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Hopefully, President Obama handles the debt ceiling crisis better than his choices on which government services to shut down. His motive was apparent — to make Republicans...
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Anger at failure of Home Office and security services to reveal extent of GCHQ's data harvesting operations The scrutiny committee heard little evidence of the data accessed by the...
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More than two and a half years on, Israel’s purported neutrality in the Syrian conflict and the United State’s fanfare rhetoric urging a “regime change” in Damascus were abruptly...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, walks with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., left, and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Calif., after walking off the House floor in protest of a contempt of Congress vote for Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday, June 28, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Reuters October 16, 2013 - 06:03 By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate prepared for a last ditch effort Wednesday to avoid a historic lapse in the government's borrowing authority, a breach that President Barack Obama has...
photo: AP / Evan Vucci
In this July 15, 2010 photograph, trader John Bowers works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks lost ground after volatile trading on Tuesday, as investors jittered at the fiscal negotiations in Washington. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 133.25 points, or 0.87 percent, to 15,168.01 points. The...
photo: AP / Richard Drew
Japan's new Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Kishida, 55, is an expert on issues relating to frictions on the southern island of Okinawa between local residents and the nearly 20,000 U.S. troops based there. Kishida was in charge of territorial issues in Abe's previous administration of 2006-2007. A former banker, he entered politics to inherit the constituency of his father.
(Reuters) - Japan's foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, may visit Iran as early as November, the first such visit in more than four years, in an attempt to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear...
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi
Policemen attempt to remove a tree toppled by strong wind due to Typhoon Roke at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
Typhoon Wipha, projected to become Tokyo’s biggest storm in about 10 years, was forecast to pass along eastern Japan, reaching the capital early today and heading northeast to the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. Narita airport, just east of Tokyo...
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi
Sicily declares emergency over migrant influx
Sicily has declared a state of emergency due to rising numbers of migrants coming by boats from the Mediterranean sea. Drones, warships and helicopters were deployed on Tuesday inside and outside Italian waters to scare-off people-smugglers,...
photo: WN / Marzena J.
U.S.-South Korea task force to examine OPCON handover
SEOUL — A joint U.S.-South Korean task force will study Seoul’s ability to respond to possible North Korean provocations as officials consider whether to delay transferring U.S. wartime control of allied troops to South Korea, according to the...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
Floods hit Indian state in wake of cyclone
At least five people have been killed in the eastern Indian state of Odisha in floods triggered by heavy rains that accompanied a fierce cyclone over the weekend. The Budhabalanga river is overflowing and has flooded two districts, officials...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick