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Kristina Fernandez | Oct 23, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
Sweden’s military said Tuesday it has no plan to downsize the search for a foreign vessel that allegedly entered Swedish waters, indicating a military plan of using force to goad a suspected Russian submarine to surface. read more
Kristina Fernandez | Oct 23, 2014 01:46 AM EDT
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the United States’ decision to send medical supplies and weapons to Kurdish fighters in the besieged Syrian town of Kobani was wrong, citing Wednesday that Islamic State militants seized some ammunition. read more
Kristina Fernandez | Oct 23, 2014 12:04 AM EDT
A Syrian woman appears to have been stoned to death in an undated video released Tuesday by the Islamic State (ISIS) whose medieval worldview of a caliphate under the fundamentalist Sharia Law has been ruling Syrian and Iraqi territories since June. read more
Dan Weisman | Oct 22, 2014 09:54 PM EDT
With nary a public peep, new Ebola czar Ron Klain was on the job Wednesday meeting with President Obama and others, but issuing no public statement. read more
Andy Vitalicio | Oct 22, 2014 03:15 PM EDT
A reservist performing guard duty at Canada's National War Memorial in Ottawa died Wednesday after being shot at his post, by a gunman who was reportedly later shot and killed inside Canada's Parliament building. read more
Dan Weisman | Oct 22, 2014 03:07 PM EDT
Citing a lack of concern by Northern Florida politicians over climate change potentially destroying South Florida cities, some politicians have started a movement to make South Florida the 51st state. read more
Dan Weisman | Oct 22, 2014 02:44 PM EDT
Speaking this week at the Carter Center and National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in Atlanta, former President Jimmy Carter said U.S. officials should respect China's sovereignty when it came to ruling Hong Kong. read more
Dan Weisman | Oct 22, 2014 01:05 PM EDT
Canada's Parliament was on lockdown Wednesday as one, or more, gunmen shot and wounded a soldier at a nearby square, then entered the building firing as many as 30 shots, according to witnesses and media reports. read more
Michael A. Katz | Oct 22, 2014 12:03 PM EDT
The FBI has arrested a government employee for theft of sensitive files from a database containing detailed information on the vulnerabilities of America's dams. The database includes death toll estimates in the case of dam collapses. read more
Christl Leong | Oct 22, 2014 01:02 PM EDT
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) fighters have seized a cache of weapons and munitions intended for Kurdish ground forces battling against the militant group for control over the embattled town of Kobani, Syria, activists said on Tuesday. read more
Christl Leong | Oct 22, 2014 09:59 AM EDT
U.S. President Barack Obama has again given Republicans ammunition to target Democrats with the control of the Senate hanging in the balance, just two weeks shy of the November midterm elections. read more
Rubi Valdez | Oct 22, 2014 10:07 AM EDT
Times are tough for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to pacify the current civil unrest in Hong Kong, and Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) biased reportage seems to "fan the flames of chaos," a statement from China Daily read. read more
Kristina Fernandez | Oct 22, 2014 09:49 AM EDT
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said he is convinced the next head of state is “going to be” and “needs to be” a Republican governor in a speech to corporate executives and lawyers in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. read more
Kristina Fernandez | Oct 22, 2014 05:16 AM EDT
Two hours of talk between representatives of the Hong Kong government and the student leaders of Hong Kong Federation of Students on Tuesday failed to yield any breakthroughs, disappointing protesters of the government's failure to address their demands. read more
Kristina Fernandez | Oct 22, 2014 05:25 AM EDT
Hong Kong's embattled chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, told media Monday that open elections would lend poor people more influence in politics as he defended his handling of the pro-democracy protest and Beijing's ruling on limited elections in 2017. read more
Due to the coronavirus, people around the world have canceled their travel plans. Governments and health officials have warned the public to avoid boarding cruise ships and long flights. read more
