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PANAMA CITY-- When the Summit of the Americas gets underway here Friday, U.S. officials hoping for a warm reception may be quickly reminded why Latin America can be a perplexing place for U.S. diplomacy.Read full article >>
PANAMA CITY-- When the Summit of the Americas gets underway here Friday, U.S. officials hoping for a warm reception may be quickly reminded why Latin America can be a perplexing place for U.S. diplomacy.Read full article >>
French broadcaster TV5Monde is working to get its systems back on track after an “extremely powerful” cyberattack by hackers claiming allegiance to Islamic State knocked the company’s channels off the air globally.
Supreme leader insists sanctions be lifted ‘on the first day’
Anglophile former mayor of New York insists he has ‘zero chance’ and ‘zero interest’ in succeeding Boris Johnson
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, has denied rumours he plans to stand for election to be London’s next mayor after Boris Johnson steps down.
Speaking at the British embassy in Washington after receiving an honorary knighthood from the Queen, Bloomberg, 73, said he had “zero chance, zero interest” in the position, the New York Times reported.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he'll decide soon whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism....
KINGSTON, JAMAICA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the U.S. State Department had completed its review of whether to remove Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism but that he had not received a recommendation yet from his advisers.
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MOSCOW — A pair of internationally-renowned film-director brothers have a strategy to save Russia from the scourge of American fast food — provided the government is willing to give them a billion rubles ($18.65 million) to do it.Read full article >>
Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova said April 9 there would be no reductions of personnel or funding for the Defense Ministry
While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed remorse for the war, suspicions that he remains an unrepentant revisionist have kept Japan from a more assertive regional role.
MEXICO CITY -- There's a new name to worry about in Mexico's ever-churning drug war.They call themselves the New Generation of Jalisco, and they just pulled off one of the most audacious attacks against Mexican authorities in years.Read full article >>
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Iran's Supreme Leader Says Sanctions Must Lift When Nuclear Deal Is Signed
New York Times TEHRAN — Iran's supreme leader on Thursday challenged two of the United States' bedrock principles in the nuclear negotiations, declaring that all economic sanctions would have to be lifted on the day any final agreement is signed and that military sites ... and more » |
AP investigation details perimeter breaches at US airportsby By MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD
Several hundred times over the last decade, intruders have hopped fences, slipped past guardhouses, crashed their cars through gates or otherwise breached perimeter security at the nation's busiest airports - sometimes even managing to climb aboard jets....
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Investigators probing the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 may face barriers in reconstructing conclusively what actions the co-pilot may have taken to keep others out of the cockpit.
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Thieves drilled into vault in London jewelry district heist
Fox News April 9, 2015: Detective Chief Inspector Paul Johnson of the Metropolitan police Flying Squad speaks to the media outside the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd entrance. (AP). Britain Robbery-2.jpg. April 9, 2015: Detective Chief Inspector Paul Johnson of the ... UK Police Report Robbery of Safety Boxes in Jewelry DistrictABC News all 224 news articles » |
Opinion: Iran Advances Beyond 'Third Tier' Cyber Powerby webdesk@voanews.com (Barbara Slavin)
Even as Iran has applied the brakes to its nuclear program over the past 18 months and provisionally agreed last week to a deal lasting more than a decade, it has continued to advance its prowess in the field of cyber-attacks, experts say. “It’s definitely not a ‘third tier’ cyber power anymore,” Andretta Towner, a senior intelligence analyst for the cyber-security firm, CrowdStrike, told an audience at the Atlantic Council on Wednesday. “It’s definitely...
President Barack Obama said the State Department has completed its review of whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of governments that sponsor terrorism, and his decision may come soon.
Real estate heir Durst pleads not guilty to firearm charges
Beloit Daily News NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Millionaire real estate heir Robert Durst, wanted in California on a murder charge, pleaded not guilty Thursday to two weapons charges related to his arrest last month. Durst, with hands shackled to his sides, entered his plea during an ... and more » |
Iran aims high ahead of push for final nuclear dealby By NASSER KARIMI and ADAM SCHRECK
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran is staking out a tough bargaining stance for the final phase of nuclear negotiations, with both its supreme leader and its moderate president saying Thursday that any deal must include an immediate lifting of withering sanctions....
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Secret Service suspends supervisor after assault accusation
New York Post The U.S. Secret Service has put a senior supervisor on leave and suspended his security clearance after a female employee accused him of assaulting her after work at the agency's headquarters last week, the Washington Post said on Wednesday. and more » |
Belgian king's brother likens kin to the Stasiby Agence France-Presse in Brussels
Prince Laurent, brother of King Philippe, says own royal family have ‘sabotaged and blocked’ his career over years
Prince Laurent, brother to Belgium’s King Philippe, has attacked the royal family and their entourage, saying they are like the Stasi secret police and that they have sabotaged his career for years.
“My family has never supported me,” Laurent told RTBF public television on Thursday, complaining bitterly that he had been hard done by despite the rich external trappings of royalty.
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With Greece locked into tough negotiations with its European creditors, the visit to Moscow by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is being seen as a possible attempt to gain leverage. Hosting the...
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The brand-new Avia Park mall in Moscow has 377,000 square feet of gleaming enclosed space. What it needs, badly, is stores and customers to fill it.
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An extremely rare black flamingo has been spotted on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Report by Andrea Lilly.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Islamic State brought Iraqi leaders together in a common fight since the militant group declared a "caliphate" in northern Iraq last summer, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday.
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Russian Deputy Minister of Science and Education Veniamin Kaganov said testing centers could be opened for North Koreans seeking to work in Russia
In a city known as a model of stability, the Taliban attacked a local prosecutor’s office where militants were disguised as Afghan security personnel.
Snap back? Not so fast. Sanctions a big issue in nuke talksby By BRADLEY KLAPPER and MATTHEW LEE
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Snap back? Not so fast....
Increase in unrest in recent months illustrates underlying volatility
Obama hints at Cuba breakthrough as he flies south for Raúl Castro meeting by Jonathan Watts in Panama City
President set to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism as he prepares for face-to-face encounter with Castro at Panama summit
Barack Obama is poised to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, marking another important step toward rapprochement between the former cold war enemies.
The president said on Thursday that the State Department had finished the review of Cuba’s status that he ordered in December when he announced moves to normalise diplomatic relations.
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Parliament voted to ban Soviet as well as Nazi symbols here, a move that reinforced Ukraine’s recent pivot away from Moscow but raised the prospect of exacerbating the country’s divisions.
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Biden: IS Momentum In Iraq Has 'Halted'by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has said the momentum of Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq has stalled.
ROME (Reuters) - Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy's anti-immigration Northern League party, said on Thursday Facebook had blocked his personal page for 24 hours because he used the word "gipsy" in posts.
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns Riyadh that the kingdom’s offensive against Yemen’s Houthi rebels would end in military defeat in his strongest comments on the conflict to date.
Biden Cites Progress in Iraq’s War With ISISby MICHAEL D. SHEAR
In a speech, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Iraq had halted the momentum of Islamic State fighters with help from the United States and regional allies.
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A framework nuclear deal reached with world powers last week is no guarantee a full agreement will be reached by the end of June, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday. Duration: 01:09
A framework nuclear deal reached with world powers last week is no guarantee a full agreement will be reached by the end of June, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday. Duration: 01:09
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Keep up-to-date with the latest news, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/AFP-subscribe A framework nuclear deal reached with world powers last week is no guarantee a full agreement will be reached...
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Parliament shows determination to break longstanding power of oligarchs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces targeted Islamic State militants in Syria with seven air strikes from Wednesday to Thursday morning, with Canada taking part in the strikes for the first time, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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Robert Durst sends bizarre letter to reporter
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Biden: Islamic State Assault Was Catalyst for Iraqi Unityby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
The Islamic State's assault on northern Iraq last summer galvanized the country's rival factions to fight a common enemy and halt the militant group's momentum, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday. In an upbeat assessment before a White House meeting next week between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, Biden said Iraq has gained the upper hand against the radical Sunni group since it seized territory in Iraq and Syria and declared...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's National Front leader Marine Le Pen urged her father Jean-Marie to withdraw from political life and said she would begin disciplinary proceedings against him over repeated comments that had harmed efforts to broaden her party's appeal.
PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Turning the page on a half-century of enmity, President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will soon remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, boosting hopes for improved ties as he prepared for a historic encounter with Cuban President Raul Castro....
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Keep up-to-date with the latest news, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/AFP-subscribe Thieves may have gotten away with a record haul of diamonds after a heist in London netted an estimated £200...
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The two-century-old Shree Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai devoted to the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha bristles with close circuit cameras and is guarded by 65 security officers.
Why is ISIS destroying Iraq's cultural heritage?
The Daily Star In recent months ISIS has taken to destroying priceless architecture and antiquities in northern Iraq. Since declaring a “caliphate” in June 2014 ISIS has targeted every ethno-sectarian group and even punished Sunnis who do not conform to its version of Islam ... and more » |
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Ukrainian soldiers fighting pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine are also fighting to ensure the security of Europe, Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski said in a speech to the Kiev parliament Thursday. Duration: 00:56
Ukrainian soldiers fighting pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine are also fighting to ensure the security of Europe, Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski said in a speech to the Kiev parliament Thursday. Duration: 00:56
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Obama administration speaks out against LGBT 'conversion therapy' as Ontario ...
National Post U.S. President Barack Obama has added his voice to the growing chorus calling for an end to “conversion therapy” for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth, a controversial practice that remains legal in Canada. “Tonight, somewhere in ... and more » |
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