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Obama wants "rigorous" secret service investigation

US President Barack Obama said he expected a "rigorous" investigation into a sex scandal involving Secret Service ...

N Korea keeps mum on failure of rocket launch

North Korea remained silent on Friday`s long-range rocket launch, including its failure, as South Korea and the ...

US diplomat heads to E Asia amid N Korea tensions

A senior US diplomat will travel to Japan, South Korea, India and Singapore next week, the State Department said, as ...

Iraq Kurd leader accuses PM Maliki of `dictatorship`

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is monopolising power and preparing the ground for a return to dictatorship, ...

Obama to raise arms cuts with putin in may: official

President Barack Obama will Monday commit to raising the possibility of fresh nuclear arms cuts with new Russian ...

Obama visits border amid N. Korea tensions

US President Barack Obama visited the tense inter-Korean border Sunday, calling it "freedom`s frontier", as he weighs ...

Obama calls Palestinian President Abbas

US President Barack Obama called Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Monday and assured him that the peace process ...

Thousands rally for Syria at White House protest

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the White House Saturday to demand that the United States "stop the massacre ...

Obama, Karzai reaffirm 2014 withdrawal: US

US President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Friday reaffirmed that US troops would leave ...

Panetta acknowledges troubling events in afghanistan

The US defense chief held talks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, acknowledging that a series of "deeply troubling" ...

Obama expresses shock over Afghan shooting

US President Barack Obama called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday "to express his shock and sadness" over a ...

U.S. hails deal with Afghanistan over handover of detention center

The U.S. State Department on Friday hailed a deal signed by the Afghan government and U.S. forces on the handover of a ...

Israel asks U.S. for arms that could aid Iran strike

Israel has asked the United States for advanced "bunker-buster" bombs and refueling planes that could improve its ...

Obama says no war decision over Iran in two months

President Barack Obama on Tuesday rejected the notion that Washington has to decide over the next two months whether ...

Netanyahu says Israel must reserve right to defend itself

Visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the White House on Monday that Israel must reserve its ...