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NATIONAL HARBOR, US — The head of the powerful US gun lobby railed against American media on Thursday, saying they were biased and lying about the heated debate on regulating weapons. "One of America’s greatest threats is the national news media that fails to provide a level playing field for the...
ROLLS-Royce Holdings, the world’s number two commercial jet-engine maker, said the US Department of Justice has joined UK fraud prosecutors in an investigation...
The video platform will promote a $10m investmentn at SXSW on the anniversary of its Vimeo On Demand platform. The fund is designed to provide direct financial support to content creators and access to online marketing services in return for which Vimeo On Demand gets an exclusive distribution...
7 March 2014 Last updated at 06:06 GMT Encouraged by the soaring price of gold, hundreds of thousands of poorer people in Peru have been trying to strike gold in the country's makeshift mines, operating outside the law. Peru's government is now trying to crack down on illegal prospecting by...
BOGOTA, Colombia -- One veteran of Colombia's disbanded far-right militias admitted to ordering or taking part in at least 3,000 killings, mostly targeting leftists, and incinerating many of the corpses to destroy evidence. Another ordered a hit on a prominent intellectual who had been unjustly...
Venezuela has expelled Panama's ambassador and three other diplomats amid growing tensions over opposition protests. The officials were given 48 hours to leave the country. It comes a day after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro broke diplomatic relations and froze economic ties with Panama....
Authorities in Los Angeles say it’s ‘‘miraculous’’ that a blind man escaped uninjured after...
Bindi Irwin has outraged animal rights groups by partnering with US theme park SeaWorld. The 15-year-old Queenslander announced on the top-rated US morning TV talk show Good Morning America that she would be working with SeaWorld to encourage ‘‘kids to change the world’’. The...
