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President Obama marks first Memorial Day in 14 years without major US war by Amanda Holpuch in New York
- Obama praises ‘honor, courage and selflessness’ of US service members
- Nearly 10,000 US troops to stay in Afghanistan in ‘non-combat roles’
President Barack Obama on Monday honored soldiers who died in Afghanistan, during his annual speech at Arlington national cemetery on Memorial Day. Though troops remain stationed in Afghanistan, it was the first time in 14 years that the US had celebrated the holiday while not engaged in a major ground war.
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President Barack Obama saluted Americans who died in battle Monday, saying the country must "never stop trying to fully repay them" for their sacrifices and noting the first Memorial Day in 14 years without U.S. forces involved in a major ground war.
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Few places in America have experienced war like Waterloo. This small town in the Midwest state of Iowa became famous during World War II not for what it accomplished, but what it lost. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, the legacy of one family’s sacrifice is still a reminder today of the real cost of war for all families on the homefront.
The new director, Dore Gold, was an ambassador to the United Nations who is considered hawkish on Iran and the Palestinian issue.
Iran, Iraq and US squabble over responsibility for Isis advancesby Kareem Shaheen in Beirut
- Iranian military commander says US has ‘no will’ to fight Isis
- US criticism of Iraqi forces based on ‘incorrect information’ says Baghdad
Rival powers and allies have traded barbs and accusations over the recent successes of Islamic State, a week after the militant group seized Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria and amid warnings that it may execute hundreds of hostages captured in its latest battles.
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REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON MEMORIAL DAY Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Virginia 11:32 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. Thank you, Secretary Carter, for your leadership of our men and women in uniform. General Dempsey; Major General Buchanan; Mr. Patrick Hallinan, Executive Director of Army National Military Cemeteries; Chaplain Studniewski; members of our armed services, veterans, and, most of all, families and friends of our...
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan confiscated issues of 10 major newspapers on Sunday, in response to reports they carried on sexual assaults on children in Sudan, newspaper editors and a security source said.
Iraqi Military's Will to Fight Questionedby webdesk@voanews.com (Carol Guensburg)
As the United States honored its war dead, among them nearly 4,500 Americans who died in Iraq since 2003, questions continued to swirl Monday about the direction of the campaign against the Islamic State group. U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Sunday blamed Iraqi forces for showing "no will to fight" the Islamic extremists who last week seized the regional capital of Ramadi. "They were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force and...
President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns as part of his observance of Memorial Day. The ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery was attended by dignitaries, military personnel and families of the fallen.
President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns as part of his observance of Memorial Day. The ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery was attended by dignitaries, military personnel and families of the fallen.
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Iraqi army conduct in Ramadi 'surprised all of us,' deputy prime minister says
CNN (CNN) The Iraqi army's willingness to let Ramadi fall to ISIS "surprised all of us," Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq told CNN on Monday. "It's not clear for us why such a unit, which was supposed to be trained by the Americans for years, and supposed to ... and more » |
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Iraqi army conduct in Ramadi 'surprised all of us,' deputy prime minister says
CNN (CNN) The Iraqi army's willingness to let Ramadi fall to ISIS "surprised all of us," Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq told CNN on Monday. "It's not clear for us why such a unit, which was supposed to be trained by the Americans for years, and supposed to ... Kurdish Leader Barzani: Iraq's 'Sectarian Army' Led to ISIS GainsNBCNews.com Isolated showers expected Memorial DayWPBF West Palm Beach all 11 news articles » |
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A faction of Syriza says it favors default and an exit from the eurozone to swallowing cuts to pensions and other measures creditors are demanding.
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The Allies embargoed Germany's surrender in World War II–until an AP reporter ...
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Syrian warplanes batter jihadists in ancient Palmyra
Hindustan Times This picture released by the website of Islamic State militants, shows a bunker with a heavy machine gun mounted on its top at Palmyra air base. (AP Photo). Share. Syrian government aircraft carried out intense strikes Monday against the Islamic State group ... Rare bird may go extinct after ISIS onslaught on PalmyraHaaretz Syria warplanes batter IS militants in ancient PalmyraChannel News Asia IS threat to Syria's northern bald ibis near PalmyraBBC News ARA News all 354 news articles » |
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Syrian warplanes batter jihadists in ancient Palmyra
Hindustan Times This picture released by the website of Islamic State militants, shows a bunker with a heavy machine gun mounted on its top at Palmyra air base. (AP Photo). Share. Syrian government aircraft carried out intense strikes Monday against the Islamic State group ... Syria warplanes batter IS militants in ancient PalmyraChannel News Asia Rare bird may go extinct after ISIS onslaught on PalmyraHaaretz IS threat to Syria's northern bald ibis near PalmyraBBC News ARA News all 3,554 news articles » |
An Air France flight and a Saudi Arabian Airlines airliner, both bound for the US, are targeted by anonymous threats.
The Iraqi army's willingness to let Ramadi fall to ISIS "surprised all of us," Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq told CNN on Monday.
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Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are reported to be among organizations in Russia named to a first proposed list of "undesirable organizations."
An Air France flight from Paris was escorted by U.S. fighter jets to JFK airport in New York after a phone threat. A search of the jet found nothing.
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Obama heralds first US Memorial Day without ground war in 14 years
Reuters ARLINGTON, Va. President Barack Obama heralded the first U.S. Memorial Day in 14 years without a major ground war in an annual ceremony of remembrance on Monday for fallen American forces. In remarks at Arlington National Cemetery near ... Obama at Arlington on Memorial Day pays tribute for a 'debt we can never fully ...Washington Post (blog) all 359 Obama Says in Memorial Day Speech That US 'Can Never Fully Repay' Debt to ...NBCNews.com Memorial Day moments around the United StatesMashable Boston Herald all 249 news articles » |
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Obama heralds first US Memorial Day without ground war in 14 years
Reuters ARLINGTON, Va. President Barack Obama heralded the first U.S. Memorial Day in 14 years without a major ground war in an annual ceremony of remembrance on Monday for fallen American forces. In remarks at Arlington National Cemetery near ... and more » |
IS Group Seeks to Widen Muslim World's Sectarian Riftby webdesk@voanews.com (Sadaqat Jan)
For more than a decade, pink and brown buses meandered through Karachi’s chaotic traffic, shuttling passengers between downtown and a neighborhood dominated by Shi'ite Ismailis for a largely uneventful commute. Then on May 13, gunmen boarded one of those buses and killed 43 people — an attack that bodes ill not just for Pakistan, but the broader Muslim world. Given the rise of the Sunni Muslim militant group Islamic State in the Middle East, Daniel Serwer of the Washington-based...
A bomb squad in Washington, D.C., safely destroyed a pressure cooker found Sunday in a suspicious, unoccupied vehicle near the U.S. Capitol building. U.S. Capitol Police say officers on routine patrol spotted the vehicle and detected an odor of gasoline. Authorities say the bomb squad subsequently destroyed items of concern inside the vehicle, including the pressure cooker.
A statement said a follow-up search of the vehicle detected "nothing hazardous."
A statement said a follow-up search of the vehicle detected "nothing hazardous."
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Dozens of migrant grave sites found in Malaysia jungle
The Times (subscription) Dozens of migrant grave sites and 28 human-trafficking camps have been uncovered in a remote border region of northern Malaysia, the country's top police official said. Khalid Abu Bakar, national police chief, revealed the findings a day after the government ... and more » |
Nearly a year after French troops were accused of abusing boys while on a United Nations mission in Central African Republic, no one has been charged, let alone punished.
Official results released Monday showed that the challenger, Andrzej Duda, had won a convincing victory over the incumbent, Bronislaw Komorowski.
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The world is drowning in debt, warns Goldman Sachs
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Output per worker growing at slowest since millennium
The wild weather on the US-Mexican border has left at least 17 people dead so far with the death toll feared to rise.
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MINSK, Belarus — The United States’ top diplomat once called this cloistered nation the last dictatorship in Europe. Its fearsome security services are still named the KGB. But after a year ofgeopolitical conflict with Russia, some in the West say Belarus may not be so bad after all.Read full article >>
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Mexico authorities insist killing of 42 'criminals' was gun battle not massacre by Associated Press in Morelia
- Federal police chief: ‘There was not a single execution’
- Lopsided death toll, with one police officer killed, raised suspicions
Mexican officials on Monday stood by their account of a shootout that killed 42 suspected criminals and one federal police officer last week, dismissing questions being raised about the lopsided death toll.
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(WASHINGTON) — Vice President Joe Biden has reassured Iraq’s government of U.S. support in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), in a telephone call to Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi.
The call comes a day after the Obama administration came under heavy criticism from Iraqi and Iranian quarters over Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s comment in an interview that Iraqi forces showed in Ramadi that they lacked the “will to fight.”
A White House statement described Biden’s call as recognizing “the enormous sacrifice and bravery” that Iraqi forces had displayed over the past 18 months in Ramadi and elsewhere.
The White House also says Biden welcomed an Iraqi decision to mobilize additional troops and prepare for counter-attack operations.
Twister destroys homes, flinging cars like matchsticks; major flooding in Texas from line of storms
The success of anti-establishment candidates in municipal elections has continued corrosion of the country’s bipartisan system.
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Omar Sharif, star of Lawrence of Arabia, has Alzheimer's – agent by Associated Press in Los Angeles
- Agent confirms actor, 83, has degenerative disease
- Son revealed diagnosis in interview with Spanish newspaper
The actor Omar Sharif has Alzheimer’s disease, his agent Steve Kenis confirmed to the Associated Press on Monday.
No additional details were provided about the 83-year-old or his care. His son, Tarek Sharif, revealed the diagnosis in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo on 23 May.
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Tom Cruise is to play drug smuggler Barry Seal, a pilot from Baton Rouge, LA, who brought the Medellin cartel's cocaine to the USA then turned informer before being gunned down in 1986.
The move comes after voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment giving gay people the right to wed.
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Islamic State threatens rare northern bald ibis after guards flee endangered ...
Telegraph.co.uk Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) capture of Palmyra may cause the extinction of a rare breed of bird. A tiny colony of the northern bald ibis, pictured, was found near the city in 2002. It was home to seven of the last wild population in the Middle East. Syrian warplanes batter jihadists in ancient PalmyraHindustan Times Syria warplanes batter IS militants in ancient PalmyraChannel News Asia all 372 news articles » |
Yemeni Politicians: UN Peace Talks Indefinitely Postponedby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
A United Nations-sponsored Yemeni peace conference that was to start Thursday in Geneva has been indefinitely postponed, officials said, as battles raged across the country. The talks were meant to end weeks of heavy fighting and Saudi-led airstrikes against an Iran-backed rebel group amid a humanitarian crisis that has left millions in the Arab world's poorest country short of food and fuel. Three officials from the Houthi, socialist and unionist parties said late Sunday they were...
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Three hurt as waterspout sends bouncy house flying at Florida beach
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Cleveland, US Justice Department reach settlement over police: New York Times
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Following the weekend's decisive vote, Ireland's Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said she was working to fulfil the wishes of same-sex couples who want to wed as soon as possible.
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Russia Eyes Use of Prison Labor to Prepare for World Cup
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With Money Drying Up, Greece Is All but Bankruptby LANDON THOMAS Jr.
The government’s call to conserve funds has been far-reaching, with cities sending any surplus cash to Athens, while hospitals and schools face strict orders not to hire people.
Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter in Tehran accused of espionage, will appear at his trial on Tuesday accompanied only by his lawyer.
Mexico City taxi drivers stage mass protest over Uberby Associated Press in Mexico City
- Hundreds of drivers protest online service’s tax and regulation
- Leader: ‘We are not against technology, we want a level playing field’
Hundreds of taxi drivers marched through Mexico City on Monday, chanting “Uber Out!” and demanding city authorities ban the online ride service. Some drove their pink-and-white cabs in ranks, snarling traffic along the city’s main boulevard.
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Oil company bosses' bonuses linked to $1tn spending on extracting fossil fuels by Simon Bowers and Harry Davies
ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, Total and BP pour funding into projects to unlock oil reserves – despite scientists warning they will lead to climate change disaster
Bosses at the world’s big five oil companies have been showered with bonus payouts linked to a $1tn (£650bn) crescendo of spending on fossil fuel exploration and extraction over nine years, according to Guardian analysis of company reports.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japan will join a major U.S.-Australian military exercise for the first time in a sign of growing security links between the three countries as tensions fester over China's island building in the South China Sea.
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Couple Missing 2 Weeks In California Desert Drank Rain To Survive
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With national elections expected in the fall, a sweeping victory this month by the left-leaning New Democrats in Alberta, a bastion of conservative voting, may signal changes to come.
US does damage control after defense chief's remarks on Iraq
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Russia Plans To Use Prison Labor For 2018 World Cup
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Using the latest technology, experts can now spot these abnormalities in living brains and they hope scanning healthy subjects will provide clues to what triggers the disease.
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