lead-actress Golden Globe for Silver Linings Playbook, while supporting-acting prizes went to Christoph Waltz Django Unchained and Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables.
US diplomatic security unit under scrutiny after Libya attack
Reuters | Tuesday October 9, 2012
The attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi on September 11 has sharpened congressional scrutiny of a State Department office that protects diplomats in the world's most dangerous corners, as lawmakers ask whether it fatally misjudged the d...
US State Department slams CNN for reporting on diary of envoy killed in Libya
Reuters | Sunday September 23, 2012
A State Department spokesman sharply criticized CNN on Saturday, saying the network had reported on the diary of American ambassador Christopher Stevens after his death at the US consulate in Libya despite the objections of his family.
U.S. official says Benghazi consulate was 'terrorist attack'
Reuters | Thursday September 20, 2012
The assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a "terrorist attack" that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top U.S. counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday.
United States, Libya differ on accounts of Benghazi attack
Agence France-Presse | Monday September 17, 2012
Top US and Libyan officials have offered starkly different accounts about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that left the ambassador and three other Americans dead. The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said on Sunday it began...
US braces for more violence from anti-Muslim film
Associated Press | Friday September 14, 2012
The Obama administration was caught by surprise by the ferocity of the September 11 attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. Now it is bracing for another potential eruption of violen...
Two ex-Navy SEALs among dead in Libya attack
Agence France Presse | Friday September 14, 2012
Two of the four Americans killed in Tuesday's attack on the US consulate in Libya were former members of the elite Navy SEALs, US officials said on Thursday.
Libyan authorities make arrests in US embassy attack
Associated Press | Friday September 14, 2012
Heavily armed militants used a protest of an anti-Islam film as a cover and may have had help from inside Libyan security in their deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate, a senior Libyan official said Thursday.
Embassies in Egypt will be protected: Mohammed Morsi
Associated Press | Thursday September 13, 2012
Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Thursday condemned the attack on Libya that killed the American ambassador and vowed to protect foreign embassies in Cairo, where police were using tear gas to disperse protesters at the US mission.
Obama vows to 'bring to justice' ambassador's killers
Reuters | Thursday September 13, 2012
President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to "bring to justice" the Islamist gunmen responsible for a ferocious assault that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans - an attack that may have been organized in advance.
Were the attacks on US Consulate in Libya coordinated to mark 9/11?
Associated Press | Thursday September 13, 2012
The Obama administration, roiled by the first killing of a U.S. ambassador in more than 30 years, is investigating whether the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a planned terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack...
In Libya, deadly fury took U.S. envoys by surprise
Reuters | Thursday September 13, 2012
Diplomats had long been on their guard in Benghazi, a city that was the cradle of Libya's Western-backed revolution but also home to Islamists who have attacked foreign envoys.
US envoy killed: Pentagon moves two warships to Libya; suspects attack was planned
Associated Press | Thursday September 13, 2012
The Obama administration, roiled by the first killing of a U.S. ambassador in more than 30 years, is investigating whether the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a planned terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack...
Libya must protect diplomats after 'despicable' attack: EU
Agence France-Presse | Thursday September 13, 2012
European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday condemned as "despicable" the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi and urged Libya to ensure the protection of diplomats and foreign staff.
