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US evacuates some staff, ups pressure on Syria
The United States has ordered embassy families and some staff out of Syria as it has hardened its tone on Damascus’s crackdown on protests without calling for President Bashar al-Assad to go.
The State Department late Monday ordered embassy family members and some non-emergency personnel to leave Syria, after an earlier travel warning telling US citizens to leave the country because of escalating attacks on
N. Korea will never give up its nuclear ambitions: US general
"I do not see that he [N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il] will give up his nuclear capability," Gen. Walter Sharp told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday during hearings on Pentagon's budget for 2012 fiscal year.
"I think it is clear that Kim Jong-il believes he has to have it for regime survival," Sharp said adding that the U.S. military should maintain a strong presence on the Korean peninsula to stave off any
US blocks 350 suspected terrorists from boarding flights
The US government has prevented more than 350 people suspected of ties to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups from boarding US-bound commercial flights since the end of 2009, The Associated Press has learned.
The tighter security rules — imposed after the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas 2009 — reveal a security threat that persisted for more than seven years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Until then, even as commercial passengers were forced to remove their shoes, limit the amount of shampoo in their carry-on luggage and
NATO forces Libyan rebel's fighter jet to land
The jet had taken off from a rebel-controlled airfield near the eastern city of Benghazi in the morning and was intercepted within minutes, the official said on condition of anonymity. No weapons were fired by either side.
"No aggressive action was displayed by the MiG-23 and the NATO fighters proceeded to force it to land back at the Benina airfield," the official said.
The official added that the rebels had not warned NATO that one of their jets was going to take off.
It was the first time that any aircraft violated the no-fly zone since NATO
US government shutdown averted
Party leaders clinched the agreement, including some $38.5 billion dollars of extra spending cuts, after a intense political bargaining, barely an hour before the federal government effectively ran out of money at midnight (0400 GMT, 12pm Singapore time).
"Some of the cuts we agreed to will be painful ... and I would not have made these cuts in better circumstances," Obama said at the White House after a long day of negotiating averted a potential political crisis
US stocks edge down after fresh Japan quake
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 100 points from the day's high shortly after a 7.1-magnitude quake near Japan's east coast prompted fears of further damage to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, infrastructure and Japan's manufacturing base.
The area is still recovering from last month's massive earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis.
US shares in Toyota, Nissan, NTT and Sony all fell sharply
Shutdown looms as Obama budget talks fail
A stern-faced Republican House of Representatives speaker John Boehner said there was "no agreement on a number, no agreement on the policy issues," after 90 minutes in the Oval Office with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
"We are not there yet," Boehner said, though adding that he believed an agreement was possible before a midnight Friday deadline at which government funding runs out and vast swathes of the bureaucracy
Hopes for deal to avoid cash crunch
BARACK Obama is struggling to avert a government shutdown tomorrow as party leaders in the US congress baulk at a compromise on federal budget spending cuts.
With time running out before government funding expires, unless congress passes a budget, Republicans and Democrats worked through the night to reach a deal.
US eagle webcam becomes internet sensation
"Why viral, I'm not really sure," Bob Anderson, director of the Raptor Resource Project, said of the success of the eagle webcam.
"The world just likes to hear something good instead of negative," he said.
"This is all positive, this makes people feel good."
Anderson had been transmitting live images of the nest, 80 feet high in Docorah, Iowa, mainly for schools and universities.
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