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Pentagon evaluating US missile defense sites

Pentagon evaluating US missile defense sites

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

The U.S. agency tasked with protecting the country from missile attacks is scouting the West Coast for places to deploy new anti-missile defenses as North Korea’s missile tests raise concerns ab...

Honduras rival party demands re-election

Honduras rival party demands re-election

-- 2017-12-03 10:47:32

The main opposition candidate called Saturday for Honduras' disputed presidential election to be held again after the country erupted in deadly protests over the delayed vote count and the government...

Ex-Trump advisor Flynn pleads guilty in Russia probe

Ex-Trump advisor Flynn pleads guilty in Russia probe

-- 2017-12-02 12:02:48

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, and he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors delving into the actions of Pres...

Senate approves Republicans' tax overhaul

Senate approves Republicans' tax overhaul

Reuters 2017-12-02 12:00:00

The U.S. Senate on Saturday approved a sweeping tax overhaul, moving Republicans and President Donald Trump a major step closer to their goal of slashing taxes for businesses and the rich while offeri...

Argentina ends missing submarine rescue mission

Argentina ends missing submarine rescue mission

-- 2017-12-01 11:36:14

The Argentine navy says it has abandoned attempts to rescue 44 crew members on board a submarine that disappeared two weeks ago. "Despite the magnitude of the efforts made, it has not been possible t...

Trump mulls recognising Jerusalem as Israel capital

Trump mulls recognising Jerusalem as Israel capital

-- 2017-12-01 02:45:04

US President Donald Trump is considering recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a move that could upend decades of American policy and ratchet up Middle East tensions, but is expected to...

Justin Trudeau delivers historic formal apology

Justin Trudeau delivers historic formal apology

-- 2017-11-30 12:07:05

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered an apology for a discriminatory and unjust campaign by the federal government against LGBT people. The apology was specifically addressed victims what is refer...

US threatens N Korea with destruction

US threatens N Korea with destruction

-- 2017-11-30 12:00:00

The United States warned North Korea’s leadership it would be “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out, after Pyongyang test fired its most advanced intercontinental ballistic mi...

Moscow wants pragmatic relations with US : Russian ambassador

Moscow wants pragmatic relations with US : Russian ambassador

-- 2017-11-30 12:00:00

Russia wants to have equal and pragmatism-based relations with Washington. Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said on Thursday during a reception at the World Affairs Council non government organizati...

Trump hits out at UK PM May over tweets

Trump hits out at UK PM May over tweets

-- 2017-11-30 10:57:48

Donald Trump has told UK Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on "terrorism" in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos. "Don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islami...

Trump to replace Tillerson with CIA director soon

Trump to replace Tillerson with CIA director soon

-- 2017-11-30 09:57:36

US President Donald Trump's administration has developed a plan to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with the Central Intelligence Agency director. A senior Trump administration official revea...

29 get life term for dictatorship crimes in Argentina

29 get life term for dictatorship crimes in Argentina

Reuters 2017-11-30 03:55:54

Argentina sentenced 29 people, some with nicknames like “Blond Angel of Death” and “The Tiger,” to life sentences on Wednesday in a trial involving some 800 cases of kidnapping...

NY truck attack suspect pleads not guilty

NY truck attack suspect pleads not guilty

-- 2017-11-29 10:27:35

A man accused of killing eight people and injuring 12 after driving a truck into pedestrians in New York in October has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and terrorism. Sayfullo Saipov, who arr...

US threatens action against S Sudan

US threatens action against S Sudan

-- 2017-11-29 10:26:37

The United States threatened on Tuesday to take further action against the South Sudan government if it does not end violence and allow United Nations peacekeepers to do their job, but UN sanctions ar...

US indicts three Chinese 'hackers'

US indicts three Chinese 'hackers'

-- 2017-11-28 12:00:00

Three Chinese citizens have been charged by a US court with hacking attacks on international corporations. The three, said to run a cyber security firm in China, targeted Moody's Analytics, Siemens a...

Honduras polls: President, rival both claim victory

Honduras polls: President, rival both claim victory

-- 2017-11-27 11:42:49

Hondurans waited anxiously with no results released hours after polls closed for presidential election, while both the president and his main challenger claimed victory after what appeared to be a hea...

Brazil drug gang firefight kills seven

Brazil drug gang firefight kills seven

-- 2017-11-26 12:00:00

Seven suspected drug traffickers died in the port area of Rio de Janeiro in two clashes with a rival criminal gang and the police on Saturday, official sources announced. The events took place in the...

US backpedals on Palestinian office closure

US backpedals on Palestinian office closure

-- 2017-11-25 11:00:22

The Trump administration backtracked Friday on its decision to order the Palestinians’ office in Washington to close, instead saying it would merely impose limitations on the office that it expe...

Assailant kills minor girl in Mexico

Assailant kills minor girl in Mexico

-- 2017-11-25 03:54:03

An unidentified assailant killed a 12-year-old girl and raped her two young sisters in their home in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez. The prosecutor's office in Chihuahua state says...

Trump to call Egypt's president after mosque attack -tweet

Trump to call Egypt's president after mosque attack -tweet

-- 2017-11-25 02:20:38

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he would call Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to discuss Friday's terrorist attack at a mosque in North Sinai that left more than 230 people dead. " I wil...

Trump hails military gains and 'big,  fat tax cuts'

Trump hails military gains and 'big, fat tax cuts'

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

U.S. President Donald Trump gave a bullish Thanksgiving address to troops overseas on Thursday, hailing progress in Afghanistan and against ISIS, and telling them they were fighting for “somethi...

Nuclear strategists call for scrapping ICBM arsenal

Nuclear strategists call for scrapping ICBM arsenal

Reuters 2017-11-23 12:00:00

Imagine it is 3 am and the president of the United States is asleep in the White House master bedroom. A military officer stationed in an office nearby retrieves an aluminum suitcase - the “foot...

Latin America is world’s most violent region for women: UN

Latin America is world’s most violent region for women: UN

-- 2017-11-23 12:00:00

Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region in the world for women, the United Nations said Wednesday, highlighting Central America and Mexico as particularly dangerous. In a report pr...

Argentine Navy detects ‘explosion’ near missing sub

Argentine Navy detects ‘explosion’ near missing sub

-- 2017-11-23 09:55:33

The Argentine navy says an event consistent with an explosion was recorded near where a submarine disappeared last week with 44 crew on board. An "abnormal, singular, short, violent, non-nuclear even...

US navy aircraft crashes with 11 on board

US navy aircraft crashes with 11 on board

-- 2017-11-22 12:00:00

An aircraft carrying 11 crew and passengers crashed into the Pacific Ocean Wednesday while on the way to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, the Navy said. The Japan-based 7th Fleet said in a sta...

US to end deportation protections for Haitians

US to end deportation protections for Haitians

-- 2017-11-21 12:08:34

The US is to terminate a programme that gives more than 50,000 immigrants from Haiti protection against deportation. Immigrants from the Caribbean nation received protected status in 2010 after a dev...

Trump declares N Korea state sponsor of terrorism

Trump declares N Korea state sponsor of terrorism

-- 2017-11-21 11:22:43

President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, a designation that allows the United States to impose more sanctions and risks inflaming tensions over P...

WH seeks full enforcement of Trump travel ban

WH seeks full enforcement of Trump travel ban

-- 2017-11-21 02:50:03

The White House asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to allow President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban to take full effect after an appeals court in California ruled last week that only parts...

Chile presidential poll heads to run-off

Chile presidential poll heads to run-off

-- 2017-11-20 11:29:33

Conservative Sebastián Piñera has won the first round of Chile's presidential poll, but failed to avoid a run-off. With more than 90% the votes counted, the 67-year-old billionaire has...

Alabama Senate race a battle for nation's soul

Alabama Senate race a battle for nation's soul

-- 2017-11-19 12:40:41

Tthe candidacy of Republican Roy Moore for U.S. Senate is a struggle for the "soul of the nation." says a leading figure among religious liberals The remarks Saturday by the Rev. William J. Barber co...