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Afghan defense minister warns about US plan

The Afghan defense minister warned late Friday that a US proposal to cut the size of Afghan security forces by more ...

KPK to detain Angelina after completing her dossier

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is not to detain Angeline Sondakh, a suspect in the Sea Games athletes ...

Xi backs expanding US-China military ties

China`s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping and US defense chiefs agreed on the need for expanding military relations between ...

US envoy to meet north Koreans

A senior US envoy will hold talks this month in Beijing with North Korea, resuming a dialogue put on hold last year by ...

Top US envoy met Taliban in Qatar: Afghan official

Washington`s chief envoy to Afghanistan met Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of US efforts to bring the insurgents to ...

Obama to host Brazil`s Rousseff on April 9

US President Barack Obama will welcome his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff to the White House on April 9 for ...

Clinton meets Israeli fm amid Iran crisis

Israel`s outspoken Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met Tuesday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton amid high ...

Hackers intercept confidential FBI conference call

Hacker group Anonymous on Friday released a recording of a confidential conference call between the U.S. Federal ...

Militants kill 2 in oil-producing Yemen province

Al Qaeda militants killed at least two government soldiers when they ambushed a patrol in central Yemen on Wednesday, ...

Yemeni president arrives in U.S. - state department

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrived in the United States for medical treatment on Saturday, a week after ...

U.S. scientists identify protein contributing to symptoms of Parkinson`s disease

Scientists at the San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical-research ...

IMF sees Myanmar as Asia's next economic bright spot

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently commended Myanmar's economic reform efforts, saying that the nation ...

US Hillary Clinton says tired of publicity

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her State Department employees that she was ready to be out of the public ...

UN chief praises Myanmar, plans visit there soon

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday praised the government of Myanmar for its democratic reforms and said ...

Myanmar must break ties with n. Korea: McConnell

The top US Senate Republican on Tuesday said he could back easing sanctions on Myanmar if it advances a host of ...