Tag: USA
Colorado school shooting, a day before Sandy Hook anniversary
A student in Colorado USA shot and wounded two students in school before shooting himself to death on Friday.
According to police sources, the student...
American woman pushes husband off cliff, pleads guilty
A woman in Montana, USA has been pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Thursday, as she admitted of shoving her husband off a cliff...
Surveillance best choice to protect US: NSA chief
National Security Agency chief pleaded with the Senate Judiciary Committee to not abolish the NSA bulk-collection programs by stating surveillance as the best way...
Senate body terms Taliban conditions for talks impractical; says Taliban active...
The Senate Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs has termed the pre-dialogue conditions set by the Taliban as impractical and expressed deep grief over the...
Manning defence shows video of Baghdad attack
The defence of a US soldier accused of leaking huge amounts of classified material opened with a video he leaked showing a US helicopter...
Details of ‘the hunt for Osama’ revealed!
The Abbottabad Commission Report, which is yet to be made public, contains a treasure trove of information on the hunt for the world’s most...
Ex-US general under investigation for leaks
One of the highest ranking military officers in the US is under investigation for allegedly leaking top secret information about a cyber attack on...
John Kerry calls PM Nawaz, assures support
The US Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned the Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and conveyed his felicitations on the assumption of office...
North Korea offers ‘high-level talks’ with US
North Korea has proposed high-level talks with the US aimed at discussing the countries' nuclear weapons programmes and easing tension on the peninsula, state...
IMF criticises US spending cuts
The International Monetary Fund has assailed US government spending cuts as "excessively rapid and ill-designed" as it cut the economy's growth forecast for 2014.
Warning...
US offers ‘military support’ to Syrian rebels
The United States is boosting military support to the main Syrian rebel group after determining that the government has used chemical weapons against the...
Identity of NSA whistleblower revealed
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the...
Chinese president to attend Obama summit
Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in California for summit talks with US President Barack Obama.
The two-day meeting, at a private estate, is the...
Servers of internet firms ‘monitored’ by US
The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US internet companies,...
Obama urges ‘meaningful reform’ in Bahrain
US President Barack Obama has called for "meaningful reform" and respect for universal rights in Bahrain, during talks with Crown Prince Salman at the...
Several die in new Oklahoma tornadoes
A woman and her baby are among five people reported killed in the second deadly storm system to hit a US region in less...
Huge explosion after US train derailment
Fire officials in the US state of Maryland have said a cargo train crashed into a trash truck, causing an explosion that rattled homes...