Disagreement over how to reform the program to be more equitable and strategic has resulted in an impasse in Albany, eliminating an important economic development tool.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Seeking to break an impasse on a broader strategic arrangement, the United States agreed Friday to greatly accelerate its transfer of imprisoned insurgents to Afghan government control, but will retain a veto over which ones can be released, American officials said.
In Yemen, field mission support and strategic guidance was provided from the beginning of the Saada crisis and during the persistent political impasse.
"The ensuing debate and eventual legislative impasse has effectively left the nation's third-largest export industry and leading service export without a structural and strategic vision for the coming decades.
The impasse comes at an awkward juncture in US-China relations, just days before scheduled annual talks on economic and strategic matters between secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner and their Chinese counterparts in Beijing on Thursday and Friday.
