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Obama Apologizes To Army Couple Who Had To Change Wedding Location

Vittorio Hernandez   | Dec 30, 2014 03:18 AM EST

U.S. President Barack Obama apologized on Sunday to an Army couple whose wedding venue was moved at the last minute because the president and his friends were teeing off at the Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course. read more

AirAsia Flight 8501 Disappeared In Area Known As 'Thunderstorm Factory'

Vittorio Hernandez   | Dec 30, 2014 03:02 AM EST

AirAsia caused a furor in April when its inflight magazine boasted that because of its pilots' continuous and very thorough training, the air carrier's planes are never lost. Although the company said the article was printed before Malaysia Airlines MH370 went missing on March 8, AirAsia nevertheless apologized for the gaffe. read more

South Korea Seeks High-Level Talks With North In January

Raymond Legaspi   | Dec 30, 2014 02:17 AM EST

South Korea's unification minister asked North Korea on Monday to meet for high-level talks in January, as the North deals with troubles over a hacking showdown with the U.S. and pressures to improve its human rights record. read more

Farmers fear even greater labor shortage under Obama immigration policy

Raymond Legaspi   | Dec 29, 2014 12:14 PM EST

President Barack Obama's immigration reform policy could lead to a bigger shortage of farmhands in California, an association of fruit and vegetable growers warned. read more

2,000 IS executions since June, rights group says

Jose Mario Fuderanan   | Dec 29, 2014 11:34 AM EST

A human rights group estimates the number of people executed by the extremist group Islamic State since June, at 2,000 including some of its own fighters read more

Flagstaff mourns police officer killed on duty

Raymond Legaspi   | Dec 29, 2014 11:28 AM EST

Hundreds of sympathizers showed up for a candlelight vigil on Sunday for a police officer in Flagstaff, Arizona who was shot dead in a city residential neighborhood. read more

China-Latin America relations strengthened to 'new height' in 2014

Raymond Legaspi   | Dec 29, 2014 09:40 AM EST

China ends the year on a 'new height' in relationships with Latin America, counting the continent's biggest economies - Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina - as its 'amigos' or friends. read more

Pope Francis Expected To Make Waves On Climate Change

Raymond Legaspi   | Dec 29, 2014 08:44 AM EST

Pope Francis is expected to tell the world's over one billion Catholics that it is their duty to take steps against climate change when he visits the typhoon-ravaged city of Tacloban in the Philippines in January. read more

Australian Plane Monitors 'Suspicious' Floating Objects in AirAsia Search Area

Raymond Legaspi   | Dec 29, 2014 05:30 AM EST

An Indonesian Air Force official said an Australian search plane monitored floating sea objects in an area where a missing AirAsia plane was believed to have disappeared. read more

Blind Judge Richard Bernstein To Michigan Supreme Court In 2015

Vittorio Hernandez   | Dec 29, 2014 02:33 AM EST

A medical marijuana case and a labor dispute involving thousands of Michigan state workers are some of the 10 cases that Richard Bernstein would initially handle when he assumes his post as judge in the state's Supreme Court in a few days. read more

Internet Outage Hits North Korea For The Second Time

Desiree Sison   | Dec 29, 2014 02:39 AM EST

North Korea has suffered another Internet shutdown which lasted at least two hours --- the second outage, so far, that hit the country's network connection since last week. read more

Jeb Bush A Frontrunner For GOP's 2016 Presidential Candidate -Poll

Kat De Guzman   | Dec 29, 2014 01:08 AM EST

Jeb Bush has not yet announce that he will be running for the 2016 Presidential elections but his fellow Republicans have casted their votes for the poll making him the frontrunner for their party for the said post. read more

One Passenger Dies While Rescue Operations Continue For Stranded Ferry In Greece

Kat De Guzman   | Dec 29, 2014 12:25 AM EST

Rescue operations continue in Greece, particularly at the Adriatic Sea near Corfu, where a ferry has been stranded due to a fire. One passenger died in the incident while two more were injured. read more

Analysts Accuse China of Lying, Say Yaogan-26 is Spy Satellite

Michael A. Katz   | Dec 28, 2014 09:56 PM EST

Western analysts say the Yaogan name is a cover for China's spy satellite program, which includes sets of spacecraft dedicated to optical and radar imaging, maritime surveillance, and other missions. read more

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