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Trump calls North Korea 'growing direct threat' to most of world
US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in affirmed in a Sunday telephone call that North Korea poses a growing threat to most of the world after recent intercontinental ballistic missile tests, the White House said. In their (...)

07 - 08 - 2017
Schwartzel leads Malaysia
up Louis Oosthuizen showed no ill-effects of his playoff heartbreak and long-haul trek to Southeast Asia to fire an opening six-under 66 at the Malaysian Open Thursday. The South African, who lost out to American Bubba Watson in Augusta Sunday, was (...)

13 - 04 - 2012
Scientist claims to have found Atlantis
led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain. “This is the power of tsunamis,” head researcher Richard Freund told (...)

14 - 03 - 2011
South China Sea spat fresh threat to Sino-US ties
led confrontation over the disputed South China Sea raises the spectre of a fresh rift between Beijing and Washington just as wounds from a combative start to the year are healing. China was furious after it was ambushed at Asia's top security (...)

28 - 07 - 2010
Better Pakistan-US relations buttressed by Afghan aims
Pakistani relations are being underpinned by converging interests over Afghanistan but strains could emerge if Pakistan's expectations for US help are not met and it feels it is being used. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and US (...)

29 - 03 - 2010
Make-or-break time for Afghan war
led military campaign to regain control of the Taliban heartland of Kandahar will be a “decisive phase” in the Afghan war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told frontline troops this week. The United States is deploying 30,000 extra troops to (...)

14 - 03 - 2010
Canada battling insider trading snag
off to bring the perpetrators of Canada's biggest insider trading scheme to justice, raising questions about Canada's ability to crack down on white collar crime. The case centers on a scam that netted some $9.3 million for law school buddies Stan (...)

10 - 11 - 2009
What is the one millionth English word?
based language monitoring group crowned Web 2.0 as the one millionth word or phrase in the English language on Wednesday, although other linguists slammed it as nonsense and a stunt. The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track (...)

11 - 06 - 2009
Freed journalist arrives in Austria from Iran
born journalist Roxana Saberi arrived in Austria on Friday from Iran days after being released from a Tehran jail after being acquitted of charges of spying for the United States, a US official said. “We can confirm that she has arrived in Vienna,” (...)

16 - 05 - 2009
Do you really need that X-ray?
ray, MRI and CT scans on patients with lower back pain may be unnecessary and, in the case of two of the tests, expose people to low-dose radiation, researchers said on Thursday. Back pain is one of the most common reasons people visit a doctor or (...)

07 - 02 - 2009
Obama's choice of adviser signals fresh initiative
elect Barack Obama underscored on Saturday his intent to push initiatives on climate change by naming John Holdren, an energy and climate specialist, as the new White House science adviser. Holdren is a Harvard University physicist who has focused (...)

21 - 12 - 2008
Reports got the divorce sums all wrong, say Madonna and Guy Ritchie
husband Guy Ritchie said on Wednesday that a statement released on the singer's behalf detailing terms of their divorce was “misleading and inaccurate”. Liz Rosenberg, Madonna's spokeswoman in New York, said on Monday the singer had given British (...)

18 - 12 - 2008
Obama picks Shinseki for veterans affairs
elect Barack Obama has selected retired Gen. Eric Shinseki, who clashed with the Bush administration over the number of troops needed in Iraq, to be the next secretary of veterans affairs. Obama's announcement was made in a television interview (...)

08 - 12 - 2008
Obama names Hillary, new security team
elect Barack Obama Monday announced his national security team, nominating former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay on in that role. Obama, who takes office on Jan. 20, has pledged to be (...)

02 - 12 - 2008
Choice of Clinton carries risks for Obama
elect Barack Obama, inspired by his hero Abraham Lincoln's idea of creating a “team of rivals” in his Cabinet, may be gambling by choosing his ex-adversary Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Obama admires the New York senator's work ethic, his (...)

02 - 12 - 2008
Clinton offers to name donors
Elect Barack Obama was poised to name his national security team on Monday, with former political rival Hillary Clinton in line to be picked as secretary of state. As part of a deal with Obama to clear the way for his wife to get the post, former (...)

01 - 12 - 2008
Obama chief of staff meets Republicans
elect Barack Obama sent his top aide to Capitol Hill on Thursday to tell leaders of the rival Republican party that he needed their help to confront the challenges facing the country. Rahm Emanuel, a combative Democratic congressman from Illinois (...)

21 - 11 - 2008
Obama ‘out to get Osama'
elect Barack Obama plans to try a more regional approach to the war in Afghanistan including possible talks with Iran, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing national security advisers to Obama. The president-elect also intends to move (...)

12 - 11 - 2008
Top contenders for key economic posts
elect Barack Obama said on Friday he wanted “to move with all deliberate haste” to pick people for top posts, but said it was important to get it right and not be unduly rushed. With a financial crisis raging and the US economy facing a possibly (...)

08 - 11 - 2008
US forces kill 25 Taleban, 8 civilians
led coalition forces killed 25 Taleban insurgents and eight civilians after an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the US military said on Monday. The issue of civilian casualties has led to a rift between Afghanistan and its Western allies with (...)

12 - 08 - 2008
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