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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he does not expect any trouble from Beijing when he applies for permission to travel to the United States with his family. The Reuters news agency said that during a phone interview Monday, Chen said he does not know when he will leave China, but that “it shouldn't be too [...]
BY Kurt Achin | New Delhi - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in India for two days of meetings on topics ranging from Iran to Wal-mart. Clinton has chosen to make a regional capital her first stop, rather than New Delhi. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Sunday in Kolkata, the capital of India's West Bengal [...]
The beheaded body of a British Red Cross doctor was found by the roadside in southwestern Pakistan Sunday, nearly four months after he was kidnapped by suspected militants. Police in Quetta, the capital of insurgency-hit Baluchistan province, said a note was found with the body in which the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the doctor [...]
BY Carla Babb | Washington, D.C. - Hollywood celebrities are not usually seen mingling with Washington's elite, but Saturday night was an exception that comes once a year. Hollywood celebrities, journalists and government officials came together in Washington Saturday for a night of laughs at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. President Barack Obama addressed the group [...]
A U.S.-based China rights organization says the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is under U.S. protection and that talks are underway between U.S. and Chinese officials. The group ChinaAid released the statement Saturday, citing sources close to Chen, although there were few details. ChinaAid President Bob Fu, a former Tiananmen Square activist, called the Chen [...]
BY Gabe Joselow | Obo, Central African Republic - For years, Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, have terrorized the people of central Africa, abducting thousands of children and killing hundreds of people in a brutal insurgency. Many people hope the arrival of U.S. special forces in the region will bring an end to [...]
BY Phillip Walter Wellman | Dubai - Gulf Arab states are beginning two days of joint military exercises, as fears of an armed conflict with Iran continue to grow. The drills, dubbed "Islands of Loyalty," come amid an escalating territorial dispute between the United Arab Emirates and Iran over three strategic islands in the Persian Gulf. Earlier [...]
BY Heather Murdock | Abuja - An attack on a university campus has killed at least 15 people and injured many others in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. The attack appears to have targeted a morning Christian worship service. Emergency service personnel say they heard three bombs, followed by gunshots, but by noon they were still [...]
China and Russia launched joint naval exercises Sunday in the Yellow Sea between the east coast of mainland China and the Korean peninsula. Chinese state media report that 16 Chinese surface vessels and two submarines, as well as four Russian warships, are taking part in the six days of drills scheduled from April 22 through [...]
Charles Colson, a special counsel for President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era, has died at the age 80. Colson, who once said he would run over his grandmother to get Mr. Nixon re-elected, went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case. Colson helped run the Committee to Re-elect the President when it [...]
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