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WASHINGTON- Taliban insurgents will increasingly threaten Afghan stability after international forces withdraw in December, and Kabul will need more troops than currently envisioned to provide...

BEIJING- Hours before US President Barack Obama's meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama at the White House, China today demanded its immediate cancellation,...

CHICAGO- An elderly nun who broke into what was supposed to be one of the most carefully guarded nuclear facilities in the United States was...

-CHICAGO A girl was shot dead when a weekend prank went horribly wrong and a man opened fire on a car full of teenagers in...

WASHINGTON- The United States has decided to revive talks with the Afghan Taliban in an effort to secure freedom of captive American Army sergeant Bowe...

JAKARTA- The United States Secretary of State John Kerry will on Sunday issue a clarion call for the world to do to more to combat...

WASHINGTON- The United States said Thursday it would show flexibility over the visa of a comatose Pakistani exchange student whose family fears he would not...

SEOUL- South Korea has rejected a demand by its northern neighbour to postpone this month's military drills with the United States to avoid overlap with...

GANDHINAGAR- The United States ambassador to India met the Hindu nationalist leader who could be India's next prime minister on Thursday - a big step...

WASHINGTON- A deadly ice storm stranded scores of people on slick roads and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of US homes as winter-weary...

KABUL- The Afghan government released 65 detainees on Thursday despite warnings from United States that they pose a serious security threat, a move that further...

NEW DELHI- U.S. ambassador to India Nancy Powell will be meeting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Narendra Modi, signaling a softening of the...

WASHINGTON- The United States and France unveiled plans to collaborate on a new Mars mission which will send an unmanned lander to study the deep...

WASHINGTON- The United States military has revised plans for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in order to wait until President Hamid Karzai leaves office and a...

WASHINGTON- The United States government is debating whether to kill an American citizen abroad who is allegedly part of the Al-Qaeda network and plotting attacks...

KABUL- The Obama administration is expected to announce a package of aid initiatives for Afghanistan on Monday. The announcement from the U.S. Agency for International Development...

NEW YORK- The United States’ Attorney General Eric Holder on Saturday announced an expansion in government recognition of same-sex marriages in all federal courtrooms and...